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).
When I was in 1st standard my primary school Headmaster was forced and beaten me to adopt the right hand. But just no change in my attitude. After 1 year I was changed to another school, because of my father had transferred to another village as High School Master, who was lefthanded. By god grace in that school the Head Master of Primary school was also lefthanded, who was encouraged me to use the left hand in my future. My parents never forced to change my attitude. In my family members, my father, my nephew, cussine sister, cussuine brother are also lefties and all are in higher positions in their own professions. These are memorable events and eagarly waiting for Left Handers day.
I have just been given a rating of “seriously left handed”. I suppose like many of us Leftys we have just had to get on with using right handed implements over the years. Only now are we able to buy the things we should have had years ago. I love now leaving left handed scissors lying around just for a right handed person to pick them up. Usually the reaction is. What the ….!!!!!
Interesting
I’m left-handed and got 34%, I live in a country where you can’t find stuff for left-handers..
(After submitting a comment the test reset so I was able to complete it after all. Great!)
The scissors question is tricky: I only use the right hand because regular scissors simply don’t work in the left hand unless one turns the hand upside down towards oneself to cut (so awkward). Therefore I only cut with my right hand out of practical necessity and my cut isn’t very good or precise because of that.
I got a result of 73%, which is not unexpected considering I’ve had to adapt to so many things the right-hand way, being the only lefty in the family. For example, I could not restring the guitars at home because everyone else plays right-handed so I had to learn to play that way. The violin however, I could not play right-handed at all, so I play it lefty like Chaplin (I found the bow too difficult to control with the non-dominant hand) So I would say some movements or actions are too precise to adapt, but overall we do adapt a lot and probably become ambit-dexterous to a certain extent.
I think my score must have been near 100% when it comes to hand work, but it was lowered to 73% because I’m mostly right-eyed and mostly right-eared.
I started doing the test but when I went to correct one of my replies (as English is not my native language and I misunderstood the question at first) and it didn’t let me O_o so I didn’t finish or submit the test as it wouldn’t be entirely true and therefore useful for research/statistic purposes.
This is something that should be corrected, I think.
I would say that when folding one’s arms, with the Left arm on the bottom (providing support) for the weaker right arm is a sign of being a Lefty. Also as pointed out earlier, listening with you right ear leaves the Left Hand free for writing, mousing, and other tasks.
Interesting test. I’m over 60 and have always used right handed scissors in my left hand. Tried the leftie scissors but felt I had no control with them…. I face right with a baseball bat and left hand is on the bottom. Our three brothers are right handed but my sister and I are lefties. My mother was told when I was four years old that I would never be a good dancer as I always led with the left foot… still dance, and lead with the left! Ha ha!
I posted a 100% score on this test, but if a question had asked about which are I wear my watch on, I would have had to answer left, thus I wear my watch on my “Right handed” side. This because my left handed dad wears his watch on the left wrist too. I did met a right handed person the other week that wears his watch on the right wrist, much to the friendly ribbing of his family!
I consider myself left handed. However, I tell everyone that I am left handed, but can do more with my right hand than most right handed people can do with their left. It comes from growing up left handed in a right handed world.
In my early days of training as an Engineer I worked in the Drawing Office and on one occasion I was allowed to use a left handed board. After a couple of hours I gave up and went back to the righ handed board. I could draw as fast on this as any right handed board user.
Also when i was a Civil Instructer with the ATC we used to go to the Dunlop Rifle Range and practice. The Gentleman in charge took me to task as i was shooting rifles left handed and getting scores of 50%. Having changed over to right handed my score went immediately up to 99%, which meant I am right eyed.
I do have an issue with a lot of left handed writers holding the pen upside down. I right correctly with my hand at the bottom of the page and have no problem.