What Do You Do To Improve Your Manual Dexterity?

BioHaz · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">As well as your hand-eye coordination?</div> I juggle cardboard tubes to keep me arms and hands limber... what do you guys do if anything!

<i>(MUWAHAHA, my turn to start a pointless thread! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> )</i>

Mr_Headcrab · March 2003

Well, I play computer games constantly, and play paintball too.

/me = bad at stories today

Delarosa · March 2003

with my love for techno, and females,
i have taken up raving to keep myself limber in the arms
massage classes to keep my fingers tough
American Sign Language to keep me coordinated
and...
intererior design, and cooking classes to keep my sex appeal up...

what kind of girl on earth doesn't want a man that can decorate, massage, and do almost everything she wants with his hands? (sorry if that sounds dirty)

TenSix · March 2003

*fap* *fap* *fap*

Oh...what was the question?

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>*fap* *fap* *fap*

Oh...what was the question?
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he beat me to the punch...
and spiked it, the exact same way I would have
props to you

Thanatos · March 2003

Do you have to tell the chicks about the "Design and cooking classes" or does it work like some sort of reversed aimbot??

Confused

HWGuy_in_a_Can · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BioHaz @ Mar 28 2003, 08:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I juggle cardboard tubes to keep me arms and hands limber... what do you guys do if anything!

<i>(MUWAHAHA, my turn to start a pointless thread! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> )</i>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Hmm. that doesn't sound like a bad idea. at least it's better than knives.

I don't know, I imitate reload animations from various FPSes with my airsoft pistols?

Vash · March 2003

Um...shuffle cards a lot? o_o

Sycophant · March 2003

I constantly find myself twirling a pen/pencil around in my fingers if I stop to think for a moment while writing something down. And it's damn fast too!!

Once I realize I'm doing it, my fingers basically turn to mush and I end up dropping the pen/pencil. If I don't watch it, I could probably be spinning it for hours without one mistake. For variety, I spin both ways, use both hands, flick it in the air, then catch it and keep going, and so on....

It's kind of freaky sometimes.... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Dunsby · March 2003

I play games by myself.

Thansal · March 2003

when ever I see SBVs posts I am just going to think
fap fap fap now (go read sexy loosers if you don't get it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>)

and as for me:

Raving (I don't go to raves I simply got bored in class and tought my self it)
Magic (shufling cards, slight of hand, and rolling quaters)
ussing a trackball when playing FPS <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

oh and the ultimate if any one realy wants to get dexterouse fingers try this:

take 3 quarters, stack them and hold em between thumb and forefinger (have your palm facing side ways and the quarters vertical)

now ussing only that same hand remove the center quarter tunr it around and place it back in the middle <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> (basicaly drop it so your ring and fore fingers hold it, turn it with your midle and roll it back up)

Yes, I can do this with great ease, its fun and something to do with your hands (OTHER THEN THAT!) when your bored

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Legionnaired · March 2003

I fence foil. My fingers on my right hand are really strong because of it, and my point control is so good I can type with my sword. Of course, the family usually laughs at me when I do it, so I don't do it much, but I'm capable of it!

Unfortunately, with all the flexig and exertion that my fingers do, I get a lot of lactic acid build up, so I need to crack my fingers every 1/2 an hour or so or else they feel stiff and start to ache. Unfortunately, I'll probably get arthritas around 35, but at least I can look tough whenever I want. Poeple who can crack their knucles look tough, but people who can crack their knuckles, and thier ankles look tougher <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>.

Milagre · March 2003

w00t Go fencing <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> I also fence foil but I'm not nearly that good.

babygirl · March 2003

Dance Dance Revolution. And lots of it.

Dunsby · March 2003

That dance thing... Its not hand eye co-ordination though, its foot eye co-ordination, but in a TINY way it is hand co-ordination..

P.S 1988th post... My birth year...

babygirl · March 2003

It increases your mental co-ordination, which benefits you in many, many ways. Just like drumming does.

Milagre · March 2003

I can't see the connection between DDR and NS at all... except to possibly increase your perception speed. Anyway, I havn't experienced any increase in onling gaming ability and I play DDR <b>lot</b>.

V_MAN · March 2003

Um I play Rugby that requires catching a ball while running and also trying to catch a ball that bounces in the most annoying way known to man because of it's shape, other than that boxing with a speed ball.

Mouse · March 2003

I do taekwon-do and I paint houses

Thansal · March 2003

mm, martial arts forgot about that
I have taken (for a few years though college is getting in the way now) Jeet Kune Do (JKD)

relsan · March 2003

Quake III Rocket Arena. That'll keep your hands and eyes quite nimble.

eediot · March 2003

Instructions to increase hand fitness and coordination and aiming:

1) insert jenna jameson, and play
2) put hand into Westside symbol [you know... \x/]
3) use two free fingers on that hand [i.e the \ and /, not the x] against the x to .. you know. this should be hard to do, as well as coordination to get a good rhythm
4) when youre ready to, stand a few feet back and let go!

ahem, im sorry for that

i thought it was funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

DDR is fun, and the oni stages increase your perception/attention to detail in seemingly trival times

CForrester · March 2003

<a href='http://www.stepmania.com' target='_blank'>StepMania</a> using a keyboard. It's fun. (No Babygirl, I didn't get a dance pad yet. The only one they had was one for Britney's Dance Beat and it is PINK. I will not touch a pink dance pad.)

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

Britneys dance beat
*shivers*

Slycaster · March 2003

DDR, definitely. Even though the game IS based around foot-eye coordination, it really helps your overall coordination and your rythym. It also encourages alot of tricky balance movements which helps with how steady you act.

Delarosa · March 2003

no, i don't include those things in my resume, but the little shine in the girls eyes when you say that you cook is priceless... and while attending a college with a 7:1 ratio, you get to see that gleam alot...

what's nice is how girls "melt" onto the floor for a massage after dinner... it's funny to see sometimes, mostly because they don't have enough room (it's a dorm anyway) and they hit things all over the place.

a tip for the lonely guys out there, learn massage, and advertise that you know how...you may not get play, but having a half naked woman on your living room floor won't hurt anything.

i pretend like i CAN play DDR, but i've got a few things in the way (mostly my legs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>) i'm 6 feet, and have only a little more foot coodination than my computer (i stand all day long, but once you start me moving, i'm damaged goods in three steps or less)

Dirty_Harry_Potter · March 2003

plays shooters, which i haven't done for a couple of months.
other than that /pick nose - 1 point for (s)he who finds the reference.

SpceM0nkey · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silent But Violent @ Mar 29 2003, 04:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> That dance thing... Its not hand eye co-ordination though, its foot eye co-ordination, but in a TINY way it is hand co-ordination..

P.S 1988th post... My birth year...  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
this guy never dances

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