Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers

Martina Navratilova is left-handed

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Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right. There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handedStuttering and dyslexia occur more often in left-handers (particularly if they are forced to change their writing hand as a child, like King of England George VI). Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencingLeft-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.Left-handers are generally more intelligent, better looking, imaginative and multi-talented than right handers .

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Left-handed children have particular problems in learning basic skills using the wrong tools. These problems are easily overcome with some sensible guidance and use of simple left-handed implements, but they often get neither and end with an unfair reputation as being slow, awkward and clumsy as a result! Cutting out simple shapes using scissors can be a real challenge for young left handed children forced to use right handed scissors. Left-handed scissors have the blades reversed so that the child can the cutting line and so that the natural squeezing movement of the left hand pushes the blades together to make them cut rather than pushing them apart so that the card or paper gets stuck sideways inside the blades.

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Left-Handers Day HistoryOn 13th August 1992 the Club launched

International Left-Handers Day, an annual event when left-handers everywhere can

celebrate their sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages and

disadvantages of being left-handed. This event is now celebrated worldwide, and in the U.K.

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