4d ago

I can finger whistle!

I feel like a child. 🤣 I've wanted to do this all my life and, along with a couple of my kids, we decided to look up tutorials and make it happen. And... I can finger whistle now! And I can't stooop! 😗🎶

There's multiple ways to do it and they're all pretty similar, but the keys seem to be rolling back the tip of the tongue and making sure to close off extra spaces so the air has only one route to travel.

What's something silly you've learned recently that's brought you joy?

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Congrats on leveling up and unlocking a new perk! 🫡
- Ha! And now queue the Zelda "get item" sound.
  Here's the latest version from Breath Of The Wild, but the specific sound that always comes to my mind is from the original NES version or perhaps the SNES Link to the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxRBTPAQ-s
Wait wait wait...
I've never been able to whistle, even with the finger approach. I think it's because my lower two front teeth are inconveniently crooked, but I could be wrong..
Do you have a link or three to share for finger whistling, or any whistling for that matter?
Anyways, back to your question, I finally halfway learned the Rubik's Cube, but only after I added dice dot holes to it. Honestly it creates an interesting crossover of puzzle/die patterns.
- I'm no expert, but I can whistle pretty well. Now I can finger whistle. And in both cases, I'm not sure teeth have a significant role. I think you can do it!
  I finally got it after watching this woman. Note the shape of her mouth and how she pushes the tip of her tongue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPRkS9oB2c
  The principles in this video are good, but I don't like this style. Too many fingers in the mouth. I prefer the style of the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVDBmISkb0
  This is the first one I watch and now that I watch it, I think it's a pretty good video. He stresses folding the tip of your tongue backwards which has been really helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZTNJCKWqXs
  
  I was just on YouTube last week looking this up. Thank you for sharing what worked for you! I'll try and report back.
  I'm one video, I think the guy said it took him 30m of practice a day for weeks 😬
  
  Because I need to come back to this later.
- The only time I've ever been able to whistle unaided is when my front two adult teeth were coming in and had a perfectly sized gap between them, but that didn't last long. Since that closed up, the only whistle I've been able to perform is the grass whistle. (Apparently this is also an action in Pokemon. To be clear, I'm not referring to that.)
  
  I hear ya there, same here, I learned how to do the grass whistle thing back when I was like 7 years old. That's kinda neat really, and can be pretty loud if done right and with a good large blade of grass. 👍
  
  Oooh. I always loved doing this as a kid and then showing my kids.
  I've never done it between the thumbs. I simply hold a piece of grass in between my lips and do it. You can do it with any sufficiently thin item like plastic wrap or such.
- So why dice dot holes over colors? Do they help you feel your way around it?
  
  Good questions!
  The dice dot holes were basically for random fun, I wasn't able to properly solve a Rubik's Cube as a kid.
  But as I grew older, eventually it crossed my mind that the cube totally lends itself to being a die (singular of dice).
  And yes, I can partly feel my way even blindfolded or behind my back to solve it, but due to repetitive/alternating patterns of the center dots, it's impossible to solve any old random pattern completely blindfolded, it has to be arranged in advance.
  A surprising lot of those sort of puzzles are self-reversible though, as in the same mixup also becomes the very same puzzle solution.
  The only unique dots you can feel come from the #6 side, which is the only side that has two dots in the middle of the side edges. I chose yellow as the #6 side. But due to the various ways the dots can mirror, it can't outright be solved blindly from a random shuffle.
  Here's one of my study graphs on it, plus links to photos of my original die/cube contraptions.
  https://lemmy.world/post/22597387
I didn't need this but I'll keep it in saved 😶‍🌫️
- I'm picturing you urgently needing to get someone's attention and pulling out this post to learn very, very quickly.
- Haha. One never knows when they might need a really good whistle!
When I was a kid (late '80s/early '90s), I was so determined to learn this technique that I stood in my back garden for about 45 minutes blowing fruitlessly into my fingers, and almost passed out 🤣 I'm in my 40s now and still wish I could do it, especially now that I have a dog and the wee fucker won't listen to reason.
Congratulations, you're living the dream now!
- Ha! Nearly the same story. I'm rooting for you! It can happen!
  I still suck, though. My partner is lovingly tolerating me as I practice now and again. They love that it brings me childlike joy... while simultaneously wishing to murder me.

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