Do you always turn the wrong way? Do you struggle with your right and left? This quiz is for you!
If you’re famed amongst family and friends for having no sense of direction, your navigational confidence may be at an all-time low. But this quiz could turn your life around. Maybe it’s not that you have a poor sense of direction; you actually have a perfect sense of anti-direction!
Take this quiz or send to a directionally-challenged friend to find out.
- Do you get lost in public toilets?
- Especially service station toilets?
- Every time?
- Where is North? Any idea?
- Do have to subtly pretend to write to work out which is your right hand?
- Do you need SatNav to do any journey beyond a mile of your home?
- Have you ever gone the wrong way out of a motorway services or garage and only realised miles later?
- Do you turn the wrong way out of lifts?
- Do ambiguous arrows give you the fear?
- Does your two-year-old have a far better sense of direction than you?
- Does your partner ring you at your ETA with a mixture of concern and amusement to check you got there OK?
- Do you get lost in Tesco carpark?
- If you’re swimming, do you know which way is up? (Thank goodness for instinct, eh?)
- Do your children / friends groan when you get lost AGAIN?
- Do you ring your partner to verify SatNav if it sends you on a detour to avoid traffic? Do you end up ignoring both of them and doggedly sit in gridlock rather than trust their witchcraft?
- Do you immediately glaze over when someone is giving you directions – they are wasted on you?
- Do you frequently take wrong turns despite SatNav?
- Do you wish SatNav could be more personal and encouraging: “Oops we came off the wrong exit there, but let’s go back and try again shall we?” rather than diverting you round the houses, with you having no choice but to obey blindly, blinking back tears of frustration at your own ineptitude?
- Do other people glaze over when you are giving directions because they know they are wasting their time?
- Do you secretly enjoy going your own sweet way, “right” or “wrong”?
- Despite all the above, do you frequently insist that your way is the correct one and regularly get into heated arguments about it, even though you are always wrong?
If you answered yes to half or more of the above questions, congratulations! You are blessed with a perfect sense of anti-direction!
So funny Jess! I’ve improved over the years, but it took me until I was about 12 to master my left and right (true story). Have a fab weekend lovely lady xx
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Thank you! You’ve just described both me and my dad perfectly. I always have to hold that imaginary pen to check which is my right. My dad is so bad it’s always best to go right when he says left!
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So glad I’m not alone in this! I am getting better but usually if someone gives me directions I look at them like they’re speaking another language! And end up going whatever way I want to x
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Ha ha, you’re so right! They may as well be speaking Martian for all I understand x
I’m not great in terms of having a natural sense of direction, I have to admit. My wife is much better at keeping directions in her head, but ask her to read a map and she genuinely has to resort to the age-old stereotype of turning the map upside down or on its side to figure out where to go …
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My sense of direction is abysmal and is somewhat legendary within my family! Having Google maps on my phone is a godsend but I still manage to get lost.
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Me too, it’s amazing! I think we have a talent, I really do.
I love all of these! When we pull into someone’s driveway the kids usually ask from the back, “Are we just turning around, or is this where we’re going?”