Also how did you come to learn how to snap your fingers?
Put your fingers together like so:
Then push your thumb to the right while pressing your middle finger down hard. Let your thumb slide out, releasing your middle finger, which will snap against your hand like this:
Your middle finger hitting your hand is what makes the snapping noise, so the harder your press your middle finger down, the louder the snap will be.
I gotta say, surprised everyone is attributing the “snap” sound to hitting the pad of your thumb.
All y’all veteran snappers, try this. Lift up your pinky, then snap. Makes a much higher pitched snap. Now lift up your ring finger, then snap. No snap at all. Your pinky and ring finger make a sort of tube, and your thumb is striking one end of it (the crevice between thumb pad and ring finger tip) to make a tone. I’m even able to smack that spot with a finger on the OTHER hand and make a (quieter) snap.
Hope this helps.
Directions unclear, I tried snapping with my pinky (instead of with my middle finger) for far too long before I realized you meant “snap like normal except put your pinky up.”
Sorry XD
holy shit i learned a new thing im the guy from the xkcd comic
this is literally me rnMy pet peeve is when people post this for things that are not even close to common knowledge, like this. You are not lucky 10000. More like lucky, 10 or something
Cool! What part did you learn??
Not op but I learned that the snap is loud because your closed pinky and ring fingers form your hand into a resonator.
You try to push your thumb and forefinger through each other. Eventually they slip.
This is a skill I do not have, and apparently I may be one of two people in the world who can’t do it.
It’s impressive he can snap with a metal gauntlet, I wouldn’t think it’d give enough friction with the metal on metal.
The gauntlet can wipe out half the population instantly, and you think it’s unable to snap its fingers 😭
You just put your fingers together and blow.
Wait… 🤔
one thing to know is that the snap doesn’t come from your fingers flicking together, it comes from your index finger striking your thumb muscle
Or middle finger. I can’t snap with my index.
Whew… thought I was weird for a minute there
I was a child and had enough time to devote to learning this.
For me it’s my middle finger hitting the cushion below the thumb that makes the noise.
Also answering the second question, I have a vague memory of being in 4th grade and all of us trying to learn how to snap fingers during recess by watching each other and trying to do it.
