Why can’t you wiggle your toes one at a time, no matter how hard you try

Most people try this at least once. You sit down, look at your foot and try to move just one toe, expecting it to behave like a finger. Instead, all your toes lift together or barely move at all. It feels strange because your fingers respond so easily while your toes seem stubborn and clumsy. The truth is that nothing is wrong with you. Human feet simply did not evolve for tiny, precise movements. They were built for balance, weight support and walking, not for delicate control. When you understand how the muscles, tendons and nerves in your feet work, the whole thing starts to make sense. What feels like a limitation is really just normal human anatomy. A peer-reviewed study in PMC on motor control found that the brain devotes far more space to controlling the fingers than the toes,