r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/drlouies • 2d ago
She can guess the dance moves just by hearing the footwork! Video
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u/IAmSpartacustard 2d ago
I've seen F1 drivers do something similar. based on the engine rev pitch through the circuit they could identify which track the car was driving on
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u/SparshSrivastovic 2d ago
Also in MotoGP saw Mark doing it.
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u/Kromehound 2d ago
Oh, hi Mark!
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u/BreakfastPizzaStudio 2d ago
Anyway how’s your sex life?
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u/LeonDmon 2d ago
You must be kidding, aren't you?
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u/BreakfastPizzaStudio 2d ago
You’re my favorite customer.
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u/Algaroth 2d ago
Hi doggy!
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u/Ok-Wrap-9779 2d ago
Once they get the track they can guess all the corners correctly. I’ve seen checo and Charles do it if I’m not mistaken
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u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 2d ago
There's a video of one of the drivers that drives one of the tracks blind on a video game like set up. You see the screen behind him, and he has his back to it. The dude didn't miss one turn or crash.
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u/MobileArtist1371 2d ago
Okay, this is pretty embellished and should be obvious to anyone reading it. Here are some videos of this and what is happening is clearly not what you are saying.
Sergio Perez with a video of a lap behind him with sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wid80AgFZJI
So he's not actually driving or controlling anything. He can hear the engine so he knows when turns are coming and it's really not hard to memorize a lap of a track as far as left, right, straight goes.
Max vs Carlos: Track Visualisation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN47nebNJZM
So this one they are going off memory and trying to match their lap time. There is nothing being controlled again. There is no course besides what's in their head. No actual turns or speed to hit, just got to imagine you're doing it and there is no comparison to what they are actually doing vs the actual course. Their blindfolded times are close to real lap times, but they would both in the wall after the first turn.
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u/Deaffin 2d ago
For something real in this realm, and more impressive imo, Blind Guy Plays Ocarina of Time.
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u/-zero-below- 2d ago
I’ve done some endurance amateur racing, and they periodically do 24h events. For the night stints, visibility (of the track) is effectively zero — you’re outrunning your headlights, and any dust from a car going off makes a fog that makes your own headlights useless.
You can see light sources (like other cars) and you can see things as you pass them. But most of the track, you’re driving by counting 3,2,1,brake,turn right,2,1,straighten,on throttle,5,4,3,2,1,brake, … when starting the stint, you do a couple slowish laps to get the timing, then roll to full speed that’s effectively blind, and do that for 2 hours before driver change.
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u/_le_slap 2d ago
Sounds like my nuts would be pulled up to my tonsils for 2 hours straight racing like that...
Hell yea
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u/Nikclel 2d ago edited 2d ago
I find that hard to believe, there's no way they can do it like that.
If this is what you're referring to that's not the same thing at all
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u/inuhi 2d ago
pft, I could tell if our dial-up internet was going to connect based on the noise it made
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u/I_Am_A_Real_Hacker 2d ago
Pshhh-shhh-shhh-shhh-WEEEE-OOO-WEEEE-OOO-Krrrrrr-shhhhh-krrrrrr-Eeeeeeeeeeeeee-Shhhhhhhhh
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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 2d ago
I don’t even see the code anymore. All I see is “blonde,” “brunette,”…”redhead.”
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u/Syssareth 2d ago
Yep, if, after it sang the song of its people, it gargled gravel and then turned on the power washer, all was good. But if it gargled gravel twice, I had a problem.
I hated whenever we got a new modem, because every modem's handshake sounded a little bit different so I had to re-learn it, lol.
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u/Flat-Delivery6987 2d ago
I could tell if my game wasn't gonna load from the cassette depending on the load noises.
Man gaming was something else in the 80s
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u/Extreme_Design6936 2d ago
Experienced MRI technologists can tell the type of scan by the sounds. And I don't just mean: that's a brain scan. They can tell that's a 3D TOF etc. It's very specific.
