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I find that if you lead with the thumb-as-1 - then I can't use my little finger held down for 4. I naturally use my thumb to hold down the other fingers leadin
by gavanm 5y ago
I find that if you lead with the thumb-as-1 - then I can't use my little finger held down for 4.
I naturally use my thumb to hold down the other fingers leading with index-as-1.
I'm not sure what the thumb-as-1 does for 4 though.
Since the thumb is the first digit on the hand (depending on the way you go) I can see it being a logical choice - but not necessarily the most convenient once you get to 4.
- toxik 5y agoIf I count things, I tend to extend the thumb first, then the index finger, then the long finger, etc. This I think naturally leads you to make 3 by extending the thumb, index and long finger.
- tsimionescu 5y agoThat's OK, but can you then extend the ring finger but not the pinky to make a 4? For me it's almost impossible.
- toxik 5y agoFairly easily yeah, on either hand
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- ziml77 5y agoI just tested different ways of displaying numbers with fingers and the most comfortable way is to start with the pinky finger and then go in order from there. But I guess the downside to that is a raised pinky isn't as clear as a raised index finger or thumb due to it being so short.
- toxik 5y agoI feel like it's important whether you're tallying things, or presenting a quantity by hand gestures, for example to a bartender. Then 1 is a single index finger raised, with the thumb and other fingers pinched together. 2 the same, but also long finger. For 3, I would use the ring finger, and similarly for 4, using the pinky. However, if I was tallying, I'd do thumb, index, long, ring, pinky. I have a Chinese colleague, and he always goes pinky, ring, long, thumb.
- jhgb 5y agoFor that reason I always count as \.... \\... \\|.. .\|// \\|//, if that makes any sense to you.