Can you put one arm over your shoulder

[Mememeplease]

... And touch fingers with your other hand coming up diagonally from below?

I have never been able to do this, regardless of my size or fitness. Otoh elderly mil can easily do it.

Which is more common?

Yep I can but then I have hypermobility

Yes but I have orangutan arms

Yes only one side but it rather hurt

Yup. I'm overweight and very unfit ( huge pregnant lump). I can scratch the back of my head underarm too. Just something i'm able to do.

Yep.

No. Not even near.

I do have short arms though (t-rex )- Would say I'm relatively fit & flexible (run 10k, play sports & do weight training weekly)

The real challenge is if you can do that and then sit cross legged and touch your forehead to the floor.

The real challenge is if you can do that and then sit cross legged and touch your forehead to the floor.

The real challenge is if you can do that and then sit cross legged and touch your forehead to the floor.

Mmm three posts

Have never tried that one before, VeronicaDinner but I just tried and yes I can!

Yes I can and I can do that too VeronicaDinner, I can also get my head to the floor in a wide legged forward fold. I have been doing yoga for years though!

I've been a 14, and I've been a 4, and I've never been able to do this! My ds can do it, and in fact reach further (like grasp each wrist with the other hand IYSWIM)... he has a v clicky shoulder though, so perhaps a bit hypermobile?

Actually, maybe he just has orangutan arms, as he always grows out of tops at the sleeves first!

Yes I can fully clasp hands to the wrists too.
....And for my party trick I can put my arm right round my head, reach under my chin and grab the earlobe of the same side as the arm

...if that didn't make sense - I can reach around my head with my right arm and grab my right ear lobe

I can't even imagine what that looks like EnormousDormouse 😂

I'm having trouble imagining it too. Just tried to do it and was a bit baffled.

I can put my hands flat on the floor whilst standing

You must have very long arms (or very short legs).

Rottnest, I can do that too. The hands flat on the floor thing (with straight legs and feet flat on the floor). I am averagely legged for my height but it is my orangutan arms coming into play again.

Obviously I am bending forward at the time.

Hands flat on the floor is much more about tightness of hamstrings than length of arms. You need to close the angle between torso and legs to get close.

No way.

I can't even bend my thumb at the middle joint, or do the Brownie 'I swear' thing either

I can do the hands flat on the floor thing standing too.

Yes, I can hold hands both ways. My shoulders are flexible but I still get pain in them regularly. Rest of me is reasonably flexible, I do yoga and am a bit more flexible than about 90% of people in most classes but there's pretty much always someone superflexible who can do some of the weird stuff PPs have said they can do.