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Can Anyone Do This ??

89135 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:05:08 GMT

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Sooner — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:08:41 GMT

I can easily with my left hand...

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jubilant — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:16:38 GMT

Your right. My brain couldn't handle it ......hard as I tried!!!

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:21:57 GMT

I couldn't do it either @jubilant !

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SharkE — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:40:42 GMT

weird som kind of brain surgeon have to figure out

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kitcat51 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:52:07 GMT

Guess I'm the oddball, did it on the first try.

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jlkz — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:12:22 GMT

ok, I did it first try while sitting in the car...wrote #6 starting at midpoint and then around the circle and up.

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gizmogal — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:27:43 GMT

I'm not trying. Don't want to prove my brain is "normal" because I can't do this weird complicated thing without foot changing direction and then have to accept the same brain is not normal because I somehow don't take the clothes out of the dryer for 3 days and then suddenly hurry to do it!

Also, not sure my right foot is willing to turn clockwise just because I tell it to. Starting to think my foot is too far away from my brain.

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chickenbutt — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:31:58 GMT

That didn't work for me, as I was easily able to continue rotating foot while I drew a 6 in the air.

BUT, I wonder if that is because I'm left-handed? Then I tried it w/my right hand and no problem with that one either.

So, am I dumb or smart?

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SilleeMee — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:52:12 GMT

I cannot do it!! I tried and tried. Now I feel like a moron.

ETA-

Maybe that should come with a warning...

... 'Caution: can make you feel like a moron.'

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Venezia — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:52:25 GMT

I found this interesting. I found I could do it, if I raised my right hand in the air and out of my sight. But if I have my hand out in front of me, so I can see it "drawing" the 6, my foot automatically follows.

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AuntG — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:10:48 GMT

Neither my husband or I can do it. I have read that some pianists who are skilled at have their hands doing two completely different things can do it.

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Jo1313 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:17:27 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
I cannot do it!! I tried and tried. Now I feel like a moron.

ETA-
Maybe that should come with a warning...

... 'Caution: can make you feel like a moron.'

My right foot doesn't to anything correctly anymore.

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moonandthestars — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:35:20 GMT

@89135 haha! fun thing to try. The first time I tried it was an automatic change in direction! But I found if I really really concentrate and focus I can do it.

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Pook — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:02:41 GMT

I really thought I would be able to do it because I;m ambidextrous and can even write the same thing with both hands at the same time but with one hand writing forward and the other writing backward but just could not do it.

That would be a good bar bet!

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Queen of shop — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:43:39 GMT

@89135 I saw this test years ago. Couldn't do it then....and can't do it now.

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BlueFinch — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:09:18 GMT

That's funny. It does work if you draw the 6 from the bottom up because you'll be going clockwise, too.

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jubilant — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:45:27 GMT

OK...those of us who couldn't do it are not as coordinated as those who could....says so right here:

Article that explains it:

If you are one of those people who were able to do it without any problem, congrats. You have some kind of superhuman coordination.

That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. My teen and young adult children were somehow able to keep their foot going clockwise. One of them is a musician and one is left-handed, so maybe that's why? Drummers and ballet dancers in the comments said they didn't have any problem with it.

As it turns out, there is a scientific explanation for why it's pretty much impossible for most of us.

The Curious Crew folks at Michigan State University explain why it works:

"The cerebellum part of the brain manages body movements, like the circling of the foot or the drawing of the number 6. However, the nerve fibers from the right side of the body cross the brain stem and connect with the left side of the brain, just as the fibers on the left side of the body connect with the right side of the brain. When you try to draw the number 6 with your right hand, those signals are coming from the left side of the brain. Even though circling your foot is easy to do in either direction, you cannot rotate your foot in the opposite motion of the drawn six at the same moment. The left side of the brain cannot manage two opposite movements in the same moment, so the brain combines the movement to a similar motion. When you switch to the left foot, there is no problem because the right side of the brain controls your foot movement, while the left side can focus on drawing the number 6."

So there you have it. The old brain controlling the two

sides of your body thing.

SEE LADIE' S ...We are not dumb and I didn't find out anything I already hadn't known for years. Yes. I am a Klutz! Evidently there are a few of us here!!!!