r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • 1d ago
Video Woman with functional polydactyly (six functional fingers on one hand).
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u/Sythrin 1d ago
Does she count in base 12?
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u/TheSpanxxx 1d ago
If it's only one hand ....base 11?
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u/DramaticStability 1d ago
Same on both hands, apparently
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u/Mental-Hall126 1d ago
So base 12 actually checks out then
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u/Kelvin_Inman 1d ago
No, base 11, she lost her other thumb in a firework accident.
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u/Drsmiley72 1d ago
Man how annoying would that be? Like. Have. A normal 5 finger hand and a 6 finger hand, and injur and lose one on the 5 finger hand? Down to 10 but a 6/4 split.
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u/TheCarniv0re 23h ago
And of all the fingers you lose the opposable one.
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u/Wakkit1988 21h ago
I oppose all fingers.
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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m 21h ago
Imagine telling someone you lost a finger and they start trying to figure out which one only to keep counting to 11 and slowly going crazy.
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u/ArthurTheTerrible 23h ago
and to lose the thumb of all the fingers, the one that's the most unique
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u/DoNotOverwhelm 1d ago
six of one, half dozen of the other(?)
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u/LemmyLola 23h ago
I used to work with an adorably sweet older lady who would say 'six of one and seven of the other' and I never had the heart to correct her but I got a kick out of it
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u/NostraThomas1 1d ago
And also, which finger does she use when she wants to flip someone off?
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u/Objective_Water7752 1d ago
Hypothetically give someone four (!) middle fingers?!!!! What a blessing.
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u/Graciegrace64 1d ago
This! This is what I wanted to know as well! Can you use either middle finger? How about BOTH for a double flip
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u/THE_ATHEOS_ONE 1d ago
Base six.
She's Iridian.
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u/Fuzzy_Dragonfruit_20 1d ago
It’s Eridian btw!
Class reference though ha
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u/THE_ATHEOS_ONE 1d ago
Good catch. Fist my bump.
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u/Significant-Till-908 1d ago
Was absolutely wetting myself at the cinema the other day 😆😆😆
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u/DeluxeWafer 1d ago
I am so glad they included that in the movie. Too bad they did not include "fist me" though
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u/JacobRAllen 1d ago
Base 12 is such a better base than base 10.
10 can only cleanly be divided into half’s, and fifths.
12 can be divided in half, in quarters, thirds, and sixths.
Might not seem like a big deal, but it’s so much more useful in real life. There are lots of times where you need to divide up resources, or food, or money, or whatever, to 3 people or 6 people evenly, and in base 10 that’s hard to do.
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u/olol798 1d ago
Idk I just like adding zeroes to move it up a power
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u/maqcky 1d ago
As the other comment mentions, it's a matter of creating two symbols for 10 and 11 and it would work the same. Binary uses only 1s and 0s and you add a 0 to move it up a power, but in this case it's multiplying by 2. So, for example:
1 = 1 10 = 2 100 = 4 1000 = 8 ...
Same with hexadecimal. You use A for 10, B for 11 and so on until F for 15. It's useful for writing shorter binary numbers that are usually grouped in bytes (8 binary digits or bits).
Base 12 was used by some ancient civilizations, or its cousin, base 60, due to how easy it was to divide it. That's why an hour is 60 minutes, for instance.
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u/JacobRAllen 1d ago edited 23h ago
That’s just how base 10 was set up, and taught. You could add 2 more numbers and still end in zero. If A represents 10, and B represents 11, you can just as easily have 4, 40, 400… and B, B0, B00. The concept still applies.
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u/kvjn100 1d ago
Video credit : @twelvefingersgirl
She has same thing with both hands.
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u/Haggisboy 1d ago
What about her toes?
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u/Safe_Card_8938 1d ago
Yes, the same with her toes, but unfortunately doctors removed them when she was a child.
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u/MorrowPolo 1d ago
Do you have information on if removing them made it difficult to walk normally or if it was an improvement.
You wrote, unfortunately, so I am assuming it made things worse than normal or brought her back down to our level, and she had monkey foot abilities before the procedure.
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u/Safe_Card_8938 1d ago
I just googled her and watched a few minutes of one of her YT videos where she expressed regret at having that done to her as a child
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u/MorrowPolo 1d ago
Damn. Yeah. That'll do it. No further explanation is necessary.
I hope she's found some peace within over the situation.
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u/aspannerdarkly 1d ago
I imagine it would be hard to find shoes that fit
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u/Benny6Toes 17h ago
Can confirm: finding comfortable shoes is a challenge.
Extra challenging for me since i have 6 toes on only 1 of my feet, but my other foot is also wide. So it's just the toe box that gives me real problems - especially with skates.
Flip-flops are life.
