One-Handed Shuffle (Tutorial) 

It's great how you're so encouraging to people with small hands. 'A lot of people's hands aren't gonna be big enough to perform this'. It's really up to the individual what they can or cannot do in card flourishing. It's people like you that halt the progress of cardistry, place boundaries where there are none, discourage potential performers. Thanks for teaching, but I don't think a lot of viewers are gonna be enthusiastic about learning.

Wow, thank you, Jarek. I only managed to do this shuffle once and by accident, couldn't believe when it worked. Your tutorials are pure gold and this in particular is platinum... nah, rhodium! Rare and of highest value!

A quick tip for everyone: The process of weaving the packets together (Faro style) is greatly facilitated when you allow your index finger to break the packets directly at the top right corner. Pulling from around the middle with the index finger and weaving in that manner makes it much harder. Try pulling directly from the corner.

the fact that you say it's so hard to do makes me feel really good about myself :)

i was trying this for about 2 weeks and then you told about the middle finger and practiced one day and nailed it. thank you Jarek :D improved my shuffle

Awesome, I can *just* do it. I originally learnt by watching derren brown do it, but your tutorial really helped. DB does it differently though, he riffle shuffles then together

THANK YOU so much! BEST tutorial ever!! you are boss!!

this saved my life the other day. I was doing this on trick called out of this world and by the time I finished setting up and told the guy what he had to do was place red cards in one pile and black cards in the other w/o looking at the cards, he said out loud that i set up the cards somehow and asked me to see the cards. while he was telling everyone the card trick I did two of these shuffles quickly and showed him the deck was random, making him look like an idiot, thank god for this shuffle!

Thank you for this. After a couple of days I can do it, but its still slow and have like a 1/5 success rate....but getting better. The one thing I find is its quickly callusing the tip fomr my index finger when its wedged in-between the decks.

Very well explained, thank you.

I started with a bridge deck...they're a little smaller than the regular cards and they helped

Great tutorial, thanks!

thanks for this, i'm finally starting to get some were with it, I just feel like screaming when i do it all perfect then at the end when shoving the cards together by squeezing they end up springing all over but I can do it say 3 out of every ten tries so its defentaly coming together. been practicing it a week tomorrow. Thanks again for the tips and tutorial.

thanks for the great tutorial man i can finally do it now, took me 3 days of constant practice but after one ruined deck i can finally look like the a bad ass card dealer.

thanks for tteaching all this moves, I¡m getting started with all ths stuff and that's exactly what I need. thx 5*****

Awesome tutorial... Just FYI, I am learning this, and i nearly got it.. I am not as fast or good as you, but I have very small hands, and this is still possible to learn. Especially if you have decent card control. It may be harder, but it's not at all impossible to do this with small hands. Like IE if you are a woman or like me, a guy with small hands.

Thanks! i learnt it in 1 hour tips for everyone, i find it A LOT easier if your thumb is moved down towards your pinky and below the half way line of the pack and then have your index near the top. This way it is alot easier :D

@Taltta89 The longer or larger the hand can perform the action probably easier, but with practice any size hand can perform the action.

Same ploblem here,wondering me till now. And I found out some main tricky part: 1.The BRAND of the poker,do with Bicycle easier than Bee-ESPECIALY the new ones! Cause Bee ones' cards' border would split/be creased,when you used to play/shuffle it (found out the others' sequence yourself,I just hold these two brand poker) 2.INDEX FINGER is the KEY before mix(or you can called it "put") two piles as "range upon range,fold up" -and there are two way to mix two decks' cards up,but characters limit

i also like how u fan them cards and how to put them back 2gether

Excellent tutorial. Took about a week to get it without dropping cards all the time. Still mastering it, though.

After you make your initial cut let your index finger nail slide across the half and you will get to both halves in one hand. After you learn it in one hand learn to do in the other then you can do two decks at once, looks really cool.

You don't need to have big hands, you just need to know the feeling of a deck of cards. You know, when I first started out, I dreamt of doing all those amazing cuts and flourishes. Now that I am for about a year in flourishing, I've never even practiced this cut, but I'm still able to do it (not smooth, but still I'm able) even though my hands are pretty small. It's not about the size, it's about practice :)

Nice I will practice every chance

@Makashi996 just tried to do it with my opposite hand like that, it works ^

Cool. Watching this I wish I had cards.

@Taltta89 good for you

I find that it helps a whole lot if you bend the deck in half from top to bottom before you begin the trick 😁

I'm 5'2" with fairly small hands. I can do this pretty well, but with a slight variation since I can't reach my middle finger to support the top of the packet. I, instead, tilt it up so that gravity pushes the packet onto my pinky that's supporting the bottom. The only down side is if you can't get your weave in the first time, because you don't have a finger on top to slide up and down to help push the packets together.

great video bro

Hi Jarek I just wanted 2 know if u have an tutorial on an one handed cut?????

@Max11Seven I'm happy for you bro

can you use the same cut from the Hot Shot effect? It was some sort of spin cut.

another challenge for me, great !!

GOOD , GOOD tutorial .

I might try this again when I can do more than a charlier cut. I can't even properly manage to stitch the cards together xD

You need hands big enough to jack an elephant to do this shuffle!!!!

:D:D nice tutorial i got it at first try :)

When i lift up the bottom half i inevitably slid one bottom card of the other half with my index... how can i prevent it from doing it?

does this work with non plastic cards?

