Small Hands, Big Problem
November 10th, 2005
Have you ever been the victim of the “brain sucker” joke?
That’s where someone comes up to you from behind and takes their huge-ass palm and they put it on your head and they say to you, “Hey, do you know what this is? It’s a brain sucker — do you know what it’s doing?” and you say “No, I don’t” and they say “It’s starving!”
And when they pull their hand back off your head after alluding to the fact that you have no brain, do you instead obsess over the fact that your hands aren’t nearly as big as their hands…and that concerns you?
[Insert James Earl Jones voice over here:] “Do small hands equal a big problem?”
When you hold up your hand to your face, with the base of your palm touching your chin, does the top of your middle finger actually touch the very top of your forehead? Or is your hand too small for that?
When you go to shake hands with someone in a business situation, does their hand almost crush yours? Does their hand seemingly act like a skin-sleeping bag, wrapping your hand warmly and tightly? Do you constantly worry (like me) that people, upon shaking your hand, will say something like “Hey, I feel like my hand is a tortilla and your hand is like the filling inside of my hand-formed burrito!”?
Do you often find things slipping out of your hands (like glasses and jars and baseball bats and other people’s hands, especially when they’re hanging off an embankment and you’re trying to save them) due to the fact that your hands are too small and that when you think about your hands being too small they get sweaty which just adds to the problem of not being able to hold onto things?
I do.
When you clap, do you not clap as loudly as other people, due to the fact that the smaller the hands…the lighter the clapping sound becomes? When you wave from across a crowded room, do you worry that people won’t be able to see you waving because, well, let’s face it — your palms looks more like a buzzing fly than a waving sign? When you pat someone on the back, do they even turn around and notice or just write-off the very light-pat as the shifting of their shirt along their skin?
Can you not even cover both eyes fully in a game of hide and go seek because your hands are too small?
Nope.
Do you worry that when you kneel down to pray that God will only answer a certain smaller percentage of your prayers because you have less square footage of clasped-hand praying going on because your hands are too small?
If you’re a guy, do relationships fall apart because your hands aren’t bigger than the hands of the person you’re dating and that just seems weird from a “chivalry is not dead” kind of perspective where you feel your manliness slipping away because the girl you’re dating claps louder than you and can catch flies in mid-air (unlike you) and can palm a basketball (which you can’t do to save your life)?
I find myself being concerned about these things on a daily basis.
I’m not going to get into the measuring scenario here. I’m not going to tell you how I measured my hands and found them to be smaller than the hands of people whose hands look small to me upon looking at them in casual social situations. I’m not going to tell you about the time I went bowling and couldn’t find one bowling ball that felt tight around my fingers. I’m also not going to tell you about the time I did that “let’s see whose hands are bigger” thing with a potential date and upon realizing my hands were smaller than hers, everything fell apart.
I can try to be positive about my small hands.
For example — did you ever see Schindler’s List? Wasn’t there some whole big positive message in that movie that Oskar Schindler saved all these children from getting killed because he needed people with small hands to do work for him in a manufacturing plant and all? So, I figure, people with small hands can get jobs that other people with bigger hands probably can’t.
And also - I like that when I eat big ribs or those huge turkey drumsticks on Thanksgiving, that when I hold one of those in my hand the food looks like so much more food than it really is. And that’s cool, for two reasons: one, people get jealous that I got the biggest drumstick on the table and two, I feel like I got the biggest drumstick on the table.
And then there’s that whole thing with tight pockets in jeans. The smaller your hands, the more room you have in your pockets, and the more secretive things you can do in your pockets (no, not that). Meaning, if I was in a dangerous situation (like let’s say a bank robbery in progress) and I had a switchblade in my pocket but I didn’t want to pull it out of my pocket and open it up cause that would make noise — my small hands could get into my pocket, open the butterfly knife, open it, then remove it and save the day without ever making any noise whatsoever.
Come to think of it, there are probably a thousand reasons why having un-huge hands could be a positive thing.
Sometimes, I think, just getting these thoughts out here on the page really makes me feel a whole lot better. In fact, if I was the type of guy to change post titles after they were already posted, I would probably change this one to read: Small Hands, Not-So-Big Problem.
I’m growing here, people. (Not my hands, just ME as a person.)
And it feels, daaaaamn good.
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In other news, don’t miss out on tomorrow’s edition of “Words For Your Enjoyment” where you submit an idea for my post, I submit a post with your idea, then we all submit to a lie detector test where we ask each other questions about things we want to know the answers to, and you know, then when we get the answers we realize we never wanted to hear those answers in the first place and we probably never talk to each other ever again. Still, the wires and the hook up part of it all (where those sticky electrode things get slapped on your bare chest) is fun so it makes everything worth it.
If you cup your hands slightly, you will get more clap. What did I just say?
Comment by nic — November 10, 2005 @ 8:23 am
Be proud! You’re in a unique position to fish coins from between sofa cushions and keys trapped inside a stuck drawer. If I had your hands there wouldn’t be a month-old piece of broccoli rotting in the narrow space between my stove and kitchen sink. Maybe you can help me out…?
Comment by always write — November 10, 2005 @ 8:54 am
A month old piece of broccoli?
Well, I guess I have to start somewhere.
Comment by Pauly D — November 10, 2005 @ 8:59 am
Don’t forget the vending machines with all that free candy just within your reach.
Comment by nic — November 10, 2005 @ 9:10 am
“Hey, I feel like my hand is a tortilla and your hand is like the filling inside of my hand-formed burrito!”?
Haahahahahahah ewwwww…..
Comment by Jaana — November 10, 2005 @ 9:15 am
Oh, yeah!
A-a-nd, and what about being able to stick my entire fist into a small glass bottle and get it back out while the rest of you suckers have to go to the ER.
Things are sure looking up. And small, but still.
Comment by Pauly D — November 10, 2005 @ 9:15 am
ryc: Yes. Shitting on the Statue of Liberty is a bit horrifying. So was that movie though. You have no idea.
Comment by michaelsean — November 10, 2005 @ 9:20 am
You know what they say about big hands………..
They go well with big feet.
Comment by monkeyinabox — November 10, 2005 @ 9:22 am
So you know that thing about the length between your thumbtip and index-fingertip being directly proportional to another particular part of your body?
Would now be a good time to bring that up?
Comment by Pierce — November 10, 2005 @ 9:24 am
I made a very conscious effort, Pierce, to not mention that at all in this piece for fear of…mentioning it in this piece.
Comment by Pauly D — November 10, 2005 @ 9:29 am
Ah, ok. Noted. Ahem.
Comment by Pierce — November 10, 2005 @ 9:31 am
I always notice small hands. I’m not quite sure what that says about me but there ya go…
Comment by LisaBinDaCity — November 10, 2005 @ 9:49 am
Re: Pierce’s comment: That’s a myth. Yes, it is. I’m a woman, I’ve tested this theory, and it is a complete fallacy.
