Welcome to the official site for the Left-Handers Club, and the 18th annual celebration of left-handers superiority!! All year round, we fit in with home and office layouts designed for right-handers’ comfort – put up with doors, cookers, sinks, computer mice, keyboards and desks that are efficient for right-handers to work at, and hundreds of times every day we contort ourselves using back-to-front tools and gadgets that make us look clumsy and awkward in our efforts to make them to work…

But NOT TODAY! Because on this special day, it is your chance to GET YOUR OWN BACK on your right-handed friends colleagues and family, by designating your personal space as a LEFTY ZONE where everything must be done left-handed! Download our unique Lefty Zone posters for prominent display, plus any others from our selection of FREE LEFT-HANDERS DAY POSTERS, re-arrange the room for your convenience, and settle down to enjoy this site, totally dedicated to YOU

The media are always hugely supportive of our efforts, and the Left-Handers Club promote the Day in radio, TV and press interviews both in the UK and worldwide. The picture shows the presenters of Childrens BBC Programme Xchange with LHC Organiser Lauren Milsom, her son Tom and daughter Katie who took part in the show.

We do a press release about The Day to hundreds of media contacts worldwide and we normally get extensive coverage on TV and Radio as well as hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines plus a lot of interest from other websites and blogs. There are also a huge number of local and national reports and articles on the Day.

Click here to see our press release on Left Handers Day 2009

Click here to see the media enquiries for 2009 that you may be able to help with

Have a look at our list of ideas onHow to celebrate Left Handers Day

Download free posters for the Day to create your own Lefty Zone and raise awareness of some of the challenges and frustrations facing left-handers.

Try our Left Handed Quiz and win a prize from our left-handed selection

Try our Brainteasers and theMENSA quiz for High IQ geniuses
(left-handers are usually good at these)

Listen to the Lefties Lament song - it always makes us laugh!

A fascinating research study being published in advance of International Left-Handers Day on 13th August 2009 claims that our handedness is a major subliminal influence in the choices and decisions we make in all aspects our daily lives.

The decision making process of left-handers has been studied by Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, through a series of tasks comparing the preference of left and right handers to objects presented to them from the left or right. He found that righties tend to judge objects on their right side as positive and objects on their left side as negative. Lefties do the opposite, pairing positive things with their left side and negative things with their right.

Click here to see our full report on this research

Each year we aim to raise awareness of a major issue affecting left-handers around the world and for 2007 we are looking at career and other choices to see whether they are influenced by being left-handed.

We have started a survey among Left-handers Club members to find out whether there are more or less left-handers than the normal 10% in their work, sport or social groups and what advantages and disadvantages for left-handers may affect their choices of career and other groups.

Background information on the survey
Complete the short survey yourself
See our analysis and conclusions from the initial responses