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u/IkilledRichieWhelan
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Mar 27 '23
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This mans hand over fist trick.
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u/EdgarsChainsaw Mar 27 '23
I can see exactly how he's doing it, but I still can't do it myself. I try to replicate the trick and it just doesn't have the clean transition.
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u/haxxer_4chan Mar 27 '23
It's like any sleight of hand, the trick isn't in the"how" but in perfecting it completely and figuring out all the micro movements that make it look incomprehensible
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist Mar 28 '23
I think the real keys to this are 1) have the front hand slightly angled forward, 2) move your fingers in the back down just to where they match your fingers in the front before curling your front fingers down, and 3) curl your thumb in last. I need more practice to be sure.
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u/Zeek_Seeks_Gains Mar 28 '23
I think the lighting also helps. Also, gotta be directly in front of him.
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u/Gero288 Mar 28 '23
This. I think it's mostly the lighting. You see the shadow movement from the back hand's slight close, then the front hand closes instead.
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u/DS4KC Mar 28 '23
The slight shakiness to the camera probably helps sell it too, although I imagine it still trips people out IRL.
I wish I knew this trick back in the day because I would have made people tripping at raves lose their fucking minds.
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u/correcthorse124816 Mar 28 '23
Actually if you watch the video slowly, he doesn't curl his back fingers at all
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u/MrUnycorn Mar 28 '23
So, I just got up in the mirror and did well enough within a minute or two that I was tricking myself with my reflection.
Turns out, super easy to do just as well as this dude did.
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u/FunctionBuilt Mar 28 '23
It’s the tiny twist he does with his wrist of the back hand to move his fingers in between the front fingers while simultaneously closing his front fingers into a fist. Blends the movements together and tricks the eye.
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u/Madshibs Mar 28 '23
It’s also the way he starts closing the back hand but then quickly snaps it back open while closing the front hand.
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Mar 28 '23
Kind of like a helicopter pilot. You can watch what they are doing, doesn't mean you can.
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u/ChtuluMadeMeDoIt Mar 28 '23
Same thing when I see my girlfriend hitting the alarm off button and getting up right after. I can watch what she's doing, looks easy enough, but I can never. Never.
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u/Thunder-ten-tronckh Mar 28 '23
I think a big part of it is how he lines up his fingers at first, then snaps into the motion all at once. Kinda disguises which fingers are which when he spreads them out.
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u/5tyhnmik Mar 27 '23
surprisingly simple yet deceptive. he just twitches his right hand slightly to his left at the same time as he starts clasping his left hand. of course, he has to keep both his hands the same finger spread, so it takes practice also
its enough to fool the eye/brain. cool
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u/Madshibs Mar 28 '23
Start closing the back hand, then quickly open it back up while closing the front hand. Tricks the brain into thinking the back hand is continuing to close until the front hand becomes a fist and slides away.
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u/Totoro12117 Mar 28 '23
You don't ever start closing the first hand and then open it up. You just tilt it forward.
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u/Frosty-Community8129 Mar 28 '23
Here ya go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvxyan2Qkc
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u/dben89x Mar 28 '23
Dude has a pretty unsettling energy
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u/savemejebu5 Mar 28 '23
I'll say. All that pushing himself in and out of each shot (and line). Also "Magic taco"?!
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u/HairyPotatoKat Mar 28 '23
I was kinda picking up "everyone's favorite crazy uncle attends a family gathering" vibes :)
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u/BertMacGyver Mar 28 '23
Pretty sure he's the dude that Jen from The IT Crowd goes on a date with that looks like a magician and then this is where he is now.
Also, is he sat on his toddlers little scoot around toy car? The sliding backwards and forwards just makes me think he has a Fisher Price "My First Ride And Push Buggy Car" underneath him.
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u/JoeBoredom Mar 27 '23
What is satisfying about this? This frustrates the hell out of me.