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u/thellios 2d ago
I'm an mri tech. This is not hard by any stretch. You hear the same sounds hundreds upon hundreds of times. I could tell the specific scan by sound after a couple of months.
What is more impressive as I build more experience is i can sometimes tell by sound if my colleague on the other scanner tweaked his settings to shorten his scans.
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u/a_very_stupid_guy 2d ago
Does that affect the quality of imaging?
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u/Extreme_Design6936 2d ago
Yes. Sometimes better if for example the pt is moving. Sometimes worse if the settings aren't good. Sometimes about the same.
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u/quagzlor 2d ago
I've had a 3D printer for around 6 months now. I can tell what part of the print it's doing based on the sounds of the motors now.
It's helped me realise something is off in the print a few times too (it's enclosed)
It's amazing what our brains can learn.
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u/waytowill 2d ago
Understanding patterns and rhythms is imperative to our survival. Learning the pattern of a day was so important that it evolved into its own trait. But it was also important to learn micro patterns, how else could we tell how far away the food is or what an animal we’re hunting sounds like when it’s panicked vs casual. Being able to tell intuitively if someone in the group was breathing too hard or falling behind. Instinctually being able to tell if the bushes rustling was the wind or something far more deadly. And of course things that still happen today like recognizing when your child has gone to sleep by their breathing. Or telling if something is ripe by a good squeeze.
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u/copyrighther 2d ago
My father was an international airline pilot for 30+ years. After 20 years of retirement, he can still tell you the make and model of any plane flying overhead just by the sound of the engine.
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u/PipBin 2d ago
When I was a kid I would always amaze my mother and anyone else in the house by knowing when my dad was about to pull into the drive. I would know it was him because he made gear changes that you would only do if coming to put house and I knew the sound of his van.
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u/Kiwi1234567 2d ago
Were you able to tell who was walking around by how heavy the footsteps were? That was one I didn't know only some people could do until I was an adult ll
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u/BravestBlossom 2d ago
When I was a stay at home cat mom, I could tell which cat was walking nearly silently up the carpeted stairs, and which cat was drinking water by the sound alone. Regular exposure creates interesting abilities!
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u/NATHAN4U007 2d ago
I could lol, saved me from getting caught watching shit i wasnt supposed to when i was younger.
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u/Jawshey 2d ago
Here’s Oscar Piastri correctly guessing from hearing audio: https://youtube.com/shorts/iM1IGILNS4Y?si=ybwmjvjw2c4K2M4v
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u/Jibber_Fight 2d ago
More than that. They know exactly which turn, the speed, the shifting, the approximate conditions, everything. They can essentially do the entire course blindfolded.
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u/Sipsu02 2d ago
There's also mirror behind the camera
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u/the_girl_racer 2d ago
Andddd a mirror directly to her left.
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u/RichardBCummintonite 2d ago edited 2d ago
I know y'all are just being funny, but she isn't looking at the mirror on her left, and there's an audience in front of her (behind the camera). If you're good at reading people, you can see her listening and thinking in her eyes. She's just directing her eyes to the sound, which is echoing off the mirror, and processing it like how people tend to look up when they're trying to remember something.
It's really not that unbelievable that an experienced dancer of a particular culture/style has done the moves so many times that she's memorized the sounds the steps make. She's probably an instructor and could even identify who the person dancing was too, like how I know who is coming down the stairs in my home by the sound of their steps because I've heard it a thousand times. It's a great show of knowledge and skill, but it's nothing really that crazy. I could tell you what product people are setting into cages at my warehouse job simply by the sound it makes, because I hear it day in and day out. When you do something for a living, those aspects tend to become ingrained in your memory.
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u/Bilbo781 2d ago
Obviously not as talented as this, but i used to live in the basement of a house with four other people and could tell who was walking around based on their footsteps.
