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# Left Handers Day Official Site #lefthandersday

Celebrate being left-handed on August 13th

## Posts

- [Terms for left-handed people](https://lefthandersday.com/terms-for-left-handed-people) - Words used to refer to left-handed people, names for lefthanders
- [Left-Handers Discovery Set](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-discovery-set) - Find out more about some of our most popular left-handed products in this short video:
- [Left Handed Compliment](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handed-compliment) - A left-handed compliment is a criticism couched as a compliment, a compliment with two meanings, one of which is unflattering to the receiver. It is also known as a backhanded compliment. Examples: You are very competent for someone so inexperienced. That dress is really sharp. It really makes you look so slim! You have such
- [Left Handers Day video](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day-video) - This is a video we made in 2014 of some of our favourite Left Handers Day images set to the Lefty's Lament song Please post links to any good images you find for Left handers Day as comments and we will produce a new video of them all to share.
- [The town of Left Hand, West Virginia, USA](https://lefthandersday.com/the-town-of-left-hand-west-virginia-usa) - Even though all the residents of this small town are "Left Handers", disappointingly they do not have any special plans for celebrating Left Handers Day http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/10914785-74/handers-international-morton

## Pages

- [Left Handers Day](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day) - A worldwide left-handed event on 13th August each year to celebrate the advantages of being left handed and raise awareness of the challenges
- [Join The Club](https://lefthandersday.com/lhc) - The Left-Handers Club provides information and support to lefthanders worldwide through its regular newsletters
- [Left Handers Day video](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/video) - We created a range of our own Left Handers Day graphics and posters that have been shares thousands of times all over the world. We also saw that a lot of other people created their own images and some businesses had fun with it by putting a left-handed angle onto their products. We have produced
- [Join the Left Handers Club](https://lefthandersday.com/lhc/join-club) - Left handed information and left handed products - raising awareness of the needs of lefthanders worldwide on International Left-Handers Day
- [Why Lefthanders Day is important](https://lefthandersday.com/why-lefthanders-day-is-important) - Children: So many children suffer throughout their adult life because they were not allowed / supported to write with / use their dominant left hand. Please see the video below which explains what we, as part of LEFT-IN (Lefthanders Club / Anything Left-Handed is a founder member), are trying to do to change this situation.
- [Press Release: Anything Left-Handed Announces Lefthanders Day Schools Fund](https://lefthandersday.com/media/press-release-anything-left-handed-announces-lefthanders-day-schools-fund) - August 9th 2024 - Anything Left-Handed Announces Lefthanders Day Schools Fund Initiative Download the full press release here Summary: Since 1968, Anything Left-Handed has been committed to providing products that cater to the needs of left-handers, whether they are born left-handed or have to use their left hand due to accident, illness, or disability. At least
- [Super Lefties](https://lefthandersday.com/super) - A look at how left-handedness has helped people to excel in all areas of business, sport and the arts.
- [Printed Items For LHD](https://lefthandersday.com/products/printed-items) - Left Handers Day designs and slogans printed on t-shirts, mugs, bags, sweatshirts, cards, coasters, mousemats and more
- [Press Release: I’m Left-Handed, What’s Your Superpower?](https://lefthandersday.com/media/press-release-super-lefties) - I’m Left-Handed, What’s Your Superpower? Left-Handers Day 2015 Left-Handers’ Day on 13th August each year is the chance for left-handers everywhere to celebrate their advantages and achievements – and according to the Left-Handers Club, leading authority on left-handedness, they have plenty to celebrate! Left-handers might be in the minority (being 10% of the population) but
- [Children](https://lefthandersday.com/children) - Teaching resources to help teachers assist the left handed children in their classes. Left handed students have some different needs, teachers can help
- [Spot The Difference](https://lefthandersday.com/products/what-difference) - What is different about left-handed products and how specially designed left handed products will benefit you
- [Feedback on Teacher training](https://lefthandersday.com/children/training-feedback) - Feedback from our survey. Left handed children need to be given guidance on writing and other skills and teachers are not trained to recognise this need or provide the help needed
- [Press Release: Helping left handed children in a right-handed world](https://lefthandersday.com/media/press-release-helping-left-handed-children) - If you have a left-handed child, it’s nice to know that left-handers worldwide will unite on 13th August 2015 to mark International Left-Handers Day with a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the many talents attributed to their hand dominance. It is a day to enjoy the advantages of creativity, intelligence, artistic and sporting prowess. But for left-handed
