Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-190.94.17.36-20141209024453/@comment-213.66.199.45-20141209060627

I started doing it at the time he gained the "Centipede" for the first time...

(Who´s the strong? I am. I am the fucking strong.)

I still can´t believe how unimaginably badass it feels to crack fingers like that...

But advise for the one above on how to do it...

First, you won´t be able to crack fingers like that in the early morning since your body needs some mobility after the sleep as a warm-up, you don´t have to do anything special, just wait a hour or so...

Second: if you never done this before, then your mind will protest and object against doing this in fear of pain and the imagined risk of breaking your fingers from doing this. This is normal, I felt the same but after checking the effects of finger-cracking, I was assured that doing this is completely harmless. After that it got a bit easier.

Third: Now to the actual finger cracking. To the first-time practicioners, you will maybe be afraid and hesitant on how much power you need to put behind your thumb to create this epic and iconic character-tic of everyone´s favorite ghoul...(No, not Yamori.) Most of the time, the lack of results comes from not putting enough force behind the thumb.

Do this, move your thumb behind the second digit of your index finger...(the first digit is what´s between the fingertip and the mid-section of the finger. The second digit is the one between the mid-section and the piece that connects the finger to the knuckle.)

From there, simply push with the thumb.

My advice here is to simply "Press until you hear the crack.", don´t be afraid of any potential damage as there aren´t any and it´s just imagination.

Once you hear the crack, you won´t be able to crack the finger for another thirty minutes, after that you can do it again. (personal experience, I can crack my fingers twice every hour if I want.)

Fourth: Once you get the habit in and the fear in your mind numbed out, you can move on to the other fingers. The middle-finger has the same difficulty level as the index-finger so if you master the first one, you should theoretically not have any problem with this one. The ring-finger is a bit tricky due to the increased distance between it and the thumb, I´m still trying to learn how to crack them myself so I can´t give any other advice than to "keep practicing" and experiment with pressure, force and location of the thumb. Maybe watch the first episode and Yamori´s technique for that finger as he demonstrated it in the intro, clearly.

As a bonus, I have also discovered how to crack a finger that´s not shown in the series but is still crackable with one hand, similar to Kaneki and Yamori´s methods.

The thumb.

I don´t know if anyone else have discovered this, and those that haven´t are probably going to wonder "huh? What did it say? That´s just impossible/nuts/not happening."

Well, I would not put the method up here if it didn´t actually work.

The trick behind cracking the thumb, is not to use just one finger on it. The thumb is sturdy and there aren´t enough force to generate from a single finger. That´s why one must "clench the hand" around the thumb, the thumb needs to press against the index and the middle fingers´ second digits with the thumb´s tip folded down. (Ever flipped a coin with the thumb? that´s the position it needs to hold in the fist´s grip.). Close the fist with the thumb in the center and squeeze it fast and sudden with full force.

It cracks just like the other fingers.

So that´s three fingers covered by the "Kaneki- Crack", I hope this advice was or could be of use for the anon above who asked about how to do it.