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We are very interested to know more about which hand left-handers use for various activities, how left-handedness runs in families and how left-handers lives are affected by their hand preference. Please complete this short survey form to tell us about you and your family and we will keep updating our results and the conclusions we draw from them.
Click here to see our analysis of results so far
We would be interested in any comments you may have about the survey or our interpretation of the results.
Complete the survey
| About you | First name | |
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About your family – please put “L” or “R” in the boxes to show the handedness of your family members, leave those that don’t apply blank
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Grandparents
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Parents
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YOU and siblings
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Your children
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Grandfather 1
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YOU
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Child 1
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Grandmother 1
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Father
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Brother / sister 1
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Child 2
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Grandfather 2
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Mother
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Brother / sister 2
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Child 3
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Grandmother 2
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Spouse
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Brother / sister 3
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Child 4
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Which hand do you use for the following tasks?
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Right
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| Writing and drawing | ||
| Cutting with scissors | ||
| Brushing / combing your hair | ||
| Holding a toothbrush | ||
| Using a knife to cut, without a fork | ||
| Using a knife with a fork (knife hand) | ||
| Using a spoon (on its own) | ||
| Throwing a ball | ||
| Holding a racquet (e.g. tennis, squash) | ||
| Unscrewing the lid from a jar (lid hand) | ||
| Kicking a ball (kicking foot) | ||
| Holding a golf club, cricket or baseball bat (left hand on top, facing to left side = right-handed!) |
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| Looking with one eye (e.g. telescope) | ||
| Listening with one ear (cupping to hear more clearly) |
We would like to know a bit more about what effect being left-handed has on your life, but if you are short on time you can skip this bit and submit the form with the information you have already completed and get back to the rest of the site (scroll down to submit)
Age Sex Country
For the following questions, you can check the appropriate items and add some more notes in the boxes on the right hand side if you wish
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| Do you consider yourself to be more or less intelligent than average? | More Ave Less |
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| Do you consider yourself to be more or less creative than average? (art and music, generating ideas) | More Ave Less |
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| Do you consider yourself to be more or less awkward or clumsy than average? | More Ave Less |
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| Did you experience any difficulties at school related to being left-handed? | YesNo | Types (ctrl click all that apply) | |
| If you had difficulties, did you receive any help from teachers or others? | YesNo | ||
| Have you ever been discouraged from using your left hand for anything? | YesNo | ||
| Have you ever used any specialist left-handed implements? | YesNo | Ctrl click all that apply | |
| What was / is your favourite subject at school / college? | |||
| What is your occupation? | |||
| What are your main hobbies or interests? | |||
| Are there any ways in which being left-handed particularly helps or hinders you? | |||
| Anything else you think is important? |
Thank you very much for your time in completing our survey and I am sure that the analysis of your and other left-handers responses will be very interesting and tell us a bit more about ourselves. We will be updating our analysis of the survey results on a regular basis and you can see it under the survey section of this website. We will also update club members with any significant results through our regular newsletters.
To submit your completed survey, click on the submit button
You will get a screen message back to confirm that it has been accepted
Being left handed create issues with my 4 brothers. I am the only one left handed. When my father purchased baseball glove one right handed glove and brother had to share and of course I got left glove. Also the same with hockey a stick they are curved right or left so I got my own stick. Then sitting at the table I had to be on the corner so not to bump elbows. I was always reminded I different. Which really bother me growing up. But as an Adult I like being left handed. At one time in my life I was militant left hander. When any one would go shake my hand I would put out my left hand. it was fun watching the right hander brain over load. I have computer at work set up left hand and have to inform when they ask to use computer the mouse is set up left hand. Then watch struggle with the mouse. Since living right hand world we left handers have had to adapted to using our right hands.
I’m interested in getting the survey results. I’m very cross dominant and it was somewhat confusing for me as a child. Love it as an adult as it makes me unique.
Wish I knew more about handedness in my family of origin! A family story is my mother born in 1929 was changed to right handed.
Things at work is more for right-hander so I have to try to do things more right-handed and I don’t like it. It slows me down and I can’t get things done as fast as the guy I work with.
It’s weird, but I love mathematical beauty of a proof, and the structure of the theory of advances mathematics. I get bored with computer programming, but I see the value of it in bringing beauty to the internet
Thank you for this website!
Interesting results. I do think I do some thing right handed because of the tools- scissors, hockey (there are no right handed sticks), golf (was given a right handed to try when a child). However I do play tennis right handed, but serve left.
Apologies there are no left handed hockey sticks – field hockey that is, not ice.
I have left handed family members on either side, aunts, uncles, cousins
I enjoyed the the survey
Glad you are doing what you do to help people like us.