Scientific Left Handed Facts: 25 AMAZING Facts About Left Handed People | Left Handed Trivia |
Make up between 5% and 10% of the population (depending on who you ask)
More likely to have allergies
More prone to migraines
More likely to be insomniacs
Use the right side of the brain the most
Three times more likely to become alcoholics – the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol!
More likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale
Tend to reach puberty 4 to 5 months later than right handers
More likely to suffer stuttering and dyslexia
Twice as likely to be a man
Better at 3D perception and thinking
Better at multi-tasking
Live on average 9 years less than right handed people
39% more likely to be homosexual
Interesting Left Handed Trivia
Left handed pens are a thing! Who knew!?
Make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, boxers and fencers (almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties)
Celebrate left handed day once a year – August 13th – International Left Handers Day
Draw figures facing to the right
Recover from strokes faster
More likely to pursue creative careers
Of the seven most recent U.S Presidents, 4 have been left handed
Left handed college graduates go on to become 26% richer than right handed graduates
On a QWERTY keyboard there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand, whilst only 187 are typed with the right hand.
Bizarre Left Handed Statistics
Adjust to seeing underwater quicker
Less able to roll their tongue than a righty
Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right