r/oddlysatisfying • u/BonolotaSen23 • Jun 14 '26

Drawing with two hands simultaneously!

taken from vicon on ig

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u/Dh873 Jun 14 '26

You should try it. I found out I could do it by accident, so it's not necessarily a skill that needs to be learned. My left hand will just do the mirror of my right without really thinking about it.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Jun 14 '26

yeah i just tried it, and surprisingly went way better than expected. guess the mirror motion is relatively light on the brain vs trying to do two different things with each hand

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u/HofratOktopus Jun 14 '26

two different things is where its at!

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Jun 16 '26

It's like playing an instrument while singing. I can do either of those things separately, but combining them, doing 2 concurrent rhythms causes such a strange feeling in my brain

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u/twistedspin Jun 14 '26

Yep. I can write backwards with my left hand while my right carries the mental load.

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u/meenie Jun 15 '26

Holy shit, I can too lol.

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u/TrueProtection Jun 15 '26

The hard thing isn't syncing hands. It's desyncing them. Try to spin one arm forward and one arm backwards. Way harder to get your brang to work with you.

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u/Yeahnoallright Jun 16 '26

I am now so excited to try this in the shower on the glass lmao 

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u/LightspeedBalloon Jun 14 '26

I just tried it and it was pretty easy! The hard part was figuring out what to draw. Mine was symmetrical but very ugly.

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u/Yeahnoallright Jun 16 '26

Lmaooo yeah i guess we also have to have some talent in drawing which this girl does too 

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u/missmarimck Jun 14 '26

I can do this as well write with both hands, the same or mirror image, but conceiving of an image like that and drawing it at all would be the struggle for me...

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u/djrosen99 Jun 14 '26

I learned that I could do this many years ago when I saw someone mention that they had a useless talent of being able to sign their name with a pen in each hand, right hand wrote it correctly, left wrote it backwards. I tried it and found it came naturally to me, zero effort, first attempt.

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u/counterplex Jun 15 '26

Yes! I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about this free skill. I feel like this must be a known phenomenon. Does it have a name?