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).
As a “Lefty” I know it’s a righty world so, I adapt. We have no choice! Everything is made for Righties. Business machines, school desks for the children, automobiles, boats, tools, clothes,(try and find an inside pocket in a suit coat.)
I automaticly screw up a dining table when I sit next to “righties”!
I drink water from the wrong side and have trouble with the table setting. Knives, forks, spoons are all in the “wrong place.”
I would never try to change! I know I’m in a minority, but I just grin and bare it. I am who I am and take it or not, it’s me.
I liked this survey; I use RH scissors because LH scissors never worked for me. RH people are envious due to the fact that I use the mouse RH and take notes with LH, same with phone.
Happy Aug 13th from Southern Calif, USA
I fold my arms right handed apparently and I’ve trained myself to use the phone right handed/eared so as I can write notes with my free left hand. I play guitar the leftie way by fretting with the right hand which I always think is the most complex job. A leftie friend of mine plays right handed as he finds fretting the fingerboard with his left hand more comfortable which makes sense.
I’m left-handed, and scored 89%; nice to confirm it, I suppose! An interesting test, though a bit basic; there are a few questions I wish I could have given more detail on. I kick a ball with my right foot, but play drums with my left foot on the bass pedal! I use my left hand for tools and my right hand for ten-pin bowling. I use my right hand on the mouse, but consider myself to be a “power user” of computers and use a lot of keyboard shortcuts via the left hand.
Such is the result of living in a right-handed world, I suppose…
I agree with Jeremy, you need to keep your left hand free when on the telephone in order to take down messages. Consequently you also use your right ear.I use my right eye for a telescope because the sight in my left eye is so bad.
like a lot of others commenting iwas made to do lots of things right handed until my doctor wrote a very strong letter to the head teacher at my primary school .I am now 76 so I can do several things right handed although not so well as left ,use a hammer, axe and saw . also write right handed although poorly however at cricket I bowled and threw left handed but bat right without being pressurised . I can play table tennis with either hand .The thing about being a leftie we are all unique !!
As an aside my youngest son (14yrs) is the only right handed member of the family. My wife, oldest son and myself are all strongly left handed. What I have observed is that the youngest will carry out many activities left handed especially when it has been based on our teaching and his observations.
I hold an two handed sport implement right handed and I know this is a result of my dad (RH) holding my hands on the bat.
As an old headbanger I play a left handed air guitar but a real guitar right handed although this does give an advantage in finger dexterity.
Finally I found it easy to write with lateral inversion and often wrote lecture notes in such a manner. As a science teacher it’s great to write notes about plane mirrors on the whiteboard in real time and have the students use mirrors to read the text.
I use scissors with right hand as there was nothing left handed when I was growing up, I was born 1959, I had to sit opposite the teacher to learn how to sew, opp mum to Learn how to knit. I recently went to a wedding where I noticed that apart from me being left handed, my husband, the girl to the left and right of me and the girl next to Trevor were all left handed. In the office there’s 3 girls and were all left handed and we all do our back to front ticks!
Most of the left handed people my age or older had to adapt to a right handed school as we grew up. This means that although we are left handed, in order to participate, we learned to use scissors right handed, bowl right handed, or just being taught by right handlers who forced us to change.
Using a telephone, I hold it in my right hand and dial with the left. I put it to my right ear only because I’m getting older and my hearing in that ear is better.