Comment by always write — November 10, 2005 @ 12:11 pm
Thanks, aw. Thank you very much.
Comment by Pauly D — November 10, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
You have to use his hand for the measuring, not your own. Although… using your own hand would be a good bit more fun. But there you go.
Comment by Melissa — November 10, 2005 @ 1:24 pm
Weird that you posted this because I shook hands with a woman yesterday who had the tiniest hands I’d ever felt and it kind of creeped me out for some reason. Maybe because I have small hands too, but mine enveloped hers, or maybe because she wasn’t a particularly small woman and it caught me by surprise. Maybe I could give you her number?
Comment by Hope — November 10, 2005 @ 1:31 pm
The first time I noticed that I have small hands was during a trip to London, on a visit to Kensington Palace. Security had to check my backpack and while the man was doing it, he said ‘OMG, you have such small hands!’ and everyone in the queue looked at me. I looked at him and felt the need to stand up for my rights, so I said ‘They may be small, but they are mine and I love them dearly’. He then apologized.
By the way, I discovered this blog a few days ago and I love it! (Oh boy, I sound like a teenager girl… would you guess that I am a grown-up man of 27yo?)
Comment by joens — November 10, 2005 @ 2:38 pm
Glad you found WFME, joens.
Your story reminded me of the time I went to Universal Studios with my family and younger sister, who happened to be wearing one of those sun dresses (and was 15 at the time, an age of frailty) — and the guy wouldn’t let her on the E.T. ride because “pregnant women aren’t allowed on the ride.”
Needless to say, my 15 year old sister, who wasn’t pregnant, went screaming and crying out the back door of the ride pavillion. The worker had no clue.
Comment by Pauly D — November 10, 2005 @ 2:43 pm
I am a fairly tall girl, with tiny hands. I used to hide them in fear of being called a freak, now I revel in it. TAKE THAT GIANT HAND PEOPLE, I CAN DO WHAT YOU CAN IN HALF THE SPACE.
We should start a revolution!
Comment by Shawna — November 10, 2005 @ 2:49 pm
I don’t think my hands are small, I find them kind of average, which your post has left me feeling a little bad about. Perhaps I need to do my own soul-searching and find the silver lining in having average hands.
On the other hand I’ve always appreciated people with small hands. Not for their ability to squeeze into tight spaces and retrieve something for me but more for the cartoon quality that small hands possess. I feel incredibly comfortable around small hands and maybe this is driven by a subconscious belief that I can let my guard down and not fear imminent strangulation.
The teeny thumbs are my favorite. I picture those little digits as having only one joint and forever stuck in the bliss of giving two eternal thumbs up. On that note I’d just like to end with saying that as a rule of thumb I always approach smaller proportioned characters, be it a Gnome or a Hobbit, with an extreme ease of spirit.
Comment by Michael Lorenzo — November 10, 2005 @ 4:12 pm
So. It feels like you got the biggest drumstick on the table and everyone else thinks it too, huh?
Then just about *anything* that you hold in your palm should seem a lot bigger to you and those witnessing. Sounds pretty fortunate to me - or is that just another phallus-y?
By the way, I can’t see it a problem when your date’s hands are bigger than yours. My dates’ hands are usually bigger than my whole body. I dunno, it makes me feel kinda safe in a way.
Comment by Scottiedog — November 10, 2005 @ 8:56 pm
It’s not the size of the hands but what you do with them.
Oh come on people! I can’t believe no one has said that yet!
So when you wrote that hand measurement thingy did you picture everyone reading holding their hand up in front of their face? Yeah, you know we all did it.
Anyway, I’ve dated a few guys in my time and I don’t think I even noticed the size of their hands. At all. For a long time. It just wasn’t that important.
I just found WFME over the weekend and yes, I added it to my favorites and not too many blogs make it in. The audition entry, so to speak, was Kristy McN. is F.M. Pt.2. Those pictures? That is so her!! I laughed and so WFME made it into my favorites.
Comment by Rachel — November 11, 2005 @ 12:03 am
“Hey, do you know what this is? It’s a brain sucker — do you know what it’s doing?” and you say “No, I don’t” and they say “It’s starving!”
Didn’t you ever go to summer camp??? The correct response to “do you know what it’s doing?” is “Eating gourmet!”
And are you west coasters running out of things to get neurotic over?
Comment by anonymous city girl — November 11, 2005 @ 7:25 am
Thankfully no one has done that to me. I would probably hit them…
Comment by circe — November 11, 2005 @ 8:33 am
I once dated a man w/ teeny, tiny hands, and it felt like I was holding a raccoon’s paw when he would hold my hand. It creeped me out. Especially when he’d dig through the trash at night and stare at me with those beady eyes.
Comment by jenny — November 11, 2005 @ 9:42 am
Hahaha.
I have to say, “it felt like I was holding a raccoon’s paw” is the funniest thing I’ve heard in awhile.
Although, when you really think about it, I would be stoked to be able to hold a raccoon’s paw. Or a squirrel’s paw, too. Those guys never let you hold their paw. All they care about are nuts and berries.
Comment by Pauly D — November 11, 2005 @ 9:52 am
I’m getting in on this a little late, but I have tiny hands and I love them. My piano teacher shattered my dreams of playing piano because my hands are too small to span an octave. But I perservered and now? I can enjoy the look on guys’ faces at parties when I demonstrate to them my ability to stick my entire fist into my mouth. I them have to try not to laugh while doing so, because of the danger of choking. Small hands rule.
Comment by Amber — November 12, 2005 @ 11:31 am
Not convinced that hand size has much to do with clapping. I’m over 6 feet, 180lbs and my Spanish girlfriend Maria is only 5ft 4, 110lb but she can clap twice as loud as me. I certainly don’t feel my manliness slipping away!!
Comment by Dave — November 16, 2005 @ 12:33 am
I am a 22 year old man and have always been self-conscious about my abnormally small hands and feet, but what does it mean? I have heard that if you have small feet that you are likely to have a small penis, but I think that myth was started by people with large hands and feet, because despite my small feet I am rather “blessed” in that area.
Comment by Ivan — November 29, 2005 @ 3:19 pm
I have small hands, really really timid looking hands, my 10 year cuisin has bigger hands than me and im 18 years old, almost 6′0, it’s intimidating to see people shorter or the same hight with bigger hands than me.. this is the most funniest blog i’ve seen, so glad to hear im not the only akwardly looking guy with extremely tiny girlie hands and feet.. i’m so self conscience about my appearence and well my hands.. seeing as my hands are so small.. i guess where i live people are “into” guys with big hands and feat. comical.
Comment by FAY — December 4, 2005 @ 9:51 pm
There’s always a small crayon in a box of magic markers, in this case the crayon would be me. in every situation. Rachel, if you dated me you’d diffentely notice my hands being extremely irritating and small, I couldn’t even give you a foot massage (even with two hands) I dont think you’d notice I was giving you a foot massage. back to the hole I go.
