# How do you clasp your hands?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 4, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/809993 "2018-03-04T02:25:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/809993/41 "2018-03-07T21:07:24Z")

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1. Right
2. Left
3. Male  
4&5) N/A

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/809993/42 "2018-03-07T21:31:52Z")

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I’m male, right handed, and I seem to do left forefinger on top _unless_ I’m tucking one or more of my fingers away within my clasped hands to make it look like one or both of my hands only has four fingers, in which case it’s a crapshoot. (I fold my hands that way now and then to see if anybody will notice and comment. Nobody has yet.)

I don’t know if I’m right brained or left brained. No brained, probably.

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**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/809993/43 "2018-03-08T22:08:12Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I’m curious about this because I noticed that I always clasp my hands the same way: fingers interlaced with the left forefinger being on top. My wife does it with her right forefinger on top. We’re both right-handed. So here are the questions:
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> 1. Right forefinger on top, or left forefinger on top?
> 2. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
> 3. Male or female?
> 4. Do you consider yourself right brain dominant (visual, intuitive, creative thinking): feelings visualization; imagination; intuition; rhythm; holistic thinking; arts?
> 5. Or left brain dominant (verbal, analytical, orderly): thinking in words; sequencing; linear thinking; mathematics; facts; logic?
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> As mentioned, I do it with left finger on top, right handed, male, and left brain dominant. For what it’s worth, when I clasp them the other way, it starts to really bother me after a short time.

1. left
2. left-handed
3. female
4. right-brain dominant

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-clasp-your-hands/809993/44 "2018-03-08T22:21:19Z")

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Just did it before reading the OP:

1. Right forefinger on top
2. Right-handed
3. Male
4. Really in-between there as far as left vs right brain thinking, and I tend to score right down the middle on those tests. If I had to pick one or the other, at this moment, I would say slightly right brained, but historically, probably slightly left-brained. Clasping my hands with the left forefinger on top does feel really, really weird to me.

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