Let Your Fingers do the Walking-Jogging-or Running

On Saturday evening, my friend Linda and I were racking our faulty middle-age brains to recall why we had laughed like loons a few weeks ago over something two radio announcers had talked about. Three days later, out of the blue, an unheard-of little nerve in my brain decided to wake up and fire the answer—for absolutely no reason at all. Somewhere in my jelly-gray matter, I stored the following useless, albeit, strange bit of trivia …

Researchers at London’s King College have discovered that the length of a woman’s ring finger can possibly shed light on whether or not she has athletic ability.

Ah-hah, at this moment, you’re looking at your fingers aren’t you?

The researchers measured 607 female twins aged 25 to 79 and then compared their results with the women’s lifetime athletic achievements. And you guessed it, the women with ring fingers longer than their index fingers (on the same hand, of course) were more athletically gifted. They were better at running-type sports such as tennis and soccer.

(Note: I am now looking at my fingers—again—and by all appearances and measurements, I should be playing center-court at Wimbledon instead of typing something hardly anyone will read.)

So listen up you parents who think your daughters are going to grow up and change the world. Before you start applying for college loans, you might want to check out little Tiffany’s finger length. No doubt, being the competitive parents that you are, it will be longer, stronger and more athletically gifted than all the other little Ashley’s, Emily’s, Heather’s and Savannah’s that you know combined.

P.S. to the guys … A 2001 study of English soccer players found they also had larger ring fingers than index digits. (Ooh-la-la, we’re betting hunkster soccer star David Beckham has a very lo-o-o-o-o-o-ng ring finger) The study also cited that the ratio of ring-to-index finger could also reveal sexual traits and musical talents. And no, please don’t post any “finger” jokes – no matter how funny you think you are.