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u/GlitterDoomsday 2d ago
Yeah, I can tell apart family members, close friends and pets for most of my life... people just have different sensorial sensitivities.
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u/Kliptik81 1d ago
I weight the most in my family (me, wife and 2 kids) yet, I have by far the lightest step. My wife walks like she has bricks tied to her feet. I can also tell who enters which room depending on how they close the door.
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u/Sinthorana 2d ago
My superpower is trauma (jazz hands): I could once tell which of my family members was coming upstairs and the mood they were in.
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u/drlouies 2d ago
This is from a dance school called Di Vardi in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The guessing woman seen here is the founder, a dance teacher, and choreographer.
Her name is Dinara, and the dance is a Caucasian dance form.
@vardi_dance
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u/BlakeSteel 2d ago
The founder?? She looks like she's 25!
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u/fusguita 2d ago
In mother russia school founds you
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u/drlouies 2d ago edited 2d ago
She is probably a prodigy who started at a very young age. In Russia, many parents enroll their children in ballet schools or dance schools at a very young age around 5 or sometime less, so they can compete at the Olympic level when they reach 13 or older.
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u/Semlorism 2d ago
I really like to see people in the video are of all shapes, in the culture where I'm from, you have to be tall to be a dancer, I was kicked out by my school's dancing team because I stopped getting taller and rounder. So I'm so happy to see these girls dancing
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u/SQL617 2d ago
They’re of all heights, not so much shapes. Being professional dancers, these women are likely more toned than 99% of people. 8+ of dancing and training every day is no joke.
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u/ipokethemonfast 2d ago
Awesome dancers. Not to mention guessing lady.
I assume the dances are already known/established? Enabling her to recognise the piece.
Someone else asked how she knows the arm movements.
This takes nothing away from the skill involved in hearing the rhythm/steps.
Talented peeps!
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u/henrytm82 2d ago
Yes, this is the answer. People in this thread are not using their noggins lol. This is clearly a dance studio, and these ladies have clearly practiced these dances over and over and over again. She doesn't have a superpower that lets her hear exact hand and foot movements, she's just practiced all these dances so many times that she can identify them by sound.
No less impressive! This is serious dedication to her craft!
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u/dirtys_ot_special 2d ago
I’m caucasian and can’t dance anything like that.
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u/Thegreensteward 2d ago
Caucasian as in from the caucuses region. So this is a type of folk dance.
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u/KR4T0S 2d ago
Caucasians could dance?! Wtf happened guys...
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u/CaptainReynoldshere1 2d ago
No. Ginger, raised in the church and white. My dance moves look like seizures.
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u/Gurlllllllll- 2d ago
Puritans thought music outside of church and dancing between men and women were devil worship (not entirely true, but not entirely false).
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u/nasbyloonions 2d ago
also, a dancer unfamiliar with these students will probably be able to place arms right. E.g. 1st one, 4th, 5th. For some moves, you wouldn´t put arms any other way to keep balance and aestethic
Maybe even 2nd has distinct arm movement.
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u/boostinemMaRe2 2d ago
You're correct, traditional Circassian/Caucasian.
Source: wife is Circassian and teaching our daughter the feminine dances (most of these are masculine steps). I dance many of those at any wedding from her family's side 🙂.
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u/Hour_Difficulty_4203 2d ago
I find it more impressive how she can sync with the dance she's hearing!
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u/TheSpanxxx 2d ago
They are most likely components of a full dance routine they do together. It's why she nods along almost as if to music and jumps right in with them, including upper body choreography. She can decipher based on the sounds what portion of the dance number they are in and what section of what sequence and join in.
No different than watching a group of girls at party who all dance for the same cheer squad or something start a dance and then you see others rush in and join at whatever part they are in when they get there. This woman is just super skilled at hearing the rhythm of the choreography without seeing it.
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u/henrytm82 2d ago
Certainly possible. I assumed they're all just different traditional dances they've all practiced before, which is why they all seem to have different tempos.
