Left Handers Club Calendar 2026
Each year we produce a left handers 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! Use the links below to download the calendar. Historically, we have called this a "backwards" calendar & whilst this is technically the correct name for it, we understand that there are many with strong feelings against linking "backwards" with left handedness. We are therefore just calling it the "Left Handers Club Calendar" - though to keep the SEO rankings we have left the old description in the links used to access the 2026 files
If you are not already a member of The Left Handers Club, join free now using the form on the home page of our website
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 2026 Mon-Sun calendar as an Adobe.pdf format file (you can open it with the free Adobe Reader).
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.2026 Calendar with Sunday starting the week
We have had a lot of people telling us that having calendars starting the week on a Monday (which is the normal format in the UK) is not the same worldwide and in the USA and other places it is standard to have Sunday as the first day of the week. See our article about which day starts the week here.
Left-handed diary and planner for 2026 - 52 page spiral-bound book
We also have a limited number of the "physical" Left Handed Diary for 2026. It is a spiral-bound diary book that opens from left to right and is tailor-made for us left-handers. To make it easier to use, it features planning pages on the left side of each weekly spread (Monday - Sunday) and on the right, there is ample space for notes along with an interesting fact about left-handedness. The calendar also recognizes the birthdays of famous left-handed people.
Following pressure from us and Club Members, the publishers reversed the printing so that it opens from left to right - the proper direction for us lefties.
52 double-page spreads, one for each week of the year.
Size: 6.25 x 8.25 x 0.5 inches; 16 x 21 x 1.3 cm
Find out more and order your diary
Comments 225
I have downloaded the 2022 calendar but can hardly see the print, can this be made larger and in BOLD like the 2021 calendar
Much Easier To Understand!
I text using the middle finger of my left hand, anything else is wierd
I text using the middle finger of my left hand, anything else is wierd
(I want to make one with a yellow background, since our company's standard one comes out on yellow card [I could just print it on the back of one of those], and also remove the LH wording, so people don't realise until they try to read/use it!)
I'm having problems using a knife for my feet because the blade comes out all the time and I have to use the blade on it's own which is somewhat dangerous! Do you know of a universal knife? Thanks.
At age 66 I sometimes find it difficult to adapt to left-handed items because I've used right-handed ones for so long but am glad they are available esp for children. Thanks for the calendar.
Christine.
I have always enjoyed your Left-Handed Calendars but it has taken me a few years to realize they all have a serious error. While the calendar dates are backwards the spelling of the calendar and the months are not. I think for the calendar to really be a true left-handed calendar, EVERYTHING should be backwards, oops, strike that - everything should run
Left!
:-D
Duncan
I too like to confuse the Righties.
I'm a L/H Woodturner. Not sure if I have said this before, but I believe that the Wood Lathe was made by a L/Hander for the Left Handers.
Reason is that we stand in the centre of The Lathe,to Turn, where as the Righties have the Head Stock to contend with.
Well that is what I Preach.
Love It.
Regards,
Lewis
Its really wonderful. I am just 10 yrs old. studying 5th class. I have my left handers club membership certificate just now. its wonderful to have such a nice club internationally for me.
thank you
Handers to be reconized
Can you send me directions to your shop, so I may browse. The calendar I've just downloaded, when I look at it, somehow is much easier to understand! I already have a clock that runs "backwards" as they say, But to me, it runs in the correct direction. And a watch? I've gotta see it....how much for the watch?? Ooh, I'm gonna spend a small fortune in your shop, I think. So glad I've found you. Please please please, don't ever close. I bet you're busy all the time! I know of lots of people who like you and me are left-handed, so when I like you on my facebook, you may get a few more who will register.
Yours Sincerely
Kevin.
We don't mail the calendar because of the cost involved so you will need to just download and print it yourself.
Right handed people use the the left side of their brains and Left handed people use the right side of their brains. So, that means that only left handed people are in their right minds!!!!!!!!!!!
It was mentioned by the presenter that the Lowepro SlingShot 202 AW Backpack was not ideally suited to left-handed people due to the single strap having to be worn over the right shoulder with awkward acces to the camera equipment inside the bag.
Wish I had known about this before I bought this product from overseas on eBay some time before I attended the seminar. Let the buyer beware.
I've only ever struggled with scissors. Why no one has ever mentioned to me how superior
We are I don't know!
Everything I have done in my life makes abit more sense now, karate football table tennis, even my career in 3d design.. I have woken up and i have smelt the bacon!
