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 am 96% left handed. I wonder what caused the 4% loss?
I want a left handed mug!! One that says World’s Greatest Mum, that I can hold in my left hand, and the slogan can be read by everyone. Not a right handed mug, that says World’s Greatest Mum, that I can hold in my left hand, and the slogan can be seen by just me! I want a left handed bread knife, so the serrated edge is actually on the right (correct for me) side! A left handed tape measure, where the numbers are the right way up, instead of upside down. I have lived my whole life, having to adapt to a right handed world. Everything is geared to being right handed. I don’t even know what “ist” that is. Not Racist, not Sexist, what ist is it? Left handed pens are rubbish! Do not waste your money. I used to have a left handed ruler, but it was “borrowed” by a right handed person, who never returned it. Shame on them. I can only use a right handed tin opener, and a right handed peeler, because that was all that was available to me. My whole family, including my own children, are right handed. I taught my children to tie their own shoelaces. 30 years later, watching them tie their laces, is hilarious!! So much chaos! LOL! Apparently, I have a lot to answer for! I can throw a ball, with either hand, purely because it was unfair of me to throw it with my left hand. I think that had more to do with them losing. I can kick a ball, with either foot. It makes no difference to me. I don’t brush my hair. It’s too curly for that much involvement, so I’m not any handed for that. I don’t write “upside down”, I turn the page, so that it’s at right angles (left angles?) to my body. I wish I could read right to left. I actually do read right to left, I tend to sweep across the page, right one way, then left. I wish I could write, right to left. It would stop my fingers being covered in ink and preventing me from seeing what I’ve just written. I have left handed scissors, thankfully, but can use either, in my left hand. I like being a little bit different. I’m normal. The world population is 68 billion, I think. We all think we’re normal. That’s proper diversity.
My total weighted score is 100%. I couldn’t be prouder. The only thing I do right handed is play golf or cricket, I’ve no idea why but I strongly suspect it is because I was taught like this as a small child and never questioned it. Anyway I look upon left handedness as a gift and I’m very happy to be blessed with it.
Did the left handedness survey but could not change answers when I made a mistake.
You need to include feet. I am left-footed. When I high jumped as a kid, I had to run in to the bar from the “wrong” side. All of my boys are right handed, but all are left footed and one is also right eyed. Strange.
I forgot to put in my number. 79% left handed.
I make my check marks backwards (tail goes to the left) and I read magazines from back to front.
Btw…
I couldn’t edit my post, but I forgot to add my results…
Drum 🥁 Roll Please….
Results:
I am considered 53% Left-Handed!
Annnd oh… while I’m here and can’t edit what I wrote above…I wanted to extend on some other things I thought of after re-reading what I wrote.
Although I write, text eat, smoke and shoot pool with my left hand, I bowl, talk on phone, cut, and do a one handed round-off, with my right hand. Lol
Mixed-Handed or Cross-Dominant is the phrase or word for this kind of handedness, which was thought to be very rare, according to the things I had read not too long ago, where only 1% of the population was considered cross-dominant. I’m still not quite sure if it still isn’t rare, but I have talked to many people that say they too are mix handed, with one response from a post my brother made on facebook, that the stats are way outdated and that it’s more common now. If anyone knows the facts on this, please share by responding to my original post!
Growing up my Grandfather thought my brother and I were slightly ambidextrous, he noticed we could use both hands for different things just opposite of each other.
A few years back I finally learned that my brother and I were not a
“slightly ambidextrous” , According to the actual webster definition, Ambidextrous is when one can utilize both hands for everything equally.
Sooo…needless to say I write horribly with my left hand and cutting with left handed scissors isn’t an easy task at all, in fact it’s quite difficult to do many things that I normally do with opposite hand. Sooo…I am definitely not Ambidextrous! To be honest trying to write, right-handed is quite a task for me, as well as and trying to eat with a fork. It would be ideal to have the option to use each hand however you feel like using them and would be most ideal while sitting at a dinner table with someone whom uses the opposite hand. Who would have thought that a lefty, sitting next to a righty at a dinner table would be such a challenging tasks? Try it sometime..its annoying, but often amusing whenvlifting a fork to take a bite can cause the two opposites to collide with thier elbows! Lol
I’m always gonna be the rare one no matter what… Regardless of stats…
Because not only am I Left-Handed (10%) and cross-dominant (1%)
I am also Green-Eyed
(The only color that changes to other colors)
-RH (Anti-bodies can attack and kill own fetus if a the required special shot isn’t given while pregnant to prevent antibodies from attacking.
I’m definitely a strange one and very Rare… to say the leas! Lol But that’s what makes me me…and proud of my individuality and am thankful God made me just the way…that…
I Am!
It’s crazy how sometimes I forget which hand I use to do what. I used to catch and throw with my right hand but trained myself to catch with left. My brother is total opposite, he is right- handed and does most things left handed! I never had the issues with the can opener or slicer like he has. My biggest issues with being left handed was that I smeared anything I wrote in ink and I was told I write upside down. I just recently found out that the reason for my ink always seeming to run out while I write is because pens are actually made for right handers. I thought how is this possible??? Well right handers write and the pens ink flows out left to right the angle going away from each letter written. Lefty’s pens point right and many pens will write but the force of the pen going in opposite direction can cause ink to start and stop. It’s true…look it up! They actually have pens now made just for us snearing, ink stopping lefty’s.. it’s pretty neat. Being a lefty as well as being cross-dominant, I guess has it’s perks. I don’t have to find special scissors for lefty’s because I cut right handed and I’m pretty much capable of mostright handed a
Things that this world is made up of. I do despise the spiral notebooks as they get in my way when I wrote…, But thankfully they came up with a left handed notebook, I’ve actually owned only owned one of these., But, the left-handed pen is something I’d really like to have…it’s pretty cool
I am also cross-brained! It makes life interesting. I am a lefty who was “switched” to the right in school, but I automatically do many things left=handed. When I took piano lessons, my teacher would say “You’re making a mistake in your left” and I’d say “Which left?” Recently, while throwing snowballs with a grandson, I discovered that I can throw the snowball farther with my right arm, but can hit the target every time with my left! My husband tried to teach me to play golf, but my game was terrible – until a golf teacher friend loaned me his left-hand clubs – suddenly that ball was winging down the fairway!
By the way, thanks for the tips on writing with the left hand. I knew about left-handed scissors, but had no idea there were left-handed pens!
Kind of figured that. I’ve been told (by a hand specialist) that I was left sided. Everything on the left side is bigger, stronger, or dominant.
Interesting! I am curious to know whether through your life you tended to naturally use your left hand more? I was born a leftie but back in the day this was thought to be a disadvantage, and I was forced into right-handedness in school. (the result was to turn me into a clumsy kid with left-right issues!) I have always favoured the left for other things – like unconsciously carrying babies, groceries, etc. on the right to leave the left hand free. Last fall, following surgery that affected my right arm and the resultant physiotherapy, I decided to become a leftie again! It’s been surprisingly easy. I am still working on the handwriting. A curious note: although they taught cursive writing in school I never mastered it, and my right hand produces a curious mixture of script and printing – but the left hand writes lovely cursive!
I have the same thing with sidedness-everything on the left is bigger. But not stronger. I play all sports right handed and other things (I call it ‘all large movement’ actions) but everything detailed (this one I call ‘more intricate movement’) is Left.
100% left handed! I didn’t expect that.