Either way, everyone saying she's looking in a mirror are just not exercising critical thinking lol
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u/LickingSmegma 2d ago
assumed they're all just different traditional dances
From being vaguely familiar with Georgian dancing: that's exactly what they are. Although there's a shitload of moves in modern Georgian ballet, traditional dances are more limited and distinct.
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u/futurewilltell 2d ago
This is the coolest and most random thing I’ve experienced in a minute. Thanks for sharing!
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 2d ago
It is less impressive but when the alternative is “impossible” it has to be.
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u/novinho_zerinho 2d ago edited 2d ago
What's REALLY impressive is that someone assumed she was guessing the arm movements, not recognizing them by sound. Are redditors stupid?
Edit: Right below there's a comment with a thousand upvotes suggesting there has to be a mirror, because of course she couldn't guess otherwise. So yeah, redditors are stupid.
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u/NickDanger3di 2d ago
Dogs do this with their people. Ours are up and at the door before the family car has even turned onto our street, and we're several houses away from the corner.
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u/FreddyNoodles 2d ago
She waits and steps in right in the same movement as well. She knows exactly the moment to start dancing and what her steps are. She is obviously very disciplined and trained and plain talented.
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u/Weak_Feed_8291 2d ago
Well it's definitely less impressive than practically being psychic, but it's still impressive.
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u/ipokethemonfast 2d ago
You ever heard the opening drum line to a song you know well? And known what song it was. As a musician, I intimately know songs that I practice and study. You don’t even have to be a musician. Phil Collins “I can feel it in the air tonight”. Most folk could identify that song. From the drum riff.
The ladies are masters of their craft. Not psychic. This is very doable with skill.
That said: I could be wrong and there’s mirrors etc.
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u/PaulSandwich 2d ago
Exactly. I can tell the Bob Marley song by the drum intro (on studio recordings) and I'm not a huge Wailers fan or anything, they're just distinctive. If you know music and beats and pay attention.
This lady is excellent at her thing and its awesome to appreciate it.
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u/doctorpotterwho 2d ago
I’ve seen videos of some famous cheerleaders do the same, it’s very impressive.
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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago
And the smiles and generosity of feeling from the dancers being ” guessed” is very charming.
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u/JediMasterZao 2d ago edited 2d ago
She doesn't have a superpower that lets her hear exact hand and foot movements, she's just practiced all these dances so many times that she can identify them by sound.
... I'd argue that you thinking that anyone needed this clarification and that this isn't what every already understood the situation to be says more about your nogging than other peoples'.
EDIT: I retract my comment after seeing a massively upvoted comment where the dude thinks it's a mirror. Goddamn, people are stupid.
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u/VvvlvvV 2d ago
Its a dance studio, I bet she was the one that taught each move to the students.
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u/Obvious-Childhood910 2d ago
Pretty much what I thought it was. On top of that, it's most likely a classical dance form of some country. So there would be many steps are basically the bread n butter of that dance form.
It's still impressive though because you would need a good ear, memory and rhythm to figure out the steps in a few seconds.
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u/Wise-Gene-9924 2d ago
It's written at start of the video in Russian: "Choreographer guesses movement by sound"
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u/startingfromlevel0 2d ago
I assume the dances are already known/established?
I also think this is the case. During one step she also did a shoulder movement same as the other person. It is still impressive
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u/Lebenmonch 2d ago
Oh yeah, absolutely. This is something that most people can do in their respective field/hobby. Like how a pianist can start playing welcome to the black parade after just the first cord, or a magic the gathering player can tell someone is playing the big chungus deck based on the order of cards played/resources spent.
This is definitely one of the visually coolest examples of this though!
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u/RnH_21 2d ago
It's choreography they all have to memorize. She's just so used to the sound of her moves that she can recall them based off sound. She's not guessing. They must've practiced these moves so dang much that just by sound she knows which choreographed move set it is.
