Tin can pull tabs: Do you shred your fingers to open them or do you use a spoon like a sensible person?

So far, even my nailbiting-fingernails always were more than enough to get these open

These things are easy to open, if you're hurting yourself, you're doing it wrong.

I'm not sure I understand how you'd shred your fingers on them. I put my nail under the tab and lift until my finger can get under it

I put my foreskin in the tab and pull on that.
- This is why circumcision was invented. To keep us from becoming too powerful.

Press down on the metal with your thumb to give it a bend, then pull on the other end with your ring finger. I don't recommend ripping it all the way off. If you can't open this, you need to get a physical job.

I play the banjo and not the guitar, so I finger pick these open instead of shred.
- Since OP uses spoons, you only need to find warshboard and jug players to round out your quartet!

OP needs to hit the gym or something. I've always pulled them with my hand and never had a single issue.
- It is not about strength but about getting your finger beneath the tab.
  
  Yeah I'm starting to think there is a bit of confusion bout the issue. Oh well.

I'm not a total pussy so I jam my buck teeth in there and pry it open with that.
- Teeth? What you too good to slide the flat side of your dick under there and think of england like the rest of us?

Can opener every time. It sounds strange but it doesn’t leave a lip for things to get caught on when you empty the can

I never ever seen anyone use anything else than their finger to open them. It hurts a little bit I guess but at least for me, it's more convenient than getting a spoon first

I ignore the tab and use an edgeless can opener, in case it gets lost in transit to the recycling plant and a critter finds it.

After watching Technology Connections' video on YT about those weird can openers that cut under the rolled lip and don't leave any sharp edges on top, I bought one and use that on every can even if it has a pull tab.

I'm on team OP with this one. My nails are too short and 50% of the time I get a can that doesn't play nice.
Either way I use a non-electric can opener since it's quiet. My cat recognizes the sound of these things.

I often shape and paint my nails and these things chip polish like nothing, so I'll use the teaspoon I have lying out from the last time I made tea, probably.

Wait, is the spoon and the shredding before or after the can is opened?
- I think I misunderstood your question earlier. It's before the can is opened. The can in that picture has a tab that sits very firmly against the can lid. It's hard to get a grip on it without using your fingernails and the tab also has little sharp bits so its very easy for the tab to cut the sensitive fleshy tissue under your fingernails as you pull the tab up. So I switch to using a spoon to jimmy it open before switching to using fingers to finish the job.
- The finger shredding would happen as an result of opening the can and remain shredded after until healed so during and after. Dunno about the spoon.

I'm just going to leave this here.. Best most mundane purchase I've ever made! Regular openers can eat a dick after using this type! https://youtu.be/i_mLxyIXpSY

Depends on the can, if I can press the top in to get the tab to pop up a little, then I will just to that. If that doesn't work, then a spoon or knife it is.

Depends on the tab. Some are not soldered onto the can so I can work with that. For the ones that do, spoons it is.

I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.

I use these all the time, no issues.
You pry the tab up to a 45 degree angle. Then insert a finger. While firmly holding the can with one hand, pull back with the other hand on the tab, the can should open smoothly. At the very end there is a chance the lid will spring off the can, so you should use less pressure when the lid is almost totally detached.
If you have trouble getting under the tab (like you just cut your fingernails), use any flat thing to give you leverage, a spoon, toothpick, screwdriver, etc

I use a table knife. If I had long nails I'm sure they would do the trick though; they aren't that strong