Visit our online shop for your left-handed productsLeft Handers Club Backwards Calendar
Each year we produce a “backwards” calendar running from right to left as a lot of people seem to enjoy it and ask for it. Like anti-clockwise watches, lefthanders find it a lot easier to read than right-handers so it is nice to confuse them!
We produce it in a very simple format so you can download it, print and stick onto your preferred background. If there are any design geniuses out there who can do a better job of it I would be interested to see your work and could make a gallery of calendars available for download if you send them in (see below for the original Excel versions of the file that you can edit and also for other options).
Click here to use the contact form and you can attach a file as well.
Please note that we cannot print the calendar for you and send it by post because of the cost involved
Use this link to download the 2012 calendar as an Adobe.pdf format file
(you can open it with the free Adobe Reader)
Use this link to download it as a .jpg graphic file
You may need to Right click the link then choose “Save target as…” or “Save link as…” then you can choose the location to save the file to on your computer.
Here is my original Excel versions of the file if you want to edit it or format to your own style
Excel 2003 version of 2012 backward calendar (.xls file)
2011 Calendar
You can still download the 2011 version of the calendar using the links below:
Use this link to download the 2011 calendar as an Adobe.pdf format file
Use this link to download 2011 calendar as a .jpg graphic file
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Hi everyone,
It’s nice to be part of a club where people share similar attributes.
I was just telling my girlfriend that being an all lefty, as in left handed and
left footed, is even more rarer.
Funnily enough, me and my girlfriend have been together for three years, but
she only noticed this morning that I am left handed. She actually says, she wishes
she would be left handed as they are more creative people.
I hate smearing my letters when I write!
Aloha from Hawaii
Born a left-hander, always a left-hander, they never tried to convert me to right in school back in the 50′s so I am grateful for that. Both parents right-handed, older brother and I are both lefties, other two siblings are right. However, my maternal grandmother and maternal uncles are lefties and there are quite a few of us in Hawaii. I find it very useful that I can use the phone and write messages at the same time as well as other techical items while the righties have to hold the phone to their ear with their shoulder(looks very uncomfortable). Being left handed growing up in a right handed world gave us the opportunity to become ambidetexerious(?) and forced us to use both sides of our brain, that’s why most lefties have higher IQs and are able to adapt more quickly. Thanks for the site and yes we are special!!
Sissy, My daughter, 7 years old, likes to write the words in her left hand. But In our country, it’s unusual stuff. some friends told me i shoul change her wrting style because it would be dificult for her to write chinese words.
Thanks for God. She did it very well in writing Chines words although sometimes she wrote them very slowlly. of course, she made a mistak.
anyway, i find this net. i will not change her wrting style.
You made the right choice. No lefty should be forced to change what hand they write with.
lefties are the best!!!!
Can every left handed write with their right hand?
You understand thus considerably in relation to this topic, made me individually imagine it from numerous numerous angles. Its like men and women don’t seem to be interested except it’s one thing to do with Girl gaga! Your own stuffs nice. All the time take care of it up!
What a wonderfully novel idea. Lefties hoorah! Thank you for making such a marvelous website and I look forward to perusing your products. Top duck!
It´s so good for all us left handed thank you for cread this calendar and clock
left products too
Tell´me how I received a clock and put his on the computer I have not yet found
please help all us left handed I want put all in my own computer left help me whit video or others things ok
This is funny. As I am Jewish, we read and write from right to left…
Thanks for the 2012 calendar. Last year I gave a 2011 calendar to a left-handed client and she recently called and asked if I had a 2012. The timing was perfect!
Here’s an interesting left-hander story: I am the only lefty in my family and and my daughter has always told me I taught her to tie shoeslaces backwards. And put a belt on backwards. She called recently and said my granddaughter brought home her first report card and she had an “N” in penmanship. She talked to the teacher and the teacher said that actually her penmanship is great, it’s her mechanics that are “wrong”. The bottom line was that the way she holds a pencil is the way (according to the teacher) most lefies hold a pencil. Asking my granddaughter how she holds a pencil is the same way as my daughter. So I grabed a pencil and described how I hold it. Turns out we do it totally different. I rest the pencil on the middle finger of my left hand with the index finger on top and my thumb to the right. My daughter and granddaughter rest the pencil on the 3rd finger of their right hand with the middle and index finger on top and the thumb on the left. So . . . . who taught who how to write! If the teachers theory is correct, obviously a righthanded person taught me, but why didn’t I teach my daughter the same method. My wife is righthanded like everyone else. Who influenced my daughter!!! And is the teachers theory correct? How do fellow lefties hod a pencil?
