This is very interesting! In fact now I’m trying and it can raise up perfectly together with middle finger, but can’t with pinky! But this means middle is not independent as well and nevertheless it can raise up by itself 
oh no I wouldn’t really ever do it!
It’s already more than one year now…I start feeling some frustration 
Isn’t this the case for everyone? 
TBH, I wouldn’t worry about too much. Fretting chords and flexing fingers 1 by 1 are different motions involving different muscles.
James some good humor is just what I need! Thank you!
Many thanks Mr. Larsen! 
You need to know that I harmonised a little Melody for you…the challenge on the solfege thread, remember? Well it would sound super sweet but due to this difficulty I can’t play it smoothly 
I think I would like to see a video please Joshua.
@Silvia80 My ring finger is the same. Obviously just another obstacle to overcome in the great guitar adventure.
Hi @Silvia80
Your test is interesting, but we need somewhat different movements for playing. The major movements are on the two larger knuckles, and then we want good flexibility to be able to bend the smallest joint at the finger tip so we hit just one string. What you appear to need is to get better control over independent motion.
We don’t really need our fingers to straighten. In that respect, your flexibility is better than mine. I have trouble with triads (if you are that far into the lessons) where I need to flatten the tip of finger 1 against strings 1,2 and then cleanly fret string 3 with finger 2. This is the stretch I think is important - but maybe it is just my hand and not yours.
You mention doing the finger gym. Those are really good. I also have another exercise that is similar I outlined in item #3 here: Older Beginner Fret Board Issues - I can't land my fingers on a chord at the same time - #15 by sequences.
It helped me get better control over my fingers. I still have plenty to work on when swapping fingers 3 and 4, but at least I can do it now, even if I need to concentrate on it. I don’t do this very often now. I seem to be doing ok with what independence I now have, but will go back to this daily if I find something I need to work on.
Your hands are more flexible than mine I can’t even push my ring finger back as far as you can. My wife tried it as well and her hands move about the same as yours. So I think you’re in the majority of guitar players.
For better finger independence try this little exercise. Lay you hand flat on a table, spread the fingers slightly then try and lift each finger off the table one at a time.
don’t use your other hand just the tendons in your fingers. You’ll find the ring finger may not lift at all at first but it will with time.
In all honesty, I don’t really see anything abnormal, my finger motorics is also kinda like that. I found finger stretching excersices helped improve mobility and finger independence, but that took about half a year till I began noticing this.
Hi Silvia,
There’s nothing wrong with your fingers!
Here’s a little exercise for you.
Put your pinky on 3rd fret, 1st string and walk your ring finger across the 3rd fret from 2nd string to 6th and back again, keeping pinky on 1st string.
Try it the other way round as well. Leave ring finger on 6th string and walk pinky across the strings.
that’s a great exercise. Thanks for mentioning it.
Thank you @stitch @BurnsRhythm @sequences for suggesting the exercises, I’ll do them all as they all seem vey useful.
This one seems really to target my personal difficulty for the specific vertical movement it requires and make me feel optimistic and feeling halfway there already 
…ok, it’s a bit too early to celebrate …but I can see how effective it will be!
Thanks to anyone who tried my little silly experiment…I still can’t see why ring shouldn’t be able to raise up by itself when all the other fingers can…anyway what matters is being able to play the chords with less effort and I’m super happy and grateful you helped me to find out some more targeted fingergym !
We’re all in good company here in this great adventure! 
You know how they say…a trouble shared is a trouble halved 
I’m taking the liberty to copy and paste @sequences exercise here from the linked post. Thank you Michael, this will be super helpfull too, not only for ring but for all the fingers!
Michael @sequences , your exercise sounds like a really good workout! I’ll be trying it later. Cheers!
Thanks Silvia for typing out Michael’s exercises. Should keep us all quiet for a while!
This is a nice video with these types of exercises. Justin’s finger gym is also great for independence and strength.
I think I’ve found out where the root of the problem is with my Gs, maybe 
… I took the time to carefully try out the suggested exercises: @BurnsRhythm exercise is very doable for my ring finger and @sequences one is a bit more challenging, but still doable…thus the problem is not about ring finger being weak, but…observing the way Justin holds the neck of the guitar, especially the way his thumb kind of envelopes the neck……why couldn’t I see it before?! 
my thumb doesn’t seem to be correctly positioned, it’s too far away from the neck and doesn’t provide enough stability for ring and pinky to land on the frets confidently!!! 
Now I’ll try for a few weeks, hoping this is really the root of the problem as it seems Wish me good luck !
Good luck Silvia. Seems like a nice, easy fix if it just the repositioning of your thumb.
Let’s hope Stefan! It will require some work though, to do the changes with thumb in a position which is unusual for me, especially now I find the palm of the hand actually mutes the thinnest string…I have to try more and see what works! Thank you 
Mine does that as well Silvia with some chords that I play, so I am trying to get into the habit of making sure I keep my thumb a movable thing, depending on what chord I am going to be playing.
This is something to keep in mind, thanks! Again, trouble shared trouble halved