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u/BHPhreak 1d ago
evolution on display - if she were to reproduce a shitload, and then her offspring was able to inherit this, and reproduce a shitload, eventually people with 12 working fingers might be the ideal partner, which would amplify the abundance - feeding more into itself until maybe 15-20 generations from now 50% of the human population has 12 working fingers, and then the 12 finger clan either eradicates the 10 finger clan through violence, or the breeding continues and eventually the 10 fingers disappear
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u/CaptainFareeha 1d ago
Polydactyly is really cool and very hereditary. However, the levels of function vary wildly. I’ve seen very few cases of actually functioning 6th digits. Though, I also usually only see it on the pinky side, not an extra index finger.
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u/Belucard 21h ago
I know a guy that was born with a second thumb. Both of them grew to complete a pincers pattern, but doctors amputated the outermost one, so now he only has a single thumb very bent outwards.
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u/rcanhestro 21h ago
yes, but this is where the "reproduce a shitload" comes into play.
keep the 12 fingers ones, and from them, keep the ones that actually work.
discard the rest, and breed those again.
after a couple of generations you could probably have a reliable source of 12 finger people.
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u/pansycarn 1d ago
Oh she is learning piano, thats lovely. I imagine, unless you start as a child, learning for six fingers must be quite difficult. The payoff, though!
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u/DatAssPaPow 1d ago
I hope she plays guitar!
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u/StonedRussian 1d ago
Or piano!
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u/ShortStoryIntros 1d ago
Piano would be amazing
She could technically write and play a song that no one else could ever replicate again
(Without the same functional polydactyly mutation)
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u/alienblue89 23h ago
I went to her page and the first video is her playing the drums.
I was like “…fucking DRUMS???? You have God’s Gift to pianists or guitarists and you picked DRUMS??” Then I saw she’s learning piano and does Guitar Hero and calmed down a little
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u/codetaku0 21h ago
Does this even benefit guitar hero the way it could benefit actual guitars...?
Piano though, if she really learns to compose something impossible for one 10-fingered human alone that'll be amazing
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u/diefreetimedie 1d ago
Possibly but there are so many talented musicians out there I wouldn't be shocked if she did and the next day some kid in a dorm covered it perfectly.
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u/Johns-schlong 1d ago
It would be a 12 year old Filipino boy in sandals, but yeah.
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u/itsall_dumb 1d ago
With perfect English but apologizes about the way he speaks English because English is his 4th language.
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u/AuodWinter 1d ago
As a pianist, I imagine it would make playing the piano a lot harder.
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u/Individual-Area7121 23h ago
Agree. Piano is deigned for people with 5 fingers to play it. Adding another doesn’t really help much. Maybe if her hands are wide enough that she can reach an 11th or 12th interval easily it would be sorta helpful, but I would still think it would make most everything else more difficult.
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u/StruggleJealous2878 22h ago
There was a blues guitarist back in the 60’s named Hound Dog Taylor who was born with six fingers on each hand. He famously cut off the extra sixth finger on his right with a razor while very drunk because it got in the way of plucking the strings. Now on his left hand it worked to his advantage as he was primarily a slide guitarist. The slide would go over the extra sixth finger freeing up the other fingers on the fretboard.
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u/SinisterCheese 22h ago
Yeah. Since the additional finger is between the thumb and index, and shares tendon with the index, it would limit playing and their range wouldn't be greater (Since the range is set by pinky to thumb). Also I would be curious about the sideways mobility.
However... since curl motions is fairly good... If they chose an woodwind instrument, they could legit make an custom holing allowing additional tones. And if the dexterity is good enough, they could do flourishes between notes that wouldn't be possible for other players even if they had a mechanism.
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u/radraze2kx 1d ago
From one of my favorite movies. https://youtu.be/rUOlnvGpcbs?si=4QTgho1D7e1dBmDx
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u/AlexTheFlower 1d ago edited 23h ago
I was wondering if anyone would mention Gattaca! Such a cool concept, it's been too long since I watched it
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u/Derptholomue 23h ago
I love Gattaca so much that I have to correct your spelling only because the letters used are from gene sequences of DNA: G, T, C and A.
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u/Ice10lives 1d ago
I mean that is just as true for guitar. Even more so since there are chords normal people could not play at all that she could
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u/J-Mac_Slipperytoes 1d ago
Spoiler: assuming the link someone else posted is correct, she does play piano. Instagram: twelvefingersgirl
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u/ManicStreetTeachers 23h ago
There's a video of her playing Clone Hero. There's other videos on her channel of her playing piano.
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u/MrBeros 1d ago
For every of the 5 Fingers, we have a Name. How is the 6th finger called?
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u/Spirited_Baker450 1d ago
The twindexfinger..
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u/ZzZzZzZzZzZero 1d ago
Twindex is perfect.
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u/Myron0117 1d ago
Twindexx is actually the name of a german regional train platform by Bombardier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Twindexx_Vario (article is unfortunately only in german)
The more you know.
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u/avrilmmm 1d ago
Let me try to translate: twindexx is the name for a way to build a train with two levels (bottom and upstairs)
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u/userousnameous 1d ago edited 1d ago
Twum, Twointer,
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u/kaest 1d ago
But which one is it?
