Also called: Common loop · Little-finger-side loop

Where on the hand: On any fingertip pad; the most common pattern on the human hand.

What it looks like: Ridges enter from the **little-finger side**, curve round a core, and exit the same side. The single off-centre triradius sits on the thumb side.

Flexible, adaptable, friendly, easy-going, team-oriented, goes with the flow, socially fluent. Its limitation is that it may lack individuality and may struggle to finish things.

Western reading: The baseline pattern of Western dermatoglyphics, against which all others are exceptions.