How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

[Doyle Hargraves]

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

And there's nothing you can do about it.

[Usurper83]

I love this trick.

I read about it a good couple of years back, and I tried my damnedest to do it correctly. I jumped on the bandwagon, and started spreading it around the joint I lived at in school.

The hilarity increases the drunker people are. They swear they got it right, and are all like, "SEE I TOLD YOU!!!!!!!" and then you simply point out that their foot is going in the exact opposite direction that they had started. Fun shit.

[Miss X]

That's scary. I can't work out if my mind is making me do it because I read this, or it really is true!

[HarmNone]

You can do it without a problem if you start at the bottom where the curve of the end of the circling curve meets the downward line. ;)

Heh. You can also do it if you slow the movement of your foot and your finger and focus your concentration on your foot.

[CrystalTears]

How slow are you making that six, you cheater? :D

The point is to be able to move your foot in one direction and be able to turn your finger in another. You're being a cheating cheater of the exercise if you move in the same direction. Dur.

[Asha]

My foot doesn't change direction :(

[HarmNone]

Hee! I usually make sixes by starting at the bottom curve and working up, so it wasn't a problem for me. However, I knew the mechanism that would cause the problem. Once I slowed it down and kept my concentration on my foot, I could do it the other way, as well. :D

[Bobmuhthol]

<<My foot doesn't change direction>>

Then you really suck at either moving your foot or moving your finger.

[fallenSaint]

I don't have a right foot and I find this post horridly offensive!

[Doyle Hargraves]

Use your left foot and draw a lowercase "d" then ;)

[Gan]

This sesame street broadcast brought to you today by the letter d and the number 6.

[Latrinsorm]

Are we making the circle with the ankle or with the knee? I'm not having any trouble making 6s and clockwise foot-circles either way.

Me and NM, we're the cool kids. \m/

[fallenSaint]

Are we making the circle with the ankle or with the knee? I'm not having any trouble making 6s and clockwise foot-circles either way.

Me and NM, we're the cool kids. \m/

By cool kids do you mean your both ALIENS?!

[Skeeter]

perhaps you're having trouble with clockwise.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Are we making the circle with the ankle or with the knee? I'm not having any trouble making 6s and clockwise foot-circles either way.

Me and NM, we're the cool kids. \m/

Yeah I'mnot having too big of an issue with it either. I have to start out slow but I can get it going faster, just have to concentrate.

[Bobmuhthol]

Yeah, I'm afraid you really are doing it wrong if you're able to stay clockwise.

[Latrinsorm]

I'm afraid of roarosaurases.

[ElanthianSiren]

I'm afraid of roarosaurases.

RHAR!

My foot doesn't change direction either, and I draw my sixes from the top down, thnx.

-M

[mgoddess]

My hubby was able to keep his foot going clockwise while drawing 6's in the air, from the top down.

Wonder if it's different for left-handers? (Right-handers with the "6", left-handers with the "d"?)

[Stanley Burrell]

I can only do it if I look at my foot and not at the six. I did four in a row, but then my corpus collosum started switching psychomotor hemispheres again.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

My hubby was able to keep his foot going clockwise while drawing 6's in the air, from the top down.

Wonder if it's different for left-handers? (Right-handers with the "6", left-handers with the "d"?)

Heh I used my left hand to draw the 6.

I tried the d and it didn't work. At all. No matter how much I tried!

[ElanthianSiren]

What do ambidextrous people use then?

-M

[HarmNone]

What do ambidextrous people use then?

-M

Both feet and both hands? :D