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If you ever sit in your office or schoolroom bored out of your mind and twirling your pen around your fingers, perhaps now is the time to take this practice more seriously. Learn a new trick or two, because the serious finger-bending sport of Pen Spinning is a growing one.

Having originated in Japan, competitive pen spinning then spread to Korea and the US, and has now developed set moves such as rapid end to end passes, twirls, the thumbaround (the pen travels 360 degrees around the thumb), and nail spins (the pen spins on a fingernail), and even jumps. Keen pen spinners use specially modified and weighted pens, and to see a quality spinner in action is to see the hand working at the upper limits of its capabilities—fingers and pen both blur. The US-based Universal Pen Spinning Board (see Internet Resources) hold regular, videoed competitions where spinners are judged by their peers on style, tricks and overall routine.

Unfortunately, there is yet to be a serious take up of table-top finger drumming.