I cured my thumb shifting problem (mildly painfully) 

i can HEAR the clarity in this comment

We still love you

I also press shift with my thumb 🤣

Shock therapy is next to keep the progress going!

interesting.

Yeah. I always wondered why his movements were a little odd, and corrections to his movement took longer than I expected. I had just dismissed it as him being a little quirky, but hand straining contortions are more than a little quirky.

Does this mean we won't see it anymore

That’s what I said, it was always a little odd the way he moved and it makes so much sense now

this also explains how all his deaths in the secret life series were so bafflingly clumsy...

BB b

The phrase finger bondage forced me to like this.

i hate this comment’s words

that's enough internet for today

This comment's use of the English lexicon gives me a brain Aneurysm

wasn't expecting to uh... to see those words in that order today. thanks for that mate.

Literally had to put my hand on the keyboard to see how I do it, and ya, no wonder it's odd, doing with one finger what I use 3 for.

@@Nevir202 thats what she said

@@2ktyp LMAO

And the insane accidents he's been in. Or why he is pants at pvp. So much explaining!

That's the most impractical shit ever what 💀💀 how did he even conceive that

W idea for training

@@pizzafire6666A WASD idea perhaps? I'll see myself out. xD

@@projectafterworld2557 NO!!! SEE YOURSELF INTO THE JOKE COMMUNITY!

yeah i was gonna say this should've been the original video

I was thinking the same thing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✌️❤️🌱

Isn't his fault they look so good

Listen back in the day it was stone bricks and smooth stone slabs, this is a SUBSTANTIAL improvement It's a good palette okay? Pearl mostly works in similar palettes in most of her builds, although that palette is usually a lot more complex

@@stephenkrahling1634and sandstone!

​@@stephenkrahling1634or the infamous Sugar Cane, Pillar, Sugar Cane, Brick Wall.

xDDDDD

I really hope that isn't how your therapy sessions went, with the chains and all that.

i mean if we get more mumbo videos....🤔

Technically we did watch physical therapy! I went through physical therapy as a kid, learning to balance, skip, and having a horrible rubber thing on a pencil to force me to hold it correctly 😂

what therapy. shock therapy?

I'll be honest. When I saw the thumbnail (for the video. Not his actual thumbnail) I thought it was going to involve some type of mild electro-shock therapy. That would've been entertaining. Maybe a collab with ElectroBoom is in order.

@@NotThatRingo The thumb is going to the shift key. Let's give it a controlled shock

⁠@@Omniscient_AIUh oh! The ring finger isn’t using the A key to strafe left. Let’s motivate it with a controlled shock

@@sleepdeep305 *Mumbo screaming*

I saw the phrase 'finger bondage', and I love it.

They live in the UK... it was probably a knife🙃

@@michaelrhine3152 Nah must have been threatening to smash his favorite tea cup.

Definitely not happening. I'm pretty sure you would hear grian throwing up in the background from watching his hand.

​​@@DerakosZrux or threatening him with scalding hot tea

​@@michaelrhine3152 i must correct you there, I't wos a knoife, innit?

No way, there were definitely weirder playstyles.

yeh

That makes a load of sense

This happens to me when doing repetitive tasks. Like having to type out a excel sheet 1, 2 etc instead of dragging it makes me sick

Ahh, I did wonder, but I hadn't considered that. Must be similar to playing inverted controls, then, yeah

Don’t remind me how easy it is get sick from a car headset and how just changing your finger positions could affect it too.

Especially when you realize, during all his meetings with other hermits, HE NEVER STANDS STILL

No wonder he fell in the lava during secret life.

@@fjolliff6308 I was just coming down here to say that LoL

I get burnt out thinking about it...

What's funny is, Mumbo's often said he's bad at Parkour, and... well... I think we just learned why, and it WASN'T the thumb thing. I really want to see Mumbo try a parkour course now that he's learned some proper hand positioning.

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​@@dreephit's a bot

It does finally explain how he does it though! Because the pushes the other fingers further left, making thumb shifting just very slightly less awkward.

truuue

Not to be mean but I always thought that he walked around like a bot, and this fully explains it.

The pinky is slightly uncomfortable yes, but the THUMB? I tried reaching for shift with my thumb and immediately got a cramp lol

I have small hands, its nearly impossible to thumb shift for me on a full sized keyboard without some really awkward wrist placement...i think my sprint is just double tap w.