Comment by Sasquatch — December 4, 2005 @ 10:15 pm
I have the reverse problem. I’m a fairly attractive average size 27 year old woman with huge hands. I can palm a man’s basketball and have met few guys with bigger mits than mine. I used to hate my hands when I was younger but have grown to love them. They are big, strong, capable and they are MINE. Also, I’ve never never met a guy yet who can clap louder than me, but I’ve never had any problems with their manliness!!!
Comment by Jackie — December 9, 2005 @ 2:01 am
This is too funny
Comment by HellRaz.or — December 13, 2005 @ 9:01 pm
I’m a 25 year old male with small hands. I try to hide ‘em a lot, doesn’t seem very fair sometimes. I had a friend with these huge gorilla hands and he was shorter than me and I used to obsess over the injustice in that. Had to give up playin’ the guitar because I couldn’t look at them. I figure I’ll just move north where I can wear big gloves.
Comment by Mike — December 16, 2005 @ 12:45 pm
O man, My hands are just a tad smaller but jesus christ that’s a pain in the butt to play a guitar w/ them T___T I can’t reach the fret I so longed to reach!!! har har har…
Comment by Evanthebouncy — December 30, 2005 @ 9:55 pm
Hey there,
I’m a 21 year old, 5′9 male. Unforntunately my 5′ mother’s genes were very strong and i ended up with her tiny hands… damn!! I am quite self conscious about them especially because most girls i meet have larger hands then myself. it really sux actually - i wish i could use my hands more during flirtation. walking hand in hand, dancing, confident handshakes, wearing funky rings become a problemo.. how
Comment by johnny K — January 3, 2006 @ 8:34 am
Like many others ive thought about quiting playing an instrument (mine would be guitar) cause of my small hands i started playing when i was 13 now i am 18 and thinking of quiting which its kind of hard 2 cause its become my life i mean i consider myself good at playing but i cant stand how my hands look when im playing people i play with dont say anything but i fell so self concious when i am playing i dont know what to do
Comment by ed — January 30, 2006 @ 9:43 pm
hello,
I’m a nineteen year old male, 150 pounds, 5′10 and I have skinny wrists, girly hands, small feet and skinny ankles. Everyday I dwell on my inferiority in these areas. I also work with the public so everyday I am forced into the speculation of others, I feel their eyes all over my hands, I feel their judgments. To make things worse for me, my father and my older brother are gigantic men with ogre hands and huge feet. This boggles my mind, and it pains me to have to be so different. But, I seem to be a physical anomaly because in spite of society’s belief of guys with small hands and small feet, I possess a rather nice sized package. I don’t understand it, but I am glad I found this blog, it made me laugh and lowered my self-consciousness.
Comment by JimmyJon — February 16, 2006 @ 9:46 am
I’ve just started to date a guy with hands smaller than mine & I’m getting a bit caught up with all the myths re size… Kinda glad to be a little more reassured that it’s not necessarily the case, so thanks!!!
Comment by Sio — February 22, 2006 @ 11:25 am
I too have abnormally small bony hands for a man. Is it possible to lengthen bones in hands including fingers ?? Is there any surgery options out there ? because they cause me much frustration in social settings without sounding vain..
Comment by lenoso — February 28, 2006 @ 11:57 pm
Can people reply with the size of their hands. Length from wrist to middle finger in inches.
Comment by Daniel — March 3, 2006 @ 6:32 am
Hey, I’m a 15 year old lad and I have really small hands compared to all of my friends. I’m really slim and quite tall so they look really bony which doesn’t help the situation at all. My friends comment alot about them which makes it even worse. Sometimes they can make me really depressed which seems kind of sad because they are just hands, but I can’t help it. It’s as though I’m abnormal, like someone else said earlier. But after reading this article and these comments I feel somewhat happier about my hands. It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one! I just want to say thanks.
Comment by Jon — March 4, 2006 @ 9:07 am
hey there, mine are 7 inchs underside, 8cm across the knuckles, average is 7.5 inchs, 9 cm arcoss the knuckles i’d say.
Comment by 7 inchs — March 8, 2006 @ 9:19 pm
Hi, I’m a 41 yr old male with what have always thought to be small hands. I have become quite self concious about them & often look at girls / ladies & try to visualise if their hands are bigger than mine as thery often appear to be bigger (although i haven’t approached them & physically measured mine against theirs)
Here are my hand measurements, maybe others can advise me if they think my hands are small:
length of hand (palm side) from base of hand to tipof middle finger: 8 inches, Width of palm (palm side): 91/2 inches, Hand span: 9 inches.
Comment by PJ — March 28, 2006 @ 3:09 am
What a great blog. The height of my embarrassment was when a very attractive girl I was with (who was barely 5 feet tall), compared hands with me, I was just slightly larger. Later on, her equally very attractive sister commented on my small feet. All this time, I thought I was the only one with small hands. Now I know what it’s like….when doves cry.
Comment by Jammy — March 30, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
For all those out there who feel inadequate because they think that their feet and hands are too small. Think again. Of course, all of us with small hands and feet have thought about the lie of small (hands, feet, nose, etc…) appendages equals a small “part”. I’m living proof that the lie is just that…a lie. A lie started by an insecure loser and just those sadly misinformed who continue to believe and have not yet experienced. I too have small hands and small feet, but I am well endowed and proud of it. What it comes down to physically on how we look by the size of everything on our bodies is by genetics. So don’t blame your appendages if you got “wronged” in certain areas, blame your family tree. If you’re confident that you are well endowed prove the ladies wrong and I’m sure they will be well “pleased” (pun intended) to be proven wrong. Stop complaining and let ‘em know what you got. After all what women like most in men is confidence. So enjoy who you are and enjoy life.
Comment by Double AA — April 3, 2006 @ 1:29 am
hello
i’m a man, yet not english speaking, so sorry for the mistakes.
the palm of my hands are 19 cm long when i start at the first line at the bottom. (do you call that underside ?)
is that small ?
i get a few observations about them… they are pretty thin, thinner than a quite a lot of girls’ hands.
Comment by looping — April 7, 2006 @ 12:54 pm
Hi PJ, I’m 29 and my hands are identical in size to yours. I have certainly never thought of my hands as small - average for my height (70″) I would have said - that is until I met my wife, Julie. She is 3″ shorter than me, but her hands measure an amazing 8.5″ long and 4″ wide across the palm. Her hands seem to dwarf mine, but then she has got the largest hands of anyone I know. I tell her that she’s the freak!!!
Comment by Dave — April 10, 2006 @ 6:27 am
This is interesting stuff.
I`m a guy and at 5ft 10 my hands are very small at 17cm from base of palm to tip of middle finger. Thats only 7″.
