This worked well for me when I could see the screw and it’s orientation was the same as me viewing it. If I was turning it and it was rotated 90° away from me, I’d get it wrong. In physics class, we studied electromagnetic forces and I learned about the right hand rule which for some odd reason works better for me than righy-tighty. The Wikipedia article is long and the TL;DR is that if you use your right hand and turn in the direction of your fingers, the screw will move in the direction of your thumb.
Of course lefties are SOL as are folks without thumbs.
I’m not from an English-speaking country and I still use this every time I pick up a screwdriver.
For know which is left and right I switch to my own language to say “right says Hi, left says Bye” with a mental or physical mime of shaking someone hand and then waving goodbye with the other. It originally has alliteration, but kinda works translated as well.
Mechanical repair and troubleshooting.
Lefty loosey righty tighty
This worked well for me when I could see the screw and it’s orientation was the same as me viewing it. If I was turning it and it was rotated 90° away from me, I’d get it wrong. In physics class, we studied electromagnetic forces and I learned about the right hand rule which for some odd reason works better for me than righy-tighty. The Wikipedia article is long and the TL;DR is that if you use your right hand and turn in the direction of your fingers, the screw will move in the direction of your thumb.
Of course lefties are SOL as are folks without thumbs.
I’m not from an English-speaking country and I still use this every time I pick up a screwdriver.
For know which is left and right I switch to my own language to say “right says Hi, left says Bye” with a mental or physical mime of shaking someone hand and then waving goodbye with the other. It originally has alliteration, but kinda works translated as well.