- [Do left-handers earn more?](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handers-earn-more) - A new study reveals that the earning power of left-handed men is 4pc greater than that of men who are right-handed
- [Famous Left Handers Lists](https://lefthandersday.com/super/famous-left-handers-lists) - There are lots of lists of famous left-handers around the web and also a lot of dispute about whether people really are, or were, left-handed (especialy if they are historic figures where there can be a distinct lack of evidence). Here are some of our favourite lists: Our own Super Lefties pages Famous left-handers lists
- [Is it me?](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/is-it-me) - Being left-handed we do things differently. It is not you... it is a left-handed thing
- [Surveys](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys) - being left-handed and the choices we make, shool experiences of lefthanders
- [Teacher training and left handed children](https://lefthandersday.com/children/left-handed-children) - Left handed children need to be given guidance on writing and other skills and teachers are not trained to recognise this need or provide the help needed
- [Famous left handers](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/famous-left-handers) - Famous lefthanders, Prince William, Marilyn Monroe, Leonardo da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Martina Navratilova and Nicole Kidman
- [Left handed language](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handed-language) - Left handed language, lefty, southpaw, cack handed, mancini, gauche, linkshand, canhoto, sinister, molly dooker
- [Left handed history](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handed-history) - Left Handed history - origins of handedness
- [Top 10 Left Handed Products](https://lefthandersday.com/products/top-10) - These are the top 10 left handed products based on orders on the Anything Left-Handed website over the past year. General purpose scissors 216mm / 8.5 in. (code 259) Fully left-handed scissors with moulded black plastic grip and reversed blades. They are 8.5 inch (215mm) overall length with sharp stainless steel blades. Stabilo 's Move
- [Left Handed Products](https://lefthandersday.com/products) - Left handed items designed to work properly when used in the left hand make life a lot easier
- [Left Handed Knives](https://lefthandersday.com/products/left-handed-knives) - Our range of serrated kitchen knives has been specially manufactured with the serrations / scalloping on the right side of the blade so you get a straight cut using them with your left hand. The top quality range of knives from out Italian manufacturer have non-slip blue handles to mark them out as different. Our
- [Life choices results](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/life-choices-results) - How does being left-handed affect peoples choices off career, sport and social groups? Initial survey results
- [Left handed children](https://lefthandersday.com/children/helping-left-handed-children) - Left Handers Day - challenges for left-handed children, writing, school, desks, left handed pens, mirror writing
- [Being left-handed](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/being-left-handed) - Left Handers Day - why people are left-handed, the left handed brain, left hand dominance
- [Privacy Settings Page](https://lefthandersday.com/about/privacy-settings-page) - Enter your email here if you want to Unsubscribe:
- [Left Handed Rulers](https://lefthandersday.com/products/left-handed-rulers) - Rulers scaled from right to left for drawing lines in the natural direction make it easy to draw and measure lines left handed. Special Offers for Left Handers Day: Left Hander's Discovery Set Currently only £28.96 Normally this set saves you 25% against the list price of all the contents BUY TODAY and save 33.3%
- [Left Handed Peelers](https://lefthandersday.com/products/left-handed-peelers) - The best motion for peeling vegetables is to move the peeler towards the body. This is not possible with a right-handed peeler held in the left hand as the cutting edge is facing the wrong way. For this reason, many left-handers have developed a technique for peeling vegetables moving the peeler away from the body,
- [Left Handed Scissors](https://lefthandersday.com/products/left-handed-scissors) - What makes a scissor left handed? Proper left handed scissors have the blades reversed so you can see your cutting line and get a clean cut. If the top blade is not on the left as you look while you are cutting, they are NOT left-handed! See our full range of left handed scisssors here
- [Super Innovators](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-innovators) - Today the nerds have inherited the earth, and many of those biggest names in the computer and technology industry are left-handers.
- [Super Business Heroes](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-business-heroes) - A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research floated the idea that left-handers favour “divergent” thinking, a form of creativity in which the brain moves “from conventional knowledge into unexplored association.” Maybe that explains the surprising number of left-handed business moguls – and what it takes to develop a net worth estimated at $76
