I think it's either the ring finger or pinky, but I haven't quite decided yet. Which would you miss the least?
thumb .....no thumbs up index finger ......no more pointing to things you want middle finger .....thats like losing your penis ring finger ....gotta have a place to put your wedding ring pinky .............unlish you are a tea drinker ................
For me, the only one I don't use very much is the pinky on my right hand. I use all other nine for playing my bass.
left pinky, no doubt. You use it more than you think, but if you've gotta lose one, this is the one to lose. In 7th grade, I broke that finger (mashed it up pretty badly) playing basketball -- no one thought it was broken, so I never got to a doctor to have it fixed. But for about four months, it would always hurt like a MOTHER whenever I touched it. I kind of learned how to work with my left hand by holding that finger away from the rest of them. Eventually it healed and now it's kind of deformed. I can't straighten it all the way or bend it entirely, but it doesn't effect anything. Sometimes it hurts when I press down with it, but that's so rare that it's a non-issue. I guess the moral of the story is that pinky fingers aren't all that important. It's easy to go about your daily life without it.
i'd say ring finger. the pinky brings much more balance than the wring finger for sports. i think it would be easier to shoot a basketball while missing the ring finger than if i were missing my pinky. also, if you were missing your pinky, you would absolutely need to always carry Q-Tips around because you couldn't clean your ear with your pinky.
hmmm, 3814 brings up a good point about shooting. it seems like the pinky probably would be more important. since i'm left-handed i guess if i had to lose a finger on my left hand it would be the ring finger. on the right hand, it would be the pinky. overall i guess i'd have to go with pinky.
Ring finger wins in a landslide. Unless you're married and your wife will knock you out if you don't wear your wedding ring.
I remember reading an article in a guitar magazine during the early 90s that had Sammy Hagar, while sitting at a table in an outdoor cafe in LA, interviewing Eddie Van Halen. Inexplicably, Al Franken walked by the table, among the dozens of other passer-by. Off the top of my head, the Q and A went like this: Hagar: Is that Al Franken? Van Halen: Who? H: Hey, Al Franken! Franken: Yeah? H: Do you have a question you'd like to ask Eddie Van Halen? F (without missing a beat): If you had to have one finger cut off, which would it be? EVH: The pinky on my right hand. F: Great, see ya guys later ...
Here's one use for the index and ring fingers Finger length 'key to aggression' The length of a man's fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, Canadian scientists have said. The shorter the index finger is compared to the ring finger, the more boisterous he will be, University of Alberta researchers said. One study found boys with shorter ring fingers tended to be at greatest risk of a heart attack in early adulthood, which was linked to testosterone levels. In the current study, Dr Peter Hurd and his student Allison Bailey measured the fingers of 300 undergraduates at their university. Men with the shortest index fingers scored higher on measures of physical aggression than those with longer index fingers, but the study's findings did not apply to women. Dr Hurd is now looking at male hockey players to see whether there is any correlation between finger lengths and each player's penalty record for contact and fouling during matches. He has also been looking at whether men with more feminine finger lengths might be more prone to depression. He said: "Finger length can tell you a little bit about where personality comes from. "A large part of our personalities and our traits are determined while we are still in the womb." But he said finger length should not be used to draw too many conclusions about an individual person. "For example, you wouldn't want to screen people for certain jobs based on their finger lengths." Professor John Manning from the University of Central Lancashire's department of psychology, who first realised that sex hormone exposure in the womb influences finger length, agreed. He said certain individual characteristics correlate better with finger length than others. "For example, if you had a group of runners and they were about to start a race I could predict reasonably well who was going to win based on their finger length. "But I would not be able to predict whether someone was neurotic or not." He said Dr Hurd's findings were logical based on what we know about finger length, testosterone exposure and aggression, but said more research was needed to confirm the findings. He said another recent study had found women exposed to higher levels of testosterone in the womb, and hence a more 'male' pattern of finger length, displayed more frustrated behaviour when answering challenging telephone calls than other women. ------ Also, if Djengo Rheinheart could lose his pinky and still do stuff than boggles fully fingered expert players, that's all the proof I need.
Well, the pinky is certainly the best one for digging in your ear. The others are just a little to big for that. It also has optimal girth for picking your nose, but I find that I don't have as much control with the pinky as a I do with the pointer. Now, the ring finger is the best for pulling the sleep goop out of your eye. Use the middle finger to hold the lower eye-lid down and ring finger to scoop that semi-crusty jam outa there. Of course, you need all four fingers (preferable with a little 1/8 inch fingernail) to get some really good butt scratching, but interestingly enough, the thumb is not used for this. hmmm... tough choice -- droxford