Jarek, can you do the Waterwheel? I'm learning one-handed shuffle just for that.

:0 I have smallish bk hands and I still managed to pull this off :)

@superchef78 Then perhaps you could enlighten me, because I can't even get the one handed cut down. Every time I go to push up the second half with my index, my thumb immediately loses the grip on the top packet, and my middle and ring fingers aren't long enough to keep it from toppling over. My thumb isn't long enough to maintain a hold on the pack through any stage of the lifting. As soon as I put any lift on the packet, I can't hold the grip.

Same happened to me. That's crazy

my hands are just slightly too small but with some more practice i might be able to get it

@GamePlayer596 use bridge size

yes exactly 3 weeks for me too after I av seen this video :)

Very nice!!! Great manipulation!!! 5***** Agustin

DAMN THESE TINY HANDS!!!!!!!!!!

5 minutes! i learned this in 5 minutes!

are you right handed? The reason i ask id because i recently learned how to do a one handed cut and was practicing with my right hand (because i am right handed) but to humor myself i tried with my left hand and realized that i can do it way better with my left hand

@freddyfive15 YOU GOT THREE WEEKS BROTHER!

you said that the harderst part was moving one of the two cut parts to the other hand that the motion was really hard.... well here's some new for ya ;) the hardest part is the get the cards nicely in overlaping eachother ^^

i am strongly right handed. i am amazing with my left hand at doing one handed cuts and i suck with my right hand

Well what's pretty weird to me and one handed stuff is that the one handed cut works better for my right hand which is my dominant hand but hotshot only works for my left hand

I cant wedge the cards together.Help?

For small hands you use the bridge size and for big you use a normal size.

I still don't know how to stick the decks like in the 3.07 . Can anyone tell me how to do that?

If you have small hands or have trouble doing this shuffle; place your middle finger on top of the packet as it shoots up. Then you are in position for the riffle.

the hard part for me is to get the cards to riffle in each other, so i always placed the two card piles on my hand to practice that riffle thing so the piles become one pile. it didnt work so i decided to practice that flip motion that gets the two piles in the position right before the shuffle part. so i tried it the first time not slow but fast and what the heck! i succeeded and the shuffle part began automatically without me doing something. it shocked me so that i fucked the rest up and began to laugh. he mentioned that it is hard to do it slow, so i learned at least to practice this shuffle fast, it works fine for me.

The fact that he is left handed makes it so much easier for me cause I'm a lefty too!

I notice as ad over at 52 kards doesn't put his middle finger up top. Maybe he's just different. Lol. I know I need to use the middle finger.

I finally mastered it. It took about 2 weeks. Well I saw this vid 4 months ago. N tried it and gave up. Lol

Oh, haha. Really original.

@pklukepk Maybe I just teach it a lot better than I expected I would o_O

It's hard to weave the cards. I almost do it, and I have small hands.

well, i think this is a good enough tut not to get criticized, the magic community IS quite a small place compared to others( not everyone have an interest, place, or knowledge of stuffs), and an even smaller part of the community knows how to do this( not the cardistry community, the magic one), so he is kinda right about it being hard. i will disagree with him about hand size, my hand barely fit 2 halves of a deck and i'm going fine with my practice

Challenge: Take a deck. Riffle off half into your other hand face up (one hand has face up cards and the other hand has facedown). Onehand shuffle both hands simultaneously and bring both hands together and have them both bridge the cards at the same time to restore the deck. That last part probably made no sense lol

oh my gosh, i did it, i thought it was so damn hard

this is a very useful skill if you like playing 52 card pick up lol

I'm so close!!!

Only part I'm not getting is how to weave/interlace the two packets together

I can't friggen jab the cards togeda

great tutorial, five stars

its the shooting up part i have trouble with :/

stitching is the hardest... cant even do it with two hands

No idea how I ever mastered this. One hand cut - including three way - yes but not this. Tip: There are smaller decks that are great to practise these types of things with.

Are you left-handed?

@xJAYxJAYEDx Took me 3 weeks to learn dude :\

same here :)

it's so hard to shove the two half-decks together...

derren brown does it

my internet is so laggy, it paused at 1:14. "you need a BIG..."

waoooo cooll ooo so coll dude!!!! suscribe from me !

i learned in 30mins

I learned how and I tell my brother later but he's getting better but I'm getting worse LOL

Paused the video 1000000 times to pickup the cards

I can't do it because I have small hands

Dr.Hybrid247 didn't you read the comment here can do it

This is the oldest magic vedio I am seeing till today.. OMG.. 11 years man

Would be more helpful if you inverted the camera.

my hand is about 10 inches and I can't do it wtf

I had to fucking sit on my other hand so I wouldnt try to aid the split shit is mad hell to learn this but I'm close

I find it more natural to start with a swing cut.

*true one- hand→truly one-hand

master it half a week

its a lot easier to learn only using 2/3 of a deck maybe because i have small hands

I don't like doing this, it can bend your cards when you push them directly into each other, I'd rather do an awesome riffle shuffle behind my head!

My hands are too small, hahaha!

@Taltta89 "small as shit" I dunno, buddy, some of my shits are pretty massive! Jokes, I agree completely with your comment. Hand size doesn't mean too much with the one handed shuffle, it's all practice. Also (to the uploader), you may not have ever "seen another human being" doing this, but the comments section of this video, probably consisting of at least some amateurs, including myself, is full of "human beings" who can perform this. I really think you're blowing things out of proportion.