I just noticed this!

[krait]

I've seen this cool hand reference floating around Tumblr before:




But tonight's the first time I thought "wow, that diagram showing where the thumb lines up to the other fingers looks kind of weird; does it really look like that?"

Quick comparison to my own hands says: nope! When rested on a flat surface, the tip of my thumb is waaaay above the palm/finger knuckle joints! It's pretty close to being even with the first finger hinge joint of my pointer finger. o.O

Either this guide was drawn by someone with weird hands, or I have weird hands, or (possibly) this is one of those subtly gendered proportion things.

How do YOUR hands line up?

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[edenfalling]

My thumbs come to about halfway between where my index finger joins my palm and the first finger-joint on my index finger.

Also, I literally cannot get either of my hands into the position shown in that comparative finger length diagram. My thumb won't do it unless I contort my palm such that my thumb is no longer resting flat against the surface in question and there is a noticeable bulge and line where it's jammed uncomfortably tight up against my palm to get the tip that close to my index finger... and even then, it's tilted half onto its side instead of having the nail facing straight upward.

In summary, hands are weird and everybody's are weird in different ways. :-)