I just now realized, in my 63rd year of existence, that my hands are not symmetrical. Counting out from the thumbs, on my left hand my first finger is longer than my third finger, and on my right hand it is the other way around. I always thought they were pretty much mirror images of each other.
What about you?
What about me? - the same. Could be normal?
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ETA - this is begging for a poll
Since I’m missing part of one finger, no, they are not.
My right thumb’s nail plate is 2-3 mm longer (I guess that is about 15%) than my left thumb’s nail plate, the lunulas of my middle finger are present on the right, though small, absent on the left, apart from that yes, they are quite symmetrical.
Pretty much the same as far as finger length. However, I worked in construction and am right handed, so my right hand is somewhat meatier than the left. Also, arthritis is attacking my right hand more than my left.
No, for a couple reasons:
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I have always had very prominent veins on my hands. This has only increased with age. The veins on each hand have unique branching.
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Accumulated wear, tear, scars, damage, etc.
That said, the lengths of my fingers on each hand are, in fact very very very close to each other (index fingers the same length, middle fingers the same length, etc.) so in that respect, yes, they are symmetrical.
As far as length, they are symmetric. But my wedding ring does not go onto my right hand. And if I somehow forced it on, it would not come off again, while it readily goes on and off my left ring finger.
There are minor differences in finger & thumb length. Interestingly, the index and ring (= 1st & 3rd) fingers are the most different from their mirror image mate. It isn’t enough difference to swap which is longer though: ring on both hands.
I vaguely recall reading back in college, so late 70s, something about the relative lengths of index vs ring fingers being a pretty reliable marker for gender of a skeleton. But I can’t vouch for the accuracy; there was a lot of garbage “women are always different from men in this specific way …” BS published back around then.
Also being in my 63rd year, the veins on the back of one hand are a bunch more prominent than the other. Same pattern though.
Mostly mirror-images of each other. I broke the metacarpal bone of my pinky in my right hand and hit healed with a tiny bit of a curve that my left hand doesn’t have.
There is absolutely no part of my body that’s perfectly symmetrical. I sometimes think I was a pair of fraternal twins that somehow got conjoined.
On my left hand the 1st and 3rd fingers are about the same length. On my right hand the 3rd finger is about 1/2" longer.
I read long ago that fingernails are often wider and flatter on your dominant hand, presumably due to more use. Years of writing right-handedly and the consequent fingertip pressure seem to have caused my right thumbnail and index fingernail to be wider than those on my left, and my right index finger has a bit of a twist at the end, giving it a more optimal positioning for pencil and chopstick gripping.
All in all, my hands are the same. Large. No finger is a different length, palm size the same. However, my right pointer finger is permanently hypermobility kinked, much more so than my left pointer finger and if someone asks me to display my hands, my left thumb is here, my right thumb is over…here. Again, hypermobility.
The main differences are in my nails - not one is shaped the same, but you really wouldn’t notice unless you inspected them closely. Left pointer almond, right pointer almost flat, both ring fingers exceedingly curved side to side, right middle curves unevenly.
Considering that I am going to be 54 in 5 weeks, and have scars, and a healed fracture in one finger that was never set, my hands a very remarkably symmetrical. I never really looked before. I do have some quirky things I can do with one hand and not the other (people would call me double-jointed, which is not really correct, but everyone understands what that means, I think). I can move both my little fingers completely independently of my ring fingers, but exactly what I can do with one hand and not the other isn’t the same.
However, finger length, location of nail beds, etc. all the same.
One thing that is not the same, though, is the creases on my palms. Just for fun (I do not believe any of it), I looked up palmistry, and found out that I have a very long lifeline on one hand, but on the other, it’s rather alarmingly short (I hope that doesn’t mean I’m going to spend a long time in a coma, or something!) They also predict different things for marriage and parenthood.
I’m right-handed and the fingers on that hand are slightly longer and thicker. I can’t fit my wedding ring on my right ring finger.
I can’t fit my ring on my right finger-- but that’s the finger that was broken and not set, the second joint is thick, and the finger is bent just a little.
I’m ambidextrous. Mostly left sided.
My hands are nearly symmetrical. Tho’ I have a huge scar on top of my right hand from my car wreck.