A fingerboard is 96 millimeters long or longer; some range up to 110mm long, and can have a variety of widths. Skateboarding tricks may be performed using fingers instead of feet.Most tricks done on a fingerboard are the same as people do on skateboards.

Lance Mountain helped develop fingerboarding as a hobby in the late 1970s and wrote an article on how to make fingerboards in TransWorld's SKATEboarding magazine in 1985. Although fingerboarding was a novelty for years, they became a collectible toy as skateboard manufacturers realized the potential for product branding and profit starting in the 1990s.

Fingerboards are now available as inexpensive novelty toys as well as high-end collectibles, complete with accessories one would find in use with standard-size skateboards. Fingerboards are also used by skateboarders as 3-D model visual aids to understand potential tricks and maneuvers; many users make videos to document their efforts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerboard_(skateboard)