The One Handed Twirl Cut is a neat looking card trick. It is performed by twirling or twisting half of the deck of cards around and to the back of the other half.

Tutorial

To start the card trick, hold a deck of cards in your right hand. The thumb and middle finger are placed on the short edges of the cards. The index finger is held on a long edge of the cards and is about 1/3 of the length of the card away from the edge held by the middle finger. The ring finger is held in the middle of the other long edge of the cards.

Move the thumb to the lower corner of the edge it is holding. Separate half of cards from the deck with your thumb by lifting those cards up towards the top corner of this short edge.

Continue to raise the half deck up, using the index finger as an axis. As you do this, your pinky finger comes up to brace the corner of the edge being held by your ring finger.

Rotate your index finger as you lift the cards with your thumb, until you have the two halves of the deck side by side with the index finger in between the two halves.

Slide the top knuckle of your index finger along the edge of the left half of cards. You are really attempting to move the index finger behind these cards, but you need to slide it along so that the cards do not fall over. Once the knuckle passes to the back of the cards you can bring the other half of the cards (being held by the index finger and thumb) down and behind the original location of the whole deck. The middle finger releases from the left half of cards, which are now balancing on top of the index finger and being held in place by the ring and pinky fingers.

Move the index finger out of the way and use your thumb to move the cards all the way behind the original deck.

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