How do you clasp your hands?

In My Humble Opinion
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Funny, I was thinking about this this very morning.

Left on top
Right Handed 99% *
Left Brained
Male

*The right side of my body is very clearly dominant but there are a couple of things that I do better with the left: fastening sleeve buttons and high jump (erm, 26 years ago, I haven’t tried since).

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Some combination of genetics and random chance. I don’t know if anyone has done a study of how very young children fold their hands (I certainly wouldn’t prioritize that field), but I’d hypothesize they have a much weaker preference, and that one version becomes dominant over time.

What studies exist show the genetic component is minimal: Myths of Human Genetics: Hand Clasping

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Right index finger and thumb on top.

Right handed.

The whole left and right brain thing is untrue.

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Hands, arms and legs go right over left.

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Dang, and here I thought I was onto something. :smiley:

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Female
Right-handed
Probably more left-brained
Left thumb on top
Right arm on top
Right ankle on top
Right leg on top when crossing my legs

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Right finger on top.
Cross-dominant. Dexterous hand is the right, strong hand is the left.
Female.
Neither-brain dominant. My perceptions are highly visual, I sometimes say that my first language is not Spanish but pictures. But my expression has eventually and of necessity become highly verbal.
Legs get crossed either way. Right now my ankles are crossed pointing back and the right is on top, but they’ll eventually flip. Arms get crossed left-outside, but I hug myself left-inside.

Note that there’s studies which show that (in general, etc. etc., rest of the disclaimer), women tend to be less brain-lateralized than men. That an engineer who spends a lot of time training people needs to balance both sides shouldn’t be a surprise either.

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  • Left forefinger on top (and left arm on top when I cross my arms)
  • Right-handed (but, like Aspidistra, left eye dominant)
  • Male
  • Not strongly “left brained” nor “right brained”
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  1. Left forefinger on top (and the entirety of the left hand: When someone says “clasp hands,” I don’t naturally interlock my fingers.)
  2. Right Handed
  3. Male
    4/5. Left brained, I suppose.
  4. Left arm on top
  5. Both legs feel natural.
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I’m comfortable clasping my hands either way; I tried it several times each way to make sure, and neither feels more “right” than the other. Right-handed, female, do not believe in the left brain / right brain thing at all.

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left forefinger on top
right-handed
Male
left brain dominant

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Right finger on top.
Left arm on top…
Right leg on top.
Right hand dominant but I’ve been told I’m a closet leftie.
Age 58.
Female.

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Male over 60.
Left finger on top
Right handed.
Left brain dominant.

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Female
Left finger on top
Right handed
Left brained

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Right, right, male, left

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Right with a big *
Right
Male
Rightish brained from the silly tests once upon a time.

I cross my ankles both ways. My right arm goes on top when I cross my arms.

  • When I clasp my hands I mostly don’t interlock my fingers. It’s one fist wrapped by the other hand. When I do interlock usually my index fingers, thumbs, or both are extended and meet with the pads centered on each other. That’s still right middle finger on top, though.
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Right finger & thumb on top. I’m left handed.

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Same here.

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Male
Clasping hands, the index finger on the left hand goes on top. Feels unnatural the other way.
Folding arms. The right hand goes over the left arm and the left hand is tucked under the right.
Crossing legs. The right leg goes over the top.

I am now mostly right handed but I grew up at a time when my tendency was to be left handed but we were highly encouraged to be right handed. So I am a little confused in that area. Eating, my left hand is always to dominate one. Write with the right. Use of both hands are mostly equal in other circumstances.

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Thread title reminds me of this:

“Don’t just sit there lookin’ stupid, graspin’ your hands in pain…”