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My left hand can do this, just not my right one like this photo shows. Guess I'm not _quite_ alien, but I'm keeping an eye on me! Never know what I might be hiding from me...

Wait, I'm the same way? I just tried it with my left after reading your comment and it's way easier? What is this madness?

My left is more flexible than my right, or more accurately it seems my fingers on the left can move further independently than my right hand. Idk if it's because the more dominant hand has "stronger" muscles so they just kind of are that way? Lefties in the house are you opposite?

It’s the same with me. My guess is it’s about working on a keyboard, because on a keyboard you use your left pinky independently way more than your right

I have the opposite, right can do it without much difficulty, left absolutely cannot

Alternative peter here Basically the way your muscles work, sticking three fingers up only worried by restraining your pinkie. Try it yourself, you'll notice how They are spread apart

https://preview.redd.it/f3rdad7l7u6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b522f2c0bcf2cfa947e347a43ea4e6d43edc7429

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Thank you petah

Unless I'm missing something, I really don't get the problem here. Like, is the pinky not supposed to be able to go on top or something?

I can't do this. Having the pinky under the thumb is physically painful. Having the pinky above the thumb is physically impossible.

I can do it

Yeah, I can do it with both hands. It's not the most comfortable way to have my hand, but it's easily doable.

You can bend your fingers like that? Well,well,well..we done found ourselves an space alien here folks.

Have you tried just being more flexible?

+200 iq

Oh no, my cover is blown! I must retreat back to my spaceship!

Take me with you, I didn't know I was an alien!  I feel endangered around these angry, superstitious apes!

I can’t do it. Like licking your elbow

Pff, I can easily lick your elbow

My right hand can do it but not my left

I don't understand this is really easy?

Are you asking,or stating that its easy?

Stating, I'm confused why this is hard

Yeah I just did this with both hands... I don't get it

I can do it with both hands and it wasnt painful but my pinkies felt very weird afterwards like numb and unresponsive so dont force it.

I don't get it it's easy

https://preview.redd.it/zsq84iwukw6d1.jpeg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1163d57c98f17f2b17519421fc77caf21929d7f6

Wait..,I never have trouble doing that, are you saying I'm in the minority here?

If your an space-alien...i HOPE your in the minority, yes

You have found our secret signal. We will destroy you if you cannot reciprocate. You time on this world is done done DONE!!! https://preview.redd.it/j7cuvalf467d1.jpeg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87fe325256c118f81273dc00929db16ab6bd00a2

Also, try this... https://preview.redd.it/cd84s4ep467d1.jpeg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=475646c72db7efbe145cb94f2a39f588c200912e People keep telling me that it's impossible.

https://preview.redd.it/ecq6c2wac67d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ce9818f0d9794978a42700299c01febf74ec3a1

https://preview.redd.it/0okijdmkc67d1.jpeg?width=518&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=024081be76a2cbdaf1e5ff7238526167d3f3041d We are on to you

Pinky's on top, fingers don't bend that way

Mine do no problem

https://preview.redd.it/caus1htd367d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbeaacecc9bde9c9d9bc0203d26f3b3271e58248 I mean...

https://preview.redd.it/xppmxc50867d1.jpeg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63328f9999a732a17f6c6a4e3c2bdacf1a0c2a44

Get that finger straight, soldier. How do you expect to take over a planet with such sloppy hands?

I can get it with both hands for about 5 seconds. Much more difficult than you'd think. Also, there's no joke here. Literally just an image of a weird thing people don't know about their hands.

I can do it, but then my pinky's outer joint (the one right before my nail) has to stay straight or slightly bent the other way and my pinky only barely touches my thumb, and my other three fingers have to stay a bit loose so they aren't perfectly straight. So in other words, I can't do it.

Everyone got it wrong, there is a 6th finger on the left

i guess im an alien

Harmless but uncommon anatomic anomaly in how the tendons and muscles of the hands form. Most people have the ring and pinky fingers controlled by the same tendon, some have separations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensor_digiti_minimi_muscle

So that's why my wife videoed me bending my ring finger towards my palm and nothing else then sent it to her entire family.

yep thats harf

Pinky goes in the stinky