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).
Hey, it really seems like that part where it’s written “which hand is on the bottom (nearest the hitting end of the bat)” doesn’t make sense, because the part where you’ll hit something with is the top of the bat/club, so that hand, that is below the other hand, closer to the opposite end of the bat, will be the farthest from the hitting end, not the nearest. Still, awesome survey, thank you very much for it 😀
I got a 100%. I do literally everything with my left hand, and I can’t do a thing with my right hand alone.
But that’s still good to know. ^^
I definitely think this test could use some more questions, as well as allow people to choose the option of both for many of the activities. I tend to use both my hands for things like talking on the phone & texting (interchangeably for convenience sake & because both feel comfortable). Another question that I feel is very important but was not included is “which is the first hand on the ground when you do a cartwheel” because that definitely shows a sided-ness. For me, it’s my left and that (combined with my use of both hands for many activities and that I kick a soccer ball with my left foot) is why I’ve always considered myself almost (but not quite) ambidextrous.
My score was only 29%, even though I have always considered myself left handed :’). I do a lot with my right hand, but I’ll always consider myself a lefties haha
Yeahhh me tooo i thought i am the only person that using everything with my right hand except writing.
yes me too! anyone else feel as if their lack of coordination is to blame on a confused/ reformed left hander.
So, I’ve been a right handed person for most of my life. Until the age of 10 I had begun to realize I could equally use both hands. So, wanting to know the real answer I decided to take this test, and guess what? I turned out 60-90% or in other words, mostly left handed. By this i was astonished.
maybe you’re actually ambidextrous. that’s even more rare than left handers
I got 54% WOW I didn’t expect that xD
I agree with those who write that there should be an either option. I use both hands for a lot of things, switching hands to use whichever is most convenient. Also, it’s weird that you can’t change your answers after clicking.
yep Heather. I think this would have changed my score drastically
I always thought that I could be ambidextrous, but I also always thought that your hand dominance was based on what hand you used to write with.
I took the test, and I finished with 52% left dominant but mostly mixed.
I write with my left hand, golf right-handed, bat both left and right, throw left, kick right, brush teeth left, legally blind in my left eye so I see 20/20 with my right, draw and paint with both hands simultaneously, cut food with my right, use a spoon with my left, and I think that covers enough!
This isn’t a bad test, but when conducting some of the tests, it’s only giving choices for right and left handed… it doesn’t assume someone uses both hands for any given activity. I know that I brush my hair and brush my teeth with both hands. Also, I normally write with my right hand, but when I was really young, my dominant writing hand was my left hand. Despite this, I’m apparently 18% left-handed, aka “Probably a Right-Hander”. I was expecting to score around 40%, but what do I know? I personally think I was born as a leftie, but I was trained into a right-handed society, and now I’ve succeeded in becoming cross-dominant and ambidextrous in many activities that I partake in.
i am a 100% left handed to despite having my left hand tied behind my back in primary school. my family still think its wrong.
I found this very interesting because I’ve always wondered about where handedness comes from. I’m one of 4 children, both parents are right handed (so as children we all would have seen our parents do everything right handed) but all my siblings are left handed. I believe that I would be left handed if it hadn’t been for all the right handed gadgets. Like scissors, I often find I go to cut with my left hand but they’re right handed scissors. And I can’t use a manual tin opener at all, never could. My brother taught himself to play guitar which I found fascinating because he said he preferred it strung left handed but all music books, tutorials etc were for right handed guitars which he found confusing. When he tried to teach me it was hopeless, because I NEEDED it strung left handed. So I never learnt. I took up piano instead, for which you use both hands equally. I like to cook and find that with that task more than anything else I will swap hands for almost everything constantly… stirring, chopping etc.