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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
30th June 2009 - 11:27am
23rd June 2009 - 5:50pm
Being left handed is great, but can have it's disadvantages. I think it is cool to be left handed because even though there is alot of people who are you don't meet very many.
18th June 2009 - 6:15am
Both or one of my parents would have been left-handed if they have left them so I think that runs in our family, I would indeed really love to have left-handed child but we will see, there will have to pass a lot of years before that but I hope so because I am a proud lefty and that is why I would also like my children to be!
5th June 2009 - 5:54am
i suspect there is much more to be known about left or right handedness through research but has been neglected
1st June 2009 - 7:01pm
Yes about the cards, it doesn't bother me that much anymore
29th May 2009 - 8:10am
does anybody out there fan a hand of cards upside down? Its the only way I can do it.
18th May 2009 - 11:20pm
There's nothing right in my left brain, and nothing left in my right brain...
18th May 2009 - 6:52am
15th May 2009 - 7:03pm
My cat is left pawed ... really. (40% of cats are left pawed.) I think that's cool.
11th May 2009 - 1:21pm
I have never had any problems being left handed, yes I am a total clutz but I think its becuase I am scatter brained. No one even notices i am left handed like they do the other left handed kids in my classes because everything is just natural to me
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