Control as Sprint just baffles me. I have played way to many other games where Shift is sprint and Control is crouch for me to switch now. Every time I launch a new modpack, I have to run to the options to put it that way, the way God Intended!

@@robertellis6853same here, shift for sprint just makes more sense! it is a bit uncomfortable to crouch with ctrl but i sprint more anyways, and when i need to do a lot of crouching i turn it to be a toggle

I always put sprint on the front side button of my mouse (since it has those), so now I'm too used to shift being crouch that i have to change it in other games

The hell you like that?!

Hermit intervention at etho's place

Good luck finding the mystery man who we only know lives in the depths of the Canadian wilderness like some kind of strange Moose

now we just gotta find him since he's without a doubt the most mysterious hermit by far

I'm pretty sure even if we knew where he lives, we'd lose most of the group on the way and then get picked off one by one as we walk through the etho-domain.

@@wyrmeleon801Finding Etho is easy, Joel just needs to get lost in the Canadian wilderness and call for help like a damsel in distress.

Agreed, it’s quite odd tbh.

Oh, many non gamers get motion sick from playing on flat screens, it's a very documented phenomenon, and FOV and screen/HUD shaking options are often explicitly there to battle motion sickness

It definitely helps that this guy has played minecraft A LOT.

Maybe mumbo revolutionised both slime farming and causes of motion sickness?!

@@andrewmirror4611Yeah, that happens a lot. What IS weird thou, and what he probably meant, is that he never got motion sickness... and THEN started doing so because he changed how he clicks the keys. Getting sick because of an underliying association in the brain between the fingers movements and the expected screen movement as a result. If everytime you tried to walk (in game or in real life) forward, you moved to the left... yeah, that's where the motion sickness seems to be comming from.

im left handed and never had an inkling of using my thumb to shift

im left-handed and use my thumb for control but i use my pinky for shift

i feel like its weirder that hes using mouse on non-dominant hand when almost all left-handed people have their mouse on their left hand

​@@zethz161 Anecdotally, I know left-handed people who mouse with their right hand just because that's what they learned when using computers that were set up for right-handed people. They didn't want to bother to change it every time. On the other hand, I had a right-handed manager who learned to mouse with his left hand so he could use it while 10-keying with his right hand. This was in accounting, so very Excel-heavy. I just learned keyboard shortcuts so I didn't have to use my mouse so much, but whatever works!

I've actually been practicing the movements for thumb shifting, and it certainly feels weird, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes! In fact, my pinkie now moves onto the caps lock key so that my thumb has room on shift!

@@gavindinsmoor8196why

@@frozenflame34 Why not?

@@gavindinsmoor8196 good point

i think most gamers have their left hand further in on the keyboard than mumbo, as you see he has his hand very much to the left, making it easier to press shift with the thumb. He is also left handed which does not help in this case

Im pretty sure he's a cinematographer

@@Vohasiiv But he didn't have to flex like that!

@@Vohasiiv (he is)

I don't know if this is intended to be a pun but it is subtle and amazing. I love it, made me laugh 😊

I misread this as "I had no right to go so hard" due to being on mobile and the sentence wrapping to the next line. Thanks, RU-vid.

Is that weird??? I can do pretty easily

... what are your hotkeys

@@thegaminglord5809 to walk diagonally?

They prob play with a with ring w and s with middle and e and d with pointer and space thumb and shit and control with pinky

@mitchellcouchman6589i just tried it out and can confirm very easy to do

CHICKEN PECKING 😭😭

@Chronically_Bored that's what they call it, using just a few fingers to type. It's said to be the wrong way to do it, but if it works it works

@@Chronically_Bored😊

Watching him use two fingers for WASD made me feel like no one can fix Mumbo.

This is actually how i used to play MC (except thumb shifting), but since I started playing other games i use the “correct” way.

I like this lets bump this to the top guys 😂

As a fellow thumb shifter I can confirm I use my thumb for shift when typing.

