I find it interesting that you guys say a blade right saw is a right handed saw. Meanwhile, there's probably a thousand people out there that say the opposite.
It depends on what style saw you learned with and how you learned to use it. It's a regional thing. West coast uses worm drive (left-blade) saws and East coast uses sidewinders. They didn't even sell worm drive saws in stores like Lowes and Home Depot on the East coast and still don't for the most part. I guess you'd have to order one. I never once saw a worm-drive saw on a job site in the 80s and 90s when I used to work construction on the East coast. Now I live in central US it's pretty much the same. Neither Lowes or Home Depot carry a worm-drive saw in stores here either.
For me a right-blade saw is a right handed saw because the left hand can hold the board and the shoe of the saw rides on the good side of the board not on the scrap-side that's falling off. I can cut a MUCH straighter line with a sidewinder right-blade saw than I can a worm-drive left-blade because I keep the notch on the shoe on the line, like you are supposed to, instead of looking at the blade right on the line.
I can repeatedly all day rip boards or sheets that you can't tell weren't cut on a table saw but I'm all over the place with a left-blade saw. I see it as very similar to driving. Keeping the notch on the line ahead of the blade is similar to the further you look down the road the straighter your vehicle will stay in the lane. Watching the blade right on the line as I cut for me is like trying to look out my driver side door window down at the line in the center of the road as I drive to keep my vehicle straight.
i'm pretty sure had I learned to use a worm-drive saw I'd be just as proficient with one as I am with a sidewinder.
