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 throw a ball right handed over hand, but when I pitch underhand I use my left. I bowl left handed too. When I was a kid and learning how to play baseball my teacher always put the bat in my right hand instead of my left. I catch right handed too.
I am afraid I don’t agree with your result of how left handed I am. So many things I do with my left hand that you didn’t ask about which would tip the result the other way.
Things I do with my left hand:
Use a computer mouse
Use a touch screen
Wash myself
Peel an orange
Use toilet paper (delicate subject but everyone does it)
Eat out of a packet of crisps
Press the buttons on a phone
Clasp my hands together – left thumb on top
There are probably many others that I can’t immediately bring to mind.
i am left handed but there are some tasks that I do with my right hand only. Such as a combination lock I don’t know why I just do.
Same here, I write with my left but it would be impossible for me to open a locker using my left hand.
Janet; I am with you on toilet paper. The true test of handedness is which hand is used for this everyday process.
I don’t think your test asks vverygood questions. I don’t play baseball andhave limit experience hholdinga bat. What iIdo know is, is when I was young I cut my food with my left hand until my step dad told me not to because I wrote with my right, I continued to write wwithmy right hand but was a left handed sserver as a waitress, wear my watch on my right wrist because it feels better and wipe my counters down with my left. When I wad in grade 4, a teacher thought my penmanship was poor and that I held my pencil wrong in my right hand. She stood over me and corrected my grip for the rest of that school year. I always wondered if my poor penmanship was because I was always a leftie but nobody clued in. My oldest daughter is left handed.
In the survey I got 40-60%, “mixed handed”. I was born left-handed but my parents encouraged me to use my right hand – possibly because my leftie dad wanted to spare me a life of being “wrong-handed”. (Thanks, Dad, instead you created a right-handed Clumsy Carp!) Public school teachers finished the job. I write, draw, and use scissors with my right, but I am an instinctive leftie when it comes to using cutlery (fork left, knife right); baby-wrangling (right-arm hip balance frees up left hand); and bicycling (left side mount and left pedal start). Recently I had a revelation! I am a novice golfer, and my game sucked until a l-h friend pointed out that I was putting left-handed. He loaned me a l-h club and I immediately hit a long drive straight down the fairway! Since that incident I have started to try other things left-handed: throwing a ball, for example.
Finally another lefty like me. Jacqui, the simplest test should be if you’ve ever been made fun of for being left-handed should make you left-handed. Not the case. I work with two lefty and they both don’t recognize me as a lefty. In fact, one of them does everything with her right hand except write. I write right-handed, but play sports with my left. It seems anything that requires strength (sports, opening jars, tools,etc.) I’m left-handed and anything that requires precision (eating, writing, cutting, drinking etc.) I’m right. We are rejected by both groups. And we are not ambidextrous. I still see myself as left-handed because I’m active and that’s what people notice.
I am mainly left handed, I write, and do most of my activities with my left hand, but when it comes to playing an instrument I play with either hand. This is probably because when I took violin lessons I was strictly thought to play right handed, and over time I got used to it, I can now play violin with both hands.
The answer to the scissors question depends on whether they are right or left-handed scissors. Turning pages depends if you are going from front to back in the printed item, or back to front as I often do.
When dealin cards I deal left handed. When washing dish right holds dish left washes. When driving one hand left on wheel more comfortable same as if I operating a buffer with one hand it is mt left. I write and typed this with my right. I recently was given a guitar. I am more comfortable strumming with my left but I need to learn to do it oposite but it feels so unnatural. Now what?
Tooth brush, bat, spoon and hair brush should have an option to put ‘both’, as that’s me. When I brush the right side of my teeth I use left hand and left teeth use right hand. Using a bat or racket, I swap hands depending on which side the ball is coming at me, same for the hair brush, swapping hands for different sides. In fact that answer option should be there for all the answer choices.
As for scissors, I use right as that’s the only ones available when learning. I switch hands when playing pool or darts and as for eating utensils I swap hands whenever.
Im a lefty and im right handed in writing. I remember when i was in kindergartem i was a lefty writer and i dont know why i changed
This isn’t a great test, in my opinion. There is no option for using eith hand. I can switch back and forth for many activities. So, I’m ambidextrous, although mainly left-handed. Just like my dad, I’ve learned how to do things with my right hand. It came in handy while playing sports.
Also, although I chose the right hand for an answer, the test put me down for the left hand and wouldn’tt change it.
I think that a more accurate test would include whether a person can use both hands for an activity.
Excellent point KD! Being ambidextrous is our real talent. Righties are so stiff!