Starting car from starter relay

Which jumper wire did you accidentally ground?

Are you doing this?
1. Turning on the ignition switch
2. Then going under the hood and jumpering from Batt + to the start terminal on the starter relay? Or are you jumpering to the starter solenoid wire coming from the starter relay? We need to know what you are jumpering to where....

It is not making sense that it starts from the key switch but you cannot get it to crank by puting batt + to the start solenoid; the key switch sends the + to the solenoid via the relay... But....Is this a manual trans, and what year?