Yeehaa.
Calendar is wicked!
Looking forward to celebrating my 1st August13th
I was not aware of this tension until I came across your website and realised that I could use the scissors without having to think about it, open notebooks the 'right' way around and now read a calendar - thank you for helping to relax my brain and making my life that bit easier!
My mind became free after looking at this calendar.........
Need some more innovative things for lefties ............
regards
Wow! whay i dident check this before .... tanks im From Ecuador, Latin America.
i have 25 yars old and old my life i was traying to understud way....... , MEET AS MANY LEFT HANDED THAT I CAN is my gool, exchange ideas, i have this idea for a divace that you can write rahigt to left and apearrs as if it was write normaly
sorry if im spelling is not so well ji.
magical!!!!
Da vinci never tray to hide his disaings wraiting rigth to left he did that because he understud that in this way he can expreshimself in a better way.
Aristoteles, Da Vinci, Einsten, Maradona, Pele, Agelina jole, bill gaates and many others are important for the comunity!!!
Tengo tantas ideas, hemos sufrido maltrato y discriminacion, debemos generar derechos!!!
Sludos Cordiales
How could I have used one of those righthanded backward calenders for most of my life? I used the 2011 and 2012 calenders and am not at all comfortable using that other type of calender. So thankful that I can use the proper calender. Thanks much.
I just really feel a belong after 44 years of my life. Thank you... I just like to know whether there is a locat or national Left Handers Organization?
I'm another Leftie who was born on a Friday 13th, (May 1955). I have spent my life in a right handed world and have become ambisinisterous (much better than ambidexterous!). When playing single handed racquet sports like tennis, badminton etc, I'm left handed (can also use my right hand really well so have two forehands and two backhands) but with two handed sports like cricket, golf or baseball I'm right handed. I kick with both feet playing football and rugby and write with my left hand. Confused? Try being me! It's great as it really bugs people who think they have my handedness sorted in their heads thenIi go and switch.
gayle
Especially when you are in science field and you work in a lab- setting you will face many lab equipments every day which are right handed and you being a left-handed have to struggle to use those equipments. I have some bitter but cool experiences of using those equipments.
Welcome everyone and thanks for being a part of Lefty's group!!
D.
We went to a left handed store in San Francisco when he was 2 & got a left handed pencil with grips on it. Fantastic store!
My son is truly one of a kind, being left handed, bifid uvula (2 uvula) & born with blue eyes &a section of the right eye has brown just like his dad, his older brother & his younger brother. Through the years his eyes have changed colors to an olive green, but the brown spot has stayed the same.
It is a challenge at times for him, like with scissors, mouse clickers on computers & teaching him to tie his shoes.
i'm from malaysia and for sure i'm lefty. :)
it's great to have a certificate for being lefty.. hehe..
thanks for the give.i enjoy it so much ^ ^
I remember getting rapped on the left hand with a yard stick for using the left hand instead of the right.
My mother had to deal with the school board to get things straightened out at the time.
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.
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!!
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.
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
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?
I write the same way you describe you do.... I don't position my hand in a recurve way that many lefties do. (As a kid, I didn't want anyone to notice that I was a lefty, since it was at a time when schools thought everyone should write with their right.) I don't drag ink over the page or my hand, either. My paper is straight on the table, too.
I wonder why your granddaughter's teacher felt she should downgrade her penmanship just because she uses what seems to be considered non-standard form? What difference does it make?!?! Love being a lefty!
I can sure relate to being punished for being a lefty.
I am 62, and have a piece of lead on my left hand left from when a teacher stabbed me with my pencil for being left handed. The was many a time I got my knuckles cracked with a ruler for the same reason.
My mother was left hande, she was not allowed to use her left hand in school.
Any other lefty's with horror stories?
So sorry you were harassed for being left handed. I'm in my 50's and my elementary parochial school days were marked by their efforts to make me right-handed. --Didn't 'take' with me, either!
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?
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 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!!!
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
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.
Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
lots of sinister love,
Ruth xxx
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
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.
Maureen from Kenya,love the calendar.
Love it Thank you !!!!!!!
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!
This is Maureen from Kenya and a fellow leftie.
Am new just found the website thinks its great i even signed my mum up.
Could you also post the calendar in Excel format so that I can modify it?
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://blog.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/about/contact/web-content
I love this calendar, so interesting for a left-handed like me...
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.
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