Well Phil I’m lefthanded and I hold the pencil the same way you do. But I can also write right handed (not as well as lefthanded, but I can do it) and I hold the pencil the same way.
Thank-you for the calendar,Im a left-handed,proud to be,but sometimes is so dificult to live I’m the right material world we are special.
I just recently discovered the left handed club. I like the calender. I’m in my 70′s and am just now looking for left handed kitchen stuff. I was one of those that got whipped and locked closets and such other things. I got punished a lot because I wasn’t able to stop using my left hand. I’m still left handed.
After graduation in the ’60′s, on my first job, I was told being left-handed was a handicap. They had already hired me when they realized I was left-handed. I was told they would give me a trial. I used the instrument upside-down, but got the required result and made my production before the right-handed person, who was hired the same day. Later I became a Licensed Nurse and had to learn to use the right-handed instruments in the hospital, left-handed and had no problem. My mother taught me to crochet and knit by sitting in front of her, watching her, and I learned quickly. I learned to play guitar before left-handed guitars were made. My brother restrung my guitar, putting the strings up-side down. I’m also a seamstress, having to deal with the sewing machines also built with the right-hander in mind. Our world has been strange for us left-handers, but haven’t we had fun showing the world just how intelligent we really are! On last August 13, I took some of my left-handed items to work and enjoyed watching my right-handed co-workers struggle to hold the scissors, etc. in their hand and try to use tham. And when they saw my ruler, my watch and my calendar, the look on their face was priceless. Just wanted to share that part of my life, thank you for reading.
I spent many years working with electronic test gear. I had to overcome a serious problem in that when I was making adjustments, I couldn’t see the dials on the equipment.
Hi, I love The Left Handed Club I feel right at home here I no that I have lots of friends in here that know what we all go there. Love the calendar I can read it, looks normal to me thank you.I have been a lefty all my life but I feel speical sometime because God pick us to be speical people.So keep up the good work I look forward for your newsletter in my email THANK YOU !!!
Being the only lefty in my family, I used to get teased for never being able to cut bread straight (I never knew why, nor did anyone in my family!). Means that, now I’m older and know, I’m now saving for some decent knives!!
Anyway, one thing that gets me is that Arabic is written write to left. Surely, in that case, it would make it easier for them to write it left-handed, eh? But there are still countries where left-handers get penalised (being as the left hand is used for “dirty” chores). Odd, eh?
I have been operating in a right-handed world so long that it is strange sometimes when I try to do some things left handed. For instance, I cannot use a left-handed mouse. I don’t know if I can get used to the backwards calendar. It looks weird.
By the way, if you haven’t already, everbody should check out the book The Natural Superiority of the Left Hander by Thomas deKay or something like that available at Amazon.com. I think you will enjoy it.
I agree with you Jeanette! But I’m a leftie an proud! I had a 1st grade teacher hit me with a yardstick just because I wrote with my left hand, you could see I started on the left side of the paper just the right handers did, only (I) didn’t have to write from right to left, was already there! lol
To me it looks a little wired since I never seen one like this before.
I am a true lefty!!! All my life I had to master all kinds of things that is made for right handed people.
I worked in a Machine shop for 5 years. all of them made for right handed people.
They said I would not last there long because I was a south paw. I got where I could out do a lot of the right handed worker even with less waist during the inspections. + or – 1 or 2 % of what ever it called for.
I just said us “lefty” do it right!!!
Hi eveyone just found the web site and i know its going to be great x
hi dorothy so have i did’nt know you could get so much!
i am the only kid who are a left handed in my family, actually i faced alots of problems and one of the my family forced me to eat by my right handed and that unfair coz i born to do every thing by left side
I come from a family with 8 children plus my parents equel 10. We were 5 left handed and 5 right handed including my mom. My dad was right handed. It was easy for us because we were equally divided. However in School back in the 1960′s they tried to make me write with my right hand but soon gave up because I was obstinate and wouldn’t submit. My gym teachers forced me to play baseball right handed and that is the only sport I play with my right hand. I play all other sports left handed including bowling, gulf and hockey.
I watch alot of British tv and noticed quite a few left handers over there. I wonder if any body knows if there is more left handers in the U. K. than any where else? I am curious because I believe it just can’t be a coincidence. If someone can answer that for me I would appreciate it. …Sincerely Robert J. Girard
There is quite possibly no great amount of lefties in England than in America but one important point you may consider is that lefthanders do fair well in artistic endevours, including acting, to a point greater than that of righties. Since it appers that your primary source of information about the number of lefties is based on British television programs you must consider that you may in fact be watching a biased view of how many lefties there are in the British Isles.
