Vixen, I am a lefty, too -- Sig Freud, Paul McCartney, Leonardo, you and me!!!! --, but am equally incompetent with both hands. It seems to me that shifting over at this stage doesn't make sense, since you have all those pathways down in your brain (I know, I know, even if they are lousy). Is the problem getting the right hand to work, or getting the left hand in place in time? I can't do either!!! I was once told that it was nothing to do with dexterity (a very sinister word that!) but that lefties had brains that stuttered between options, which is why they are so hard to train, but otherwise brilliant!! (F.Scott Fitzgerald: the definition of a genius is someone who can keep two opposite ideas in the mind simultaneously and still function). Given all the great lefty tennis players and baseball players, I can't go with that, but.... This is no help -- I am just commiserating. The best invention for lefties ever was fast drying ink. yours, Peter T.