When you count on your fingers, do you:
A) Start with the index finger and end with the thumb.
B) Start with the thumb and end with the pinky.
C) Start with the pinky and end with the thumb.
I do A, but I don’t know anybody else who does it that way.
A) Start with the index finger and end with the thumb.
Anything else is just sick.
Also A …
but what is “3” - the ring finger or pinkie?
me, its the pinkie, just easier to do
B.
Sometimes A too.
I go from 1-5 on my left hand, starting with pointer and ending with thumb, but from 6-10 on my right hand, starting with thumb and ending with pinkie.
Start with index finger, end with thumb. Use the left hand if and only if I need to keep up with multiples of 5 or 10 for some reason.
I use the ring finger as “3”, but you’re right, it’s easier to do the pinkie first.
A. I tap each finger in a row with my thumb, then on 5 I just pop my thumb up. Left hand first.
I start with the right pinky and fold the other four down when I reach five and extend my thumb. Then to count six, I extend that same pinky without folding down the thumb, add in the other three fingers in the same order to get to nine, and start the same system to count tens on my left hand.
I think I started doing it in college, when I had to count people in a class and frequently forgot which multiple of ten I was on. I just kept doing it, and now it’s more or less automatic. I have to explain it to people every now and then, but they mostly just don’t want to ask what the hell I’m doing.
/slight hijack/
Last year sometime, two employees in my company were standing in my office. Employee “A” is missing his right thumb. Employee “B” has a “twin thumb” on his right hand. I have the standard number of thumbs, one on each hand.
SO, one COULD say that, ON THE AVERAGE, everyone in my office had two thumbs!
I had to share that vaguely-oogy story when I saw a thread about fingers.
/here endeth the hijack/
I’m about the same as racinchikki. The only difference being I do the 1-5 on my right hand, starting with pointer and ending with thumb, but the 6-10 on my left hand, starting with the thumb and ending with the pinkie. I figure as long as I’m not stomping a hoof and whinnying, I’m not that strange. 
Well, sometimes I count in binary on my fingers, so that makes it crazy. (Really, I do…)
The rest of the time, I do B. I learned to do A, and did for a while, but B is just easier.
I use the thumb then count towards the pinkie finger. I have never thought of doing it any other way.
I can count up to 15 on one hand thus
Thumb-1
Back to thumb and then figer next to it -2,3
and so on
I was in third grade when chisenbop (a korean teachnique of finger-math) was briefly in vogue and we were taught that and I can’t bring myself to do anything else (from pinky to thumb for 5, thumb +pinky=6 (all consecutive fingers put down stay down until 5 or 10 is hit, so you can look at your hand and see where you ended up), and when you get to your thumb again the left pinky goes down for 10-- 10s are counted in the same way on the left hand)
I start with my left big toe, and go from there.
Since I probably have a pen in my right hand when doing math without a calculator, I’ll count on my left hand and go pinkie to thumb in an “inward” fashion.
Of course if I have to count to eleven I unzip my pants. 
I can count to thirteen when I do that. 
I was gonna say 10 and a half, but I didn’t feel that much honesty was helpful
Damn, I thought I was the only one.
b.