# How do you clasp your hands? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643 "2011-06-07T18:30:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/1 "2011-06-07T18:30:34Z")
Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=611381): Clasp your hands together, fingers interlaced. Which thumb is on top? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/2 "2011-06-08T04:11:21Z")
Finally one of these I actually do. Actually, as a kid, I kept trying to train myself to put my right thumb on top. It never held. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/3 "2011-06-08T04:30:17Z")
I’m a right-handed, right thumb on top person. I’ve tried many times in the past doing it the other way, just to see. It just felt so totally wrong. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/4 "2011-06-08T07:50:35Z")
This is amazing: about an hour ago, I was thinking of starting a thread like this. (And for the record, I’m right-handed and thumbed.) ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/5 "2011-06-08T08:58:54Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I’m a right-handed, right thumb on top person. I’ve tried many times in the past doing it the other way, just to see. It just felt so totally wrong. Exactly this. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/6 "2011-06-08T09:32:52Z")
Right hand, left thumb on top. Right thumb on top is WRONG and you right-thumbers should all be ASHAMED of yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/7 "2011-06-08T10:12:57Z")
Right - handed, left thumb on top. I’m sure that’s significant in some way, but can’t imagine how. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/8 "2011-06-08T10:31:52Z")
What’s with all the hand-manipulation threads? I thought rape month was last month. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/9 "2011-06-08T11:01:20Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > What’s with all the hand-manipulation threads? I thought rape month was last month. June is Handjob month. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/10 "2011-06-08T11:07:45Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > June is Handjob month. As long as it’s consensual ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/11 "2011-06-08T12:57:06Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > As long as it’s consensual And the best part is, you can do it at work and not get fired :). Off to start an arm-crossing thread :D. (Right handed, left thumb on top. Anything else feels BIZARRE). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/12 "2011-06-08T23:36:46Z")
I answered right-right, because my right index finger is on top of my left, but my thumbs don’t always take part in the interlace, and may sit side by side on my index finger. Actually, I don’t often interlace my fingers in that way - I’m more likely to clasp palms - four fingers of right hand folded over left index finger, right thumb resting on left thumb. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/13 "2011-06-09T00:35:41Z")
Right and right, as is only right. Does this tell us something about how we use our brain hemispheres or some such? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/14 "2011-06-09T03:04:40Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Right and right, as is only right. > > Does this tell us something about how we use our brain hemispheres or some such? It tells us you are BAD and WRONG and you should be PUNISHED 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/15 "2011-06-09T03:08:02Z")
Oops, I clicked wrong: right handed, left thumb is on top. BTW my yoga teacher makes us lace them the “other way” (the other way from how we usually do, whatever that is) and it feels unspeakably vile. It’s amazing how wrong it feels. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/584643/16 "2011-06-10T01:01:06Z")
Who is the minority?! There must be a minority! _sharpens pitchfork_