This simple survey will tell you how left-handed you are and give you an overall score you can compare to the thousands of others who have taken the test.
You can see our analysis of the test results so far here.
So go ahead and tick the options for which hand you use for various things and see how you rate overall…
How left handed are you?
We all have our own view of whether we are left-handed or not and, ultimately, that is the the test - if you consider yourself to be left-handed then you are! That said, most people are mixed in their handedness and it is rare for people to do everything with just one hand or side of their body. Our test below will show which side you use for various tasks and how consistent you are in the use of your hands. It will also give you give you an overall score out of 100 for your level of left-handedness and you can see how you compare to other people. To get the overall score, we have weighted the various factors so, for example, writing left-handed gets a far higher weighting in the overall score than which way you hold a bat two-handed (see this page for more information on how we did this).
Another question could be how do you uses a can-opener?. I use left hand, putting the can-opener in the opposite side . Lol 🙂
96% I have always had to use right hand sissors I usually use left hand and turn them upside down. Seems to work. Happy Lefty Day.
Interesting! I’ve never had any luck using “rightie” scissors with my left hand. I got a pair of leftie scissors in kindergarten but they weren’t sharp at all, so I gave up on them and just started using rightie scissors. When I got older and started sewing my own clothes, I definitely had to use my right hand because the only decent shears were/are righthanded.
I got a 95%. Seriously left-handed; the only question I answered that I use my right hand is talking on the phone; I put the phone in my right ear sometimes because when I have to write something down while I’m on the phone, which happens more often than one would think, it’s convenient to have the phone in the right ear so that my left hand is free to write. Especially writing down directions to go to a party at a friend’s house. Another question not asked by the quiz but I would have answered right hand, is with what hand I would hold a glass of beer or a microphone; I like to use my right hand holding these objects because it keeps my left-hand, my strong and dexterious hand, free, in case I slip and fall, I would be able to grab onto something with my left-hand like a handrail, or if for example, I’m holding a beer at a picnic with my right hand and a baseball is thrown my way, with my left hand free, I could easily catch the ball using my left hand, if I held a beer with my left hand and someone threw something at my face, I would be screwed because I don’t have the coordination in my right hand to catch something and it would hit my face and do some serious damage.
Superstitious welsh granny forced me to be right-handed. Am not really that old. But feel I should be in museum for that. She forgot lots of things though. I sew, cut, garden, wave, all sorts!, with the good old left hand.
I write with my left hand and do all sports or other things with my right. According to this survey, I am probably a right-hander. I consider myself ambidextrous since many things, except for writing, I can do with either hand.
I was lucky enough (as poor as my grade school was) to learn cutting with left handed scissors. The things I do right-handed are things that weren’t available to me in the left-handed version: playing a guitar, swinging a golf club. I can throw a frisbee though with either hand, but that’s about the extent of my right-handedness. What’s up with the question about kicking? Yes I kick with my right foot when I am kicking for power, but I always lead off with my left foot. That question should be in the test– which foot do you lead with when starting to walk?
Also, I always wondered if I would have been better at the guitar had I been given a left-handed one to learn on.
When I was young I would right from the centre of my writing book out which did cause a stir, scissors I did have left handed scissors once but have use right handed in my left hand most of my life, and that’s most days as I am cutting fabrics for a living, I did find it hard when I first learnt to play golf but have managed to play right handed, but do slip up now and again and confuse myself !! X
I consider myself left-handed, because I write and eat lefty. I naturally do sports right handed, not because of equipment. I scored a 64% on the eval.
This is the first I’ve heard of this club and of this day, 13th August. I’ve spent all my life adapting to a right handed world and more so as a Ghanaian from a culture where using the left hand for almost anything is a taboo. You can’t gesture, point or wave with the left hand, neither can you give or receive anything with your left, if you’re forced to do so, you’re supposed to apologise first. However things are changing and the strict rules are relaxing, especially now that there’s more knowledge about the dangers of forcing naturally left handed people to write with their right hand.
I found it most interesting to read about the kissing, I’ve only just realised that it was my left-handedness that caused me to start on the ‘wrong’ side, nowadays I’ve learned to hesitate slightly to see which way the other starts from so the ‘accidents’ have reduced. We’re always adapting eh?
I think the test is flawed. I hold a bat one handed in either hand. I brush my hair and with either hand.
There should be an option to answer ‘both’.