Cool. I was a printer for a decade. You can also lift one corner, pinch that corner after it fans out then lay the corner down while still pinched. Great for counting a lot of paper too.
As a teenager, I used to get paid going door to door distributing flyers, much smaller than A4 paper. The trick I used was to have a bunch of them and squeeze them between my hands (in a prayer position) and twist and this would rotate the top and bottom or so making 3 rotate out and easy to pull off the stack. Especially useful in cold weather when wearing gloves!
Great story! And works in a similar way. I have (as a teacher) always found it a bit disgusting when others lick their fingers and the pull of each sheet of paper and hand them out to students!
I've never seen this before. As far as I can remember, my teachers used the finger licking method back in the days when we weren't so scared of germs ;-) I wonder if this is a similar effect as what card dealers/magicians use when doing some of the tricks with their cards.
Yes, the finger licking method for separating paper lives on! I think if you press on a deck of cards the stretching has a similar effect. Something you might want to try. There is also the bending the pack back and forwards method that is often used to make counting piles of bank notes (if only...) easier.