- [Super Musicians](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-musicians) - Apart from the general creativity of left-handers, the left-handed brain is at the centre of both the sense of rhythm and the perception of pitch, which helps to explain why so many successful composers and musicians are left-handed.A lot of them are obvious, playing guitar left-handed or holding the microphone predominantly in their left hand,
- [Super Sports Stars](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-sport-stars) - Their right-brain dominance gives lefties better spatial awareness, and reversed body dominance makes them harder to play against. A left-hander's ability to surprise and catch a right-handed competitor off guard in sport and battle gives then a valuable competitive edge. Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing. Super Sports Stars John McEnroe Martina
- [Super Celebrities](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-celebrities) - Their acting talent, empathy and charisma have made these leftie celebrities some of the biggest stars on the planet.
- [Super Astronauts](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-astronauts) - During the 1960s (Mercury-Apollo era) an astonishing 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed
- [Graphics to Share](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/graphics) - Some fun graphics and profile pictures to share on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest
- [Privacy Policy](https://lefthandersday.com/about/privacy) - You do not need to enter any personal information to use the Left Handers Day website. This website is owned and run by Anything Left-Handed Limited, registered in England since 1968 with company number 937338. Use of your email address If you register to join the Left Handers Club, we will send a confirmation email
- [Super Leaders](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-leaders) - Lefties have more brain symmetry than righties. Brain symmetry between all four hemispheres makes you more likely to be a champion and leader.** In the past few decades, the U.S. presidency has veered more and more to the left - not in policy, but in handedness, with 5 of the last 8 presidents being left-handed
- [Reason for your visit](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/visit-reason) - We are interested to know what made you visit our Left-Handers Day site today - please tick the relevant boxes and submit
- [Sitemap](https://lefthandersday.com/about/sitemap) - This is an index to all of the pages on our Left Handers Day website XML Format Sitemap (for search engines) https://lefthandersday.com/sitemap.xml
- [Left-handedness test](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/left-handedness-test) - Few people are 100% left-handed. This lefthandeness test will show you how left-handed you are.
- [What Happened In Previous Years?](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/past) - Media mentions and social posting about Left handers Day
- [Left-handed test results](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/lh-test-results) - Activities people use their left hand for, levels of left-handedness on our test
- [LHD Blog Posts](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/lhd-blog-posts) - This page is an index to all of our blog posts.
- [Are left-handers better drivers?](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handed-drivers) - AA Driving school reveals Left-Handers are best drivers in UK. Left-handers ten per cent more likely to pass their driving test first time
- [The Lefty's Lament song](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/lefty-lament) - A special song for Lefthanders Day about the trials and tribulations of being a lefty
- [Left handed fun facts](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/left-handed-facts) - Left Handers Day official website - 13 August. Fascinating facts about lefthandedness
- [How left are you?](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/how-left-are-you) - Left Handers Day - tests for lefthandedness, you may be more left handed than you think
- [Super Scientists](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-scientists) - Science is no stranger to lefthanders. In this field where high IQ, lateral thinking and brain symmetry, (connecting all the aspects of the brain’s power effectively) are essential, lefthanders have the perfect attributes, and more scope for Eureka moments Super Scientists Leonardo da Vinci Marie Curie Sir Isaac Newton Alan Turing Other pages in
- [Super Geniuses](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-geniuses) - Researchers claim that lefties are more intelligent and eloquent than their right-handed counterparts. In tests conducted by Dr. Alan Searleman from St Lawrence University in New York, he found that left-handers can be considerably more intellectually gifted. There were a higher percentage of left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people – which is
