Using aibu because it's the only board with voting. Really MNHQ you should do something about that. Anyway. Fingers.

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Put your hand up in the air like you're asking a question.

Bend only your little finger.

YANBU - My ring finger goes down with it. Those guys do everything together. It's not my decision. PS this thread is pointless shit and you just wasted 2 minutes of my Sunday.

YABU - pinky is doing his own thing, the others are still standing to attention. PS this thread is pointless shit and you just wasted 2 minutes of my Sunday.

Pinky and ring are ride or die over here.

If you think that's fascinating, look up the Linburg-Comstock variation, a similar type of thing with potentially fatal consequences! (If you happen to be holding the right kind of gun.)

I can't vote.

But that was an amusing 2 minutes of my life 🤣🤣

I have the same with right and left!

Me too. Right hand is dominant but can’t do the pinky individually, which seems counterintuitive.

You do know this is because tendons and muscles on those fingers are connected. It’s human anatomy not some weird reason

I can't vote either though it depends a bit on whether it has to go all the way to the palm or not. Both pinkies will fold alone if I concentrate but not as far as my palm. It's definitely easier if other fingers are touching each other so that they know they're not being left alone. (Can fingers get separation anxiety?) Ring fingers can go to the palm alone. Middle fingers have the ring fingers leaning forward to watch, and index fingers are too arthriticy to bend unless whole hand curves into a fist. DH on the other hand can send his pinkies alone anywhere ....

Sorry that’s a bit grumpy. I’m a bit grumpy 😬

I can make my left one move independently, right one only moving with the ring finger too, I'm right handed🤷🏼‍♀️

Nope.
Mine work in unison 😁

I can, however, control my eyebrows independently and only just found out that not everyone can😊

That hand in the photo looks like a man's, so maybe it's more common for men to be able to do this?

It’s because of the nerve supply to the fingers.

My DH can do it but my fingers go together like PB and J

When I hold all my other fingers together I can't curl my pinkie, it bends but stays solidily straight, it needs the ring finger to curl too. Right hand pinkie curls ok when I hold the other fingers.

How can i get to 53 years old and not know this about my body!

Well I enjoyed trying that out and making the kids do the same

Yabu, all our fingers are independent women.

Both fingers bend to almost the same degree, whatever I do. Both hands.

I find this quite disturbing in a weird way. Thanks for ruining my Sunday!

I don't have a ring finger. Thanks for the reminder.

Both ring fingers skippety skip palm-wards independently, each as happily solo as a twice-divorced woman.

My right pinky finger will bend reluctantly on its own, but will not commit to going as far as the palm. After a certain point its support finger is crouching over it, ready to assist.

My left pinky is feeble and flatly refuses to go anywhere without its bodyguard finger. I'm disowning it, as it clearly isn't a Strong Independent Finger and is Letting The Side Down.

Well I can’t vote because on one hand the ring finger does also bend, but on the other hand it doesn’t

Ditto

My right hand can do it.
My left hand can kinda do it... but the top joint joins in not the full finger.
It looks weird

For those who can move their little finger only, have you played the piano, or another instrument which requires you to practice using fingers independently?

I wonder if it’s something that can be learned

Me too. Right hand is dominant but can’t do the pinky individually, which seems counterintuitive

I'm the opposite.my right hand, like yours, is dominant and it's easy to do it individually.
Left hand, no chance. How very, very odd.

I'm the opposite

So yes, just saying it's counter intuitive.

Right hand YABU (and I'm right handed).
Left hand ring finger went for a dip so I nearly had to revise my vote, but I controlled it using The Force.

I used to play piano and cello, if you're collecting causative/correlative factors for your hypothesis.

Can't get any fingers that far down (thumbs yes). Can move both ring fingers independently.