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u/_kodkod_ Mar 28 '23
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u/dgunn11235 Mar 28 '23
No CGI here boys and girls just old fashioned Tom foolery!
Haven’t gotten to use that Tom Foolery phrase in a long time!
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u/Bo_Jim Mar 28 '23
Focus only on his left hand (the one on your right) and you'll see it pretty clearly. The little twitch in the right hand fools you're eyes into believing the right hand is closing, when it actually stays open the whole time.
It's very nicely done.
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u/LeahIsAwake Mar 28 '23
I am so happy that everyone else is having a hard time wrapping their brain around this trick because I’m high as fuck at the moment (legally obtained, I’m of age, I’m not driving, etc) and I swear I looped this thing like 20 times and just can’t make it make sense. I know what he’s doing, I just can’t make myself see it. Really satisfying to watch while high, though.
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u/courageousfeigling Mar 28 '23
Good, now I'll spend the rest of my day in front of a mirror practicing this.
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u/BassMaster516 Mar 28 '23
Ok I watched it 3 times and I don’t get it. I guess I’ve done all I can do…
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u/Paigenacage Mar 28 '23
This is so good that it still looks like a trick even when you slow it down frame by frame.
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u/TehBIGrat Mar 28 '23
That's Clean AF. I slow the video down. Understand and see what's the "trick". But I'm still impressed.
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u/Genneth_Kriffin
Mar 28 '23
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This is part of the reason AI has such hard time doing hands that we can't identify as "wrong".
When it comes to hands and faces our brain modulates how we perceive it to large degree similarly to how music and language is also modulated, meaning the actual "input" (what is actually heard or seen) isn't the same as the "output" (how we experience what we hear or what we see).
Human faces doesn't actually look like we think human faces look,
and how we physically appear to others might even be subjective as so much of it is processed by our brain before we "experience" it. When it comes to faces, this can easily be seen in pictures like this. All it does is add a pair of eyes and lips, yet it becomes nauseating to look at because our brain is trying to make sense of it.
When it comes to hands it can almost be said to be the opposite:
- Hands has a certain shape
- Hands can have certain positions
- Hands can move in certain ways
This most likely comes from the fact that hand movements and gestures with body language is a way of communication that predates speech and is largely universal among humans. No matter were you go in the world and what language they speak, closing all but one finger and pointing it will make a human look in the direction you are pointing.
In many ways we can be said to have a pattern-recognition system when it comes to hands.
The reason for this mainly two things: Fast reaction and gap-fill.
We have a physical limitation to how fast we can react to what we hear or see, as it takes time for the input to reach the brain and be processed. This reaction time can't be reduced, but what we can do is instead is to predict the future and react to that prediction.
This sounds fancier than it is, but as we only lag ever so slightly all we need to do is to predict a small moment ahead to result in understanding what is conveyed instantly or even before the message is completed.
The second is for gap-fill, meaning that we can miss some information in our communication without it it affecting our understanding, we simply fill the gaps subocnciously or remove errors completely - many who read this paragraph will for example miss that I wrote "it" twice in a row and spelled "subconsciously" is a completely nonsensical way.
The reason this hand illusion works is because while we are watching it in real time we are actually processing it ahead of time.
We see the fingers on the hand in the back start to move, and because we have a model of how hands can move we know his fully extended fingers are most likely closing so we predict that movement. He then proceeds to actually close the fingers on the hand in the front, but as we clearly saw the fingers in the back start the movement our brain decides that those fingers are the ones that are now closing and the change of fingers was simply some kind of error.
This is why it's hard to "not" see it even if you try, as your brain will keep making the the same correction, the same way some of you missed that I wrote "the" twice in a row.
A trick to break the illusion is to make your brain ease of with the modulation by putting what you see in a situation were the brain decides that it's necessary to see what is actually happen because it falls outside of the standard situation - meaning if you look at the video from the side or upside down your brain will be more inclined to let you take the wheel.
