If you can use both hands equally well, this will help to improve both your balance and your dexterity. It might be hard work, and it will probably lower your score at first, but it will help you to correct problems caused by favouring one side over the other.

I must admit that this isn't actually a challenge for me as I am ambidextrous, but I suggested it to my husband and he found it helpful. Plus, if you are finding a game to be becoming a bit routine, this will shake things up a bit.

So give it a try. It can be very useful being able to use both hands equally well, for instance, in the case of injury.

I tend to do this more on other games than on Wii Fit. We instituted a rule around here where I'm only allowed to play racquet sports left handed as a handicap. It's doing wonders for my left bicep!

It will improve your balance and co-ordination, that's for certain.

I've always wondered why favouring one hand over the other is a survival trait. I'm not trying to flaunt the fact that I can use both hands here, but rather, I am wondering why everyone else can't do it. It has really been a help to me when I have injured one hand; it has meant that I can effortlessly shift to the other. People can train to do this, and some do, but it seems odd that training is needed. I don't know, there might well be an advantage to handedness, but I just can't see it at the moment.

By the way, Nienna, I like your sig.

I'm ambidextrous myself but I'm a little low functioning. By brain seems to have split up the tasks as I do some right handed and other's lefty. My understanding is that it has something to do with the way neural pathways form in early childhood. We could all develop multiple pathways if we but we're creatures predisposed to taking the path of least resistance.

thanks