Also I also attended school in the 60′s and the Nun’s attempted to physicaly persuade me that I shouldn’t write with my left hand.
i love the backwards calendar! eagerly awaiting 2012 calendar
Hi my name is Amelia I have been left-handed all my life. Even though my parents were right handed they didn’t try to make me switch. I was lucky when I started to school. Both my 1st and 2nd grade teachers were left handed. So I started off on the “right foot”. My question is has anyone requested a Daily Planner for Lefties. All the ones I have bought are for righties. Please somebody out there. Won’t you help us lefties.
Thank you.
Amelia,
Franklin Day Planner used to have left-handed pages that you could use within their conventional books. I tried them for a while, but it just didn’t seem “right.” Pardon the pun… You may like them, though – that is, if they still have them.
Hi-I’m a lefty with a left handed husband. When our 8 kids were small I put their silverware in the center of their plates so I did not influence them to be lefties.(Now that they are grown I set the table backwards) Two of them are ambidextrous & the rest are right handed. One of the girls started to write with her left hand when she was little, but one of the boys told her “Only old people are left handed-look at Mom & Dad!” Isn’t that a riot? LOL Love all the left handed info, etc. Thanks!
Hello fellow left handers, so glad to have the chance to join this club, first one I have ever seen. Hope to get to know more about myself and others. This is very interesting and looking forward to the newsletter. Thanks again.
I am 64 years old, have been left handed proudly all my life. My brother was also left handed but they made him change when he was little, what a mistake. My grandson is left handed. I was nicknamed “Lefty” when I was 8 years old in Little League baseball and the name has stuck; there are close friends of mine that don’t even know my real name. I play golf right handed and kid my buddies that I am only giving them a chance, wait til I start playing left handed. I love being left handed and love when I meet other lefties in the world. I just joined the club and look forward to learning more.
The calendar looks strange to me. But, I am wondering if any of you lefties are able to write in cursive, upside down, backwards, and with your right hand…I don’t know if it means anything, but I am able to do that…it’s actually pretty fun!
I am left-handed and I write cursive and I go forward on the paper and I can’t go upside down, also I can write some right-handed but only because I had a teacher that told all the students that we needed to learn to write with our other hand in case we hurt our writing hand. It is great being a lefty or southpaw.
yes I can write and read backwards, upside down..and I do cursive writing. I don’t hold my pen/pencil with my hand turned inward as a lot of people do..I hold them like a right-handed person. I have problems writing in tablets and notebooks because of the spiral wire that holds the paper in the tablet and/or notebook. I am proud to be left-handed.
Thank you! I have always done that and considered it to be my stupid people trick! So good to know there are others out there who can do this as well…always got some freaky comments and looks for being able to do this =)
I can’t write upside down or backwards, but I can read upside down, and mirror image easily.
When people are writing on a desk opposite me, I can read every thing as they write it. You should see the look on their faces when I pick up spelling mistakes. It’s a hoot.
I write in cursive and backwards. When writing in my journal or diary, I always start with the back of the last page – that way the spine doesn’t get in my way when I’m writing.
I have been left handed all my life and so was my mother. She was hit at school for not writing with her right hand, and made to write with her right hand. I have always been happy writing with my left hand. I use scissors with my right hand and when I learned to play the guitar found it very difficult as I was taught to play right handed. My chinese friend said that you have to use your right hand to eat in China etc, because of the reason that people use their left hand to wipe their bottom, but me being left handed I use my right hand to do that!
It is funny about your left handed watches and clocks, as when I went to Orlando Florida, I was really interested in the Walt Disney Goofy Clock, which goes backwards, and I bought one and also I have bought a Goofy watch there too.
I find it very easy to read words backwards, the only thing that annoys me is that when people see you writing they have to make a comment about me being left handed.
Hmmm. Couldn’t use the calendar; looks odd. Why is it particularly for left handers? We read from left to right so the calendar can surely go from left to right? However, cheque books with the stub on the right are useful…..my husband is not too impressed though as he is right handed.
i just discovered this wewbsite today,,as an irish person,i was nevere aware of any prejuidce until i left school.in school no one use to say anything about me being left handed,it was when i came into the big bad world,i started reading articles in books and magazines,people had written about left handed people,i also take notice of if i see people on television,what hand they write with,i know a lot of famous people are left haned,bill clinton,george bush,even out own ex td,or mp here in ireland,,bertie ahern was a leftie.
this calendar is really cool!
you know what, when i’m a small child, my mother and i used to argue with my writing because i spell my name “sutol” and 10, “01.”
i really liked this calendar coz it reminded me of my childhood days.
