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).
90% here. I bat right. And right arm cross on top. Plowed through life with right handed scissors in left hand. Top side spiral notebooks kept me sane in high school. ring binders were an absolute nogo for me. Personally I think lefties adaptive abilities help out alot later on in terms of motor skills. as a lefty pitcher it was always weird for me to pitch to a left handed hitter in baseball. Funny how righty pitchers feel awkward too though. I now work on cars and both sand and paint left handed majority of time. Oh and I kick right footed. That’s all for me folks.
If i need to use my wrists, i use my left hand..write, eat, drink, strum a guitar. If i need to use my arms, i use my right hand/arm… baseball bat, throwing a ball, golfing.
I agree with the commentator who suggested the importance of age. I also was subjected to teachers trying to change me until my right handed dad finally intervened and told the teachers to back off! He was and still is my inspiration and hero, he taught me to stand up for myself and figure out ways to overcome prejudice.
I didn’t have left handed scissors available to me as a child and never thought to use my right hand to cut. I just felt terribly inept, couldn’t cut on a line properly. I was in my 30’s before I had a pair of good left handed scissors for sewing…heavenly! None of my children nor grandchildren are left handed although one grandboy took until he was six to decide which he’d be. I reckon he’s really ambidextrous. I naturally swing a golf club and baseball bat righty, all else is definitely lefty, including my sighting eye.
My first pair of left-handed scissors were when I graduated from college at age 33 yrs……….they were left handed pinking shears and I had been making my own clothing since grammar school doing it with right handed scissors. The blisters were painful and I started wearing cotton gloves to cut fabric after a few years. This was the 1950s and we wore gloves a lot with our pillbox hats.
I’m 95% serioursly left handed. The only part the tripped me up is kicking a ball, I cannot kick a ball with either foot but try with my right. There should have been the option – “neither and I should not try!”
I only came out 58% lefty, basically because of holding a bat & scissors…..you need to include playing guitar, snooker/billiards, shooting, computer mouse, smoking & some other activities.
I agree with many of the other comments, e.g. left-handed scissors – there was no other type when I was a child. Also using the right hand for phone or mouse is an advantage as you can write with your left hand at the same time – they don’t require any fine motor movements so why not take advantage? Quite an interesting little survey but too small to give a totally accurate picture.
HAHA, I grew up with left handed scissors because my mother is a leftie (so is my dad) and had several good pairs of sewing scissors that my dad had special ordered for her. I naturally used my right to cut (even though I am also left handed) so I grew up thinking scissors were the most uncomfortable things ever! School scissors (from my gen) were uni-handed.
Hi,
I read all these comments about LH scissors not being available when growing up and thus using scissors with the right hand … where you really aware that that was the reason why you couldn’t cut paper properly, why your cuts were always a little bit off the marked line etc. when using RH scissors with the left hand?
I was absolutely not aware of that, and I think my parents never realized that this was a problem for me because they also never told me. Only when I saw LH scissors for the first time on a market it dawned on me! (o:
I’ve always used RH scissors, but cut fron “underneath”. I finally got a pair of LH scissors, but STILL cut from “underneath”!!
Funny, but my right hand is stronger and I play sports and guitar RH.
I read once that people who aren’t specificly one-handed were brain-damaged while in the womb and the brain became 2 handed as compensation for the damage.
I just got a score of 96% on the LH test, which I was quite surprised about. I generally have adapted a lot in the RH WORLD.
I use RH scissors – with my left hand, I play the guitar RH, hold a computer mouse wth my RH, but nowhere does the test reference any adaptations people have made. Can I suggest that is looked at 🙂
Karen u are accepted in RH coz they never noticed that you are really a LH.Also the quiz doesn’t matter how much you are LH….it depends on u that you really think you are aLH or not