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).
Was just wondering. Do all left handed people like to sleep on the Left hand side of the bed,like myself for instance. If so what happens,if your partner is also Left ? Would you draw straws, flip a coin. Or one week your turn,then one week mine, or would you both sleep on the LEFT hand side ?????
Am 90% left handed,but my dominent eye is right. I was in the shooting team at school and shot left handed, everbody had something snide to say about it. However i was the only boy to achieve HONOURS for many years to come. Am so proud to be LEFT and i find,that when i meet left handed people,i immediatly connect like a long lost family. Love to you all. Mike.
Interesting – asked me a few questions I hadn’t thought of before. 96% lefty as I blunder through a righty world. Being in the US, I thought of baseball rather than cricket (I admit it – I don’t even know how cricket is played).
I played tee-ball and baseball, but I was always the kid no one wanted on their team. I am so left handed that I can neither catch nor throw right handed. My folks bought me a lefty baseball glove, and I was painfully bad at the whole affair because I would catch well enough, but then I would yank off my glove to throw the ball with my left hand. Needless to say, I never made an out. If ya know baseball. 😉
The one thing I do right handed is play the guitar. Have played for over 50 years and never developed my strumming technique due to lack of coordination and practice. I resort mainly to finger picking which I find easier.
I use rh scissors with my rh because lh scissors were not invented when I was a child.
I use my right ear when using the telephone this leaves my lefthand free for taking notes etc.
I use my right eye to look through a telescope because I cannot see out of my left eye!
Just saying!
Draw a simple fish or any face profile. Lefties draw facing from left to right of page. Righties the opposite.
I am 63 and aggressively >90% left-handed I am pleased to say. I am completely left side dominant. I am able to mentally “reverse” directions and demonstrations so the actions are compatible with my left handedness. Never have any problems in the woods with being lost or confused, always know where “home” or my starting point will be. Reading upside down and backwards is easier for me than reading normal for most people. I have mild dyslexia and find it worsens as I get tired. I have no formal stats, but have observed the same trait with a lot of lefties. We are unique and that is a good thing. Embrace it and love it. Never surrender!
95 % lefty 😀
Grateful for not living at medieval days yet!
But IMHO some questions are not so accurated, i only use my right eye because of my poor eyesight in my left.
You could include a question about can openers: He in Brazil we have awful[medieval] can openers by default, totally made for right handed. In my childhood i struggled in vain trying to use it with left hand, so i had to give up. Today i handle it like a natural born right handed.
I am a identical mirror image twin. My brother is a total right handed person. I am a total left handed person. I broke my left arm once and could hardly eat using my right hand. Once, visiting family, there was five people at the table, four were left handed. It was fun for a change for the right handed person trying to figure out where to sit. A high number of Presidents are left handed. Good company. I never would want to be right handed.
Like others who have commented here, I use scissors with my right hand simply because left-handed scissors didn’t exist when I was growing up and I had to adapt to a right-handed world. The same is true for can openers, cork screws, etc. I hold the telephone with my right hand to my right ear because it leaves my left hand free for taking notes or to use my computer mouse. I carry shoulder bags on my right shoulder, which again leaves my left hand and arm free. I use my right foot to kick a ball but that’s due to scoliosis. Pretty much anything that requires fine motor skills and control I do with my left hand.