FingerMaster Complete Guide — 10 Fingers, 38 Objects, Perfect Combos, Hazards and Items

This FingerMaster guide covers everything in the game, in order: the rules of a round and the controls, the screen layout, the ten fingers, the thirty-eight objects, scoring and Perfect Combos, levels and difficulty, the hazards (weather, special modes and danger warnings), the six items and H Coins, the bonus coin round that opens every 10 levels, and finally unlocks, titles and daily missions. Every number was checked against the game’s code, and every photo and animation was captured from the real game running. It’s a long read, so take your time — if you’re brand new, you can jump straight to six things for first-time players at the bottom.

How a round opens

1. “LEVEL N” — split around the centre, the left letters slide in from the left and the right letters from the right, covering 380px in 0.5 seconds, hold for about 1.2 seconds and then vanish. The HUD stays hidden meanwhile.
2. After 1.5 seconds the hand and the object appear. The object sits calmly upright on the fingertip.
3. 3 · 2 · 1 — numbers fading from sky blue to deep blue count down. The object still doesn’t move.
4. It gets a small nudge the moment it’s released. When the countdown ends, the object is let go with an angular velocity of 3.6–6° per second to the left or right (random). A perfectly upright object is in theoretical equilibrium and would give you nothing to react to, so the game deliberately starts it leaning one way. For the first 5 physics steps, the tilt check takes a break.
5. The timer at the top centre counts down the remaining time as SS:CC (seconds:hundredths). Keep the object up until it hits zero and you get Clear!

Falling doesn’t end things instantly. Once you pass 75°, the game-over screen appears 0.8 seconds (real time) later. In those 0.8 seconds the Revive item can bring the object back (see the items chapter). And when a round fails, pressing Retry rolls your score back to what it was when that round started — the botched round simply never happened.

The bottom bar (HOME · MISSION · ACHIEVE · ITEM · SETUP · MORE) stays hidden during play and only appears on the clear screen, the game-over screen and the home screen. That way you can’t tap it by accident mid-round (all the drawer screens in the later chapters open from here). When the game fetches ranking data over the internet, a TOP N% badge also appears under the level in the top left — the screenshots in this article were taken without a server connection, so you won’t see it here.

Eight night-time backdrops

The screen is always set at night (there is no light mode). There are eight backdrop scenes — forest night, deep space, the lunar surface, an aurora snowfield, a moonlit valley, an ember dusk, a glow-in-the-dark garden and a lantern night — shuffled into a cycle and swapped every 150 seconds (the cycle carries on between rounds). The sky sparkles every time your Perfect Combo climbs a step, a shooting star passes every 5 steps, and the night grows redder and deeper as the levels rise. It’s pure atmosphere with no effect on the rules or the numbers.

No buttons, no swipes. Hold the left half of the screen and the hand moves left; hold the right half and it moves right. It doesn’t matter where your finger is, as long as it stays on the correct side of the vertical centre line. Let go, and the hand stops on the spot.

The whole trick in one sentence

Move your hand toward the side the object is leaning and catch it from below. If it leans right, press right so the hand slides under it; if it leans left, press left. But the moment the hand starts moving, its inertia pushes the object the other way — sometimes that cancels the lean nicely, sometimes it overshoots and tips it over the opposite side. That’s why short, chopped taps beat long holds: they keep you from overreacting. Pressing and releasing again and again lets the hand keep correcting its position under the object.

• The change-of-direction effect — when you switch from one side to the other, the hand whips and squashes slightly. That’s purely visual and doesn’t affect the physics. The same goes for the small up-and-down bob while it moves.
• Heavy objects make the hand sag and bounce — this one is not cosmetic: it’s real movement that lasts until the end of the round (see the objects chapter).
• Input — on a touch screen, one finger is all you need. If several fingers are touching, the game reads only one of them.

There are ten hands that can hold up your object. You don’t get to choose — at the start of every round the game shuffles the unlocked hands into a cycle and deals them out in order, so the same hand never shows up twice within one cycle.

Only three things really differ between hands: move speed, the Perfect Combo score multiplier, and — for Child Finger only — the combo tolerance angle. In the table below, real speed is the hand’s move speed times the screen factor of 0.4 (world units per second), and edge-to-edge time is the screen width of about 5.6 divided by that speed.

You can’t pick a hand, but here’s how to read them

• Slow hands (Stone, Grandpa, Grandma) take a while to catch up when the object tips. In exchange their combo multiplier is 1.2–1.5×, so if you can keep the object still and upright, they pay better.
• Fast hands (Child, Woman) get under a leaning object quickly, but they also kick it harder with inertia. Child Finger has a special bonus: it widens the Perfect Combo tolerance from 5° to 8°, so your combo survives a bit of wobble.
• Gini Finger has an ordinary speed but the biggest combo multiplier: 2.0×. A round with Gini is your chance to bank points.
• The best level used for unlocks is recorded the moment a round at that level ends, whether you clear it or fall. Merely reaching level 5 and falling still unlocks Gini and Metal. Hands you’ve already unlocked stay available even if you start a new game from level 1.