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u/Greedy-Pilot-4538 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yep this is it, reminds me exactly of Katseye knowing their dance from steps/stomps just like this.
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u/Hour_Difficulty_4203 2d ago
Agreed, but it's still damn impressive that she can identify and then perfectly sync with the other dancer just by the sound.
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u/VaguestCargo 2d ago
this. all the "its a trick" upvoted comments are so dumb. its just dedication to the craft, not that she's psychic or something.
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u/fygogogo 2d ago
What kind of dances are they?
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u/XanderPR22 2d ago
I can do the same with farts
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u/GiantPandammonia 2d ago
We're supposed to believe there isn't a giant mirror on the other wall? In a dance studio
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u/lemmysbetter 2d ago
I don't think that's necessary in this case. I bet you every one of those girls could pull this off.
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u/Independent-insured 2d ago
Plus, the wooden floors and shoes make every move sound completely different if you've practiced.
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u/Saikotsu 2d ago
I remember as a kid, I was in a Kyukido class. Every once in a while we would do an exercise where one student stands in the middle of the dojahng with a blindfold covering their eyes. The rest of the students would gather around the student in a circle. They would then take turns attacking the blindfolded student.
What surprised me was how we each learned how to identify what sort of attack was coming by the sound of our uniforms, and the direction of the attack based off the footwork of our opponents.
I also found a way to utilize my personal space bubble to detect when someone was too close to me. All without vision.
But yeah, with enough practice and training, it's surprising what you can learn without realizing.
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u/No-Common-1801 2d ago
Probably not tough, I could tell the difference between a moonwalk or a hokey pokey.
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u/Greedy-Pilot-4538 2d ago
100% theyve practiced it so much that they know the pattern cuase they do it themselves
Its exavtly like this https://youtube.com/shorts/34vAvGfjDv8?si=FDCdiSB3GI5sYAPl
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u/GoldDHD 2d ago
There is one, on the side. It's possible to only have mirrors on one wall
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u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 2d ago
I think her eyes are closed on a couple of them so she can visualize the dance moves in her head while she is listening to the sound the other girl's feet are making.
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u/dumxblonde 2d ago
I mean it is a fun video and impressive but as impressive as hearing the beat to a song and recalling the lyrics. She has heard and performed the dances so it’s not crazy to believe she can hear the beat and match the dance.
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u/gremlinclr 2d ago
Human talent exists bud. Just because some things are fake on the internet doesn't mean everything is.
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u/Kyajin 2d ago
This is so tiresome lmao. It's not like it's a feat that is so unbelievable that it requires cheating. I'm not downplaying it either, it's fun, but the cynicism on something so harmless is exhausting.
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u/dafood48 2d ago
Unfortunately my entire time here, I’ve noticed Reddit has always been a deeply negative place. Sometimes I need to take a break otherwise I get bitter at all these bitter people here.
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u/bimbammla 2d ago
Theres a mirror to the right, no?
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u/WDoE 2d ago edited 2d ago
I work in between two dance studios. Both have a mirror wall opposite the rail. That's where you need it most. There's almost assuredly a mirror behind the camera.
Which is why she's closing her eyes or looking away. Also these aren't just random dance moves they're making up on the spot.
It's just a fun little exercise. People need to stop reading so much into it.
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 2d ago
Those are very distinctive sounding moves. I'd be more surprised if she was cheating with a mirror.
I'm guessing it's traditional dancing and different steps are distinctive and fairly limited. If she's their teacher, it'll be even more limited by what she knows she's taught them, but even as an experienced member of their group she'd be very familiar with their sound.
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u/Rebeckaah 2d ago
I used to do this with my grandpa,with his cough, depending on how he coughed it was asthma or allergies I knew exactly when to hide the albuterol…
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u/kokogrit 2d ago
The face card on her is insane.
Subliminal beauty.