Going to put this arctile to good use now.
Hi,
i am a left-hander from Mauritius. Thanks for the calendar,it’s awesome and i am glad of having seen this website.i’m proud to be left hander.
Thanks much for the calender.Its all simplified,and easy to read.
Besides and intrestingly i ask u plus all my fellow lefties whether they have tried letters backward(i.e ‘b’ looks like ‘d’ and ‘n’ like ‘N’) .Bousting over my lefthandedness i tried it only to find that this way i was even faster than the normal way;only that reading becomes difficult one has to use a mirror just because we’ve been blinded by them humiliating ‘mr’s and ‘mrss’ rights’
Fellow buddies dont you think its time we woke up now that we’ve own club!
Lets design things that only us can understand or do like writing and reading such ways.
We should sign from the left
This website is wicked, i’ve only just realised about the disagvantages us leftys have to face in every day life, and looking at that calander i realised things really are the wrong way round because i read it sooo much easier, i’m so clumsy and bump into things and destroy stuff all the time by accident, i think because the worly is designed for right handers, it sucks!! any way, i’m doing a design and technology project on finding a writing/drawing aid for left handers, i find, when i write or draw i smudge/erase stuff with my hand, and there are many other problems with writing being a lefty, i would be sooo grateful if you all could give me a bit of feedback on the ‘writing being left’ issue to help me with my project,
lots of sinister love,
Ruth xxx
hii Ruth,
Am a draughtsman.i started excelling in it spontaneously, just becoz of the leftness inside my brain.interesting writing a title block on my drawing would be shown to all class for its smartness.i will help u how to do it
I love the tag line. It’s a beaut.
I just joined LHC and am looking forward to investigating the site. I was born a left hander but when I was going on 5 I was adopted and for the rest of my was made to use my right hand. I am 68 and trying now to do things with my left hand. I have to think about it because my inclination is to use the right hand. You know anything I try with the left is slower than the right.
I’m doing the opposite to Thelma. I am right-handed but am learning to be a leftie so I can help my 4yr old.
This site is of a great help to me as everything my daughter does (including writing mirror image) is confusing to me. However my daughter must be converting me as the calender looked normal to me at first……but spreading butter is a skill I cannot graps.
I’m 50 and I’ve aways been a lefty, fortuantly I have senible parants who when they realised I was a lefty helped me. I had learnt a bit of writting before I started school at the age of 5 (no pre-school things in them days or not where we lived). But a week or two in to school I decided I didn’t like it any more, so Mum got to the bottom of the problum which was the OLD teacher was making me use wrong hand for writting. The next day Mum came into class and gave her a real telling off, “My daughter will use the hand she choses to write with not the hand you choose” in front of me and then said to me if she ever makes you use the right hand tell me or you father and we will see the Head about it. I was so proud of my Mum. She is only a young (or was a the time) Mum of 17 years older then me so would only have been 22 at the time and has amitted in later years that she was dead scared of the teacher.
Joined this site for my son now six, funnily those calenders look fine to me and i’m right-handed… Can’t belive schools here if they remember sissors your lucky… Talking about writing backwards, my son in reception used to write mirror image backwards seems extremely difficult to my mind..
This is great I am right handed and grew up around right handed people so I never understood how difficult it is for lefty’s until I had my daughter who is a lefty. My brother was born a lefty but back then they forced kids to switch to their right hand and he has always had trouble with writing and stuff since. I never knew that it was easier for lefty’s to read and write right to left. My daughter who is 5 is always doing this and I thought it was just her age. Now I know better and will find ways to help her! Thank you so much on behalf of my daughter and myself for enlightening a clueless righty!!!!
Hi, just joined myself and my son did this last yr when he was five still does it but not as much though numbers are mostly backwards…. Have just bought a whole set of stuff for school hopefully it will not go missing….
I just found out about dis club.its awesome. I will get to know more about lefties, my immediate younger sister is also a lefty..
I love the site! Awesome!
Hi, I’m Italian, I’m a left hander. I find this website and I think it’s Great………….. I don’t speak English very well but ………….. just to say I’m one of you 100% left-hander
Im 63 yrs. old,so you can guess what its been like for me. I LOVE your site. I just joined the Left handed club today and I have one thing to ask. WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG???!!!
