stefankok wrote on 06/21/18 at 12:36:36:Still to this day i can never snap my fingers, nor can i whistle. Not that i really tried or cared much about it.
I've only recently taught myself how to whistle. I never could when I was a kid, and I still can't really produce melodies with it nor whistle very loud. I just experimented with different ways of shaping my mouth and seeing which shape I could use to whistle with. I finally figured out that if I shape my mouth to make the French
eu/German
ö sound, and put my lips a little closer together, I can whistle... a little. Just don't expect a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" from me with this method.
(Another sound I've only recently been able to make with my mouth is the
rr sound of Spanish. You kind of have to shape your mouth for
d for best results, and it's a lot of fun once you've mastered it. I still mess it up sometimes, though)
I was always able to snap my fingers as a kid, but it wasn't until middle school or so that I could tie shoelaces. Maybe that's typical, but I always felt like my motor skills weren't fully up to par, especially as a child. I still can't juggle, hula-hoop, or do most swimming strokes, but there are certainly a lot of other adults who can't do those things either. I couldn't roller-skate worth a damn, but I'll cut myself some slack there since I only tried it one time, back in 1996. At least I learned how to ride a bicycle, but nothing fancier than taking off, turning, and stopping, certainly no tricks or anything... any Dutch kid could probably ride rings around me. But I was also fairly good at hammering nails when they tested us on that in the seventh grade. Even today my dad says I'm pretty good at hammering when we're doing repairs or building projects, but I never claimed to be an expert carpenter.
The
one thing, motor-skills related, that I was always good at (besides video games)... was typing. When I was 8 years old I had a "Pre-Computer 1000" with a typing test, and I was able to reach 45 RPM... because that was the fastest speed that the computer registered, evidently the people who developed it didn't think any second-grader could type 50+ WPM.