When you count with your fingers which finger do you use for number one

[storydragon@dragonscave.space]

@MostlyBlindGamer I am actually surprised and slightly shocked that apparently this is not universal.

[pentup@mastodon.art]

@MostlyBlindGamer I do thumb, but 4 is really awkward (when I put up the ring finger, the pinky wants to go too) so I'm actively trying to change to thumb-last. I'm doing pinky first, but index first would work.

[lina@tech.lgbt]

@MostlyBlindGamer depends on what is the maximum i'll be counting to
5+? thumb
<=4? index

[natty@astolfo.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space pretty sure this is a heavily cultural thing that varies a lot

[purrtato_hexagon@autistics.life]

@MostlyBlindGamer I'm genuinely surprised so many people voted for thumb! I'm team index finger (left hand). My left thumb is number 5 and my right thumb is number 6. So interesting how there's so much variety!

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@MostlyBlindGamer Pinky on right is 1, left thumb is 6.

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@stevo399 @MostlyBlindGamer
Same here except for opposite hands. :fistbump:

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer

Pinky

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@MostlyBlindGamer Pinky on the left is 1
I’m left handed

[dingodog19@sfba.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer
Use base-5: start with index, when you get to 5 put your thumb up and your other fingers down. Now thumb+index is 6, etc. You can count to 9 on one hand. If you use your other hand as 10s, you can count up to 99.

[miramarmike@cloudisland.nz]

@natty it certainly is

https://youtu.be/uYhOFQ7eruE

@MostlyBlindGamer

[dalfen@mstdn.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer whoops I voted wrong by accident... meant to hit "other"

[fitzbew248@mastodon.sdf.org]

@MostlyBlindGamer pinkie.

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer Actually kinda surprised thumb is so popular

[mostlyblindgamer@dragonscave.space]

@IndigoPRNG yes, but which finger is 1?

[luluhelle@ohai.social]

@MostlyBlindGamer pinky, but I think I might be odd here.

[mostlyblindgamer@dragonscave.space]

@natty exactly. It’s much sillier and more fun to ask this than “where are you from.”

[dhobern@scicomm.xyz]

@MostlyBlindGamer

When I'm counting for my own benefit and the number is in the range 0-10, 1-5 are right-little to right-thumb, and 6-10 are left-thumb to left-little. I am right-handed.

If I'm emphasizing numbers while talking, 1-5 is right-thumb to right-little, and 6-10 is again left-thumb to left-little.

[milla@mastodon.art]

@MostlyBlindGamer I recently had a somewhat heated disagreement about this with our 3-year-old, apparently someone at daycare starts from thumb while I start from index and thumb is the last one. I can't physically keep my pinky down with all others up...

[bardmoss@autistics.life]

@MostlyBlindGamer
Pinkie, ring, middle, index (4), then thumb