Can you do the Vulcan Hand Salute?
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Yes, w/ both hands.
This is the most one-sided poll I've ever seen.
You other 12 people need to get practicing.
You other 12 people need to get practicing.
I can switch back and forth between that and the regular salute with both hands, quickly and fluidly, like a pendulum swinging. I can do that with both hands in sync, or with one hand in the salute when the other is in the double, and back, and forth, etc.Both.
I can even quickly do double salutes with both hands (bring the two middle fingers together and spread out the outer ones).
I can also do this, which doesn't have much to do with the subject at hand, but since we're talking about this sort of thing, I'll give it to all of you to try: Put both arms bent in front of you with your fists facing each other. Now start one arm rotating in circles, and while keeping that going, start the other one rotating in circles in the opposite direction.
But I can't, much to my frustration, arch only one eyebrow.
I have the inverse of that. I'm right-handed and can do it easily with my left hand. However my right hand had the ring and pinkey fingers slightly askew to the middle and forefinger. Odd.
Yes, with both hands. I can even do the reverse Vulcan salute with my two middle fingers together. 
Yes with my right hand.
Didn't mention this before, but when I was in high school, I also wrote a Trek parody of "2 Legit 2 Quit" by Hammer called "2 Logic 2 Quit", and I can still do the parody hand sequence for it. (It's the same as the one in Hammer's video for his song, except instead of the 'L' you do to the Vulcan salute. 
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Yes.
Not to be rude, but I honestly never even understood what was so tough about it. People on average do things regularly that require much greater dexterity. Somehow I've always felt it was more of a metal block, unless you have a physical hand condition. If you can pitch a baseball or tie a shoelace, you've got the physical means to do it
In fact, pitching a baseball is the perfect muscle comparison because you control the ball with the index & middle fingers, & tuck the other 2 away. So hold a small ball like you're going to pitch it, & then just remove the ball & straighten out the pinky & ring finger
In fact, pitching a baseball is the perfect muscle comparison because you control the ball with the index & middle fingers, & tuck the other 2 away. So hold a small ball like you're going to pitch it, & then just remove the ball & straighten out the pinky & ring finger
Not everyone is built the same way, just like not everyone can pitch a baseball, even if most can. Sometimes fingers just won't move the way you want them to or it may be uncomfortable (if not painful) moving them a certain way.
I just tried and I seem to be capable of doing it with both hands, so I voted that.
But this poll made me think of something i'd never thought of before :
If you give the Vulcan hand salute, is there actually a 'correct' hand to do it with (like the way we usually shake right hands) , or doesn't left- or rightside matter ?
But this poll made me think of something i'd never thought of before :
If you give the Vulcan hand salute, is there actually a 'correct' hand to do it with (like the way we usually shake right hands) , or doesn't left- or rightside matter ?
I think generally it's just make sure the thumb is extended when you do it. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7yp12J9Fq1qcmlw4o1_500.jpg
I've seen it usually done with the right hand onscreen, but I don't think there's a rule against using your left hand, especially if you're left-handed.
I've seen it usually done with the right hand onscreen, but I don't think there's a rule against using your left hand, especially if you're left-handed.
With both hands.
Has anyone ever told you that nothing someone says before the word "but" means a damn? Or that putting "not to be rude" before something that is rude make it any less so?
What's so tough about is is I can't do it. My little finger moves over way, way more than my ring finger, and I can't make my little and ring fingers try to go in opposite directions so they touch.
Maybe I can't do the salute because I actually have more dexterity than you, my little finger can go over way further than yours?
Both hands work for me, although doing it with the left hand is a bit uncomfortable.
(no, not that, THIS)
(no, not that, THIS)
Sounds painful.
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