The finger through palm has never failed for me. But it's also my last resort RC, and I never do it while awake only in dreams. Usually by the time I resort to finger through palm, I'm mostly convinced anyways, but not for complete certainty. And I really want it to be a dream, so I push very hard into my palm, even twisting if need be until I begin to feel my finger sinking in. And I'm very familiar with how it feels when in starts to sink in. (Feeling like my flesh is soft rubber I'm pushing through. I'm familiar with the the feeling because of practicing it just for fun many times after I'm already fully lucid. Which I would always recommend doing with RC's so you know how they work and what to expect from them in your dream.
I find the watch RC to be very reliable, but the most difficult to remember to use for some reason. Watches do all kinds of bizarre and fascinating things in a dream. But that too, sometimes you can just tell yourself the watch is acting wonky because the battery is dying and shrug it off. The nose pinch is wonderful and I used it quite often for a long time, until I started doing it so obsessively while awake that my brain started simulating the feeling of not being able to breath through a pinched nose in my dreams too. So had to retrain to use my watch as my primary, nose pinch as secondary (No longer doing nose pinches while awake) And finger through hand as third last resort.
Or, you can just try to do something like try to jump really far and keep yourself afloat longer than would be normal in waking life. Which worked for me as an RC in a recent lucid... I jumped across a street, and continued to make myself hover and float beyond the street, then sure it was a dream from there I continued flying up and over the tree tops.
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