Can you wink and other questions?

[Bears Discover Fire]

1) Do the Vulcan salute. If you can, with both hands or only one. I belive that Zachary Quinto has difficulty with the Vulcan salute.

Yes, with my right hand. Its one of the only things (besides using a mouse) that I can do with my right hand, but not my left.

2) Go cross-eyed

Famously.

3) Click/snap you fingers

Yep, and I felt like I had cured cancer when I learned how. Ahh, to be seven years old again, with seven year old priorities...

4) Speak Pig Latin

A language I cannot master.

5) Roll your "R"s

Cerrrrrtainly.

6) Roll Your tongue

Yes, and I admire those people who can put multiple rolls into their tongues. I can only do one.

7) Whistle (or whistle well)

I wish!

8) Rub you tummy while patting your head

Yes, but only if I begin one before beginning the other. If I start both motions simultaneously, I cannot do it.

9) Do the Splits

No, and I've never been able to run a mile or touch my toes, either, despite years of daily torture in P.E.

10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time

I envy all who possess this superpower.

11) Do you have perfect pitch

I can perfectly pitch people out the window in screaming agony, if that's what you mean.

 

[sojourner]

How about Synesthesia? That has always fascinated me. I wonder what it would be like to have that.

Thanks for that link. I heard about that condition once, but forgot the name. When I read about it I thought I always had a mild number-related case of it. Ever since I knew what numbers were I associated them as being "hot" or "cold". Hot numbers were like 3,5, and 6. Cold numbers were 2,4,7,9. 1 and 8 were kind of in the middle. Hot numbers were associated with bright colors like red, orange and yellow. Cold numbers were blue, or green, or black. Brown would be a hot color though. Strange that there are such specific and odd disorders in the world, but they are definitely shared by different people.

Has this seemed to be a hindrance or help to your math skills? Can you sense the right answer to math problems based on color interaction?

 

[Kestra]

10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time

I envy all who possess this

It's honestly something you can learn. I couldn't do it before, and I got it after trying a few times. Then it took me a bit to do it with the other eyebrow but I got that too. It's as if you need to figure out which muscles work.

 

[Joshua Howard]

1) Do the Vulcan salute. - Yes, with both hands. It took a little bit of learning when I first started, but has since become second nature.
2) Go cross-eyed - I don't think that I can do that.
3) Click/snap you fingers - No. I've tried, but it just won't work. It's like trying to incinerate a wet towel with a match.
4) Speak Pig Latin - No
5) Roll your "R"s - Possibly. As data would say to the computer, "Please explain."
6) Roll Your tongue - Same as #5.
7) Whistle (or whistle well) - Yes. It took a while, but I mastered it.
8) Rub you tummy while patting your head - The patting turns into more of a half-rubbing motion; I'm going to be modest and say "no".
9) Do the Splits - What?
EDITED TO ADD (suggested by others)
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time - I do a bad job of this. Academic rating would give me a D-, but I do have a little coodination. If it helps, I have learned how to wriggle my ears.
11) Do you have perfect pitch - Singing? Yes. There isn't anything more beautiful than my stunning voice.

 

[M'Sharak]

I have been browsing the net and I have discovered that some people cannot wink! I had no idea that some people can't do this and I was wondering if there is anyone here who can't.

I can, but not very well.

Also can you or can't you

1) Do the Vulcan salute. If you can, with both hands or only one. I belive that Zachary Quinto has difficulty with the Vulcan salute.

Yes, right hand easily, left hand not so well

2) Go cross-eyed

Yes.

3) Click/snap you fingers

Yes.

4) Speak Pig Latin

I can, but I was never that polished and am now beyond rusty. I'd really have to be thinking about it, which makes it more trouble than it's worth.

5) Roll your "R"s

Not well.

6) Roll Your tongue

I can do that. I can also do what this girl is doing in the picture.

7) Whistle (or whistle well)

I can whistle with reasonably good pitch accuracy, but I'm not going to be winning any contests.

8) Rub you tummy while patting your head

Yes.

9) Do the Splits

Not even on my best day.

EDITED TO ADD (suggested by others)
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time

I can do a pretty good Spock eyebrow, but since I learned it while watching Spock on TV, I do the left eyebrow, mirroring Nimoy raising his right.

