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Hey, I've been playing around with cards for about 4 years now, I have always used my right hand for everything in the card world, but! some effects require me to use my left hand, does that mean that I will have to learn everything all over again? Have you lot ever had this problem?

I was backwards. I'm right handed but used my left a lot for moves, I was playing with cards for many years before I met a magician and when he tried to teach me things he got a little frustrated because I do things "cack handed"

It'll take a few weeks to get the hang of it but you can learn to do things with the other hand, although I don't think there is a correct hand for anybody, just do whatever feels right to yourself. Some moves are easier with the left, some with the right.

The problem I had are things like fans are blank fans because I do them cack handed

I use both hands and I always have. In books,video etc some people teach right handed, some left. There doesn't seem to be a right or wrong way. The wsy I go about learning is to watch/study what needs to be done then work my way through it and find out what feels best for me. After a while you find you do somethings one way some the other.

Some moves I have learned both wsys because not being conventionally right or left handed means you may have to change things to be able to complete an effect smoothly. In the long run you will do what is best for you and through it you will become more flexible when performing on the cuff

I'm left handed but I have learnt to perform moves with both hands, though some can be adapted solely for the left. The strange thing is, a lot of moves and sleights seem to be geared towards left handed people, even the playing card indices are spread in the left hand.

I'm right handed, mainly, but because I always held cards in my left, the left developed an affinity with those paste boards, so that there are certain sleights I can only do with the right, but equally certain flourishes that I could only do naturally with the left, like the hot shot cut. Certainly performing magic develops ambidexterity, in that some routines may well rely on a move under misdirection with one hand whilst pattering away and distracting with the other hand. Developing equal card dexterity in both hands (as in your core sleights) has always been up there, but I often think why fix something if it aint broke. And because I'm fundamentally lazy.

If I have to learn something the other way round, I just learn it all over again with the other hand as well. It certainly requires patience to learn something again but it is often a little easier second time round, because you have already adapted the move slightly to suit you (or is that just something perfectionists like myself have to do?).

I'm cack handed too. Some things I do with my left hand and some I do with my right. It's not a hindrance to me.