to ask if you can do this

[schoolcats]

Put your hands in front of you with your index fingers pointing at each other about 1cm apart

Rotate them simultaneously so they stay in time with each other but one has to go away from you and the other has to come towards you.

My teenagers say you're welcome.

It took a few false starts but it is now fairly easy.

Tried again. First success was clearly a fluke.

I can't do it.
Former gynaecologist if relevant.

I never understand stuff like that

One of our karate warm-up exercises is doing this with the arms

I was just coming on to say exactly this! I wonder if we're in the same club

I can do the finger thing but lose it after a while.

Easy. My index fingers don't continue to point very precisely towards each other: does that matter?

I don't play an instrument and am not generally very dexterous. So maybe I have misunderstood what I should be doing.

Oh, and I started slow before speeding up.

Rotating fingers or drawing circles? Rotating is a piece of piss, drawing circles is a bit harder but not that hard.

Played piano as a child, left handed but quite good with my right hand for most stuff.

Easy! Why do some people find this hard? anyone know?

I can only do it successfully with my eyes closed!

I can do it, and find it quite easy. I play the piano and flute, maybe that helps.

I can’t do it!

My dd has been doing a few of these with us recently. There's one about drawing a clockwise square and and anti clockwise triangle in the air.

The chair challenge has been our fave and it's won me money from most of the men in my family as they don't believe I'd be able to lift a chair that they couldn't and I bet then £5 that I can 😂

It's hard. Me and my husband manager it but not easy.

In case anyone wants to try it.

It’s this, right?

Index fingers point each other like if there was an imaginary finger trap in the middle.

Then draw circles in opposite directions (away from you and towards you) with each finger keeping them in time.

You have to rotate both fingers clockwise or both counter clockwise

No you don't, the whole point is that one is clockwise and one is counter clockwise.

I can do it! It helps if I think of doing a figure of 8 in separate parts

My teenagers say you're welcome.

Your teenagers are arseholes 😬

I can't do it! It's making my toes curl trying! 😠

Your teenagers are arseholes 😬

Aren't they all at times ?

They can't do it either so we all had fun watching each other try

It's it rotating your hand so your wrist is the axis in opposite directions? Or is it trying to describe an arc with the tips of your index fingers in opposite directions? (So essentially your elbow is a pivot on which the arc is described?)

Just your index fingers

I managed it for a few seconds, then stopped and now I can't do it again!

I can do it, but it is much easier if I do not look directly at my fingers

Holy fuck, that took me ages to do! I can now drive everyone crazy with that tomorrow at work.

It's quite easy. Point your index fingers to each other and then rotate them in opposite directions. One rotates clock wise, the other anti clock wise. At the same time.

No I can't do it either,