I have a well-established hand gesture for 1!

China? The 0 to 9 single handed gestures are used for a lot outside of that. Like divers use that, all kinds of trades, and the military.

Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.

Now I had to try it out and I'm very proud of how each finger played along

You mean !normal.

A normal person can do it. Only abnormal ones actually do.

Rather than assigning each finger the same value of 1, assign them values of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. Then there's some combination of fingers that can represent any value from 0 to 1+2+4+8+16=31. It's like using digits to count instead of tally marks.

32 different combinations.

2⁵ = 32.

A five-bit value can contain any number from 0-31. So if you treat your fingers as bits...

I want to go to the kinds of bars where counting in binary wins bets. Most of the time it's things like "open a beer bottle with your eye socket".

If you add things like arm position and rotation, you can add even more bits. Using 4 arm positions and 2 rotations, you can get a full byte of data with one hand.

Use your thumb to "point" (touch) a section of your index finger, middle finger, ring finger, pinky...now move up a section of the finger.

Tada you learned it.

The other hand goes 1 when you maxed out your finger sections, then 2 when you do it again where one equals 12 and 2 equals 24 etc.

There's really nothing to it, no research needed...just attempt to mimic what the comment describes and you're there.

Imagine what masturbation with that bad boy must be like!!! Hoooooooooo baby!

oh shii, I see

I can count to 31 using binary numbers!

12 distinctions on one hand and 4 on the other doesn't seem too smart to me... I'm with the binary crowd.

I can go to 31. In binary.