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Hi,
Maureen from Kenya,love the calendar.
This great ! the funny thing is I looked at it and it seemed very normal !!!!
Love it Thank you !!!!!!!
I like it! I frequently write backwards. I have written full several page letters backwards. Have done it since I was in high school! Its my thing. I sign almost all cards backwards. One of my physician friends calls me “Leonarda” because he says that the only one he knew of that wrote backwards was Leonardo da Vinci! (I think that it was shown that Jack the Ripper wrote backwards – but we dont like to talk about that!!! LOL) I even had his name printed backwards on a nice polo shirt to remember me by! So = Write away – frontwards, backwards, or any way you like – I like it!!!!
PS – I do wish they would carry left handed spiral notebooks!!! I use them as often as I can, but they are increasingly difficult to come by!
I write backwards too! Printing backwards is easy and anyone can do it, but writing backwards (cursive) comes so easy to me. I love when I tell people I can write backwards and they make me prove it. They usually have to look at it in a mirror before they can read it, and they say it looks normal when they read it, not sloppy.
Hi! Am a leftie from Kenya. The Calendar is really interesting. I absolutely love it. Thanks for the good work! Ooh, another thing….am the only leftie in my family and am very very proud of it, kind of unique, you know………..
Dont let anyone bring you down because of it – some of the most intellegent, creative, wonderful people in the world are left handed! See – YOU are! Celebrate it! We’ve all been there – at least a lot of us have – where someone either tried to make us change hands. or turn our papers the wrong way (to accommodate RIGHT handedness) or made fun of us – but we know how good we are and how much we have to share with the world – so take heart and you’re doing the right thing by loving being unique!
Hi Dede,
This is Maureen from Kenya and a fellow leftie.
Hi,
Am new just found the website thinks its great i even signed my mum up.
I’ve used this calendar on my desk at work for the past 3 or 4 years. It confuses the heck out of everyone, and goes well with the mouse sitting on the ‘wrong’ side of the keyboard.
In previous years, the calendar was also available in HTML format (converted from an Excel file). This allowed me to modifiy the calendar to include week numbers and national holidays.
Could you also post the calendar in Excel format so that I can modify it?
Good point – I will upload the Excel version so you can adapt it as you want for your own needs – see the links at the top.
Great atrlcie, thank you again for writing.
Thanks for the calendar, is funny and really nice! Greetings from Costa Rica
Thank you for the calendar, so easy to read, I have a son and daughter who are left handed, so will give them a copy as well
I like this calendar, I´m from Guatemala City and proud to be left-hander
very usefull…
hi……LEFT HANDED CLUB…. M ALSO LEFT HANDED…JOIN U R CLUB NOW…THANKS…I WANT MORE IMFO. ABT. LEFT HANDED…
i like this calendar.. but we can make improvement by put some colour or picture as background… anyway, thanks, i’m happy to be left hander
Hi Farahan
If you or any other lefties out there have design skills and can make a better version of the calendar with some colour and images please have a go at it and let me know and we will add more versions to our page. I have added the original Excel version of the file to the downloads above so you can play with the layout and formatting. Contact Keith if you want to share your version and have it added to this page.
http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/about/contact/web-content.html
Hi!
I love this calendar, so interesting for a left-handed like me…
This calendar is awesome! I just wish people would make magazines, books and notebooks backwards too. That would be rad! I hate reading from left to right. It’s never felt right. I’ve always had problems reading face clocks, too. I noticed the left-handed clock for sale. I didn’t know that was a left-handed thing! I read that clock perfect!
Why you guys aren’t jewish! you don’t read book s right to left.
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Can i get one mailed to me please. 10 jackson apt.407
this website feels like home as an african being lefthanded has helped me tolerate pipoz views of me some gud others gruuuu! including family members. hey leftz picture me hitin these keys its not so easy aparently the keyboard wasent really designed 4 me
hi.. i am a left-hander from Georgia.. and i am glad of having seen this website..thank you for calendar it’s so convinient
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Thanks for the calendar, but there’s no way I could ever imagine using this.
It would never have occurred to me that this would be something a lefty would desire, but it’s nice that you provide it for those that do.
Hello Left Handed Club
I’m a left handed guy from Iran and so glad to find your website.I give special thanks to you for this website
thanks for the calendar …but what’s special about 13th August? on this copy it’s got a box around it …
the 13th of August is World Left Handers Day!
You know it’s kinda funny, August 13th is World Left Handers day, and I have a lefty friend whose birthday is on that very day. hehe
Lol its my birthday too