My female friends love to compare to mine - theres are always bigger! wrists too……
You got to laugh and love em`
How big are the ladies hands reading this?
may as well add more interest
Comment by d — April 11, 2006 @ 5:27 am
in reply to “d” i’m a smallish girl with pretty big hands - 7.5 inches long & 3.5 inches wide - i’m only 5′ 4″ and i often find that my hands are bigger than those of my date. doesn’t seem to put the guys off though, although they are sometimes amazed when i clap them, as i have a really, really loud clap!
Comment by maria — April 18, 2006 @ 3:05 am
Is 7.5 in length (base of palm to tip of middle finger) and 8.4 inches in width (tip of thumb to tip of pinky) average? i guess i have kind of wide hands so im told but i got really short fingers lol. also i play guitar and it doesnt really affect me much having short fingers, just keep practicing fellas and u can make the stretch. i mean look at herman lee, hes like 5′4” with extremely tiny hands and he is best new guitarist of the year awarded. also wondering if there are any exercies i can do to lengthen my hands or the cartilage in em or food??? anyone???
Comment by RUPERT — April 18, 2006 @ 3:12 am
To answer “d’s” question, my hands are huge - they measure almost 9″ from wrist to fingertip and my palm is 4.5″ wide, although I am only 5′7″ tall. I have the hands of a giant! Like Maria, though, it is an advantage when it comes to clapping - my clap is literaly deafening if i really try!
Comment by Jackie — May 1, 2006 @ 3:54 am
to Maria and Jackie. Thanks for sharing your interesting measurments, especially Jackie.
Jackie, your hands are huge :o) It`s really surprising considering your height.
They`re a whole 2″ bigger than mine……..amazing.
Large hands on a female are always attractive anyway so you keep showing them off.
Comment by d — May 14, 2006 @ 8:56 am
just noticed…..
you say your palm is 4.5″ across??!! Mine is only 3.25″
thats one serious pair of mitts you got there Jackie :op
Comment by d — May 15, 2006 @ 7:53 am
Jackie, your hands are really 9”? Really amazing, have any pictures of them :)?
Comment by Lopi — May 22, 2006 @ 8:22 am
i was once sat with a group of girls who got on the subject of hands and how they love men with big manly hands. they made us compare. mine were by far the smallest and weakest looking. the girls began comparing with me and found that only one of them had smaller hands than me. they all drooled over the hands of a guy who had huge paws that looked twice as big as mine. it was very embarassing for me.
Comment by gus — June 3, 2006 @ 7:04 am
Wow, just found this site. I am a 34 year old man with freakishly small hands and feet too. I am 6′ tall with a fair size build but small hands and wrists - 7.25″ to tip of middle finger, 3.5″ across palm. Both may hands and feet are thin as well. My package is pretty small too but about average when erect. It is so embarrassing all the time and people do notice. I am so selfconscious and have lost most of my self esteem. Seems like most girls have bigger hands than me. Makes me feel worthless.
Comment by Dan — June 3, 2006 @ 12:57 pm
dan, your hands are bigger than mine! mine do not quite make 7″ from wrist to fingertip and are just over 3″ accross the palm. my ex-girlfriend had strong hands and she could make me beg her to stop by squeezing hard.
i would love to have big manly hands. the ladies seem to love that. they actually drool over strong hands
Comment by gus — June 7, 2006 @ 4:26 am
My boyfriend has very small hands for a man, and even though I’m a petite 5ft4, mine are much bigger. I don’t mind it though - I find it really endearing! It’s an individual quality.
It’s also handy for when he gets on my nerves as well, I can just crush them and he apologises, haha.
Mine are 7.5inches from wrist to top of middle finger and his are a lot shorter, just over 6 inches.
Comment by Priscilla Bruno — June 12, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
thats good to hear. some girls have claimed to find my hands ‘cute’ but i always think they are just being nice.
would you swap your boyfriend for an identical man but with hands larger than yours?
i worry that my girlfriends drool over bigger hands and compare them to mine in their heads
Comment by gus — June 12, 2006 @ 11:41 pm
You really sound like my boyfriend when he whinges about his mini-hands! And I thought he was the only one!??
To make matters worse I have really long nails which exacerbate the difference in size between our hands (even though he’s way taller than me, im 5ft4 and he’s 5ft9), so he keeps saying that one of these days someone will make a comment in public about how “freaky ” the situation is!!! His are officially 6″8 from wrist up to the tip of his middle finger so I wonder if yours are possibly any smaller than his? I don’t think so! I know people in their teens with hands twice his size! Apparently most of his ex- girlfriends also had bigger hands than his.
But why are you guys so embarrassed though? Is it just a “manly” thing?
Comment by Priscilla Bruno — June 14, 2006 @ 7:11 am
mine are slightly larger at 7″ but mine are very thin.
i have met people in their teens with hands a lot bigger than mine. my friend has a sister who is 16 and her hands are a lot bigger and thicker than mine. i drew attention to this and she mocks me all the time about it.
most of my ex-girlfriends have had bigger hands than me and they always notice how tiny mine are.
im embarrassed because big hands are a sign of being manly. i know a lot of girls who love big strong hands on a guy. i feel really weak when i put my hands next to someone else. i worry that my girl will also see me as weak due to my weak hands.
how big are the biggest hands you have ever dated?
Comment by gus — June 15, 2006 @ 12:01 am
I think my hands are small but I am not sure . Can you help me? My hands are 18 cm , about 7 inches and I am 173 cm ( about 5.7″ )
Comment by marco — June 16, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
We just measured. Mine are 7 1/4 and my girls are the same length. The kicker is that her fingers noticably longer, almost a half inch. She’s all fingers and I’m all palm. Same ring size too ( 8.5)…It’s makes it tough when we thumb wrestle to decide what movie we’re gonna see
Comment by carl — June 17, 2006 @ 3:07 pm
I have small hands and am pretty self-conscious about it. I hate to see them in photographs! They just look wrong.
I too hear girls’ comments about guys with big hands and find it has a negative effect on my self-esteem.
I am 5′9″ and my hands measure 7″ from wrist to tip of middle finger and about 3.25″ across.
So I did a search and found this site:
http://www.pipeline.com/~dada3zen/average.htm
Makes me not feel so inadequate I guess… Just below average.
Downstairs there is no correlation, but sometimes I would rather be a bit smaller down below if it meant having bigger paws!
Comment by Tom — June 18, 2006 @ 6:47 am
that proves it-i a have smaller hands than the average woman.
i compared with a petite girl only the other day and hers were bigger.
i bet there are guys with massive hands laughing at these posts
Comment by gus — June 19, 2006 @ 12:26 am
Hey guys.. someone should really do something that works in enlarging some parts of our body .. wouldn’it be great? like a machine that makes your hands , feet , neck , head,eyes , nose-hair ..hah.. whatever you want bigger.. but untill they come up with that machine we should stop worryin’ , stop wanting more than we already have , and be happy
..even if they came up with that machine the gov. would hide it because we would all be the same..
