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I had a similar experience; one day I couldn't snap my fingers, the next I could. While I was in the former state, I noticed an interesting thing: every single time I had a conversation about my inability to snap with someone who could, it went like this:
I still have no idea why everyone's first reaction was to snap their own fingers. Was it pride at having a skill someone else didn't? Was it an impulse to demonstrate it based on some low-level expectation that I might go "Ooooh, that's how to snap your fingers!" Were they just double-checking that they still knew how?
Weirdly I did it while reading the post... I think in part because I had had to consciously learn it myself so I was checking the movement (aside: what no-one told me was the sound comes from the impact on the the pad of the thumb, not the two fingers rubbing against each other as I had thought, when I realised that it became easier).
Though [deleted]'s theory makes a lot of sense. In general people reflexively perform actions when prompted. BLINK