I gotta say, surprised everyone is attributing the “snap” sound to hitting the pad of your thumb.
All y’all veteran snappers, try this. Lift up your pinky, then snap. Makes a much higher pitched snap. Now lift up your ring finger, then snap. No snap at all. Your pinky and ring finger make a sort of tube, and your thumb is striking one end of it (the crevice between thumb pad and ring finger tip) to make a tone. I’m even able to smack that spot with a finger on the OTHER hand and make a (quieter) snap.
Update: my hand hurts now, but in fact it is possible to lay down a pinky, then snap three times successively with ring, middle, then index, which makes three different snaps (descending in pitch).
Directions unclear, I tried snapping with my pinky (instead of with my middle finger) for far too long before I realized you meant “snap like normal except put your pinky up.”
My pet peeve is when people post this for things that are not even close to common knowledge, like this. You are not lucky 10000. More like lucky, 10 or something
I gotta say, surprised everyone is attributing the “snap” sound to hitting the pad of your thumb.
All y’all veteran snappers, try this. Lift up your pinky, then snap. Makes a much higher pitched snap. Now lift up your ring finger, then snap. No snap at all. Your pinky and ring finger make a sort of tube, and your thumb is striking one end of it (the crevice between thumb pad and ring finger tip) to make a tone. I’m even able to smack that spot with a finger on the OTHER hand and make a (quieter) snap.
Hope this helps.
Update: my hand hurts now, but in fact it is possible to lay down a pinky, then snap three times successively with ring, middle, then index, which makes three different snaps (descending in pitch).
Directions unclear, I tried snapping with my pinky (instead of with my middle finger) for far too long before I realized you meant “snap like normal except put your pinky up.”
holy shit i learned a new thing im the guy from the xkcd comic
My pet peeve is when people post this for things that are not even close to common knowledge, like this. You are not lucky 10000. More like lucky, 10 or something
Cool! What part did you learn??
Not op but I learned that the snap is loud because your closed pinky and ring fingers form your hand into a resonator.