11) Do you have perfect pitch

No, but I have good relative pitch.

 

[Skywalker]

1) Do the Vulcan salute. Yes, but it's easier with the right hand than the left.
2) Go cross-eyed. Yep. I can even turn just one eye in while the other keeps looking straight ahead.
3) Click/snap you fingers. Yep.
4) Speak Pig Latin. Most of the time.
5) Roll your "R"s. Eh, kind of.
6) Roll Your tongue. Yes
7) Whistle (or whistle well). Yes.
8) Rub you tummy while patting your head. Kind of.
9) Do the Splits. No.
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time. Actually, the only eyebrow I can raise by itself is my left eyebrow. I can't raise my right eyebrow on its own.
11) Do you have perfect pitch. I don't think so.

Also, I can only wink with my right eye, not my left eye.

 

[Miss Chicken]

5) Roll your "R"s - Possibly. As data would say to the computer, "Please explain."

If you roll your r's, you pronounce them with your tongue moving quickly and repeatedly against the top of the mouth. The Rs come out as rrrrrr

6) Roll Your tongue - Same as #5.

Do what the girl in this photo is doing.

9) Do the Splits - What?

As in this photo

 

[Joshua Howard]

^

Ahh...

In that case, yes to the rolling of "R"s, but no to the latter two - rolling and splitting.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

1) Do the Vulcan salute. No problem, and with both hands.
2) Go cross-eyed Check.
3) Click/snap you fingers Yes but only on my left hand.
4) Speak Pig Latin Yes but not often.
5) Roll your "R"s Rolling your R's is important for proper Spanish, so yes.
6) Roll Your tongue Nope.
7) Whistle (or whistle well) I can, but not well.
8) Rub you tummy while patting your head Yes, but it takes me a while.
9) Do the Splits Oh god no.
EDITED TO ADD (suggested by others)
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time No i can't but i can move my ears.
11) Do you have perfect pitch No.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

How about Synesthesia? That has always fascinated me. I wonder what it would be like to have that.

Thanks for that link. I heard about that condition once, but forgot the name. When I read about it I thought I always had a mild number-related case of it. Ever since I knew what numbers were I associated them as being "hot" or "cold". Hot numbers were like 3,5, and 6. Cold numbers were 2,4,7,9. 1 and 8 were kind of in the middle. Hot numbers were associated with bright colors like red, orange and yellow. Cold numbers were blue, or green, or black. Brown would be a hot color though. Strange that there are such specific and odd disorders in the world, but they are definitely shared by different people.

Has this seemed to be a hindrance or help to your math skills? Can you sense the right answer to math problems based on color interaction?

No, I've never noticed this factoring into my math skills at all. I am very good at doing math in my head though. I can multiply two or three digit numbers very quickly, but I think this is because I can break mental calculations down to simpler ones quickly.

 

[Orac Zen]

Yes, I can wink.

1) Do the Vulcan salute. If you can, with both hands or only one. - Yes, both, without any difficulty.
2) Go cross-eyed - Yes.
3) Click/snap you fingers - Yes, both hands.
4) Speak Pig Latin - Nope.
5) Roll your "R"s - No.
6) Roll Your tongue - Yes.
7) Whistle (or whistle well) - Yes. The quality tends to vary, though.
8) Rub you tummy while patting your head - Yes, but I have to start one before the other.
9) Do the Splits - Hell, no.
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time - Right eyebrow only.
11) Do you have perfect pitch - No.

 

[backstept]

1) Do the Vulcan salute Yes
2) Go cross-eyed Yes
3) Click you fingers Yes
4) Speak Pig Latin. Esyay
5) Roll your "R"s I can rock and roll my "R"s. Yes
6) Roll Your tongue Yes. I can make a 'W' shape
7) Whistle (or whistle well) Yes, with my lips, tongue, teeth and all 10 fingers in any combination.
8) Rub you tummy while patting your head Yes
9) Do the Splits Absolutely not.
10) Raise just one eyebrow at a time I can do it with both eyebrows. and I can move my ears separately.
11) Do you have perfect pitch probably not