There are thirty-eight objects that can stand on your fingertip. At level 1 only six are unlocked — baseball bat, golf club, broom, sari broom, shovel and umbrella — and by the time you reach level 100, everything from the Eiffel Tower to the fridge to the elephant is in play. The photos below are real game screens, each with one object standing on the same hand (Man Finger). Look at how wildly the heights vary — some stick out past the top of the screen.

* Object names never appear in the game itself — objects are shown only as pictures. The names below are the ones written in the game’s data.

How objects are picked, and when they unlock

• Unlocked objects are shuffled into a cycle and used in order. They’re only reshuffled once the whole cycle has been used, so the same object never appears twice within one cycle. The NEXT slot at the top right previews the upcoming object.
• Unlocks are based on your best level — an object opens when you reach the level shown in the table below. Reaching the level is enough, you don’t have to clear it: get to level 40 and fall, and the Tower of Pisa is still yours. Once unlocked, an object stays unlocked even in a new game.
• In the bottom bar, ACHIEVE → UNLOCK shows all thirty-eight slots in unlock order; the ones still locked are dimmed with a LEVEL N padlock.
• Gravity is set per object (only the safe is 1.2×; everything else is 1×). The whole game then multiplies it by 0.5, and finally by the per-level multiplier (see the levels chapter).

The full list

Virtual weight is the “real weight (kg)” the developer assigned to each object. It’s separate from the mass used in the physics (the first number in the table), and it decides how much the hand sags and bounces.

Heavy objects weigh the hand down

Any object with a virtual weight over 300kg makes the hand bob up and down. Catching a lean while the hand is also rising and sinking makes it much harder to keep things upright, and this bobbing lasts until the round ends (it ramps up to full amplitude over 0.5 seconds). There are three tiers.

Amplitude is in world units (the screen is 10 tall), so 0.42 is a little over 4% of the screen height. The heaviest tier sways slowly (once per second), while the medium tier makes small, quick bobs. When a Perfect Combo fires while you’re holding up something heavy, you also get contact particles spraying from the fingertip.

Points come from two sources. One is the base score that builds up with the time you survive; the other is the Perfect Combo that fires when you keep the object upright. And they’re nowhere near the same size — at level 1 the base score can’t even reach 400 no matter how well you play, while Perfect Combos go up to 3,600. In this game, score basically means combos.

Base score — time × (10 + centre bonus)

• The base is 10 points per second, plus a centre bonus. The closer the object is to sitting right above the fingertip, the bigger it gets — 30 when the horizontal distance between object and fingertip is 0, falling to 0 at a distance of 2, and multiplied by 1.5 (up to 45) when the distance is within 0.3.
• The formula is (10 + centre bonus) × time survived: it takes the value at this very moment and multiplies it by the whole duration. So how straight the object stands over the fingertip at the instant the round ends has a huge effect on your base score.
• Hold level 1 (6.8 s) perfectly centred the whole way and you get about 374 points (55 × 6.8). At level 1000 (14 s), it’s about 770.

Perfect Combo — ±5° for 0.8 seconds

• Condition — keep the object within ±5° of vertical for 0.8 seconds and the combo goes up one step. Keep it straight and it climbs to step 2, step 3… every 0.8 seconds, with no cap.
• Points — the moment it climbs, step × 100 × hand multiplier is added to your score immediately. Step 3 is +300; with Gini Finger (×2.0) it’s +600. Points you’ve received stay put even if you wobble later.
• Breaking — the instant you go past 5°, the step count drops straight to 0 (your points are kept). Stand it up again and you start over from step 1.
• Child Finger’s tolerance is a wider 8° (5° × 1.6).
• Fever from step 10 — the text changes to * FEVER x10 * and turns gold.

An unbroken run of N steps is worth 100 × N(N+1)/2 × hand multiplier. The more steps, the faster it snowballs — quadratically.

The multipliers are 1.0 for Man, Woman and Wood, 1.2 for Grandpa and Grandma, 1.3 for Child, 1.5 for Stone and Metal, 1.8 for Robot and 2.0 for Gini. Since you can’t choose the hand, keeping the object as straight as possible whenever a high-multiplier hand comes up is your biggest scoring opportunity.

The levels never end. Difficulty doesn’t rise in steps but along one continuous curve — the level number is converted into a value D between 0 and 1, and target time, gravity, weather and special modes all follow this D.