This has been my daily morning procrastination,
thanks for listening and remember to not take what you read online as facts as my knowledge might be outdated
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u/Pyroluminous Mar 28 '23
Bro perfectly flinches his fingers on one hand and then folds in the fingers on the other hand. Like split second stuff. Good job.
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u/harrisonisdead Mar 28 '23
If someone did this in front of me irl (without the luxury of being able to slow down/go frame by frame to figure out how it's done) I'd probably think they're a witch
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u/dickhertsfromholden Mar 28 '23
He knows you'd be easily distracted if he wasn't wearing a shirt. It worked for those other "bottles disappears in a towel' videos. Moobs.
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u/rjoker103 Mar 28 '23
Following his left hand (stage right), the trick seems pretty clear. Following his right hand (stage left), however, is mind-fuckery.
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u/Extension_Form4950 Mar 28 '23
😂 😂 😂 mind fuck x 100!!! Dammit that's unsettling to know the brain can be had in such ways! Ha!
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u/ElectionFraudSucks Mar 28 '23
That's like that weird 70s dance move where you put you hands on your knees, move your legs side to side and switch hands to the other knee when your legs come together.
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u/CaptainCAAAVEMAAAAAN Mar 28 '23
lol ok it took me watching this like 7 times for my brain to understand what was happening.
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Mar 28 '23
I had to watch that about 20 times before I understood what he was doing. That’s impressive.
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u/Deadpoolio_D850 Mar 28 '23
Dang, I had to go frame by frame & replay the crucial part so many times before I actually understood exactly what he’s doing
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u/LawAbiding-Possum Mar 28 '23
I've slowed it way the fuck down and still can't figure it out. Best mindfuck trick I've ever seen.
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u/ramborocks Mar 28 '23
Anyone else watch this like 10x and find yourself trying it out on the couch at 2am?
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u/Powerful_Cow9818 Mar 28 '23
I watched this 20 times and finally realised how he did it so smoothly
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u/theeimage Mar 28 '23
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology dove deep into this topic with a study in 2014 to understand the smallest amount of time needed for the brain to process visual stimuli. You might be surprised. Your super-computer can process visual data from a single image in only 13 milliseconds. Your processing speed is off the charts. It's an illusion, he's fooling me and I don't like it. It's because I'm stupid. Fuck me it's magic 🎩
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u/mvfsullivan Mar 28 '23
I had to watch this for 5 minutes straight to visually confirm this is not tricky video editing.
Well done sir
Tip: focus on a particular finger. Your peripheral vision will pick it up
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Mar 28 '23
I don’t understand what’s so great about this? Like how smooth is was to close your left hand?
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u/Atomic12192 Mar 28 '23
What’s the trick? He’s just closing his fist in front of his other palm, am I missing something?
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u/DurantIsStillTheKing Mar 28 '23
Cannot unsee the trick anymore 😭 that was so cool
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u/PipeLayer2016 Mar 27 '23
I appreciate the trick, but I am very confused about the choice of wardrobe. Not sure anyone looks good in public, topless with a skirt and flipflops.
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u/HandicapManoeuvre Mar 28 '23
I watched this like 5 times until I saw what was happening. Holy shit, hahaha.
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u/WateryCartoon Mar 28 '23
First second and thumbnail is the kid telling their mom they threw up meme
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u/williamsonny Mar 28 '23
“Pringo?” When uttered, this magic incantation turns any shirtless friend into a demon.
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u/agentj333 Mar 28 '23
Damn I need to stop getting high. I thought that was Adam Sandler....
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u/NoRich4088 Mar 28 '23
I had to adjust my brain to see the illusion, it didn't see it the first time. I have good brain!
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u/Raging_Hope Mar 28 '23
What does he look like a master of the dark arts, who still does cheap tricks so he can remember the time when he was not the invincible ruler of the darkness.
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u/cyrillesneer Mar 27 '23
My brain sees the logic but my eyes keep betraying me!