Yes I am gonna type random words now hated DJ's fluff Doug Greek yawn useful k chew loud but I think it was a little bit like a lot of the things I am doing in 4AM are in a different shape than I was in a different age of a girl and a girl I am so happy to have been in a way you know I was so happy for the reader that I had to make it a point community church in a few other things that could have been done to read the bible in the world of love and love it as an opportunity for a hobby to read a lot about a book that I had to read the bible for a few years ago to get a job and I have 4no I am a good writer but I'm not the best person to do with my work and the other way I think it's a good thing 3rd and most of it is the most common in a way that I had never heard from the person who would be a good idea to me in the first place but I think it's a good idea for them and the way they do that you know what they are going to say to them that they are going to have to be a good deal if you don't want to be in the same way that you can do that you can get to the point where is the most common thing you can do that will be the best way you can get to the point where you can do it in your own life in a way that you can make a good deal about it and you have to make it a little easier to read and write 4a for a hobby 4or that you have to be a good idea for 5PM and the way it is in the world of the world is going to be an opportunity for the reader to make a point of what the spirit of the world of the things you are in the first place you have a chance to make it helps to know what you want and how you feel and how to make it a better way to make a good deal of yourself with a good deal about it in the world of the things that are so good deal with the world is not the same as it is in a different place than the other people who die in a way that is a good idea to use it as an opportunity for the people of the United States and the world of love to make it helps you to be a good deal with your own business and the world is not the same way you are not in a different place and you are in a way you are in the world is going on in your mind and the way you are not in the first half that you're not going through a long time to get to know your partner or something else that is not the same way you can get a job and a lot of the time you are not going through a lot more people in the first half of this country than the one in a way you can get a lot more people in the first half of this year than that of a new generation in a different place than we are now and the way it works is in our minds that use it to make a good idea to the audience and a few years ago and a lot more people than ever before and a few other projects in the world is going on in the first place in a different place than the one in the world is going on the same as a whole other things to me than that in the world is not a real thing for the reader that you have a lot to do with the world of love in your mind and you can do it without a lot more than that in the world is

I tend to actually only type with my index fingers. Don't only play with my index finger though, I use all of them like a normal person.

He has said that he doesn't use his thumb for shift when typing

Index also on E for inventory, and ring also on Q for throw item!

pinky also control

My way.

holy, I never realized that mumbo walk in just one direction, but yeah now he's a bit more walk freely

@@DaniSC_real yeah same

I never even realized that lmao, that's hilarious

Oh !!! You're so right!!! I never noticed that of him!!

I wonder if this was why he couldn't react to a lot of sudden things in minecraft?

they cyber bullied him into doing it lmao

It’s actually making me feel awful watching this video, Why can’t people just let him play how he naturally plays?

@@CaymenEditz Grian got cyberbullied into finishing The Back Of The Base last season, and this season he went out of his way to ensure there would _be_ no "back". How is Mumbo gonna be playing by Season 11, at this point?

@@owenbridgersit’s all in good spirits clearly they are joking lol - you can hear him laughing

Mumbo said that he doesn't like to shift too much because his thumb gets tired. It's healthy for him to change that.

Get this man on quake

Been playing fps games for years and i have always done Middle finger for W, and Pointer for A, S, and D, yes i shift with thumb

​@@Reid-Ma Thats what I do to. 😮 Man I thought I was the only one who did this.

@@huntish3760 Torturing Mumbo with Finger Bondage and Unreal Tournament.

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⁠@@MyContentIsWayBetterget outta here you bozo.

​@@MyContentIsWayBetter Go outside

I think he meant the phrase

I uhh, also thumb shift 😳

I have big hands and also thumb shift. Been playing since 2012!

Yea, I press shift with my index finger

There is at least one other person that does this.

Big fan of your work with Alan Becker’s AVM animations!

I'm just horrified at what his piano lessons must have been like...

I didn't expect to see you here.

Me watching this video: I just wanna do a little finger dance 🕺

Yea as long as he doesn't doesn't damage his hand, I recently had to read up on Robert Schumann

Absolutely

On the contrary, I think the overall hand configuration together makes a lot more sense than randomly crossing the thumb under the rest of the fingers.

