Eye Dominance Test - How to Determine Eye Dominance

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Eye Health Question of the Day: Are you left eye dominant? Right eye dominant? Neither? Or both?

[@abcdefj7144]

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[@Kirolovebiro]

Thank you doc, great video! I am left eye dominant and right handed as well, find a lot of difficulties when it comes to some activities as you said in the video.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

@@abcdefj7144 Have you see my other videos on that subject?

[@abcdefj7144]

@@DoctorEyeHealth I watched a video

[@abcdefj7144]

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[@MUSTAFA_BAKI]

That was the one of the best explanations I've ever listened, and I liked it! Thank you Doc.

[@goinhot9133]

As a shooter , I’m right handed, left eye dominate. When I lineup the sights, everything is fine. But when I’m practicing maneuvering behind cover, and my pistol isn’t directly below my left eye (like normal) , I noticed I get double vision , and will see two of my sites, until I either close one or, or move my head and line up the sights under my dominate eye. It’s almost like each eye is sending different pictures to my brain, and my brain is trying to combine them, so I end up with two of everything because both eyes are trying to focus. If that makes semse

[@pnmacdonald]

I have the same issue. It is more troublesome when shooting a shotgun, especially at targets moving from left to right, or right to left. Is there a way to "train" or strengthen my less dominant eye??

[@stizaidtl2146]

Same Here Even Tho I Don't Shoot Guns I Am A Right Handed Left Eye Dominant And I Sometimes See Double Images But It Clears Into One Image When I Focus Hard But The Image I See Gets Blurry If I Focus Hard To Be More Exact I Used The Triangle Method To Find Out Tho When I Used The Thumb Method Answer Was Same But When I Focused On The Distant Object To Position My Thumb I Saw 2 Fingers Instead of 1 And When I Focused On The Thumb I Saw 2 Objects I Was Trying To Focus On, And If I Focus Hard As Mentiond Above I See Only 1 Finger And 1 Object As I Should But It Gets Blurry

[@jbar85jb22]

I'm left handed shooter right eye dominant. Just realizing after passing my armed security blue card shooting test

[@theazashtarian0001]

Left handed + Right eye dominant + Ak iron sight = you died

[@theazashtarian0001]

@@jbar85jb22 your not alone brother 😂

[@janetzimmerman9020]

I am an NRA Instructor and eye dominance is critical to shooting well. Teaching it can be a challenge, especially with children. You presented several variations of the method we usually use. Thanks for the additional options!

[@dondopf3109]

I was right-eye dominant before I had a detached retina a few years ago. Since my right eye never recovered fully, it would see objects about 20% farther away, giving me a horrible double vision. I've recently been trying to become left-ey dominant and have found that covering my damaged eye for a few hours per day with a patch, my left eye is becoming the dominant one and some of the double vision is slowly improving. I am right handed and have always been right-eye dominant. So far this training has been amazing and I hope it continues to improve. Hope this might be helpful to someone else suffering from the same problem.

[@TimmyRayTactical]

Thank you so much for this. I target shoot as a secondary hobby, and have been plagued by terrible groupings. I’ve spent thousands on different pistols, ammunition, classes, you name it. For whatever reason my eyes just didn’t seem to play well with the target. However, I just watched this video, and found out that I am left eye right hand dominant. Just got back from the range with my 18 year old Walther P99, and ended up tearing away the bullseye.

[@thomasgrgas7967]

Did you decide to shoot lefty

[@LTGormanLV-426]

Right eye. I just had my yearly examination. It was interesting to find out how my vision has changed/not changed over the year. One of my eyes is 20/15...probably the right. I’m enjoying this channel a lot! I’m a librarian and pretty much on the computer all the time and also switching back and forth between near and far reading for patrons that come in. Keep up the great work! 🙂

[@Unknownuser-vo5so]

So screens can have something to dominate eyes? Also is it like misplaced and how can I fix it?

[@paweaul8619]

If I look far away and put my thumb in front of it my thumb automatically doubles. The same goes for the hand during the triangle.

[@Ascyt]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one

[@knine9178]

Holy shit more people like me!!!!!!

[@TalbotCoxOfficial]

Came here to ask this too. I got laughed at as a child when doing this test for asking "So which thumb do i cover the object with?"

