{"id":4220,"date":"2021-01-06T21:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcosticks.org\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:55:16","slug":"using-vs-not-using-the-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcosticks.org\/zh\/using-vs-not-using-the-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Using vs not using the Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While drawing the cool guide “ten thousand ways to use chopsticks<\/a>“, we tried to split 12 selected grips into two groups, to give the poster an interesting look (blue on left vs green on right). After a few attempts at finding a factor to evenly split grips, we stumbled upon one. We look at whether the tip of the thumb was used in moving the top chopstick. This was the result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ten thousand ways to use chopsticks: first twelve grip types<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t think much about this choice of comparing grips, at the time. We posted this picture<\/a> on Reddit, and got 12,000 upvotes in 4 hours. One thousand comments were written in 4 hours on this post by folks. We collected a lot of useful information from these comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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