h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Looking better, but a few things:

It's not house style to begin with a header, you'll need to remove it.

"In order to successully fire your elastic band, you should loop it around the fingers and thumb of your left hand. Next, spread your fingers to gain tension, and using your right index finger, pull down on the length joining thumb to pinky.
Next, release all fingers except your index. Rotate your left index, and rotate your hands so that your right hand is aiming, and your left is holding the tight band."

Firstly, this should be two paragraphs, ie. put tags around the second section, beginning "Next, release all fingers..."

Secondly, it assumes that everyone is right handed. Can you reword it?

I'm left handed, and I use this method. I've tried it "flipped", but the listed method works better.

Ok, can't you just put a footnote explaining that the method given is for left handers and right handers should just reverse it?

Hi,
This is a nice piece, but really not comprehensive.
A better title may be "A way of shooting ..."
Or, you can add to it other methods (Like using a stick with a cloth-peg to do some really accurate, long distance shooting) and 2 handed ways of doing this (I know 4 different ways to do this and will gladly help).


Dancer

$ different ways? You have far too much time on your hands...

Sorry, *4*

We were pretty sufisticated kids a long time ago. I have specal methods for shooting accurately and everything


Dancer

Just to explain about the method; I am left handed and I use it. The guy who taught me it was left handed. He learnt it from his uncle, who is right-handed.

Whichever handed you are, you use the listed method. Don't try to "flip it", it doesn't seem to work as well.

Oh, I see. Maybe you should explain that in the entry if yo haven't already.

Edited.

How's this going?

An old tip of mine when using the standard thumb-as-springboard way was after stretching the band, twist it so it makes a figure-8 shape. Then when released, it doesn't shoot your own hand in the way the Entry mentions.

I don't think there is all that much that can be added to this entry - with the possible exception of a few links.

Wonders whether the important bit under the heading needs highlighting and thus no need for a header at the top.

Also maybe you could go into the history of where rubber bands came from etc

The entry's not about rubber bands in general though.

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