• Target time — 6 + 8 × D seconds, capped at 14. The higher the level, the longer you have to hold on.
• Gravity multiplier — how fast the object tips over. The base value is 0.85 + 1.4 × D, and each round it varies by up to ±0.15. The same object falls noticeably faster at high levels.
• Weather starts at level 11, with its chance and strength rising with D (see the hazards chapters). Special modes have a 20% chance from level 11, 30% from 51, 40% from 101 and 70% from 201. Levels 1–10 are a calm stretch with neither.

The occasional breather round

If a game only ever gets harder, players who are stuck tend to lose interest. So every now and then the game slips in a “go-easy” round that lowers D for that round only. A lower D makes the target time, gravity, and weather chance and strength all lighter at once — and special modes don’t appear at all.

• After repeated failures — once you’ve had three game overs in total (clearing in between doesn’t reduce the counter), the next level you start fresh gets its D lowered by 0.32, and the counter resets to 0. The code comment says “three in a row without a combo”, but in practice it’s counted cumulatively like this.
• A bonus from level 50 up — if at least 4 rounds have passed since the last go-easy round, there’s an 8–18% chance (higher with higher D) of getting a round with D lowered by 0.22.
• This check only happens when a new level starts. Retry doesn’t re-roll it, and any easing you already got carries over.

From level 11, weather can roll in right after a round starts. Whether it comes at all is a dice roll, and if it does, wind, rain and snow are each rolled separately — so they can all arrive together. The game never announces “it’s raining” — you have to notice the screen changing and work it out yourself.

When, and how strong

• Chance of weather — rises with the level: 59% at level 11, 72% at level 100 and 85% at level 1000 (a curve from 45% → 85% following D).
• Strength runs from 1 to 10. Around level 11 it’s picked between 2 and 5, at level 100 between 4 and 7, and at level 1000 between 5 and 10.
• In a round with weather, wind, rain and snow are each rolled independently. Wind goes from 40%→75%, rain 20%→65% and snow 5%→50% (following D). If none of them hits, wind is forced on.
• Timing — rain and snow arrive first, 0–1 seconds after the round starts, and wind kicks in 2.5 seconds after that, building up in eight stages over 2 seconds. In other words, the first few seconds are calm.
• In a round where you use the CLEAN item, the weather never starts at all.

Wind — it pushes the object

Snow — the hand slows down

Rain and lightning — rain is just for show, lightning hits

When it all comes at once

Separately from the weather, a round can be hit by one special mode the moment it starts. The chance depends on the level range — 20% at levels 11–50, 30% at 51–100, 40% at 101–200 and 70% from level 201 (none at levels 1–10 or in go-easy rounds) — and when one triggers, it’s picked from the twenty-two with equal odds.

The scariest part is this: neither the mode’s name nor any warning appears on screen. You only realise when the screen suddenly goes dark or the hand starts moving backwards. All effects are cleanly reset once the round ends (clear, fall or the next round starting).

Eight modes, as they look on screen

Below are real screens taken just after each mode kicked in. Modes you notice by motion — shaking, flashes, blackouts — don’t come across in a single still, so they’re left out.

All twenty-two

Every number comes from the game’s code. “Until the end” means it lasts until that round is over. The mode names in the first column are this guide’s labels — the game itself never names them.

Getting a feel for each type

• Modes that hide the screen (Dark Mode, Narrow Vision, Fog, Blackout, Flash Blind, Static Noise, Ghost Object/Hand, Object Flicker) leave the physics unchanged. If you remember where the hand and object are, you can survive most of them. Even in Dark Mode, the object falls exactly the same way.
• Modes that shake the camera (Screen Shake, Earthquake, Camera Wobble, Zoom, Heartbeat Zoom) also leave the physics alone — only what you see moves. Don’t trust the lines on screen; trust only the object’s tilt.
• Six modes actually change the physics — Inverted Controls, Sideways Gravity, Gravity Pulse, Reverse Gravity, Tumble and Wind Gust. Speed Burst, which speeds up time, also cuts your reaction window. In these rounds, suspect your hand first.
• Inverted Controls does exactly what it says. If the object leans right, you have to press left. Spotting it before the first lean arrives is what matters.
• Special modes can’t be blocked by the CLEAN item. CLEAN only removes weather.

This chapter isn’t about a hazard but about warnings the game gives you. As the object gets close to 75°, the screen tells you first. The figures are ratios of the current tilt to the fall threshold (75°).

• Once the red border starts spreading, this is no time to admire the effects. You’re already at 26°, and one more step brings the heartbeat. When the vibration speeds up, send your hand under the leaning side right away.
• This warning is not a special mode. It appears the same way in every round and fades as soon as the danger passes.
• There’s even a slow-motion reward for escaping a crisis. If, mid-round, the object leans 80% (about 60°) or more and comes back within 35% inside 2 seconds, or recovers from 92% (about 69°) to within 50% inside 1 second, the screen slows down for about 0.3 seconds and zooms in slightly. Once per round.