Comment by Josh — June 22, 2006 @ 9:11 am
To answer Priscilla, it is hard to feel like a man when you have smaller hands than women. It looks odd when you are a normal sized male with unproportional hands.
As for strength, my hands are quite strong despite the size.
If you have lots of money, a willing doctor, and are brave you can buy some HGH (Human growth hormone) and if you take enough apparently it will enlarge your hands and feet.
Comment by Dan — June 23, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
i would not go as far as to have the size changed. i am just a bit embarassed because i know that lots of girls prefer bigger hands and mine look very small next to bigger hands
Comment by gus — June 23, 2006 @ 5:18 pm
So I have small hands but I don’ t know if only just below the average or even smaller than women’s average. My glove size is XS because my hand circumference is below 8 inches. Perhaps my fingers are even smaller: my middle finger is only 3.2 inches and my ring size is 6 1/4 .What do you think .How long your fingers are? What the average is?
Comment by marco — June 25, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
I’m a 17 year old male and my hands too are unusually small- 6″ long and 3″ wide. My live-in girlfriend’s are bigger.
My hand size is more proportional to my height than some others on here though. I’m 5′2″ thanks to poor nutrition growing up and my mom’s genetics (she’s 4′11″ and the tallest person in her family is 5′6″). When I get remarks about being so small I just try to make light of it by making dumb jokes like “yeah I’m 5′2″ with a 6′5″ attitude” hah
People usually think I’m around 12 years old. I still have to get clothes from the kids section sometimes.
The biggest plus- still being able to use playground equipment. Damn I practically am 12 years old…
Comment by M — June 26, 2006 @ 5:42 am
how much do you weigh? your hands are not much smaller than mine and i am 5′10!
Comment by gus — June 28, 2006 @ 1:08 am
smaller hands r cute, i have always had smaller hands then everyone else and you shouldnt be shy to show them, its something different! why should we have to hide our self its about natural beauty and our hands are part of us! we shouldnt be patronised by other people we should be happpy that we are different
Comment by jenni — June 29, 2006 @ 3:03 pm
Well my hands have never let me down and I like my hands… Still it’s it a little akward when your girl’s fingers dwarf yours even though our hands are the sane size. My future mother in law is 5′9″ with huge hands and my current ring finger ring fits comfortably on her pinkie. I guess they’re the dreaded ” big boned’ girls…but ooooohhhh so sexy!
Comment by carl — June 29, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
Jenni, i think it is different for a girl to have tiny hands. that is real cute but big hands are a sign of manliness
i agree with you carl, those big boned girls can be real sexy. its just a shame that we cannot measure up to them in our hands. the biggest hands i saw on a girl were around 9″ long and very thich and strong, i was totally dwarfed and she said her brother had bigger ones! whats the biggest hands on a girl everyone has seen?
Comment by gus — June 30, 2006 @ 12:01 am
Nice to know that I’m not the only one with this issue. Other than my hands I’m a big athletic guy so when people notice I think it freaks them out / amuses them. I’m 6′1 225lbs. I’m sure I got it from my moms side of the family she is only 5′4″ but has a brother around 5′3″. I always thought I had the smallest man hands on the planet. Always been a little self conscious about them. Shaking hands,hold a womens hands,etc. Just walked away from a conversation the other day when a woman started talking about her hand size and started comparing it to some of the guys.
Comment by dj — July 1, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
what a freakin relief this blog entry is. i got the old small-hand too. thought i was alone in the universe. always bothered me and i even sort of went astray as a yuong man because of it. thought about stealing stuff at one time, but, well, i could only steal very tiny little things so what was the use. i even thought about faking an accident to chop them off (not kidding) after a bit of thought over that one i realized damn its nice to have hands at any size! plus i know i see people all the time with small this or extra big that or even deformities and helk i dont give much of a second thought about it, and other people probably dont give a second though about small hands either. have a good summer my brethren and sisthren of the smaller hand
Comment by canadian ed — July 4, 2006 @ 12:37 pm
DJ, at least you have the muscles to make up for it. i bet most girls would gladly put up with your tiny hands to get your big muscles.
i havent got very big muscles either so i am really stuck!
Comment by gus — July 4, 2006 @ 11:45 pm
I really feel confident that this blog entry has helped a world of people with small hands. I, too, no longer feel as self-conscious about my teeny-tiny raccoon paw hands.
Hallelujah!
Comment by Pauly D — July 7, 2006 @ 9:18 am
im 15 and every time i compare my hands to girl’s hands my hands are always bigger and i got like size 12 feet and my hands are just over 8in from wrist to middle finger tip and im 6′0 and still growing i dont know if there big i think there big
Comment by Zac — July 8, 2006 @ 8:59 pm
Well, I have not measured my hands but for my size they are on the small side….I’m 5′11 and have my dad’s brawny muscular chest and broad shoulders…..but I have my grandmothers legs and feet…hahahah…thanks grandma!! My dad was 6′1 and my grandmother 5′2…….I,m a bit balanced between the two, but it left me with small feet for my height…..I train in martial Arts, and (at first) was looking for an art that trained with shoes…I finally said screw it…..They will be looking at my one inch toes and I will knock them out with a front kick to the Jaw……thank you all for sharing…AR ( I sometimes walk off balance too)
Comment by Alex R — July 8, 2006 @ 9:12 pm
I am 5′6″ and have small hands and feet. Hand size is 7″ long and 3 1/2″ wide. Shoe size is an 8. I feel like I have baby hands but the rest of me is built and the girls tell me I am good looking. The thing I notice is that my hands seem tight, like they don’t bend very well and sometimes they are shakey. Does anyone else have this problem
Comment by weewoo — July 9, 2006 @ 9:14 am
I hate it. With just 7″ hands and working at a grocery store, i get so jealous of the women who walk in that are shorter than me but clearly have larger hands. Then some hot girls come in and i can’t even flirt because i know i might eventually end up putting my hand up to hers and finding I am the lesser being.
Comment by grocer — July 16, 2006 @ 7:43 pm
i would hate that. i hate going to buy things from hot girls at stores because when we swap money my tiny hands are so clear. you must have that all the time!
is there any guys on here with big hands? they must be really enjoying this
Comment by gus — July 17, 2006 @ 1:37 am
i’ve got small hands too, and yet i am tall
but i don’t care much… I know what you mean about the stores when you pay. I sometimes feel unconfortable.
but… there are limits to this.
in fact i think some of you guys need to go to a psychiatrist. you think you could be humiliated by a tall girl with big hands and big feet but in fact you would like it. It’s your fantasy, you have to admit it. It is so clear… You are looking for a humiliation. In fact having smaller hands has become a turn-on. Get a nice girl and discover something else. Stop staying inside your fantasy. Fetichism is bad for your health. Some of you have been writing on this blog for too long, with perhaps even different nicknames… so that somebody finally answers you.