@@dbseamz But the weirdest part is that he didin't even realize he was WASD'ing with just index finger. Besides the fact that he was actually doing that this whole time, of course. Those things are way weirder than just thumb-shifting, even if the thumb-shifting itself doesn't seem so weird in this context.

as an artist and amateur guitarist, I agree

I mean, he IS playing on a keyboard... :)

@@hoseinsan9752You know, I blame most of the way I type with having learned typing and piano around the same time. Keyboards, you gotta tap em (just right, or you get carpal tunnel and spinal muscle detachment)

You never did the isolation exercises to get your fingers moving independently?

@@GuiSmithI got a question, do you press harded on WASD to make the player run faster? Just me? Oh well.... Same thing for jumping lol.

now we know why his shuffle is so iconic

Who tf uses a single finger for WASD😭😭😭😭

@@chsinger96me bc coordination with dyspraxia is hell 😂 😭

Thanks! I hate it

I didn't even notice that 😂😂😂

My phone took a while to respond to clicking the time stamp and I was caught off guard lol

So true was trying to figure out what he sounded like

2:24* 🐬🐁

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Everyone was thinking it but only you had the power to say it

I wish you hadn't lol

we have similar pfps and names

As a thumb shifter myself, I had to fix it because it started making my crap joints even worse.

@@greenrryt well met good fellow, I see you have excellent taste in colors as well as usernames

@@idiotically-everything I guess the only good thing about my hands is that I wouldn’t be able to shift my thumb like that even if I wanted to 😭💀 Istg my piano and violin skills are being restrained due to my hands being the size of that of a toddler’s

@@greenzleaf Yeah, my joints can't do their job so I have chronic pain, and doing things in ways that aren't ergonomic make it worse :)

Yeah, i think his pinky and ring finger were kinda just not connected to his brain. Good thing he can still move them somewhat.

I know.... I love Mumbo and all, but sir, that just made my opinion of you drop a couple more levels than shifting with just your thumb did....

people don’t only use one finger for movement?

it makes me sad

​@@reardenbentley9622Most people use ring for A, middle for W and S, and pointer for D

Perfect lol

I moved Drop all the way to right shift. Since i basically never have a need to quickly drop items, and dont want to accidentally drop a pickaxe or something in lava.

I go with P

Same

I moved it to M

my old maths teacher used to point to things on the board with her middle finger lol

Pov him: “look at that plane ✈️ ” What people see: “F you sky people!”

i think he calls his middle finger his index finger, but he uses the correct term for pointer finger

@@khyrmieemy little sister used to point with her middle finger for years, ever since she was a little toddler up until around the age of seven or so. Rude associations aside, it was so strange seeing her contort her little hand like that just to point at something. Kind of like how mumbo thumb shifts: it gets the job done, but there’s a much easier and less mechanically involved way of doing that same simple task.

The Mumbo finger terminology: Thumb, Pointer, Index, Third, Pinky

Of all the things to take from this video, never would I have thought a scientific study would come out of this...

@@navidryanrouf441 Mumbo's weird ideas have fueled the Tech community to revolutionize slime farming, and now physical therapy. :D

@@navidryanrouf441Agreed

He said in the pinned comment that's it's a full sized keyboard, he just has big hands.

Having big fingers over a comparatively smaller keyboard. Hmm. He probably also faced the issue Ren had with fingers too close to use on WASD, but he just used 1 finger where Ren keybinded it differently.

I have average hand size (like 20cm) and microsoft ergonomic keyboards do the trick for me, sadly there's no mechanical variant and newer ones suck

a larger keyboard would have to be entirely custom built because his hands are. Large.

Could definitely get or make a larger membrane board too

it would make minecraft so much easier for him in the long run though

@@__AbAbeits not even that, with the way he did, especially his thumb, he could get tendinites or carpal tunnel, it was a health risk!

It will help, just that there would be a quirk manifesting. Just like when I was forced to write with the thumb and the index finger rather than the entire fist, my ring finger started doing ... things.

Not withdrawal: having to consciously keep on top of your mechanical behaviors constantly is a great deal of additional load on your brain. Walking (for example) is natural and automatic for a lot of people, but if you had a stroke and had to learn again, keeping up the focus to move your body in the right ways drains you a ton even if your muscles haven't atrophied very much at all

Bro xD

It's muscle memory. When I had switched from a bicycle with a foot-brake (pedal backwards to brake) to one with a hand brake, but then had to use my old bike for a photoshoot, I kept finding myself reaching for a lever that wasn't there whenever I wanted to stop. Luckily I was riding slow enough that I never needed to stop quickly. Was I "addicted" to using the newer bike's hand brake? No.