[@Revenge_is_Promised]

Means you're retarded

[@Revenge_is_Promised]

I mean that in a joking way, no hard feelings

[@salahhatem4601]

whenever i search for anything about eyes ..you are here with a great video with all the info i want &more in a very direct and simple way...you are amazing doc !

[@BlackBeltGamers88]

I tried the triangle, if I focus it's either both are dominant or neither. *shrug*

[@nathanwall2808]

The object moves left or right no matter which eye I close.

[@cjboots1115]

Same

[@gangstalker_random1919]

The Game Knights might be centered?

[@cjboots1115]

Ended up i was just really tired lol

[@neodemoon]

I dont have a eye dominance brou JAJAJAJAA

[@sheldons231]

I am left eye dominant, yet I am right handed. I didn't even know about that but still became a archery champion, a lot of thanks goes to my best friend for his assistance I learning, training and tips.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

That's awesome!!!

[@mythoughts.....4787]

For me, making the triangle and pulling it forward made the test more apparent. Playing pool I didn't pay attention to eye dominance. For years, I always looked down the barrel of the cue with my right eye. I recently found I was left eye dominate. Wow, what a difference. I wish Al Gore would have discovered the internet 20 years earlier.

[@jamesmondok8635]

This video answered a question or two about my Dominant Eye. I’ve really wonder about this and now I have the answer! Thanks Doctor!!!

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Great!

[@sebastianj.434]

@@DoctorEyeHealth If I use the triangle method then I see the object when my left eye is closed. But if I use the thumb method the object is covered when my right eye is closed. What's the explanation to this?

[@BastianP-zw8ob]

I am right eye dominant and I remember that I did that with the triangle as I was a little child, now I an focus better and know on what eye I should rely more on, thank you very much! 💫

[@thegoldendoge2441]

I don’t know if I’m not eye dominant but when ever I do this I can see perfectly no matter what method I use

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Perhaps you just have monocular vision as well

[@InnocentOrangeJuice]

As a person who's left eye is dominant I will close my right eye if I have to look in a microscope. Maybe this can help some of you figure it out.

[@davewebster1627]

I'm the same with binoculars

[@gymnasticsgirlie0647]

Your eyes are literally beautiful.

[@gaylecheung3087]

Don’t need to make a triangle I was one seeing out of my right eye dominant, all my life!

[@thekatiea6388]

100% LEFT EYE DOMINANT. Love your channel! I’m an Optometric Technician and always get a neat tidbit of info from your videos I can take back to work with me. PS, I’m always down to collab! 👁👁

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Thank you! Please email me about collaborations through the email included in the video description.

[@Jackk.A]

eyelovelife Same

[@vitor900000]

I'm right-handed and my dominant eye seems to be the left one. My right eye is much blurrier for distance but he seems to be a little better to near than the other eye.

[@demigaines5644]

Thank You For Sharing I Went To The Eye Doctor 🥼 last Tuesday My Left Eye Is Not As Strong As My Right Eye. I Love Ur Videos Thanks For Sharing.I Also Had An Pressure Eye Test It Really Scared Me...

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Glad you saw your doctor. What scared you about the pressure testing?

[@demigaines5644]

Doctor Eye Health The Doctor Had Put Some Yellow Drops In My Eye To Numb Them So That He Could Do The Pressure Test After He Was Done My Eyes Started Twitching My Eyes Were Very Dry After The Procedure...

[@darrenwright9619]

I’m also right handed and left eye dominant. I love archery and have never had a problem with sighting at all.

[@Unknownsakyra]

This has helped me with fps games like VALORANT, i focus better with my right eye so i have the weapons on the left on my screen so my crosshair is always aiming where im aiming it at. Thank you for showing this test!

[@Shadow458i]

I'm confused, with the first triangle and closing eye method, i did it multiple times and both eyes ended up being the dominant one. When moving the triangle to my face, it went straight into the middle and on my nose. Finally, with the thumb method, when I put my thumb in front of the distant object, if i focussed on the object i'd see 2 of my thumb and the dominant eye depended on which version of my thumb i moved in front of the object. And when focussing on my thumb, the distant object became to blurry to make out where i should place my thumb. Equal eyes? No dominance? Idk

[@ghostofjutland326]

Thank you so much for making this, very helpful. I’m a newer shooter and I thought that maybe I’ve been using the wrong eye. Afraid not, gotta keep practicing.

[@rajanbhagat8217]

Thanks sir... Before this video I was wondering I have eyes problem... But after listening I got myself left eye dominant

[@mex0nn]

Thanks for the simple and fun guide

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

No problem! Thank you!