Comment by liars — July 18, 2006 @ 11:30 am
i have small hands, slightly under 7 1/2 inches, i quite like them being small, except for when i try to play my guitar. then they are a right pain in the arse. ‘A’ shape barre chords are nearly impossible for me and anyone who plays will know how useful they are.
Comment by chas — July 20, 2006 @ 8:42 am
Yeah I play guitar too with my small hands.
But when I play A Barre, I don’t play the high e string, does that matter that much? I shift my grip on the neck of the guitar and use my little finger to cover D,G, and B strings.. maybe that’s an ok solution?? Alright, you aren’t playing the complete chord but unless you are a pro it sounds OK.
Comment by Tom — July 24, 2006 @ 8:43 am
hey, GREAT post! i too suffer from tiny hands and wrists, and yeh it really got me down through my teenage years. I always thought they looked ugly, stupid and stopped me playing guitar properly, and i always felt self concious about them.
Well, now i’m 26 and by now i realised that a) 99% of people DONT NOTICE your hand size (most people are suprised that my hands are smaller when we compare…believe me it’s not that they don’t look small, it’s just people dont look at your hands) and b) the reason i wasn’t good at guitar was lack of practise. I’m now in a band and in all honesty the only disadvantage having small fingers brings is you have to wear your guitar slightly higher if you want to play fast lead.
For all the guitarists feeling down and need inspiration, check out Angus Young from AC/DC (tiny hands, but one of the fastest guitarists EVER!) and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath (the guy lost the end of 2 fingers..yet he learnt to compensate and now he’s a guitar genius!).
Comment by Tom UK — August 1, 2006 @ 6:25 pm
just to follow up - my hands are just under 7″ from base of palm to tip of middle finger. There’s pretty much identical size to my girlfriends except a big fatter.
i said above that i dont really care, but that said i am still a little self concious about them. I mean, i dont think a girl would dislike me just because of my handsize (if she did, she’s not worth bothering with), but at the same time i do worry that subconciously, i dont look as masculine as other guys (cos big hands is a basic masculine trait)
For this reason i often wear fingerless gloves when i go out (they look cool and make your hands look bigger!) or just stick my hands in my pockets..problem solved!!
Comment by Tom UK — August 2, 2006 @ 9:24 am
I’m 5′4″, about 115 pounds with small hands, as well:
LENGTH (from my wrist to the tip of my middle finger) : Exactly 7 inches
PALM WIDTH (from left to right): Exactly 3 inches
WRIST: Exactly 5′ 1/2″ inches
My measurements are pretty “exact,” alright. Weird, this I know.
Comment by Christi — August 2, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
are you a guy christie?
your are around same size as mine but i am taller and heavier. i bet there are guys with hands twice the with as mine. surely the girls would prefer the bigger hands?
Comment by gus — August 3, 2006 @ 8:36 am
This blog is hilarious, but oh so sad at the same time.
I made it all the way to high school without ever worrying if my hands were too small. Then during my junior year I became interested in guitar. My hands are just around 7″ (if I’m measuring them correctly), and some of the stretches made me fear I was causing serious damage. As a result, I mainly fooled around and never really got serious about practicing. Now I realize that may have been the real problem.
But I have been self-conscious about my hands and feet ever since. I hate shaking hands and my girlfriend’s hands are bigger- although not much. Adding to my woes, I’m around 5′10″ but am very underweight (probably about 120-125). I am- literally- about the same height/weight I was in high school. Sometimes I think God may have just stopped working early.
Comment by dave — August 4, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
IM 6′0 and have small hands and feet.
hand from wrist to tip of middle finger-7.5″
pinkie finger-2.5″
thumb-2.3″
Middle-3.5″
feet-10.25″
Comment by chris — August 8, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
at least you have a girlfriend dave-consider yourself lucky. i have puny hands and no girlfriend!
Comment by gus — August 9, 2006 @ 10:51 am
I’m a 16 year old male, about 5′9″ to 5′10″.
I’d have to say out of my bony hands and awkwardly long limbs, the one thing I hate the most are my wrists. Just below the actual wrist bone (about 1.5″ below where the wrist meets the hand), my wrist is honestly less than 2″ wide. I hate this, and I usually wear long sleeves as often as possible, which is very hard living down here in Florida with the heat.
The circumference of a regular males wrist is around 6″, whereas mine is about 5.5″.
Being a 16 (almost 17) year old boy and seeing 13 year old girls with wrists bigger than yours is a pretty touch bit to swallow, especially since my younger brother has normal wrists, as well as my dad and mom. Unfortunately my grandad had very thin wrists til he was 21. I really really hope Im not stuck with these damn sticks that long.
Comment by Kevin — August 10, 2006 @ 2:14 am
hi kevin
just so that you don’t feel alone
age : 22
height : 6′
hands close to 7′1/4 (much less than 7′1/2)
feet : nike : us size 8,5
arms width : 2″
long and wide penis (isn’t it more important than feet ?)
childish face
thinner hands or arms than many girls
thin feet
although i look like a kid…
… i’m cute, so girls like me in fact
ok i get teased by girls
but all that is OK ! they don’t care
sometimes boys are little more annoying (i.e. violent) when they want to show you they are stronger and how weak you are
So be confident with it
Comment by answer — August 10, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
My hands are noticibly small for a man. I am 5′6 130 and my hands measure 6 3/4 long and 3 2/8 wide. I usually fit into a womans medium or small glove best. I wear a mens size 5.5 shoe. I guess i have gotten used to having small hands. I notice it most when i shake hands with women and their hand engulfs mine.
Comment by ray — August 11, 2006 @ 5:38 am
kevin, i also find that young girls have bigger hands and wrists than me and like ray i can fir my hands into womens small gloves.
i hope that some girls think it is ‘cute’ because most girls i know find big manly hands attractive
Comment by gus — August 14, 2006 @ 12:03 am
It’s great to have found this. This has been a serious problem that has plagued. I’ve been overly obssessive about it. I’m 22 yeard old, and throughout my whole life I’ve always been waiting for my hands to grow. My dad has huge and thick manly hands, and my brother has moderately bigger hands then mine. Out of everyone in my family and extended family,i ncluding females I have the smallest hands, which is freakin embarassing. I was lucky enough to have had a girlfriend for 4 years, although she was one of the few girls who has smaller hands than I. Has anyone ever had the experience when your eyes just light up when you see a girl with smaller hands then you and it makes her more attractive in your eyes? Almost, like you don’t want to even try to get girls with bigger hands? Very sad, I know. It sucks when you try to grip something and you just can’t hold onto something, or you try to twist something but you can’t get a good grip it. I had a traumatizing experience where I was literally called ‘weak’ by my dad because I could not twist something open, and here comes my brother with larger hands, and seemed to open it with ease. Sure, I knew I was only being teased with being called ‘weak’, and I know that I am not weak, but to open that particular thing my hands just couldn’t do it, so I did feel quite hurt and my confidence took a large blow. I was just so devastated that it almost brought me to tears (NO, I’m not emo). Sometimes i ask myself why my hands? Yes, it does effect one’s confidence with the ladies. It sucks to think about the possibilities if you had bigger hands. However, after finding this forum and reading the posts, it actually made me tear up (Again, NO, I’m not an emo) because for once in my life I found people who actually were in my shoes. Guys like myself with the exact same problems. Yes, I am still very self-conscious and am a long way from getting over it, but it’s just good to know that I’m not alone with this problem. Thanks paul for writing this. Peace!
