My inclination is to be right-handed, but when I was younger I was much more ambidextrous than I am now. I used to even practice writing with my left hand as well as my right. In fact, at one time I wanted to do everything with both hands equally. But that soon because impractical. For example, when I learned how to play the guitar I would have had to buy two guitars and practice twice as much. It just wasn’t worth it so I decided to just focus on my right hand.
So over the years I’ve naturally used my right-hand for everything and now my left just has no experience doing much.
I think that most people could learn to be ambidextrous from an early age if their mentors had them do things with both hands. But most people will favor one or the other. It’s a rare exception to have a person who geminately doesn’t care which hand they use, especially for something like writing.
However, one thing to think about it is this. There are no left-handed violins. All violinists place right-handed violins whether they are right-handed or left-handed. One reason for this is because in an orchestra it just wouldn’t work to have the violin section filled violinists who are randomly pointing in opposite directions. They all point to the left (which means a right-handed player).
Left-handers who play the violin don’t seem to have much difficulty with this. So in some sense it kind of shows that most people can be ambidextrous if they really try it.
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