[@t0asty.pvppy_]

I’m left handed and left eye dominant! Thank you for this video

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

You're so welcome!

[@beachboardfan9544]

Awesome vid 👍 I'm right handed but do not have a dominate eye, dunno if its because I had LVC but, not having a dominate eye has caused me quite a bit of trouble as I do several types of competitive shooting. Since identifying the problem, I have to shoot with a piece of scotch tape on my safety glasses over my left eye to occlude it, but not alter the amount of light it receives because of sympathetic reflex. Struggled for years until I had a friend whos an assistant at a local eye doctor, ask me some questions while we were shooting skeet, and he was able to identify that I was struggling to see one sight picture and subsequently didn't have a dominate eye. The scotch tape makes all the difference in the world, it greatly improved my game, and I'm super grateful for the knowledge eye doctors have and share.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

That great to hear! DO you wear any special filters or tints for skeet shooting?

[@beachboardfan9544]

Yep vermilion during the day, but yellow for low light conditions.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Nice. We have Decot lenses here for the local trap shooting club. Ever try those?

[@beachboardfan9544]

Yes! I have their Revel clays set. They're great.

[@TalbotCoxOfficial]

Does seeing double of your hand/thumb when focusing on the distant object indicate no eye dominance? Have always been like this and don't know which of the 2 thumbs to cover the distant object with.

[@SarahPoulin]

None of these work for me. I just see double my hand, or double my thumb or whatever, and can "choose" which one I'm using to use to centre or blot out. So I can "make" my left eye dominant, or my right eye dominant. But if I need to close one eye (like when it's very sunny), I always close my right and use my left because it feels more comfortable.

[@Romans6.1-2]

Same here 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@ckekmojo6268]

But what does it mean haha

[@Kislay11]

Same for most part, although when I have to close my eye I close the eye closer to light source so I don't even have a preference there

[@zacharybroussard3765]

I'm down this eye dominance rabbit hole now and have the exact same answer, to no avail. It's very frustrating. I don't get it. I don't understand how everyone else gets it and it's so simple to them. If I focus on a distant object and hold up my thumb, my thumb appears twice in my vision and I can see through both thumbs. I can then "choose" which thumb to cover the object with. If I focus on my thumb, the object farther away now appears twice, and I "choose" which one to cover with my now opaque thumb. Same thing with the triangle hand hole. Either two objects if I'm focusing on my hands or two holes if I'm focusing on the object.

[@Kislay11]

@@zacharybroussard3765 that does happen to me but in these comments I did found a way which includes checking which eye do you instinctively close when you suddenly go to bright place after coming out of dark room. My instinct closes my right eye, so ig I am left eye dominant (although it's dependent on instinct, because if you start thinking consciously you can close either one) But apart from this thing I can always chose which eye to look from and have almost the same vision the both of them

[@triptin24]

Is there a better way to test i keep trying the triangle test but it keeps changing. Sometimes left sometimes right

[@suzannesheil6732]

I was once right eye dominant (to the point I hardly saw anything with my left eye), because my left eye had hypermyopia. Since wearing glasses, I have now become left eye dominant!

[@saudhelal2295]

Came here because my Right eye sees now better. seems that eye dominance can switch after ICL surgery!

[@rox9570]

Right eye dominant! By a lot... should I be concerned about how big the gap is between the dominance of my right and left eye? when I did the test with the clock on the wall it seemed like my left eye was way off the mark

[@shanen.1541]

I now know for sure I'm cross eyed dominant (right hand, left eye). I was getting tripped up trying to figure which handed bow to use.

[@AJReyes7039]

Right Eye Dominant!!! This also clearly means that every left part of my body is weaker against my right

[@ShreksCousin]

Avien Reyes same

[@mabeljoe4305]

My left eye is farsighted and my right eye is nearsighted. Found out both eyes has astigmatism. Now I have to worry the floaters and flashes signs of retina detachment. Now both eyes has foaters. I have seen a retina specialist. My retina in both eyes look good no detachment. I'm right-handed and left eye dominate.

