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 know already I’m seriously left-handed. I would have scored higher except that the cataract in my right eye was worse than my left, so I had surgery done it, and now my right eye is much better than my left. After I have surgery on my left eye, I’m sure I’ll go back to favoring it.
IMO the book question is biased. Changing it to how you read a magazine would be more accurate. I tend to start at the back and flip toward the front, unless I’m reading an article.
Interesting that you brought the subject about which eye when viewing through a telescope. I am an amateur astronomer and have always used my left eye. My right eye is the weakest.
Hi,
I consider myself to be 100% lefthanded, but your test only gives me a lefthandedness rating of 95%!
The reason is that I replied R to the telescope question.
However, the reason that I put a telescope to my right eye is that I place my left hand in nearest to my face when I hold a telescope, which means that holding the telescope to my right eye is more comfortable for me.
Could favouring my left hand when holding a telescope actually make me more left handed?
BTW, it’s great that you promote and sell products designed for left handed people, but they are mostly of little use to me.
Growing up about 60 years ago in a right handed world, I adapted to using items, such as scissors, that were designed for right handed people, by using such items with my left hand.
I am so used to using these right handed items in a left handed way that, ironically, I have difficulty using the left handed versions!
I’m 75% lefty would have scored higher but I was forced to use my right hand at home and in school I changed everything over to left handed latter on in life except writing any other left’s out there that write with their right hand but everything else is left handed
Regards martyn Robbins
Many of the activities that I perform left handed aren’t mentioned, in athletics I jump off my left foot, I use a firearm and bow and arrow left handed, I play guitar left handed, hold a microphone left handed for example.
Even though as a child I was forced to write with my right hand I could draw with my left with more ease. In my adult life, I completley changed to my left hand because I found out that I could write so much faster and smoother than my right. I play sports with my left. I do everyday things with my right because that was how I was taught. But recently I have experimented with my left and I can do it just not as strong as my right due to lack of muscle memory of experience. As a result, I scored 45% left handed and mixed handedness.
I would have been 100%, but I am congenitally deaf in my left ear, so I am forced to use the phone on my right.
I’m seriously left handed and I’m proud of it! I want to be different and this is one of the thing that makes me look different and unique…
Who else are lefties?
The only thing I don’t do with my left is write, since o was forced as a little kid.
It is known that when left handed children are forced to write with the right hand, it could bring about stuttering in their speech. Not a good idea to change handedness.