How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

This is pissing me off. I cant do it no matter how hard I try, so I decided to challange my 17 year old son. He can do it without any concentration or problem. It's not fair!!!!

depends on how you draw a "6" if you start from the top or the inside.

That was so odd! I tried it and my foot started going up and down and then from side to side....But not in a cercal. It is realy easy if you start from the inside of the six because both are going clockwise and the other way, one is going clock wise and the other counterclockwise.

I also noticed that most of the lefties can do it much better than the people who are right handed..I havn't yet figured out why this is so. 😊

Try doing your own taxes without pulling out your hair. You can't do that either, but the foot trick is much more fun!

This only works if you make a number 6 incorrectly, starting your loop from the top down. Didn't we all learn in school, some to the point of abuse, that you start the number 6 in the center, not the top?

I wonder if this is easier for a musician? I play piano & have no problem doing it. I think I overcame this limitation when I learned to play 2-against-3. Anybody else?

I tried this and didn't succeed with first 4 tries, but when I tried it again starting in the middle of the six, it was a lot easier. So for all of you who succeeded by starting at the top of the six must be weird indeed.

WOW...."LOL" This is a new phenomonia for me today.

I had no problem doing this with either my rights or my lefts. The key for me was pretty simple - focus on your foot. My brain can draw the 6 without my attention, so as long as I kept my focus on my food going the right direction, it was easy 😊

WE TRIED IT & YOUR RIGHT; BUT IF YOU GO LEFT TURN WITH YOUR FOOT AND DO THE NO 6, IT CAN BE ALTERED!

TRY THE LEFT FOOT, ROTATING RIGHT, WITH A 6, AND IT GOES THE OTHER WAY ALSO!

An excellent exercise! Proving? That we're all unique beings; we're not all wired the same way.
Praise diversity, praise our Creator.

I can rub my uhead and pat my stomach. I can roll one hand forward and teh other backward, and now I can circle my right foot colckwise while drawing a 6 either way. But that left foot has a mind of its own.

I did it with my rigt foot/hand the 1st time so I thought maybe I was doing something wrong. I then tried with my left foot/hand and still did it but it took longer.

I did it the first time and can do it everytime. Hmmm. But I'm also ambidextrous. I write with either hand and can do that old parlor trick of a former president James Garfield of writing Greek backwards with one hand and Latin with the other.

So, why can't I drive a stick shift???? My husband will never stop teasing me about that.

It has come to my attention that Garfield did not write Greek backwards, but he did write it forwards...while cramming an entire pan of lasagna in his gullet. Thanks, Odie.

I can also draw a cartoon with both hands simultaneously. That keeps it from being a very long drawn-out process.

That still doesn't help me drive a stick shift. But that's ok, I think the engine has stopped punning already.

😊

First try I drew the six and did the clockwise foot movement. I started the six at the top. I can't believe people have so little control.
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My foot started to change direction once and stuttered on another attempt, but I "outsmarted" it by simply focusing and doing it...No tricks, not drawing rectanles first or staring at odd points in the six...My left hand/foot though, is problematic...Can't quite seem to make it work...

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It doesn't work for me. I can do it.
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I play the drums so it is normal practice for the right foot to be independant but even this did actually throw me the first time but I got it the second time.

I simply loved this one...do you have any more???
My staff and I did this at lunch time and we laughed so hard...we needed this..
Thanks,
Lucy

Did it no problem first time around. Then tried it again and can't get it since.

I didn't believe this could happen until I actually did it. It's almost as if the "6" motion of the hand, like, hypnotizes your foot into changing direction or something.

If youre doing the six backwards and the foot as per normal, as per Chris says (frist comment), isnt that defeating the purupose, does this have to do with being able to move your foot in one direction and your hand in another? ( re: two sides of the brain )
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I can do it no prob..no concentration required. It works on everybody else in my office though. Apparently I have some sort of disconnect between my feet and hands?! lol

can't do it with my right but though i am a lefty after 10 tries or so i figured it out..but what a teaser!

I tried it all different ways. My foot doesn't change directions. I tried turning the opposite way, swirling with my other hand, using my other foot and going to other way. I don't have any problems, my foot doesn't change direction. What am I doing wrong?

one, it would appera that like a lot of peopel here, you have a strong nueral connection between your right and left brain hemispheres; This is usually found in creative peopel capable of doing both analytical and emotioanl tasks well, because they can utilise both sides of their barain at once.

If you find this a problem ( as your use of the word 'wrong' seems tio indicate) then I sugeest you discuss it with a neurosurgeon and talk about a thinning ogf the Corpus Callosum, often done for epileptics; In plain terms, they run a scalpel down the centre chasm of the brain to amke sure the connections are cut like most normal people's brains.

Or you can see at as part of the variance among human beings and adapt to being different from the bulk of humanity.

....Damn you

no problems on me...

OMGOMGOMG!!!

I know its kind of hard to believe but I did it..
I got it from an email...My friends were around...We all tried..I got it..

Its pretty Easy ... I tried doing the same with my left hand and leg and it worked too..

your right

It won't happen to me but I have autism does that have anything to do with it?

it was not perfect when i did it for the first time ........but now ican do it perfectly with ease.... i tried it starting from top of six....i then tried with nine the same thing.....i also dont know whether there is some small imperfections or so

I do professional development for college students and I ask them to do something similar when they finish an activity early: twiddle their thumbs (ie, they're bored) in opposite directions. It's almost impossible, I believe for the same basic reason.