[@ShiroVSora]

Both, but I can focus on one eye, stop focusing, and it will be as if that eye is dominant until I blink or focus with another eye

[@layne8274]

Hello I have what's called amblyopia aka lazy eye no my eyes don't look lazy but it technically means one of my eyes is very weak because from a young age my brain learned how to supress this eye so my whole life I could only see with one eye basically but a few months back I forced myself to wear my glasses with sunglasses over them and cover my good eye completely and a month later I took it off and now I have binocular vision and can see with both eyes now but as to this video I'm cross eyed dominate (left eye/right handed)

[@layne8274]

@Luffytard yes you can but you should probably consult your doctor first about it

[@weirdshibainu]

Thank you Doctor. Just discovered I'm left eye dominant and shoot right handed. Have some work to do.

[@lamp7777]

I just see two triangles at the same time...I can make either eye appear dominant?

[@David-zc3ld]

When I do the triangle test I have two triangles for each eye and sometimes it’s my left and sometimes my right eye weird. I guess it just depends one if you move your hand left or right, doesn’t work really :/

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

You know...i know exactly what you mean. I have had that same thing too. Maybe you don't have a dominant eye? If you were going to aim at something...which eye would you close?

[@Solirhaps]

Mine naturally turn first to the left..but when I usually play fps games like counter strike....it felt too weird to play left handed and comfortably play as right handed. Is this alright?!!

[@SosiskaTheHorrible]

I do this exact thing too, depends which out of focus triangle you concentrate on. I play darts and I’m right hand but may be left eye dominant but when I do all the tests I can make an argument for both. Maybe being non dominant is more common than previously thought

[@strangeboy904]

It works perfectly. You are just not doing it right.

[@josef5636]

@@strangeboy904 when you do the thump method, do you only see 1 thumb?

[@JohannnesBrahms]

How does eye dominance develop? Can it be changed?

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

The dominant eye has more neural connections in the brain. This could be due to many reasons. Lesser prescription in that eye, more use of that eye starting at a young age..perhaps better alignment of that eye during the first few months of life. There is also some evidense about the shape of blue-cone free zones within the retina... In theory, it would seem likely that you could change the dominance...but probably very difficult to do. Like training yourself to be left handed after 20 years of being right handed, and vise versa.

[@y2xvd24]

I'm left eye dominant, and right handed

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Ditto! Welcome to the club.

[@5erase]

Same just tested

[@elmo-nu2qm]

Same

[@Legend.Cam42]

i cant tell i cant close my left eye and they are both off centered

[@OreOmod]

same

[@t0asty.pvppy_]

Oh by the way I have a question! Since you’re an eye doctor I’d think you’d know so, how long does it take to change your dominant wearing an eye patch? I would think it would take a long time. When I was about 10 or 12 years old (I think), my eye doctor used to make me wear an eye patch on my right eye for maybe about a week? Don’t remember why actually. But I wanted to know how effect are eye patches for changing eye dominance

[@michaelgolden851]

Tried all your methods and end up with mostly both (right eye tends to be slightly more dominant).

[@avail9199]

Can you switch your eye naturally or if you wanted to.

[@claybutler]

I was left eye dominant until I lost that eye to cancer this year. Oooops! Takes a few months to get used to that change.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

So sorry to hear your loss of the eye. That sucks. But also happy they found the cancer and are treating it...How is everything going?

[@claybutler]

@@DoctorEyeHealth It's going really good. The tumor from ocular melanoma was discovered on New Year's Eve and on February 22nd of this year I had my left eye removed. I kept all of my depth perception and I went right back to surfing and doing all the things I did in the past. There's only two bummer things. One is my tumor was a class 2, which means my chance of it metastasizing in my liver or lungs over the next 5 years is about 72%. That's what makes ocular melanoma so insidious. Losing the eye was not that big of a deal. Psychologically that's the easy part. The other bummer is mt persistent Phantom Eye syndrome. I see a translucent kaleidescope pattern across my field of vision all the time. It's most noticeable when I'm tired or I'm relaxing my eyes. And it's less noticeable when I'm concentrating on something. Hopefully it will go away someday. But overall life is good and I'm kicking ass with one eye!

[@wickedest-witch]

When I'm not wearing glasses, my left eye is dominant. I can function pretty well without glasses - I can drive without them, it's just more tiring, etc. My right eye is however definitely my worse eye - I have mild myopia in both eyes, but in my left eye I have barely-there astigmatism (pretty much the lowest measurable amount), but in my right eye I have astigmatism that's actually noticeable (still relatively mild though). I find that when I'm wearing my glasses - meaning, my eyes have pretty much equal sight - I no longer have a consistently dominant eye; it's pretty random what results an eye dominance test will give me. Also, if I do the triangle test and it shows my right eye as dominant, I can unfocus and then refocus my eyes so that my left eye becomes the dominant one instead (and vice versa).

