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).
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As a left-hander, I held the receiver on a landline and listened with my right ear. I also hold my cell (mobile) phone in my right hand for the same reason: to enable pressing the phone’s buttons with the left hand. Listening with the left ear involves awkward hand-switching, though I’ve heard it discussed that if one was truly left-handed, they’d be listening to their phone with their left ear, which I’ve never understood.
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I was born left-handed and suffered with poor eyesight at an early age due to the difficulty I went through changing to writing with my right hand. My husband and I (he is also left-handed) have 2 sons who are left-handed, and no way did way did we ever try to make them change.
My Mother was left-handed and also my one and only sister, is left-handed.
The teacher that I had in grade one kept a ruler in his back pocket, he would sneak up from behind and slap my hand. I soon started to write with my right hand. In spite of this I loved going to school, reading and writing were my favorite.
During the 1950’s it was required that all students in elementary school had to be right handed. This was western Maryland. Lefties were not allowed to write with their left hand. Consequently, in my case I started stuttering. As soon as the teachers allowed me to write with my left hand the stuttering stopped. However, I am now ambidextrous.
When writing with my left hand, I hold my hand above the words being written. I’m sure most lefties do this. Still do this today, seventy years later.
It’s interesting to note how many things I’ve had to learn to do with my “off hand” over my lifetime. I still do nearly everything left handed can “pass for a righty” well enough.
Being forced to live in a right handed world definitely took some of my leftiness sadly but I’m still lefty all the way!!!
Learned to do a lot right handed since that was the only option for tools and scissors and such. Throw frisbee right handed since i was taught by a righty.
Even though I am left handed for writing, cutting with a knife, using a fork etc, I can do so many things well with both hands, although far better with my left, kick a football well with my right foot, play racquet sports with both hands.I am stronger on my right side (hand & arm) as I learnt as a child to throw a ball with both hands, the aforementioned racquet sports, etc, so that I could play against right handed folk & they not moan that I had a far greater advantage. I have found it much easier to use my right hand turning a key if the lock was sticking or just to have the advantage of being able to use both hands well throughout life.
Its a shame that the survey could not determine when using your non dominant hand for lesser tasks that it did not detract from your actual left- handedness.
Knew it!!!! I was forced to hold my scissors upside in my right hand ….. painful!!! And raised catholic I ALWAYS used my left hand for the sign of the cross…. And that was the path way to perdition!
Been a southpaw since 7:30 pm on 3/7/63 a Thursday evening
I’ve got a dodgy left eye and we didn’t have left handed scissors when I was at school, so I’m ignoring those two seeing as I’m typing this with my left forefinger. Left is the best!!