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Some daily problems may just come from being left handed!
The world's first and biggest Left handed ShopLeft Handed Survey
We are very interested to know more about which hand left-handers use for various activities, how left-handedness runs in families and how left-handers lives are affected by their hand preference. Please complete this short survey form to tell us about you and your family and we will keep updating our results and the conclusions we draw from them.
Click here to see our analysis of results so far
We would be interested in any comments you may have about the survey or our interpretation of the results.
Complete the survey
| About you | First name | |
| email address |
About your family - please put "L" or "R" in the boxes to show the handedness of your family members, leave those that don't apply blank
Grandparents |
Parents |
YOU and siblings |
Your children |
Grandfather 1 |
YOU |
Child 1 |
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Grandmother 1 |
Father |
Brother / sister 1 |
Child 2 |
Grandfather 2 |
Mother |
Brother / sister 2 |
Child 3 |
Grandmother 2 |
Spouse |
Brother / sister 3 |
Child 4 |
Which hand do you use for the following tasks?
| Activity | Left |
Right |
| Writing and drawing | ||
| Cutting with scissors | ||
| Brushing / combing your hair | ||
| Holding a toothbrush | ||
| Using a knife to cut, without a fork | ||
| Using a knife with a fork (knife hand) | ||
| Using a spoon (on its own) | ||
| Throwing a ball | ||
| Holding a racquet (e.g. tennis, squash) | ||
| Unscrewing the lid from a jar (lid hand) | ||
| Kicking a ball (kicking foot) | ||
| Holding a golf club,
cricket or baseball bat (left hand on top, facing to left side = right-handed!) |
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| Looking with one eye (e.g. telescope) | ||
| Listening with one ear (cupping to hear more clearly) |
We would like to know a bit more about what effect being left-handed has on your life, but if you are short on time you can skip this bit and submit the form with the information you have already completed and get back to the rest of the site
Carry on with the rest of the survey
Age Sex Country
For the following questions, you can check the appropriate items and add some more notes in the boxes on the right hand side if you wish
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| Do you consider yourself to be more or less intelligent than average? | More Ave Less |
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| Do you consider yourself to be more or less creative than average? (art and music, generating ideas) | More Ave Less |
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| Do you consider yourself to be more
or less awkward or clumsy than average? |
More Ave Less |
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| Did you experience any difficulties at school related to being left-handed? | Yes No |
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Types (ctrl click all that apply) |
| If you had difficulties, did you receive any help from teachers or others? | Yes No |
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| Have you ever been discouraged from using your left hand for anything? | Yes No |
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| Have you ever used any specialist left-handed implements? | Yes No |
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Ctrl click all that apply |
| What was / is your favourite subject at school / college? | |||
| What is your occupation? | |||
| What are your main hobbies or interests? | |||
| Are there any ways in which being left-handed particularly helps or hinders you? | |||
| Anything else you think is important? |
Thank you very much for your time in completing our survey and I am sure that the analysis
of your and other left-handers responses will be very interesting and tell us
a bit more about ourselves. We will be updating our analysis of the survey results
on a regular basis and you can see it under the survey section of this website.
We will also update club members with any significant results through our regular
newsletters.
To submit your completed survey, click on the submit button
You will get a screen message back to confirm
that it has been accepted
3rd April 2008 - 3:05am
As I was growing up my parents always said, "left hand people are special". You know that has always made me feel special, and I never consider wanting to be right handed. Left handers do think out of their right mind. I did take a test one time to to find out which side is my strongest thinking side, and what was really strange, is that I'm totally balance on both sides lol. Go Lefties!!!!!!
8th March 2008 - 9:43pm
To all my right handed friends and family members, I have just one thing to say...
You're just jealous!
7th March 2008 - 9:18pm
Was at a big dinner once and someone across the table happened to notice I was eating with my left hand (naturally) and she said to me "You do that well". I asked what and she said "Eat with your other hand". It looked so awkward to her that she had to notice. Trouble is, she said it aloud across the table and everybody laughed at my expense. I took it well, but I did feel pretty self concious after that. Had another experience that was weird. I was taking an art class and my teacher though I had a big "secret" that was making me a good artist because I drew from top to bottom on the page. She finally asked me why and I said "because it keeps my hand clean". Big secret drawing method!!!
4th March 2008 - 8:30pm
I'm a lefty- the only one in my immediate family. Like other people have said, shaking hands is confusing! I do almost everything with my left hand. I don't type the way you are supposed to so my left hand does most of the typing. Did you know that you can put your computer mouse on the left side and make it work so you still use your pointer finger to click normally? Anyway lefties may have trouble in this right handed world but we are way smarter! Just think of all the left handed famous people! There are more than you think!
25th February 2008 - 2:45am
growing up for me was quite interesting.
when my mom told me to introduce myself,
i gived them my left hand,
and they would give me their right hand, and we both got confused.
playing sports was pretty intense because i would throw the ball, or hit the other way.
so it was confusing to them.
i began to draw, and play music,
so thats good for being a left handed.
we my family and i go to restaurants, i avoid sitting next to someone, because i eat with my left, and the people next to my left side, eats with their right, so we bump elbows.
and yeah.
so yeah.
heres a lil' joke:
"did you know that if you blow up the left side of a persons body, they'll be alright.?"
13th February 2008 - 1:30am
I come from a family with both parents and both children being left-handed so being a lefty was normal.
My husband is right-handed as are our children, but his father is left-handed, so he has some lefty tendencies and so do our children, who are both surprisingly enough right-handed.
13th February 2008 - 1:30am
I come from a family with both parents and both children being left-handed so being a lefty was normal.
My husband is right-handed as are our children, but his father is left-handed, so he has some lefty tendencies and so do our children, who are both surprisingly enough right-handed.
6th February 2008 - 9:21am
I don't know how people in other countries do it, but here in the Netherlands, on birthdays, the one who comes in gives a hand and three kisses on the cheeks (men don't kiss eachother).
So when someone comes in, I tend to give my left hand and the others their right hand, which happens to every lefty.
But when I walk in the room, I always give my left hand, which is confusing to everyone and annoying to some.
I have no problems with the kisses, since I always do right, left, right, that's what everyone else does, too.
What I find really funny is that a left-handed uncle of mine always gives a right hand, but knows who is also left handed and give them a left hand.
16th December 2007 - 1:52am
left handers are great problem solvers because we don't use such linear thought, my experience is thinking outside the box works great for just about everything
5th December 2007 - 9:38am
being a lefty is kwl :D
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