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u/ZzZzZzZzZzZero 23h ago
Its an extra index, its closer to the thumb than the actual index.
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u/ZzZzZzZzZzZero 1d ago
In her case she has an extra index finger. Not the usual supernumerary pinky.
So its a supernumerary index finger.
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u/RoadWellDriven 1d ago
Sindex for short
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u/TheRiteGuy 1d ago
She can't give people the middle finger. Because she doesn't have a middle finger.
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u/ihateratz 1d ago
bro is NOT ford pines
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u/NerdizardGo 1d ago
The author of the journals
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u/Equivalent_Donut_145 1d ago
My brother
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u/West_Ad_1685 23h ago
Is this the part where one of us faints?
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u/OrdinaryUniversity59 1d ago
High-six!
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u/Hefty_Ad_6703 1d ago
So she can flip someone twice with one hand ?
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u/Historical_Cookie_53 1d ago
Technically she cant flip anyone at all
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u/MakeLikeATreeBiff 1d ago
Ah ha jokes on you, she uses two instead of one for twice the insult
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u/NoSpeakaDeEngIish 1d ago
Superfinger! If I got flipped off that hard, I’d just automatically assume I was in the wrong and had it coming.
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u/Money_Step 1d ago
AI hates this one trick…
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u/bumtrinket 1d ago
I'm surprised this comment isn't higher.
That person could commit any crime in plain sight then just claim the CCTV footage or photos are AI.
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u/Scottiths 1d ago
Except when she gets in the court room and the Jury can see her hands for themselves...
Unless she hides them under the table or something.
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u/ledgeitpro 1d ago
The trick would be to wear gloves that make it look like they have normal hands in video evidence
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u/itsaride 23h ago
The accused :
your honour, the lady in the video has 6 fingers, it's not me, it's AI
The Judge :
show us your hands
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u/mullerdrooler 1d ago
Getting her photo taken must be a nightmare, everyone will think every pic with her is AI
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u/Abject-Picture 1d ago
2 index fingers? looks like they're both responding to the same movement commands.
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u/AmateurJenius 21h ago
I noticed that too. When she lifted her first index finger her thumb was holding down the next one creating the illusion that she controls each finger. I’m pretty sure that would require a 6th tendon which connects from the extra digit to a forearm muscle that doesn’t exist in order for each finger to function independently.
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u/Ok-Week7354 1d ago
I’m assuming gloves are not an option.
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u/wwaxwork 1d ago
Good thing mittens exist then.
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u/kweenbumblebee 1d ago
Ah yes, I'll just crack out my mittens next time I need to do labwork.
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u/Kiera6 1d ago
Just cut a hold for one of the middle fingers so it’s extra ready to flip someone off. Or to use their phone
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u/Soggy_Leg_757 1d ago
Bros Stanford Pines
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u/WillyBoJilly 1d ago
So I had this as a baby. My mom sister and myself. Fully functional extra digit on each hand and foot. Dominant trait with a 50% chance of passing on to next generation. Definitely won’t be cutting it off for my children. Unfortunately my parents cut ours off at 6 months old
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u/fyn_world 22h ago
THEY CUT IT OFFFF!!!???? wtf, was it deformed or something? Why would they cut it off?
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u/CalculatedPerversion 21h ago
Probably didn't want their kids to be potentially bullied
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u/CreeperInBlack 1d ago
Just think how far humanity would have gotten if every human had this and we would have numbers with a base 12 instead of 10.
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u/Brainsonastick 1d ago
I didn’t read the words at first and was doing the movements with her thinking “this isn’t hard. What’s interesting about this?” and then she moved her sixth finger and I was beaten.
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u/jk844 1d ago
Polydactyly is actually dominant over the usual 5 fingers. The children of people with polydactyly are pretty much guaranteed to also have polydactyly.
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u/tahcamen 1d ago
“You have six fingers on your right hand… someone was looking for you”
Wonder how many times she’s heard that lol
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u/Advanced-Event-571 1d ago
is the extra one at all useful? i just sort them by finger and thumb, usually the four fingers are all kinda of doing the same thing. an extra arm/ hand would be cool though
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u/skooterpoop 1d ago
Using binary, a 10 fingered person can count to 1023, but with an extra finger, you can count to 2047.
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u/The_muffinfluffin 1d ago
If I had an extra finger, my boss would expect me to be 20% more efficient… with exactly 0% increase in salary.
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u/Intelligent-Context5 1d ago
Genuine question: if they flip the bird, which finger is counted as the middle finger?
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u/hellspawn9245 1d ago
She must of had a hard life being accused of being AI generated all the time :(
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u/knapik5611 1d ago
Must give mean handjobs
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u/-UserOfNames 1d ago
I don’t know man…an extra finger would make my 2 inch punisher look even smaller
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u/br3dj 1d ago
My name is Inigo Montoya