# Snap your fingers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282 "2014-02-26T02:08:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282/1 "2014-02-26T02:08:00Z")

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I want to test a hypothesis about dominate handedness and the ability/inability to snap one’s fingers, so let’s have a poll about it. _Don’t ask what right or left handed means, just answer however you usually answer that question._

Leaving out options for ambidextrousness isn’t an oversight, folks, those answers might be vaguely interesting, but won’t tell us anything much about people whose right hand is dominate vs those whose left.

I’ll post my hypothesis in my next post.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282/2 "2014-02-26T02:13:46Z")

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Oops. A mod should mercy kill this thread, if possible. Can’t snap at all got left out.

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**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282/3 "2014-02-26T03:52:32Z")

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But…but I just learned something new about myself at the age of 52! Although I’m so right-handed I can barely do anything except gesture (and, okay, type) with the left, I snap pretty well - equally well - with both hands.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snap-your-fingers/682282/4 "2014-02-26T16:02:24Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Oops. A mod should mercy kill this thread, if possible. Can’t snap at all got left out.

Okay. If you want to remake it, feel free.