I can probably bend someone else's fingers back more than 90°, even if they don't want me to. I know I can also bend some of their limbs further back than they normally go. Such is the fun of submission grappling.
My result +/- 10 degrees - I didn't have a protractor handy... That's forcing them back with my other hand. Autonomously, it's more like 30 +/- 10 degrees.
Weirdly it doesn't seem to have registered my answer to the second question in the graph but it has on the view answers...
There is a difference between 'individually' and 'all four together' for me too. Individually it is pretty much 90 degrees but it is slightly less for all together.
Wow, thanks for that link - I'm interested to read of a possible association with cfs, and with SPD etc in pregnancy (which was so bad for me I ended up in a wheelchair.) I've always felt something of an anomaly, because although I meet the criteria for hypermobility syndrome (with various of my joints being 'party pieces' through school/university) other parts of me are abnormally inflexible.
happy to demonstrate for the disbelieving. I used to be able to touch the back of my left hand with my left little fingertip (forcing with other hand, obviously), although I seem to be a few degrees less flexible than that now and the primary joint itself only goes back to 130/140 degrees or so.
Unforced, said left little finger goes back to perhaps 60 or 70 degrees.
Do you mean by pulling them with your other hand, or just by trying to move them backwards? This changes my answer (and I bet everyone elses) by a good 60 degrees.
That's an estimate, as it's hard to measure an angle a) without a protractor and b) while you're bending your finger back using the other hand and hence don't have any spare hands.
I left the second question blank, since I don't think any of those angles are freakish. A bit unusual maybe.
My middle knuckles naturally bend back about 15-30 degrees, which is weirder :)
85-95 degrees, depending on finger. I know lots of people with hypermobility, so I don't think it's that freakish. Now having your finger grow out of your forehead however...
45-ish degrees for my left hand; maybe as much as 20 degrees for the right. Except for the little finger, which happily goes to 70-odd on both hands. And lets not start on my thumbs.
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Date: 2010-08-13 08:30 am (UTC)There is a difference between 'individually' and 'all four together' for me too. Individually it is pretty much 90 degrees but it is slightly less for all together.
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Date: 2010-08-13 08:47 am (UTC)130' for the finger tip
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:17 pm (UTC)Unforced, said left little finger goes back to perhaps 60 or 70 degrees.
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Date: 2010-08-13 10:59 am (UTC)I left the second question blank, since I don't think any of those angles are freakish. A bit unusual maybe.
My middle knuckles naturally bend back about 15-30 degrees, which is weirder :)
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Date: 2010-08-13 11:00 am (UTC)Edit: hmm I think I need to go up my original answer from 50 to around 80. I now have achy fingers :)
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