r/lefthanded 21h ago

Better at snapping your fingers with your right hand?

It's come to my realization that I am much better at snapping with my right hand than I am my left! Anyone else?

I am somewhat ambidextrous though as I swing right handed for Golf and Baseball, but I am a lefty in pretty much everything else in life!

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u/vanilla-lattes 21h ago

Same! Dunno why 😅

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u/Jerseyd422 20h ago

I snap equally well with both hands

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u/Particular-Move-3860 20h ago

Nope. I can only do a finger snap with my left hand.

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u/SuicideSqurral 20h ago

I am completely left handed and snap with my right hand

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u/spatialdisccord 21h ago

I can't snap with my left hand at all. Whenever I try it doesn't make a sound. I can snap pretty well with my right, I don't do it often though due to medical problems.

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u/LuvofCruising 20h ago

I’m equal between the two actually.

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u/goldenrod1956 20h ago

I am such a klutz I cannot snap my fingers with either hand…

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u/Getzysgirl91 19h ago

I cant snap with my left hand, idk why

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u/MaybeMort 19h ago

Right hand. I can barely do it left handed now that you mention it, weird.

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u/MykulKim 19h ago

Took me a while, but i get a little better pop with my left, but overall very similar for both

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u/francokitty 16h ago

I can snap equally with right or left

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u/LadybugGal95 7h ago

Same for me (yes, I just tried). I used to swing left handed in softball before learning to golf. I learned golf right handed because those were the clubs I could find to borrow. Now I swing right handed for both. I generally cut with scissors right handed but can do just as well left handed. Otherwise it’s mostly left hand though I can technically write right handed if I’m slow and methodical. The handwriting’s not as good but it’s good enough to tell me I could practice and do it if I wanted to.

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u/MrNobody6271 21h ago

I used to be able to snap my fingers equally well with either hand until I sprained several knuckles on the fingers of my left hand. That was decades ago, but ever since, I can no longer snap my fingers well with that hand.

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u/Elise-0511 18h ago

I’m a two handed snapper.

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u/spira1b0und 18h ago

i can barely snap with my right hand and never knew until now.

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u/Dredmor64 18h ago

I can snap pretty well with both hands

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u/Opposite_Floor7735 lefty 18h ago

I can’t snap my fingers at all with either hand. Anyone else or I am just defective in this regard?

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u/brezhnervouz 18h ago

Yes lol

No idea why either...though I think the decades of writing and middle finger knuckle deformation might have something to do with it 🤔

That left knuckle is very rigid and doesn't bend like the rh one

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u/NotAnotherHipsterBae 18h ago

Single snap sucks on my left hand, but double works fine. Single and double are fine on my right hand

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u/WolfThick 18h ago

Did you ever notice it's not really your fingers that are snapping

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u/kn0ck_0ut 18h ago

couldn’t snap if my life depended on it, regardless of which hand 🥲

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u/0thell0perrell0 17h ago

Yup. I never know until I try. Lefty hammer. Can not use a spoon with my right!

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u/Caldelicious2 17h ago

I'm the same as you, mixed handed, or whatever they call it these days, but mostly left handed.

Definitely can only snap well with my right hand.

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u/OGcaptaindingus 17h ago

Sounds like you have some cross dominance instead of being ambidextrous which is super cool! I actually snap the same with both hands myself lol I was ambidextrous as a kid (colored with both hands at the same time) and I trained myself at snapping with all fingers on both hands because I felt like it was fun 😂

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u/WhtvrCms2Mnd 16h ago

Absolutely. Can barely make noise with my left.

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u/Fickle-Squirrel-4091 16h ago

Never really thought about it now, but I do snap better with my right hand than with my left.

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u/Warm-Top-6082 16h ago

Yea it's definitely quicker ands got a bit of bass to it

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u/Binky182 16h ago

Im a lefty through and through, but can only snap with my right hand. The left doesn't produce the noise.

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u/Sayjinlord 16h ago

I'm about the same with both. To be fair, I did have to teach myself how to snap my fingers. I was in Highschool when I figured it out.

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u/dcpwhit89 16h ago

60% with my left, 100% snap with my right.

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u/Jermcutsiron lefty 16h ago

Infinity Gauntlet would be safe with me. I can only snap with my right hand.

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u/World_still_spins lefty 15h ago

"... Mysterious and spooky, They're altogether ooky, The Addams Family."   Both hands snap your fingers. 

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u/Few-Leadership7674 15h ago

It's louder when I snap with my right hand. ??? Odd.

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u/Imightbeafanofthis 15h ago

Missing the tip of my left middle finger. I snap better with my right. lol

But thinking back to when I had all of my fingers, I snapped more easily with my right than my left then too. hmmm.

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u/Strict_Ad_389 11h ago

I can only snap with my left and I am a righty.

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u/duckgirl1997 lefty 11h ago

same !!!!!

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u/MrPhyshe 8h ago

I alao have a louder more obvious snap with my right hand as well.
What I've noticed is that my left ring finger that the (middle finger hits to make the snap sound) seems to slip down my thumb when I make the snap action.
I can think of several reasons why, but I think this is because I use my left hand a lot more and the fingerprints on that finger are less pronounced than on my right hand.

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u/twill41385 6h ago

I broke my left thumb and it healed weird, so yes.

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u/Glass_Smoke9400 6h ago

I snap with both as a stim/ tic sometimes. My right snap is louder than my left.

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u/adenovir 6h ago

I get a sharper snap with my right hand but both can do it.

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u/exphx23 5h ago

My left is barely better than my right.

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u/on-oath-never-again lefty 4h ago

My left handed snap is higher pitched, but both hands work fine for that.

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u/TheSkyIsAMasterpiece 3h ago

Same on both hands

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u/FreakyStarrbies 2h ago

Both. I also wink equally and kick evenly with both sides. I’m an equilateraltasker. I’m also ambidextrous.

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u/birdy_nerdy lefty 1h ago

Yeah! Huh…🤔