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).
Good test
I am usually left handed for almost everything except writing
Took the left-handedness test and came back 60% Left but mixed-handed (40-60%), which does not surprise me considering I am the only left-handed person in my family and I learned to adapt early in life. The funny thing is in sports when I played soccer I was left footed, when I played softball I bat right and threw right, however, I bowled left handed. Scissors are another thing all together I have to use right handed scissors with my left hand, because I have never owned left handed scissors. Life is good being a lefty….
I’m a 100% left handed
I AM 86% LEFT HANDED ACCORDING TO THIS TEST
90 perssen5 lefty who
I got 95% serious left handed
At least one of your questions is (IMO) dictated by factors outside of the person’s control. I got a ranking of 60-90% left-handed (MOSTLY) left handed … but thinking back to, say, elementary school, I did not use scissors right-handedly (as I do today) … but there was always a shortage of “lefty” scissors, and so I adapted. Same with baseball: It was always hard to find a glove for a “lefty,” so I adapted. I don’t think either of these things are honestly reflective of my dominance, but by the time you are purchasing your own scissors and baseball gloves … the window may have closed wherein one has just learned to do things a different way.
My score was 89% left handed. From the test the following were the actions performed with the right hand:
1) cutting with scissors
2) clapping your hands
3) turning pages when reading a book
Does any left hander actually turn the pages of a book with his/her left hand? (Considering we are made to read left to right, it doesn’t make sense to do this.) If we were instead made to read pages right to left, then naturally we would use the left hand to change the page because it’s on the side of the book in which the page needs to be flipped over.
80% I’m proud to be a lefty. Left handed for life