# Right-handed but can only snap the fingers of the left hand **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488 "2010-05-14T23:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/21 "2017-11-03T20:32:36Z")
I’m right-handed. Just checked… my right-handed finger snap sounds a little more, er, snappy than my left-handed one, but both are audible. ---
**Author:** ![Lewnix82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lewnix82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lewnix82)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/22 "2017-11-04T06:37:59Z")
You can with your right im right handed try not to press as hard remember🐃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/23 "2017-11-04T15:18:29Z")
I am utterly amazed that at no time in the last 7 years did anyone post a link to the [official theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3CH0tN515M) of this thread. And yeah, I can do right-handed as well as left-handed finger snaps, although the as a righty the left-handed ones feel more natural somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/24 "2017-11-04T21:32:55Z")
> [@molten](#): > > I can snap the fingers of both hands/feet equally well, and I am mostly right handed. You can snap your toes?? Or am I missing the whoosh? I’m a lefty, and my experience correlates with the OP. Right hand = crisp snap. Left hand = less snap, more slip. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/25 "2017-11-04T22:27:59Z")
It takes all of the fun out of the _Addams Family_ theme. ---
**Author:** ![molten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@molten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/molten)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488/26 "2017-11-15T09:09:33Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > You can snap your toes?? Or am I missing the whoosh? > > I’m a lefty, and my experience correlates with the OP. Right hand = crisp snap. Left hand = less snap, more slip. Yeah sometimes I can snap my toes, I pull the toe outward/to the side and it snaps. Is that unusual? I snap the toes of the right foot with the left hand and those of the left foot with the right hand. All the snaps are the same crispness, no slipping. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-handed-but-can-only-snap-the-fingers-of-the-left-hand/539488.md?page=1)