- [Super Artists](https://lefthandersday.com/super/super-artists) - Some historians have suggested that da Vinci’s left-handedness added to his genius, because it forced him to think and see in an extraordinary way. The same argument could be made for our contemporary artists and musicians and their amazing work. Super Artists Leonardo Da Vinci Michelangelo Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Peter Paul Rubens Hans Holbein
- [About](https://lefthandersday.com/about) - Left Handers Day and our website Left Handers Day is an annual celebration for those lucky enough to have been born left-handed and also our way of raising awareness among the right-handed majority of the different talents and needs of left-handers, particularly children.
- [Left handed survey](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/left-handed-survey) - Survey on which hand lefthanders use for various tasks and how being left handed has affected them in their lives
- [Life choices survey](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/life-choices) - Being left-handed may affect your career choices. Left handed people have advantages and disadvantages in various types of work
- [Posters to Print](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/lefty-zone-posters) - Graphics to share and posters to download for left handers day
- [Life choices survey form](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/life-choices-survey-form) - We are undertaking the biggest ever survey of left-handedness in various Groups of people to find out what advantages and disadvantages left-handers have and how it affects their choices and success of career, sports, social activities and other lifestyle choices. We want as many individuals and group organisers as possible to complete the survey so
- [Left handed survey results](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/left-handed-results) - Our survey is about which hand left-handers use for various activities, how left-handedness runs in families and how left-handers are affected by their hand preference. Thank you very much to all of you who completed the survey and we have now analysed the results so far, which make some interesting reading. If you have not
- [Contact](https://lefthandersday.com/about/contact) - Form for contacting the Left Handers Club
- [Club Members' Artwork](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/member-artwork) - For Left Handers Day, we encouraged the members of the Left Handers Club to submit designs and artwork to celebrate the day. We hope you will enjoy their submissions below: Nicholas Fields: Samantha G: Valerie Mahaffy Jegir Doski: Pat Hernandez: Maia L: Any budding Da Vincis or Michelangelos out there? If you want to submit
- [Share Left Handers Day](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/share) - Left handed information and left handed products - How to share International Left-Handers Day
- [Files To Download](https://lefthandersday.com/media/files-to-download) - Zip file containing all 'sharable' graphics created for Left Handers Day PDF Version of 'Helping Left Handed Children' Infographic
- [Media](https://lefthandersday.com/media)
- [Helping LH Children infographic](https://lefthandersday.com/children/child-info) - We are often asked about the things parents of young left-handed children need to watch out for and how they can help, so we have put our best advice into an “infographic” that can easily be shared online so as many people as possible can see it. Please use the buttons below to share this
- [Facts](https://lefthandersday.com/tour) - Left handed information tour - raising awareness of the needs of lefthanders worldwide on International Left-Handers Day
- [How Will You Celebrate Left Handers Day?](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/how-celebrate) - The easiest way to celebrate Left Handers Day is on Twitter and Facebook. Your Guide to Twitter and Facebook You can also turn your home or workplace into a Left Handed Zone. What is a Left-Handed Zone? We are very interested in your ideas on ways to celebrate Left Handers Day and all of the
- [Create Your Own Lefty Zone](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/celebrate) - Ideas for celebrating Left Handers' Day by creating your own Lefty Zone and making right-handers perfrom tasks with their left hand
- [Famous Left Handers on Twitter](https://lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/hashtag) - Us the hashtag #lefthandersday for all your left handed posts on 13th August
- [Left-handed test weightings](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/lh-test-weightings) - Which hand you write with is more imporant than other activities in measuring degree of left-handedness
- [Thank you for taking the tour](https://lefthandersday.com/tour/thank-you) - Thank you for completing the left handed information tour for Left Handers Day
- [Link to us](https://lefthandersday.com/about/link) - We would love it if you would add a link to Left Handers Day on your own site.
- [School experiences survey](https://lefthandersday.com/surveys/school-survey) - Left handed children are largely NOT getting the help and advice they need at school to cope in a right-handed environment

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://lefthandersday.com/category/uncategorized)
- [Being left-handed](https://lefthandersday.com/category/being-left-handed)
- [Left Handers Day](https://lefthandersday.com/category/left-handers-day)

## Slideshows

- [home](https://lefthandersday.com/slideshow/home) - Slide show for LHD home page