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theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I gotta say, surprised everyone is attributing the “snap” sound to hitting the pad of your thumb.

All y’all veteran snappers, try this. Lift up your pinky, then snap. Makes a much higher pitched snap. Now lift up your ring finger, then snap. No snap at all. Your pinky and ring finger make a sort of tube, and your thumb is striking one end of it (the crevice between thumb pad and rig finger tip) to make a tone. I’m even able to smack that spot with a finger on the OTHER hand and make a (quieter) snap.

Hope this helps.

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riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Directions unclear, I tried snapping with my pinky (instead of with my middle finger) for far too long before I realized you meant “snap like normal except put your pinky up.”

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- theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sorry XD
  
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kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
holy shit i learned a new thing im the guy from the xkcd comic

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- kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Image this is literally me rn
  
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  - Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My pet peeve is when people post this for things that are not even close to common knowledge, like this
    
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  - theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Cool! What part did you learn??
    
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    sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not op but I learned that the snap is loud because your closed pinky and ring fingers form your hand into a resonator.
    
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theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Update: my hand hurts now, but in fact it is possible to lay down a pinky, then snap three times successively with ring, middle, then index, which makes three different snaps (descending in pitch).

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