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).
I’m seriously a left-handed person. But I can use my right hand whenever necessary. I knew I am one before I tried the test. But I love being a lefty and it’s all that matters! Though in some places, writing from back to front is normal, here in the Philippines, it’s front to back. I still have difficulties using spiral notes and my friends think it’s weird that I’m writing from back to front or upside down. But being a lefty did have some advantages in the right handed world.
I was born in 1994 and when I entered school, people thought I’m pretty special because I’m a lefty. They said that lefties are supposed to be good in arts and music. I do play guitar (right-handed) and drums but I’m currently taking up medicine. Who says that only the right-handed are logical?
I’m 96% left handed. I know how to use almost all the right handed products with ease though; call it adaptation. I can’t use left handed scissors either. I love being a lefty. Half my family is: one of my 4 siblings, both grandfathers, my mother comes from a family of 8 and 4 are left handed; my father has a couple of left-handed siblings, and a couple of my nephews are left handed. Woo-hoo!
I always have fun in a classy Resturant. I usually change the knife and fork round so the knife is on my left and fork is on the right, because,being a lefty that’s how I use them. Actually I have to swop over durring the meal quite a few times. It’s always amusing when the waiter tuts and changes them back. At this point my wife Informs the waiter that I’m left handed and that’s how I like the cutlery layed out. They always leave with a look of confusion.
34%..I write with my left hand but do everything else with my right hand
My sister is 100% left handed, and I am 86% left handed, but no one else in my family is left handed. No one is left handed on my mom’s side or my father’s side. So how did I become left handed?
I’d love to see a study someday of lefthanded and righthanded drivers of manual transmission cars, in right-lane countries and left-lane countries.
I was taught to drive a stickshift when I was 14 (in the US) and I don’t it was any more difficult than for a righthanded learner. But then I moved to England in the 1980s and had to get used to driving a stickshift using my left hand. It looked intimidating, but I got the hang of it soon enough. The thing that felt the most odd was sitting on the right side of the car and driving on the left half of the road–around roundabouts! GACK. When I took my son to England in 2011 it was deja vu all over again. I felt like “Clark Griswold” (a character played by American comic actor Chevy Chase) in one of his American Vacation movies–total fish out of water.
I wonder what traffic safety statistics are for lefthanded drivers in the US (and other right-half of the road countries) vs. lefthanded drivers in the UK (and other left-half of the road countries)? Do lefties have fewer accidents in one or the other? It’s an intriguing thought. The study would probably have to be limited to experienced drivers, no newbies or tourists, to make sure apples aren’t being compared to oranges, if you get my drift…. 😉 I would just love to know if it makes a difference at all. Maybe it doesn’t, since driving a stickshift is complicated enough in itself.
Which leads me to wonder why the clutch (transmission foot pedal) is on the same side vis-a-vis the accelerator pedal no matter what country one is in? I mean, why do drivers worldwide use the right foot to brake and accelerate? Doesn’t that also reveal a righthand bias? Not that I’m advocating change! I just wonder if learning to drive in our right-centric world is another example of lefties having to adapt. I just read somewhere that lefties are safer drivers, and I wonder if it’s because we use both sides of our brains more when it comes to driving? I.e., have more sophisticated “wiring” already in place? Driving is a topic ripe for research!
I came out as 80% left-handed. I made my living, before retiring, as a left-handed artist. Oddly, however, I find it much more easy to use chopsticks with my right hand. I’ll have to ask my wife -another left-handed artist, if she’s interested in the test, etc.
My dad was born in 1910 and was forced to use his right hand; his handwriting (Palmer method) was beautiful. I was born in 1943 and was taught by nuns. Our class of approximately 30 had 4 lefties–3 girls and 1 boy. We were taught the correct slant of our paper and proper position for writing–no knuckles hit with a ruler! In 1954 I broke my right arm. My classmates thought I was lucky because I wouldn’t have to write homework, until they realized I was a leftie. As part of my physical therapy (at home) I was to use my right arm/hand to turn doorknobs, cut food with right hand, use scissors with right hand. My 40-yr-old daughter is also a leftie. She and leftie peers at work proudly celebrate the day.
I was forced by my mom to eat in right, But I didn’t agree and continued eating in left. But I love Left-handedness!!!!!!!