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If you use a laptop with a trackpad which you can scroll with two fingers, and you don’t have a pinkie related disability, does your little finger do this?
A hand is resting on a laptop touchpad. The first and second fingers are side by side on the touchpad. The third is slightly elevated. The little finger is raised in a slight hook position
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

Eleanor LNR Blair
Eleanor LNR Blair
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I don't use the trackpad if I can possibly help it, so I dunno!

But my little finger tends to do *this* when doing similar tasks where it's not needed.

A hand being held out over a desk. The index, middle and ring fingers are curved down towards the surface. The little finger however is sticking out straight forwards, with the middle joined flexed slightly the wrong way.
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Ozzy
Ozzy
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@lnr Does the joint lock, i.e. you can't bend it in that position? I get that, too (but not in situations as described above).
@Eleanor LNR Blair
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Eleanor LNR Blair
Eleanor LNR Blair
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@karohemd Very gently locked, it kind of clunks a bit as I go to bend it.
@Ozzy
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Ozzy
Ozzy
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To add even more variety, when I use the first two fingers to do something, I keep the others curled, not sticking out.
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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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@Ozzy The third is just about happy to be curled, but when it’s raised above the trackpad the pinkie feels like it has to be elevated too
@Ozzy
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