Comment by anthony — August 17, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
i do love it when i find a girl with tiny hands. it makes me feel less pathetic with my tiny hands.
Comment by gus — August 18, 2006 @ 9:47 am
I’ve also got skinny arms/wrists and will go the long sleeves route whenever possible. It wasn’t really a big deal back in high school, since it’s a lot easier to pull off the anorexic look when you’re that age. But there’s nothing worse than someone wrapping their hand around your wrist and saying, “Oh my God!” Thankfully, that isn’t a situation you encounter very often.
And though it’s sad, I also know the appeal of a girl with small hands. I once dated a girl who had small hands and surprisingly large breasts. What a nice combination that was.
What’s really bizarre is when you meet someone you knew growing up (like someone’s kid brother) and they suddenly look older than you. Then you go to shake hands and realize they now have hands like a basketball player, while you’re stuck with the same ones you had in middle school.
Comment by dave — August 18, 2006 @ 10:58 pm
I was never self conscious about my hands until I was around 22 when one of my lady co-workers said “Hey, this printer is jammed. I wish I had smaller hands…” and at that point, I realized that she was indirectly trying to tell me to fix it. So of course, my small man hands fixed the jammed printer. Ever since, I’ve been very self conscious about them because I ride the Metro 5 days in a week and I always look at other females hands and compare them to mine. And about 95% of the time, their hands are bigger than mine. Even my mom’s hands are bigger than mine and she is a very petite lady.
Comment by ls1383 — August 19, 2006 @ 1:09 pm
i also look at girls hands when out in public. i notice that a lot are bigger.
last week i was looking at a girls hands and noticed they were bigger than mine. her boyfriend then turned up and his hands were massive. her hands looked lost in his. i could only imagine the difference if i compared hands with him
Comment by gus — August 20, 2006 @ 2:36 am
it’s funny i never really noticed that i had small hands till really recently well it wasn’t till i took this med called accutane it made me kinda depressed for a while….. And even funnier is that no one else noticed i had small hands till i started to notice I wonder if the accutane made my hands smaller hahaha. you get what i’m saying….. If it doen’t bother you no one else would care and if they do they really do not have a life…..
Anyways i can curl my own body weight with my tiny hands puuuhahahahahhha I SUCH A FREAK
and no i do not take steriods
Comment by mes — August 24, 2006 @ 4:44 am
I am a 34 year old male, 183 cm tall and skinny, i have very small and bony hands, actually, i dont think i´ve ever come across a man with hands as puny as mine… length is 18 cm and width is 9 cm… i feel that i´ve been cursed… my wrists are very thin too only 15 cm… i am socially handicapped because of this, always wear long sleeves and try to hide my hands as good as i can. I am so ashamed… have´nt even tried to pick up a girl for about 6 years because of this… have had too many embarrasing moments with girls laughing and making fun of me… making me feel so unmanly… reading this blog made me feel, if not better about myself, then at least not as alone…
Comment by Jonas — August 24, 2006 @ 8:32 pm
I am a 34 year old male, 6 feet tall, skinny, have small bony hands, more puny looking than any man i´ve ever seen… on top of this, i have very skinny wrists… am socially handicapped because of it… i feel very ashamed and cursed…
Comment by Jonas — August 24, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
there are the few girls who think that puny hands are cute. like everyone else on this forum you should keep looking for them!
Comment by gus — August 24, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
Is there a way to make fingers “fatter” by eating certain types of food? Because I hate my boney fingers. They are skinny in between the joints and my joints are kinda big so my fingers look “knobby”.
Comment by LS1383 — August 25, 2006 @ 12:19 am
I keep coming back to this damn webpage. I think I am in equal measures obsessed with and depressed about having small hands. I have placed a couple of optimistic posts on here, but to be honest, I am pretty gutted about it. Since coming across this page too, I think I have been more concerned about it!!
In the last two weeks I have had comments made by three different people about my hands… I don’t think before then anyone has mentioned them in a couple of years.
I think they are getting smaller… nah not really, but looking at them all the time now is not helping. I have also begun to convince myself that they are the reason for me not having a girl!! Oh dear.
Oh for a big pair of normal hands.
Ha ha I know I must sound like a bit of an idiot banging on about it, but really it does pee me off. Have to remind myself… things could be a whole lot worse!
Comment by Tom — August 26, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
“I have also begun to convince myself that they are the reason for me not having a girl”
this is a serious problem. all of you posters who have said you’re put off meeting girls because of your small hands, think about how crazy you sound. NO ONE NOTICES YOUR HAND SIZE! #
and if they do and somehow it makes them not want to go out wit you, then they’re extremely stupid/shallow and not worth dating anyway!
My grilfriend never noticed i had small hands till i pointed it out and said how insecure i was about them - now we joke about it, and she says how much she loves them. Really if you think it’s that bad try getting a haircut and going to the gym - make improvments in other areas!
Comment by Tom UK — August 27, 2006 @ 4:17 am
Thanks for the encouragement Gus, I should go out looking for such a girl, but I feel so damn selfconscious and awkward about myself, and have had so many humiliating experiences in the past that its really difficult for me…
Comment by Jonas — August 27, 2006 @ 9:15 am
I don’t really take the issue that seriously, it’s mainly just something I try not to draw attention to in public. Speaking of which, here’s another example of public shame:
Have you ever ordered at a drive-thru window, then asked for something extra, like ketchup packets? There’s nothing worse than watching a small girl offer you several packets with one hand…while you feverishly try to accept all of them with one hand…or actually have to use both hands to avoid dropping any of them.
Comment by dave — August 27, 2006 @ 9:26 pm
i have not had that ever but i bet it sucks. small girls who have bigger hands than me are the worst. they must think i am a freak to be talller and heavier but with such smaller hands
Comment by gus — August 28, 2006 @ 11:20 am
Tom UK- I run and swim about 5 times a week and am fit… and I look after myself…. I actually don’t know if there is an awful lot else I can do with what I have got!
The tone in my email may make me sound a bit more miserable about it than I am… But yes, worrying about it is indeed a problem I have.
I am certainly not put off meeting girls though. I could quite happily meet as many as is humanly possible. I just think that they may be put off me. However, being more rational about it, I am sure you are right about people not noticing, or at least if they do notice, not caring about it. It is something I have brought up in conversation recently, and noone seems to be all that interested in how little my hands are.