@@dbseamzlike me when I’m so used to drawing with my Apple Pencil I tap the side of my irl pencil to get the eraser tool…

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imagine how much you need to fix etho

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Gotta get Etho an entirely new setup lol

Right, but that cable was so the pianist had to strain the joint more to move. Mumbo’s safety-cord things aren’t straining his finger, they’re just preventing them from moving to a different key

That pianist was Robert Schumann, who after temporarly paralyzing his middle and ring finger at his right hand and broke his pianist career, turned to composing becoming a world known composer

Am I thinking about someone else, I thought the guy was stretching his fingers apart so he could play more keys?

@@baritonemickeyso what you’re saying is that mumbo is going to end his Minecraft career with a devastating injury and turn into a Minecraft developer so he can fix all the redstone issues

I heard of a similar thing once where on order to free his hands and increase his range he had a doctor sever a tendon in his hand and it just made half his hand go limp

Well, I press W and S with my middle finger, D with my pointer/index finger, and A with my ring finger, so there's that. I got it from when I used to play a game called Tanki Online, and I would move the tank using the arrow keys with the same 3-finger deal with my right hand, which made it very easy to turn and go forward/backward at the same time, and with my left hand I would have my pinkie on Z to turn the turret left, my ring finger on X to turn the turret right, my middle finger on C to bring the turret to center, and my pointer/index finger on the spacebar to fire the gun, not even touching the mouse, and you didn't have to aim the gun up or down, it just kinda fired up or down within a certain window automatically. When I started playing other games, I did the same 3-finger control with my left hand on WASD. It's a bit weird, but at least I have a reasonable and understandable explanation for where it came from, unlike Mumbo.

Yes, that is how most people play video games

@@andreinaf Oh, when Mumbo was going on about using his pointer finger I got confused and thought he meant that most people push WASD with only their middle finger.

​@@sambrown6426nope normal people use 3 of their fingers on WASD

I have been mentally damaged by that proposition

he should change the thumb thing though because that's leading straight to carpal tunnel

it's worth changing for ergonomics reasons - a guy who plays video games for a living should play those video games in a way that won't mess with his hands - but i get what you mean about how mumbo shouldn't change just to fit in.

Playing Minecraft is his job, the issue here is you're suggesting something that could lead to health problems. The way he uses his hand on the board can lead to carpal tunnel and other health complications. It's smart to force this change now and never have to deal with the fallout of not having done it.

@@vulpix9210big agree.

True I changed keyboards and cured my weird key pressing ways

This is very true for me too

the keyboard he's using is so small it actually makes sense why he's using this "setup" with his hand

hi rekrap

rekrap should collab with mumbo sometime, I feel mumbo could use the insight and rekrap could learn a thing or two about redstone

YES FREAKIN PLEASE. WHOLE HERMITCRAFT EPISODE LIKE THIS PLEASE

Watching this made me think of my entire history on how i used the keyboard starting from Y8 games 😐 And how i came to the standard way of playing.

I loved that laugh so much! He laughs like me!

XDD he just makes so many odd noises

for real, ive never heard him laugh that hard before!! made me smile :3

Lol it's actually like a squeaky toy. I didn't notice it the first time round 😂

Right? Like that DOLPHIN SQUEAK

That's what I call a monkey brain approach to problem solving.

Lol, this is actually still a thing. They're used in sheet metal manufacturing when the operator has to hold a piece at the same time they operate the press. I also work in the powdered metal industry and all the operators have figured out how to press both buttons with one arm (hand and elbow)

Yup still in use for when you are working around punch presses that have pinch points. Trust me after watching a de-gloving video or two you don’t forget the straps lol. I used to work in a metal forming and parts fabrication factory and as annoying as those straps are they keep your digits intact. It’s really easy to become complacent when doing monotonous tasks around heavy machinery.

Still a thing for example in Brandon's video on the words of radiance leatherbound

I work in a factory, and a good amount of the manual machines that use any hydraulics require two buttons to activate. The exception being anything old. Every old machine there could well be a Deathtrap.

well now this makes me feel bad about the fact that i'm a thumb shifter but i use all 3 fingers for WASD