hey all, just strumming around today and I noticed (not that i didnt before, but now I payed attention to it) that it took my entire hands pressure to make my pinky cover more than one string well, little fella does great for hitting single strings but I just cant easily get him flat enough. Some guitarists even forgo training the pinky altogether, so I was wondering what the general consensus around here is...

Do you use your pinky at all?
Can you bar(re) with it?
can it keep up with the other digits?