Comment by Tom — August 29, 2006 @ 9:31 am
does your girlfriend have bigger hands than you Tom?
Comment by gus — August 30, 2006 @ 5:57 am
I am a guy only 157 cm (62 inches) 43 kilos(95 lbs) and I am 22. I am the shortest people in my family. Dad is 182 cm (72 inches)and well built ,my brother is 24 and 190 cm(75 inches) and he is really massive (he lives in the gym!!):they both have huge hands ,about 25- 25.5cm of length(10 inches).Mom is 167 cm and has beautiful hands with long fingers (19 cm of length).My sister is 16 and is 172 cm tall(yes, I am a lot shorter than my little sister!)her hands are a bit bigger than mom’s. My hands are really small even for my height, with 14.5 cm( less than 6 inches) of length , about 6.5cm(2.5 inches)of width and very short fingers (my mom’s pinkie is long as my middle).My entire hand could fit in the palm of my dad’s or brother’s and they always make jokes of me for that !They say I am a weak not real man with “baby hands”. I have puny bones and so my wrist circumference is only 12.5 cm (5 inches).My perfidious brother makes me compare with my cousin Alicia ,she has bigger hands and wrists but she’s only 11 and 155 cm tall!! I feel myself like a wimp but this is the reality! My “little” sister was stronger than me even 3 years ago when she was 13 and I was 19 :she was able with her bigger hands to open a jar I couldn’t ; sometimes we wrestle but she is always the winner and that is really humiliating for me! My girlfriend who is 155 cm tall has bigger hands than me too , her hands are 16 cm long :she has also stronger fingers too , her ring size is 7, mine is only 6! The first time she noticed how puny my hands are she wanted a test of strength and so she shacked my hand so strong that I had to beg her for stop. The girl with bigger hands that I know is 183 cm tall and her hands are only slightly smaller than my brother’s .
Comment by littlejohn84 — August 30, 2006 @ 12:37 pm
i would like to compare hands with you littlejohn. even mine will be bigger. do not worry though. you have a girlfriend so she can not be too bothered by your hands
Comment by gus — August 31, 2006 @ 12:05 am
Gus- I don’t have a girlfriend at the moment. My ex-girlfriend commented about it after I had been going out with her for a week, but never mentioned it again.
She was 5′3″ and her hands were the same size as mine.
Comment by Tom — August 31, 2006 @ 7:40 am
What can we do? How about HGH?
Comment by Jonas — August 31, 2006 @ 6:24 pm
i know a girl around that height who laughs at me because her hands are as big as mine.
i wonder if any girls actually prefer smaller hands on a guy?
Comment by gus — September 1, 2006 @ 12:11 am
what a blog, i could have done with this 30 yrs ago. I have tiny hands and feet, just over 6″ by 3 ” wide, the choker is im 6ft and the rest of me is in purportion. I have always been really concious of them and when i was young hid them, in pockets etc.They are strong enough, but you cant help thinking what is this all about!!. To any youngsters my advice is dont hide them ,you are who you are and any decent women would never think less of you for having small mitts, you will find confidence is the key , great site, jonny
Comment by jonny h — September 1, 2006 @ 2:38 am
Me too - 21 , 5′9 , 17cm hand .
Though I am not never really worry about it, I do wish to make them stronger.
So heres something for you all:
[url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=inurl%3Aexerciseforums%7Cexercise%7Cexercisefriends+intext%3A%22thicker%7Cstronger+finger%7Chands%22&btnG=Search] Google search[/url]
- There are plenty of links there to help us have atleast more stronger hands. Having more muscle around the hand would itself make it look bigger.
Comment by nik — September 1, 2006 @ 11:30 am
I met man & 1st thing I noticed were his extremely tiny hands, - I was fascinated by their delicacy & softness. as I grow to know this man more,his hands have come to symbolize his soft heart & tenderness to me. I reach for them,want to comfort them as much as they comfort me. I confess that I am falling for this wonderful person,and I don’t think I would have noticed him, if it were not for his tiny hands.
Comment by joan — September 2, 2006 @ 9:02 pm
Hi my name is debbie i am 5′2 tall or not so i thought i has the smallest pair of hands in the whole world. Looking on this website i can only spot a couple if that with smaller hands. Mine are base to index finger 17cm if i have measured them right. While the palm of the hand across is only 9cm around 3 1/2 ins if i’m right. It is however a pain having smaller hands my daughter who is 13 she has larger hands how do you think that makes me feel and she is getting taller by the day and is slightly over taking me in height. So i now have two disadvantages against my daughter How could god have been so cruel lol lol lol. It is a good job that i can take a joke so Littlejohn met little deb. To all you people with tiny hands lets put them all together and make one big hand lol lol lol. My main problem is not being able to hold as mant things as normal handed people but we must have been put on this earth for some reason probably to help all the big handed people who needs smaller hands so dont worry one last thing i have just remembered as my nan used to say PEOPLE WITH SMALL HANDS HAVE A WARM HEART i think in my case it could be true what about you then let me know your thoughts as i thought it was only short people who had small hands how wrong could i be.By the way my nickname is shortie bye
Comment by debbie — September 3, 2006 @ 5:58 am
Hi johnny h that really must be a choker as you put it i actually feel sorry for you however did you manage i thought i had problems but i’m not too sure now i do however feel sorry if you do suffer from small hands like myself but i thought i was small. I could tell you alot about my problems as i have measured my hands against some kids and my 10 years old son is even getting bigger hands than mine so now i will be having three disadvantages as i feel he may get taller than me also so i will be the shortest in my family and with the smallest hand god help me please lol lol
Comment by debbie — September 3, 2006 @ 6:02 am
gus - yes my girlfriend’s findrs are slightly longer than mine - but my fingers are thicker and more..man like. It’s really not an issue when we’re holding hands.
Debbie - how can you worry about small hands..you’re a girl? thats what theyre meant to be like!! Much better than having huge hands anyway!
Comment by Tom UK — September 3, 2006 @ 9:03 am
I HATE, my small hands. It’s the most annoying thing to not be able to PALM A BASKETBALL! Shaking people’s hands, worrying about what they think! Being able to fit my hands in the dish washing gloves.. which are MAde for WOmEN! As a kid my parents gave me a big ring for when i was older, but sadly it would be LOOSE on my fingers forever! It makes me feel so $#@*ing feminine! Why couldn’t… GOD give all men the ability to palm a basketball?! i was never a good dribbler for it would always slip! But i had amazing DEFENSE though :D. But that’s besides the point! I seriously look like I have a kid’s hand, and I’m turning 20!
My best friend hates men with feminine features, its the pet peave my friend has. i mean, she wont watch the MATRIX movie because Keanue Reeves’ hands ‘looks like a girl’s hand’ (she hates his ‘feminine’ face too) :O haha imagine what she thinks of ME!
Luckily all my previouse girlfriends didn’t mind my hands at all. but it should be mentioned that all bu