
We read left to right, so I think every engineer designing tape measures reads them left to right. Why has it never occurred to me that being right handed I need to hold the tape measure in my right hand and the end of the tape measure in my left (to get the numbers right. BUT I AM RIGHT HANDED. I want to mark with my right hand). Hand. Okay, you can do that, but then the numbers are reversed. Mix that with a bit of dyslexia and I make measurement errors far too often. I don't know if some actually designed a regular tape measure correctly. Hello Luke. I bought a bunch and threw away the rest.