Good fidget toys/things

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Hello
I stim and fidget with my fingers a lot/a but depending on my stress levels. What are good fidget toys? I have a rubiks cube and I recently bought a tangle relax therapy (it is still in the mail though) any good other ones?

Squidgy rubber "stress balls" can be useful

Those stainless steel hand puzzles also make great fidget toys.

A friend and I really like these Colin Caterpillars at this site https://www.sensorytoywarehouse.com/pro ... terpillar/

I got them at Cracker Barrel not this site.

I have a chewy shark off of stimtastic. It's a good site that has lots of stim toys of varying types.

I like Greek Worry Beads. They are quite traditional, plus some of the nicer ones come with tassels. For some reason I find handling tassels to be soothing.

I like using knives. Only non-fixed blades work tho. It's great because they double as a great tool too. I like the flicking action and sound of it. If you're not comfortable with a sharp object tho there are many trainer knife variants. Some can be as cheap as $20 others can go to $200. I personally use edged knives over trainers but here are some I've held myself and highly recommend: http://www.bladehq.com/item--Kershaw-E- ... son--27431
http://www.bladehq.com/item--Benchmade- ... ner--11794

I have a squishy Dilbert and a squishy Pointy-Haired Boss to go with it. Great stim toys.

My current one is a large rosewood-handled bowie knife. Hardly ideal, but there just something calming about sharp steel, brass and wood. My hands have...more than the average number of scars.

As for suggestions of good ones, might I suggest chinese Baoding balls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoding_balls

I know this is thread is a few months old, but I wanted to add that Tangle toys are AMAZING. They come in large sizes, or the small, handheld "Jr" size. They come in several different colors and textures, and some are even fuzzy! My favorite Tangle toys are the Tangle Jr Fuzzy, The Tangle Relax (which is covered in little soft rubbery nubbins), my pink/yellow/clear/blue textured Tangle Jr, and my pink and purple Tangle Jr.

Tetris - I love Stimtastic too! It's a great resource for inexpensive fidget/stim toys.

Eggheadjr - I used to have a Dogbert squishy toy when I was a kid.

Those little pipe cleaner things - I sometimes absentmindedly bend them into different shapes while I'm thinking. They're also good for cleaning out computer keyboards and stuff.

The strings that are on the neck of hoodie sweatshirts. Not really a toy but great for fidgeting and always in reach.

So, I got into the hobby of "cubing" lately, which involves things like Rubik's Cubes (though, usually versions of it made by other companies, as the originals are... not very good) and other "twisty" puzzles (of which there are about 10 bazillion types), and have been quite enjoying them, but I've also found myself constantly reaching for them to fidget or stim with.

The one I grab for the most is this thing:



That is a Pyramorphix, a shape-shifting one and one of the easier and faster ones to do (there are more complicated and dramatically harder versions of it too), and it's fun to just twist it into random shapes/arrangements when I need something to hold or mess with. And when I go to put it down I'll typically solve it back into it's original shape (which currently takes me about 60 seconds), so that part is fun too.

I dunno exactly what it is about these things that makes them good for this; as I continue to buy/order more of them, I'm expecting to find others that I really like for this as well.