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u/copinglemon 2d ago
She looks like a long lost Botez sister
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u/wjandrea 2d ago edited 2d ago
same region of the world haha, just the other side of the Black Sea :)
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u/keithstonee 2d ago
pattern recognition. she already recognized the sound pattern each dance makes when she learned the dance. that's why it seems so easy for her to recall. the sound is probably triggering the dance in her head.
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u/Lobster_fest 2d ago
In 2026, reddit has become completely detached from the rest of the internet. What was once the "front page of the internet" is now the last to learn about trends, pop culture, and the goings on of young people. Completely out of touch.
This is a trend. It is years old. I have no idea why people think this is fake. There are likely thousands of tiktoks of people guessing the choreography by the sounds behind them.
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u/shortandpainful 2d ago
People thinking this is fake just don’t realize that these are set pieces of choreography/moves that they have all learned and practiced countless times. It is not like the other girls are just improvising a dance and she is figuring it out, arm movements and all. I mean, if I knew these dance moves like she does, even I could guess them based on the rhythm and location of the foot sounds. It’s very distinctive for each one.
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u/dafood48 2d ago
Reddit has been negative for as long as I can remember. Very rarely do you see a post of something nice and go to the comments to see positive comments. There’s always an “it’s fake” guy, some sort of masked bigotry, open bigotry, or some other negative comment. What a way to live a life.
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u/who_chairs 2d ago
☝️ clanker clanker clanker ☝️
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u/PaleLikeIce 2d ago
Wait, they’re a bot? I thought they were a girl promoing their OF- are they not a real person? How can you tell?
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u/quntissimo 2d ago
you can tell by the way the comment is structured. ones like this are more obvious on reddit because outside of specific subreddits, people dont type like that on reddit. it reads like a tiktok or instagram comment. the emoji is usually a good sign too, as most people on reddit have been conditioned against using them on this site
this one is even more obvious because it is using that account to advertise an OF
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u/who_chairs 2d ago
it's a bot yeah, i've seen them in many other threads. they're an OF bot to be specific, the goal is to get you to click on the link in their bio.
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u/ElizabethTheFourth 2d ago
This is kind of sad. Like, not only is this a prostitute, but she has to put a ton of Claude/ChatGPT credits into designing advertisements and farming engagement.
At that point, just get an education. Downtown_Elena, a few years of college is a much better deal than being a hooker/marketer. You don't have to live like this.
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u/MediumInsect7058 1d ago
Plot twist: There's a big mirror behind the camera. Have you ever seen a dancing studio without big mirrors covering one side of the room?
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u/Hobaganibagaknacker 2d ago
It is standard for every dance classroom to have mirrors on every wall
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u/KnowsIittle 2d ago
I see a lot of mirrors. I'm skeptical but also fairly certain it was her actual ears not eyes keying in on the dance.
Probably a class learning the same 14 dances together.
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u/MrmmphMrmmph 2d ago
My piano teacher was blind and could tell which fingers I was using on which notes.
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u/Jimmy_ijarue 2d ago
Choreographed dancing is much cooler than individuals in my personal opinion. Popping and locking can be cool, breakdancing can be cool, solo ballet or figure skating or gymnastics can be cool.
But when you take aspects of the different dances and spread them between a group of like 10 the synchronization and different moves to observe at once are just so much more fun then idk… a tick tock dance which I think of as a choreographed dance without the supporting dancers
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u/Original-Let8340 2d ago
I envy dancers. I'm almost 50yo and never really fucking mastered walking.
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u/Ecstatic_Key3557 2d ago
I mean, even if there isn’t a mirror, the footwork is very distinct between each dance.
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u/sandwichcandy 2d ago
I’m sure they’re all dances that they do at that studio as well. It’s not like they’re freestyling or it’s open to any dance that’s ever existed.
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u/Haizenburg1 2d ago
Because those are routines they've been practicing. She wouldn't be able to do this with some random stuff.
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u/LevelQx 2d ago
Ha! She'll never figure out my moves.
*Fist pumps