You can use one item per round: you pick it right before the round starts, and it’s gone when the round ends. Revive and Stop3 are “one-time rescues”; CLEAN, Wall, Speed and Turtle are “help for a whole round”. Prices follow a simple rule: the more an item can undo a failure, the more it costs.

How to get them, and when to use them

Revive — 100 coins

Stop3 — 80 coins

CLEAN — 70 coins

Wall — 60 coins

Speed — 60 coins

Turtle — 50 coins

The game has just one currency: H Coins. You spend them on items (50–100 coins), and there are three ways to earn them.

A bonus round every 10 levels

Clear level 10, 20, 30… and press NEXT, and instead of going straight to the next level, a bonus round opens first. In that case the item picker is pushed back until after the bonus (the items aren’t meant for the bonus round).

• Layout — the usual scene, the HUD and the bottom bar all disappear, and only a freshly drawn hand (no object) appears. Controls are the same: hold the left or right half. The hand is random here too, so fast Child Finger has the edge and slow Stone Finger is at a disadvantage (speeds use the same 0.4 conversion as usual).
• Coins — they pour down from above every 0.05–0.14 seconds. Bigger coins that look closer fall faster (fall speed 4.5–7, ×0.82–1.22 by depth), and each one differs in size, spin and brightness.
• Catching — any coin that comes within 0.45 of the fingertip is collected on contact (big coins have a slightly larger radius). Each catch pops up a N Coins counter.
• Timer — the time left is shown at the top centre, and from 4 seconds left a red border and vibration hurry you along.
• Reward — coins caught × 2 H Coins, plus coins caught × 100 points added straight to your total score. The result screen’s H Coins x N is the coins you earned this time (60 for 30 coins). Press START to go through the item picker and on to the next level.
• Zero coins plays a fail sound; one or more gets fireworks and a victory jingle.

The ACHIEVE tab — your rank and unlocks

• MY RANK — shows your current trophy and the next one, along with the progress hint +1 step = every 10 levels. You go up one step for every 10 best levels.
• RANK LIST — fifteen trophies laid out four per row (ROOKIE → … → ETERNAL). The ones you haven’t earned yet are dimmed out.
• UNLOCK — shows the thirty-eight object slots in unlock order. Locked slots are grey with a LEVEL N tag.
• When you earn a new title, a TITLE UNLOCKED pop-up appears for 5 seconds after the clear.

Today’s missions — nine of them

Clear

• LEVEL N Clear! and your Final Score appear in the middle of the screen, with two buttons below: BRAG IT! (share) and NEXT. The bottom bar reappears at this point too.
• Press [NEXT] to go through the item picker and on to the next level. If the level you just beat was a multiple of 10, the bonus round comes first.
• Every clear auto-saves your level and total score, and your best level and best score are kept forever (a new game doesn’t erase them).
• When you’re online, a ranking line appears under your score — inside the top 50% you get You’re in the top N% and N pts to reach top M%; between 51 and 80% you get Ranking rise incoming!; and beyond 81%, N pts to next rank. The screenshots in this article were taken without a server connection, so it doesn’t appear here.
• BRAG IT! sends the text “Level N Cleared! Can you beat my record?” plus an image to the share sheet.

Game over

• 0.8 seconds after passing 75°, GAME OVER and a RETRY button appear. Pressing it restarts the same level — the object and hand are drawn again, but the level stays the same.
• When you press Retry, the failed round’s score goes back to that round’s starting score. The item picker opens right before the retry as well.
• There’s no paid or ad-based continue. The only way to undo a failure is the Revive item.

Continuing

When you reopen the app, the first screen is the continue screen. It shows the level after the last one you cleared, along with the score saved at that point; press START to go through the item picker and pick up from that level. Right after a fresh install, it shows LEVEL 1 · SCORE : 0.

Pro tips

• How it looks at the very end sets your base score. The base score multiplies the centre bonus “right now” by the whole duration, so it pays to have the object standing straight over the fingertip in the final second.
• Points from a round you didn’t clear vanish on Retry. Even if you racked up big combo points, only a clear protects them — so don’t gamble recklessly.
• With Stop3, the battle is the first “target − 3 s”. Falling before it triggers makes it useless. The higher the level and the longer the round, the longer that first stretch.
• Wall protects only one side. Fall toward the side without the wall and it’s still a failure.
• Special modes don’t announce themselves, so watch the first second. If the hand moves backwards, it’s Inverted Controls; if the object suddenly jolts, it’s Tumble or Wind Gust. For modes that only obscure the screen, trust the object’s tilt and hold on with short taps.
• Unlocks only require arrival. Just reaching level 5 opens Gini Finger and Metal Finger, and level 10 opens Robot and Stone.

FingerMaster supports 10 languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. Like the other games in the Master series, it’s built to be played one-handed, in quick bursts.