[@Inkd_watkins]

Thank you. Really helped. Clear video.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

You're welcome! Glad it helped, Craig!

[@KaiserHabsburg]

Cool tests and this guys got a great attitude

[@mamaboocee]

I'm left eye dominant, and right handed which is why I probably got whacked in the mouth trying to catch a softball one day long ago. I remember being so sure I was going to catch it, and so shocked when I didnt! (🤪) I just did the test and was surprised by this, but when I was in grade school I trained myself to write both right and left handed, AND I am pretty good at doing precision things that need eye hand coordination - which is now escaping me the more I develop presbyopia.

[@karynunderhill5944]

I am left eye dominant for distance, and right eye dominant for close objects.

[@Wnsloe]

Ehhhh... I’m left handed, but I was kinda curious about my eye dominance; whenever I do the finger test, either my thumb duplicates, or when I focus on my thumb, anything in the background duplicates, and when I try the triangle with my hands, I end up struggling to center the object, as it slightly duplicates and makes difficult to center, but when I DO center it, and close my eyes, it kinda goes both ways to where I can’t see the object with either eye, does this mean that I don’t have an eye dominance? Sorry if the comment seems a bit difficult to understand, it’s a bit hard to explain; but if you do end up seeing this comment, could I receive a little context? I’m a bit curious

[@artlopez174]

Awesome! Great tests and they work!

[@weishg]

Is it normal for one eye to be blurrier than the other eye? I did Lasik almost 5 years ago and only realised this. Does it mean the blurrier eye is not the dominant eye?

[@s.a5590]

I have the same problem. My dominant eye I can see clearly but non dominant is blurry or I can say not really sharp as dominant eye.

[@srdjang]

This doesn't make sense to me. When you focus on a distant object you get 2 blurry versions of your hands in front of you, allowing you to make either eye dominant. Take the thumb test. If you give a thumbs up in front of you, as soon as you focus on a distant object you will see 2 thumbs in front of you. If you align one of those "copies" with the distant object it can appear as if you're left eye dominant but if you align the other thumb "copy" with the object it will appear as if you're right eye dominant. Can you explain this inconsistency with the test? This also applies to the hand triangle test but it's harder to explain in a comment.

[@PlayItLikeABoss]

A very comprehensive and helpful video! Thank you!

[@averagemug]

What if you can switch between which eye is dominant? Or can also see the image of your thumb eclipsing the object your focusing on and the image of the object by itself at the same time.

[@LAPDAWDV8911]

WOW!! LEFT EYE DOMINANT.

[@redcartiers]

When I go to position my thumb over a target I'm either seeing 2 of the target, or 2 of my thumb. Which one am I supposed to position over the object?

[@spacewanderer9]

Thomas Skinner sameee

[@basica92]

@@spacewanderer9 samehere lol

[@yassinrezai5473]

Same

[@jcpenny2438]

Is this normal? My eyes when I do the first test, it's my right eye and when I do the second test, it's my left eye. I even tried two different objects. It's really hard because my eyes can't seem to look right at it without changing after I put my hands up. I tried without my glasses on, but it changed at random and my eyes still change when my hands "zoom" in on the object. Edit: also, when I put my thumb out I see 2...what the heck. Aaaand, if I focus on my thumb, then the object is doubled (and blurred, obviously lol).

[@fiekieboii8412]

I have this same problem and didn't know how to explain it, but you just did, thanks

[@jcpenny2438]

@@fiekieboii8412 Ok.

[@KoldDood]

It seems like I don’t have a dominant eye because when I try to a line the object in the distance the object keeps un a lining

[@KoldDood]

Help it won’t work with my glasses too

[@haste953]

I can't do these tests I see everything double, Ive tried with a gun and with the triangle hands and finger but can't cover any object because I see double so for example if I do the tumb and I focus on the thumb I see 2 targets but if I focus on the target I see 2 thumbs so I can never completely cover the object to do the test or align it in the triangle with the hands, does that mean both my eyes are dominant?

[@LeThysor]

Left handed, right eye dominant.. think I’m going to use that for something useful

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Hockey?

