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Training to be left-handed while you're right-handed is a fun and exciting challenge. If you succeed, you will become ambidextrous like many great historical figures like Einstein, Michelangelo, Harry Kahne, Tesla, Da Vinci, Fleming and Benjamin Franklin. There are many benefits to being ambidextrous. For example, ambidextrous has an advantage in snooker game because some lanes fit right hand, while others you have left hand; and in tennis too, a shot with your non-dominant hand will easily send the ball out of bounds and you cannot reach the ball to hit with your dominant hand. You need time and patience to learn to use your left hand, but that's it really can be achieved with little effort and learning.

Left-handed people can also become right-handed by reversing the steps in this article. For some left-handed people, right-handedness has another benefit of avoiding distractions in a world where most widgets are designed for right-handed people.

Steps

Part 1 of 2: Practice writing

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   Practice using your left hand every day. To master the left hand is not an overnight thing, it is a process that takes months or even years to complete. So if you want to learn how to use your left hand, you must be determined to practice every day.
   • Set aside time each day to practice writing with your left hand. Not too much time, just 15 minutes a day will also help you progress at the desired speed.
   • Actually, you better not be determined to practice too much every day, it just makes you angry and easy to give up.
   • Doing a little exercise every day is the best way.
   • Practice drawing the characters in the air. Start this exercise with your right hand, then move on to the left hand drawing exactly. Then you turn this skill on paper, must maintain practice for the muscles to get used to.

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   Hold the pen properly. When learning to write with your left hand, it is important that you hold your pen comfortably.
   • Many people tend to hold the pen too tightly, round the hand around the pen. However, this grip creates tension in the hand, making the hand numb and quickly fatigue. With this situation you will not be able to write well.
   • Instead, relax your hand, holding it in a manner that contrasts with when holding the pen with your right hand. Try to notice that you relax your hand every few minutes while you're writing.
   • Writing supplies also make a significant difference to the feel of writing when you hold the pen with your left hand. Use good quality paper with lines, and pens with fluid ink.
   • Tilt the paper or base so that it is 30-45 degrees to the right. Writing at this angle will feel more natural.

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   Practice writing letters. Start using your left hand to write letters, both upper and lower case patterns. Write slowly and carefully, focusing on writing each letter as neatly as possible. Accuracy is more important than speed at this point.
   • For comparison you should also write down the letters with your right hand. Then you focus on writing letters perfectly with your left hand like handwriting.
   • Save these notebook pages somewhere. When you get frustrated and intend to give up your desire to be left-handed, you can review those pages and realize how much you've improved. They will refresh your motivation to continue.

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   Practice writing in sentences. When you get bored with writing letters, you can start to write sentences.
   • Start with simple sentences like "I'm writing this sentence with my left hand". Remember to write slowly and focus on neatness rather than speed.
   • Then try writing "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" repeatedly. This is an all-letter English sentence that is great for writing practice.
   • The other sentences that also contain 26 letters are: "The five boxing wizards jumped quickly" and "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs".

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   Use a writing book. When they first learn to write, children also use writing books to follow the dots that make up words. This way helps babies control hand movement and write more accurately.
   • When you learn to write with your left hand, you are essentially re-teaching how to write from scratch to both your hand and your brain, so using a writing book isn't a bad idea.
   • You can also manually dot on paper with more lines to make sure the characters have good proportions.

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   Practice writing backwards. In the Vietnamese language as well as many other languages ​​in the world, people often write from left to right.
   • That is the natural disposition of right-handed people. It also prevents ink from sticking to your hands when moving across the page.
   • Left-handed people, however, find this movement unnatural, and smudge the ink on the paper when moving their hands. For this reason left-handed people often find it more comfortable to write backwards.
   • In fact, Leonardo da Vinci was also left-handed and often wrote back his notes. They can decode it by holding the page in front of the mirror and reading the reflection.
   • Practice rewriting yourself with your left hand and you will be surprised because rewriting is not as difficult as you think. Make sure to use your left hand to write from right to left, and also write the letters backwards to really get a transcript!

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   Drawing practice. Although the aim is to practice writing with your left hand, drawing with your left hand is beneficial for you. This is a great practice to improve the control and strength of the left hand.
   • Start drawing simple lines, such as basic shapes like circles, squares, and triangles. Then you continue to sketch objects around you such as trees, school lamps, and furniture, and if you feel very confident you can draw people or animals.
   • Drawing from above (also called inversion) with your left hand is also a great practice. This method not only improves your writing skills, but also trains your brain very well, helping you develop creative thinking.
   • Many great artists like Michelangelo, da Vinci and Edwin Henry Landseer are also ambidextrous. This power allows them to switch from hand to hand while drawing or painting if their hand is tired or needs to draw at a certain angle. Landseer is also famous for his ability to draw with both hands simultaneously.

