I sometimes wonder if my family came to my apartment and saw 4 cases of yoyos if they would say: “Why do you have so many? Aren’t they all the same except for the colors?” I feel with confidence that I could say: “They are all different. Pick one up and hand it to me. I will tell you exactly what it is with my eyes closed.” Could you also do this or do you have some that are so similar that it’d be difficult to tell the difference? Note: I am not talking multiples with different colorways. Chime in.
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I have trouble identifying every yoyo I own while looking at them. 
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Yes. I actually have done this with my family.
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I probably could, I haven’t done it though.
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I feel confident that I could identify maybe 60% of my yoyos. For me, it’s that a lot of my yoyos have memories and relationships tied to them. There ARE some that would likely be harder—pure impulse buys that I shouldn’t have made or items from mystery boxes that didn’t resonate with me or just shapes that are maybe less unique—but usually I can take a look at one of my ~200 yoyos and tell you who I got it from and the circumstances around that sale/trade and a conversation or relationship that started or was advanced by it.
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It’d be more difficult to do with human beings and probably pretty awkward too.
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I only have about 20 yos, so sure.
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yes i can because i only have one yoyo haha 
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100 percent.
I have no doubt whatsoever that if you were standing in front of me blindfolded; I could identify every single one of my yoyos.
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of course I can, and I could also tell you where I bought them from, for what reason and any particular stories that made them reach me
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I keep yoyos that have pretty distinctive features and shapes. Probably wouldn’t have an issue identifying any of them.
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Im fairly certain i can pull this off.
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Not blindfolded, but I have a few hundred.
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Someone needs to SCIENCE THIS! Set a row of 10 in front of you, blind fold yourself, then have a different person switch them all around.
I suspect the bimetals would be pretty easy to tell apart, as well as the titaniums (the ringing sound). But monometals could be a challenge, depending on shapes…
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Oh I have an idea, even if all 10 are monometals. First arrange them in alphabetical order. Then unscrew them each increasingly by one quarter turn, so you do it once for the first one, twice for the second one and so forth. A quarter turn is easy to tell accurately when you start with both hands in the same position. When you get the yoyo blindfolded, just count the number of turns to screw it back! SCIENCE!
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That’s cheating. Sorry.
Ten would be cake, even twenty, maybe thirty depending on how similar the shapes are. I would think when you start getting into the fifty to one hundred range it would get tricky. There is a blind yoyoer who posted online somewhere, I think it was this forum. I would imagine their sense of touch is heightened in comparison to many of us. If my previous statement is ignorant and politically incorrect, my apologies. I cannot fathom why it would be, but then again I’m not blind.
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It was right here. Last he posted he said something about not being to post for awhile due to access to the technology he was using to read and write posts. He was overseas (I think) during his last post.
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I have 23 in total (crikey more than I thought!) so yeah easy!
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