[@krzysztofwitkowski4742]

left eye dominance is rare even along lefties

[@maybe9357]

Same Is there any way to fix it?

[@krzysztofwitkowski4742]

@@maybe9357 no embrace it are you tirgt or left footed btw it's an advantage sometimes

[@Escapu]

@@krzysztofwitkowski4742 bro what do you mean by left footed or right footed? how it'll become an advantage? I'm an athlete btw and a left handed with a right dominant eye.

[@billjulian9496]

Doctor, can you answer a question? I am right handed, left eye dominant and I have astigmatism. Left eye is 20/200 and right eye is 0/220. My right eye has better vision and my left eye while dominant has poorer clarity..perhaps developing cataracts..age, etc. Obviously I wear glasses; is their anything that can be done to make my dominant eye have better clarity?

[@CipherPlā]

How rare is being left handed but right eye dominant?

[@DuDaJ_JacobDowns]

I am too sadly

[@erinchell6358]

You affirmed I have a great new. O.D. your videos are very good. THank you doc

[@Geotubest]

Honestly, I can't figure out which eye is the dominant one. The triangle test seems to suggest the right eye, but the thumb test indicates left eye. I'm left handed on a number of things..writing, baseball (both hitting and throwing).... but then right-handed for guitar, golf, and hockey. Seems a bit strange to me.

[@lamrof]

Modofaka, you are right. I was surprised with the first test, I am right eyed

[@7ab3tha]

Oh no! I'm cross eye dominant. 😭 right hand- left eye. Question: why do some people have bad peripheral vision? (I do)

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Well some eye diseases can cause poor peripheral vision. But some of it could be mental processes. Have you seen your doctor about it?

[@rabbittv3900]

Oh no me too....does that signify something ?

[@pawelodziomek4908]

Same

[@Miko-ee4ut]

i cross eye dominant to i lefthand right eye

[@crystalcline2625]

So am i.

[@dannydeshler4327]

Great Video!! Very simple and accurate results!! Thank You!! Right Handed / Right Eye Dominant long distance target shooter.

[@dannygonzales2528]

Great video, now I know which eye is dominated

[@rdokty]

Hey - ok I have a crucial question that I’ve never gotten an answer to: So... You’re trying to center an object in the triangle you made with your thumbs and index fingers... If My hands are in focus the object is doubled. If the object is in focus my triangle is doubled. OR... they’re both doubled. And then If I close one eye the object simply shifts to one side of my triangle - and Visa-Versa What do YOU see? Also - are you able to look at a word on a piece of paper and then consciously shift from making one eye dominant and then the other? Thank you! What do YOU see???

[@SebastianQuinnelly]

you need to use a far object, same happened to me with a close one :p

[@derekthompson5731]

Maybe I'm just slow, but saying "the eye that is more significantly blurred is the eye that is dominant". That seems a perfectly confusing statement to me. If you cover the right eye, and can see really well with the left, and then you cover the left eye with the right eye uncovered, and the vision is blurred (i.e. the right eye's vision is more blurry than the left), are we saying that the RIGHT EYE (the blurry eye) is dominant? i.e. Are we saying that we're inherently stronger in our non-dominant eye? Or are you saying that whatever blurry eye is covered, the one you're using to see with (the non-blurry eye that is clear) is the dominant eye? For me, I just "don't get" the hold-your-hands-up method. When I focus on a distant object, and then raise my hands, I see two sets of my hands, each with a hole and each parallel to the object I'm focusing on. If I focus on my hands, then I have two of the object in the distance. So centering the hole is a matter of choosing which hole I want to use. Same with the thumb test. If I focus on a distant object no bigger than my thumb width, and then raise my thumb, I see the one object with two thumbs in the foreground, exactly parallel to that distant object. If I move one thumb over it, I still see the object. If I move the other over it, I continue to see the object. So the blurry/not-blurry test seems more relevant to me.

[@t4rfl]

Well I just found out I'm cross-eye dominant. Hopefully this will help with target shooting.

[@zoodidwa]

Best explanation. Thank you.

[@pruefus4113]

This was honestly hella cool and interesting to try

[@MaeLSTRoM1997]

When I attempt this I just see a double image of the hand triangle. I can't center the object in both triangles so I put the object in the intersecting area of the two triangles, and as I start closing up the triangle, the intersecting area between the two gets smaller and smaller and inevitably I get to the point where I have to decide which triangle stays with the object and picking one over the other just seems arbitrary

[@wolfsburggti4476]

Lol same here

[@grhyservondub]

this was super easy. thanks.

