# How many hands do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100 "2014-06-05T06:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/1 "2014-06-05T06:31:27Z")
Physically attached to your body at this particular moment, how many hands do you have? ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/2 "2014-06-05T06:48:46Z")
It depends on what your definitions of hands, do, you, and have are. ---
**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 5, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/3 "2014-06-05T06:59:34Z")
I have more than the average number. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/4 "2014-06-05T07:19:50Z")
Hands? What are these “hands” of which you speak? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/5 "2014-06-05T07:27:23Z")
Paws are just a special kind of hand 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/6 "2014-06-05T07:30:24Z")
Gfsgvddf gjgfrddhjg hhffdsetkjb zswqfujvfc thjh fd dsgvffcdx jhghcdds. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/7 "2014-06-05T08:42:22Z")
Good boy! ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/8 "2014-06-05T10:07:03Z")
There’s a Zaphod in every crowd. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/9 "2014-06-05T10:39:04Z")
Have you ever really looked at your hands? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/10 "2014-06-05T10:53:58Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Have you ever really looked at your hands? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/11 "2014-06-05T10:58:57Z")
They can touch anything but themselves. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/12 "2014-06-05T12:00:42Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > They can touch anything but themselves. 😕 Mine can. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/13 "2014-06-05T14:57:05Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I have more than the average number. I was about to agree, but then I looked at the poll results. The current average is at least 2.08 hands per person (more if any of those choosing “3 or more” have more than three). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/14 "2014-06-05T15:00:35Z")
Technically I do have two, but due to a broken wrist, one is so useless that I say I have a “hand and a half.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/15 "2014-06-05T15:04:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Have you ever really looked at your hands? Yes… and you know, it just occurred to me that one cell in my fingernail could be, like, a whole UNIVERSE! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/16 "2014-06-05T15:48:26Z")
If you count my feet, with their unusually long and dexterous toes, I have four. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/17 "2014-06-05T15:51:20Z")
Five but I am wearing a watch. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/18 "2014-06-05T15:54:26Z")
If I can write my name with my foot, can I count it? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/19 "2014-06-05T15:54:27Z")
I don’t participate in public polls, nor do I swim in public pools. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100/20 "2014-06-05T15:58:43Z")
Do all the hands attached to my body at the present time have to belong to me? #beingcaressed [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hands-do-you-have/690100.md?page=2)