/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Knitting and drawing are two that come to mind off the top of my head.

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>>625633
Dude you're a genius

>>625639
Warning: Poster is not a real doctor.

>>625622
soldering
shooting

Fine motor skills require proper breathing. Lack of oxygen from such as holding your breath will make your hands shake. Try it, take a deep breath and touch the tips of two pens or pencils together. Then hold them together for awhile while only taking short shallow breaths. You can't. Now try doing it while taking slow, deep breaths.

A good trick for both soldering and shooting is to do your business after a series of deep, controlled breaths while you're exhaling slowly. Once you get that down the rest is all just temperature control, equipment selection, and maintaining your equipment.

>>625625
>Knitting and drawing are two that come to mind off the top of my head.

This.

Believe it or not, surgeons do these sometimes.

>>625662
Don't forget proper support. Arms have lots of moving parts, muscles are shit for providing stability. They're attached to a body that wobbles around from automatic balance control, breathing that shifts the whole torso and the heart providing constantly throbbing change in pressure through medium and fine motor control. The body isn't a tool designed for millimeter accuracy.

You need proper support and isolation, the more stable points of contact the better. Butt in a solid chair, feet on the ground, knee against a table leg. Arms against your body, elbows on arm rests, forearms against the edge of the table, hands touching or on another support.

With good support you can get sub mm accuracy, lower with practice.

>>625622
Sewing, but needlework in particular.
Pen-and-ink drawing (much more demanding of accuracy than your usual pencil drawing).
Whittling, on a small scale — think pencil-scale, not a block of wood or plank.
Learning to touch type.

>and become proficient at tasks requiring fine motor skills?
Is there something specific you're aiming for? That might help with recommendations that are more suited to your end requirements, although any general fine-motor task will help some with just about anything similar.

As already mentioned support is very important to help dampen or remove wander from the arms, shake from the hands. Engravers, small-scale carvers (e.g. netsuke) have various methods they use to support their wrists, hands or the tool itself. But maybe the best example is watchmaking where they work on tables that are nearly at shoulder height so their forearms are fully supported. That's maybe the gold standard.

I can't imagine if you support you forearms to that sort of degree that you won't get an immediate two- or three-fold improvement, although the fine muscles in your hands and arms will still need training.

Origami. It can be as easy or as complex as you want it to be, and it's a cheap hobby.

Learn how to play a guitar.

Autismfag here if your hand writing is also bad try writing this sentence over and over again with little pressure with a mechanical pencil

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

In school I had to write this a couple thousand times a year and I never got better but I think normal people might improve but you're probably sol

>>625840
do it with your other hand to become ambidextrous

play video games? your fingers dance all over the keyboard in many instances and it builds great muscle memory as well

i grew up drawing and playing video games and have never had a problem being clumsy with things

my exgirlfriend wore all kinds of rings, including thumbrings which made simple things like holding a cup extremely dangerous, she spilled liquids on keyboards numerous times and dropped countless items

perhaps cut down on caffeine as well?

Brush your teeth with the off-hand.

>>625622
>I've recently taken notice of my very clumsy hands.
If you're already an experienced gamer (I should add, and a good player) this may be just the way you're 'wired'.

Some people just seem to be that way, others not. It's not really about their level of fine motor skill than I've noticed since you can have clumsy people who are great typists or knitters.

>>625911
>perhaps cut down on caffeine as well?
Yeah I think this is one of those things that depends on the person. Caffeine in what I'd call regular amounts doesn't give me hand tremors at all, I'd have to have more than a half dozen strong cups, but even with four on board I can still paint miniatures without noticing the brush tip waving about more than normal.

>>625934
I'd go further, if you really want to take a decent stab at making yourself ambidextrous you need to start doing a lot more than just brushing your teeth. Cutting the nails of your dominant hand with the off hand is something virtually everyone already has to do, but filing them isn't and it's a great starter exercise. You'll be amazed at how inept you are at it first few times.

Once you get more confident you need to ramp it up a notch, do things like shaving one half of your face with each hand (adapt as necessary any ladies present). What's surprising is that it'll actually give you a better shave in many cases, in difficult spots like under the jaw.

>>625952
>(adapt as necessary any ladies present)
You are one sweet anon to include ladies, thanks

>>626131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOFBXui3rs
>ladies.
learn this on piano.

>>626133
Awesome Embed

Origami.