[@mihkelhani]

My eye seems to switch dominance on how tired one of them is, although I can't find much on the internet, I've done the eye dominance test multiple times and got different outcomes.

[@kirasantora8810]

What happens when both eyes are fighting for dominance?

[@williammller7590]

dont understand; When im focusing on the object, the triange formed with my fingers is double, because im not focused on my hands

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Yes! That is called physiological diplopia. You want to quickly move the hands and go with the one you prefer first.

[@marvzafe]

if i cover a distant object with a thumb or put it inside a triangle, the object suddenly teleports idk i can’t cover it with my thumb and its making me really dizzy, i feel like i dont have focus idk

[@franz2934]

Im neither. I tried the thumb and the triangle. Both sides are off center xD

[@1LegintheGrave]

How in the world can the first and last test work if when you are focusing on your hand, the far object doubles. Then when focusing on far object, the hands double? How do I know what object to put my hands around if it doubles while out of focus?

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

What you experiencing is called physiological diplopia. Just focus on the distance object and try to ignore the double hands

[@ronishastroud8891]

I loved the little games to see which eye is more dominant and i am left eye dominated. I am also right handed so that is cool.

[@shermspace]

Is it possible for my dominant eye to be more blurry than the other one?

[@Glowbloom0404]

thats what it's like for me. but i think thats because im near sighted in my right eye but my left eye has astigmatism so im right eye dominant but its blurry with that eye

[@joey070893]

Same here. I'm right eye dominant, but my right eye is more nearsighted, and it even has astigmatism.

[@rahamatanangterle2567]

Yep the dominance is a preferance (to see the locations) but not the degree of clearness

[@strangeboy904]

Yes. Both eyes rarely have the same quality vision.

[@jbf5844]

Same here, i think I've used my dominance eye too much in watching tv and in using my phone, I think my dominance eye received all the radiation and become blurry.

[@mricci9719]

When i close my left eye its not only off center but its completely out of the triangle, such a huge difference. Does this mean anything else in particular ?

[@imateapot51]

I am right handed and I am very left eye dominant. I have a astigmatism in my right eye which is probably why my brain prefers to utilize my left eye more. It definitely affects sports where you are sideways, such as tennis and baseball. I teach tennis and I am perplexed why some students just can not hit a one hand backhand well. So many good athletes can't that I suggest learning a two hand backhand instead since anyone can learn that, and you are less sideways. I can hit a solid one hand backhand with my non dominant arm but not my dominant. It is because of my eyes. Cross dominance.

[@armaster2473]

I am right handed, but left eye dominant. Which eye should I be closing while shooting

[@F17A]

I find it impossible to frame the object in the center without focusing on one eye. Does that mean I’m cross-eyed dominant? Edit: I tried focusing on my hands rather than focusing on the object and it worked!

[@Ray-in8do]

Same happened to me too!

[@kitry7]

That’s really interesting I noticed I’m left eye dominant a few years ago, but is it ‘bad’ to have a dominant eye? I’ve worried for years that as my left eye is the dominant one with the smaller prescription and my right eye is non dominant and has the higher (and ever growing) level of astigmatism and myopia, I’ll have more eye problems going forward on that eye. Is there any basis to this? Can you improve how the eyes work together to have a more balanced way of using the eyes? Thank you for your videos they’re always so great!

[@chadd3854]

Cross Eye Dominate (RH & LE). Once I learned this, my Shooting scores went up. However, I have to use my left hand for most shooting.

[@holycrusader4205]

This video was made a while ago, but I still want to comment this. When doing these dominant eye tests my right eye is dominant, but when aiming through a scope I use my left eye since I can see much better and its easier to keep my left eye open rather than my right eye, and this confuses me since your usually supposed to look though a scope with your dominant eye. (I'm right handed)

[@annjuurinen6553]

Thank you so much for this.

[@rickt9569]

im right handed but im left eye dominant according to these...guess thats why i putt left handed when i golf and have always had to adjust more than most for shooting guns and especially bow

[@pupose]

Ofc he has amazing eyes

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

hey thanks!

[@krzysztofwitkowski4742]

you can also tell eye dominance by the ear dominance never encountered a person with a different ear dominance to their eye also I noticed a pattern since I got interested in eye dominance most lefties are right eyed