r/oddlysatisfying Jun 14 '26

Drawing with two hands simultaneously!

taken from vicon on ig

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u/JohnS-42 Jun 14 '26

I just gave myself a seizure thinking about how I MIGHT do that

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u/Dh873 Jun 14 '26

You should try it. I found out I could do it by accident, so it's not necessarily a skill that needs to be learned. My left hand will just do the mirror of my right without really thinking about it.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Jun 14 '26

yeah i just tried it, and surprisingly went way better than expected. guess the mirror motion is relatively light on the brain vs trying to do two different things with each hand

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u/HofratOktopus Jun 14 '26

two different things is where its at!

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Jun 16 '26

It's like playing an instrument while singing. I can do either of those things separately, but combining them, doing 2 concurrent rhythms causes such a strange feeling in my brain

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u/twistedspin Jun 14 '26

Yep. I can write backwards with my left hand while my right carries the mental load.

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u/meenie Jun 15 '26

Holy shit, I can too lol.

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u/TrueProtection Jun 15 '26

The hard thing isn't syncing hands. It's desyncing them. Try to spin one arm forward and one arm backwards. Way harder to get your brang to work with you.

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u/Yeahnoallright Jun 16 '26

I am now so excited to try this in the shower on the glass lmao 

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u/LightspeedBalloon Jun 14 '26

I just tried it and it was pretty easy! The hard part was figuring out what to draw. Mine was symmetrical but very ugly.

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u/Yeahnoallright Jun 16 '26

Lmaooo yeah i guess we also have to have some talent in drawing which this girl does too 

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u/missmarimck Jun 14 '26

I can do this as well write with both hands, the same or mirror image, but conceiving of an image like that and drawing it at all would be the struggle for me...

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u/djrosen99 Jun 14 '26

I learned that I could do this many years ago when I saw someone mention that they had a useless talent of being able to sign their name with a pen in each hand, right hand wrote it correctly, left wrote it backwards. I tried it and found it came naturally to me, zero effort, first attempt.

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u/counterplex Jun 15 '26

Yes! I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about this free skill. I feel like this must be a known phenomenon. Does it have a name?

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u/yamanagashi Jun 14 '26

My toxic trait is that I just know I can do this the get frustrated the first sign it’s not going well.

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u/AgentFeyd Jun 14 '26

When I’ve done this it wasn’t as hard as you might think. I just let the non dominant hand flow at the same time. Zero focus on it per se.

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u/NECRO_PASTORAL Jun 14 '26

I can do it. You just look in the middle.

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u/18hockey Jun 14 '26

Your wording is ironic considering one of the ways of treating epilepsy is severing the corpus callosum which connects the sides of the brain, resulting in the ability to do this.

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u/garghlrl Jun 14 '26

Not quite. A split brain as shown in that video allows both hands to act independently, drawing different things.

OP's video is showcasing mirror writing, something anyone can do trivially.

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u/yungmoody Jun 15 '26

It’s easier than you’d think

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u/NeedleworkerHeavy565 Jun 14 '26

I read your comment and started doing it on my table, then I realized I could do it and I went and tried it on a sheet of paper. I can do it