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   Patience. With that said, learning to write with your left hand is a process that takes time and determination. You need to be patient with yourself and not give up too easily.
   • Remember that it takes years to master your right hand writing, and although it won't take that long to write with your left hand (as part of the skill can be switched), but the study time is not short either.
   • Do not worry about writing speed at first, practice continuously with high control and accuracy, with time you will write faster and more confident.
   • Remind yourself of impressive and useful skills you'll gain by being able to write with your left hand. Staying motivated is the biggest challenge you face during your practice.
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Part 2 of 2: Strength training

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   Do everything with your left hand. Part of the skill has automatically shifted from right hand to left hand in previous years of life, so in the first place it won't be too difficult to work with your left hand. Since part of the skill is automatically transferred from one task to another, you will be able to practice certain skills faster if you do everything with your left hand, compared to just doing it with your left hand. . Be patient. Some say that the older you are, the harder it is to change your dominant hand, but that's wrong. The notion that changing your dominant hand is easier when someone is young stems from the fact that the more skilled your right hand is, the less patience you will have to practice such skill on your left hand. In fact, the older you get, the less time it takes you to master the absolute left-hand skill. The easiest but most important thing you can do to strengthen your left hand is to use it to do all the work and activities you would normally do with your right hand.
   • Try to hold the toothbrush with your left hand. You can also brush your hair, hold coffee cups, toast and open the door with your left hand, among other daily activities.
   • You try darts (in safe space), play billiards or throw and catch soft balls with your left hand.
   • If you forget and frequently use your right hand accidentally, try tying the fingers of your right hand together. That way you won't be able to use your right hand and have to use your left hand forcibly.

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   Lift the dumbbells with your left hand. Lifting weights is one of the best ways to increase the strength of your left arm and hand, and correct the imbalance between the strength of your dominant and your non-dominant hand.
   • Hold the dumbbells in your left hand and do exercises such as biceps curl, biceps pushback, hammer dumbbells, and head push.
   • Start with light weight and gradually lift the weight levels as you get better.

3. 

   Learn how juggle. Learning how to juggle with three then four balls is also a great way to enhance the power of your left hand, while also giving you a little relief at parties!

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   Practice bounce ball. Another good exercise to improve the forehand and power of the non-dominant hand is to use two racquets with two balls, and use the racquet to bounce the ball with both hands.
   • Once mastered, you can use a smaller racquet or even a wide-headed hammer.
   • In addition to improving left hand use, here is a brain exercise!

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   Playing a musical instrument. Musical instrument players (requiring both hands) are inherently ambidextrous to some degree.
   • So choosing an instrument to play with - say a piano or a flute - and practicing every day will help strengthen your left hand.

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   Swimming. Swimming is also a binaural activity and has been shown to help balance the two hemispheres, allowing you to use your non-dominant hand more easily.
   • Go to the pool and swim for a few laps to strengthen the left side of your body, and it's also a great cardio exercise!

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   Wash dishes with your left hand. Daily washing with your left hand is a simple and safe way to improve dexterity of your non-dominant hand. In the long run it's also fun and helpful, not just about washing the dishes.

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   Start doing meticulous moves like writing backwards, playing snooker, grabbing shrimp threads and darts with your non-dominant hand, and now you've raised the bar with simple tasks. That practice further improves the ability to automatically transfer a skill from hand to hand, so that when you start using your left hand to do something that you normally do with your right hand, you will be able to work. It's a little more proficient with your left hand that you wouldn't have been able to achieve if you hadn't done it with any hand before. It may take years for your left hand to catch up with the skill of your right hand, but sometimes in less than 2 months your left hand has become as dexterous as your right hand.Once the left hand is skillful enough to work easily, there is no reason for you to lose patience with it. You can skip steps 2-7 if you want to speed up your ambidextrous speed, and deal with the boredom of slow training initially.

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   Remember to always use your left hand. Right-handed skills are deeply ingrained in the brain, so you will automatically use it without thinking. This is difficult when you want to be left-handed. To overcome this problem, you have to think of a way to remind yourself to use your left hand whenever you want to do something.
   • For example, write the word "left" on the back of your left hand and the word "right" on the back of your right hand. This will be a reminder image every time you pick up the pen or complete a task.
   • You can also try wearing the watch on your right wrist instead of your left wrist. This will allow your subconscious to take note that you are trying to change hands.
   • Another thing you can do is stick your sticky notes on things like phones, refrigerators, and door handles. They will prompt you to use your left hand whenever you touch it with your hand.
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Advice

• Only practice writing with your left hand at home. While at school or work, write with your right or right hand until you can write neatly and quickly with your left hand. This is to avoid wasting time and ruin your work or papers.
• While learning to write, adjust your sitting position to suit the way you hold the pen with your left hand.
• When you start to use your left hand more, avoid using your right hand as much as possible.
• Use your left hand in everyday tasks like playing volleyball, breakfast, and more.
• Practice writing "quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" often because it includes all the letters of the alphabet.
• Use your right eye while practicing writing with your left hand.
• Start changing your handedness when you get older, say 20 years old. If you really want to switch to the left hand doing all the complicated things during the day instead of just for a certain period of time, since the right hand is inherently more skilled, the left hand is only dominant at the second level behind hand. right.
• Use your phone with your left hand only.

Warning

• Understand that this goal takes time to achieve, so be patient.
• Don't nail the nail with your left hand until you are ambidextrous.
• Do not try to cut cucumber into thin slices with your left hand and use your knuckles to guide the blade, especially do not practice cutting quickly until you are completely ambidextrous, as the knife may accidentally cut into the finger .
• Changing your work hand can lead to disorientation, so take it slowly to get used to.