> > Everyone I've ever seen has started with the pinky and moved to the index.
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > -Rifty
>
> This is odd to me. And I was actually surprised by the poll answers after I'd voted.
>
> For me natural drumming is going from index to pinky. It just flows for me and if I'm going to "drum" that's the way it would go. So this is how I voted.
>
> But if I'm in a meeting or something and trying to make a point to someone about being bored out of my skull I'll drum from pinky to index because that's what I've seen in movies and on t.v. to mean "bored".
>
> Unless I'm overthinking it and skewing the results as someone else mentioned in this thread...
>
> - famous

Let's not leave the thumb out of this. I always start with the pinkie and if I'm bored I go to the index. But if I'm reeeeally bored, I go all the way to the thumb. Bump, bump, bump, bump, BONK is much more expressive of boring.
Howard