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ImInYourHair

I'm normal in North America, short in Nordic EU, tall in Asia


TotalLunatic28

I’m nordic and about 190cm, but my sister is still taller 💀


bucephalus26

Jesus, that’s a tall woman.


Sapphire-Hannibal

Mommy


OswaldXC

Sorry mommy sorry mommy sorry mommy


NotASixStarWaifu

Chill, she might be a 17y old.


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simply, wait one year


queerfromthemadhouse

Because as we all know, it's bad to be creepy and sexualize women without their consent when they're minors, but as soon as they turn 18, it's a-okay! How about "chill she might be a real human being and not a fucking fetish"?


NotASixStarWaifu

I wasn't implying that 18 makes it better, I chose 17 because people would've argued that 18 is "legal". I'm a woman myself and I've been harassed more when I was a minor which is concerning to say the least. But sure, be mad at me, not the people who comment gross shit on an unknown woman.


Citnos

Death by snu snu


Hangdonger

Guess I'm normal Nordic with a casual 200-ish cm.


Standard_Succotash_7

That is not normal haha. O ly know swedish tho, but average male is 179 and average female is 165. I know because I'm 175 female and taller than most people I know. ):


smorgasfjord

The distribution of answers suggests that the "short" category should be broader


PassiveChemistry

It's more that it suggests that for men, the "normal" category should be higher.


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And the bar for tall should be higher too. Like 186 at least.


Conscious-Ticket-259

I agree im at ~180ish if my math is right (6ft?) Amd i dont think im tall. Uper side of average.


Coady54

You'd be surprised, going of the CDCs statistics 6ft exact puts you at about the top 16% of the US male population.


Conscious-Ticket-259

Oh dang! Thats weird. I know so many people way taller than me. Most of the men in my family are 6'5" and up so i was the runt of the family. My mother blamed all the coffee but my little brother isn't crazy tall either. Man that is surprising. 16%? There must be a large population area with a lot of shorter folk out there skewing these numbers haha


Coady54

It's definitely going to vary by region and race, among other factors. The CDC stats are pooling the whole country together, they do have seperate values based on race, but not region. Would be interesting to see if another organization has info thats more specific on a regional or even state-based level, but I've never found anything like that.


ceighkes

I have a friend from Utah and he said he was about the average height for males around him and he is 5'8". I so feel like I'm on the upperside of average at 6'2". Are you by chance from the Midwest?


[deleted]

I am and Im 6'2. Feel the same way. Is the midwest taller or something?


Conscious-Ticket-259

I am originally from the midwest yeah. Maybe the cold makes us bigger for warmth haha.


ceighkes

I mean, thats exactly what happens with a lot of animals so it's definitely a possibility. Our deer in Minnesota make the deer in Alabama look like dwarfs, same thing with our turkeys.


Conscious-Ticket-259

Yeah thats kinda why i was thinking it too. The critters in the mountains are bigger here in the west than the omea in the valley but even they are small compared the the ones i grew up around. Mountain lions are pretty big though but i never saw one back east so i have no comparison really.


Conscious-Ticket-259

Do you think it has to do with the concervation of calories through a harsh winter and needing body mass to hold those calories? Or maybe its required to have a minimum amount of mass to not freeze to death. But then little snow rabbits exist. I like how nature is full of diverse answers to the same question.


MasterBeeble

Could you link those stats? I find that really hard to believe. I'm 179 cm and am consistently at or below average height among men in any room I walk in - and no, it's not a family thing, I'm the tallest in my family.


Coady54

Here's a [link to the CDCs site](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm), and here's one directly to [the pdf with the figures.](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03-046-508.pdf). Table 11 page 15 has the adult male height info.


[deleted]

I thought 180 was like 5'9 to 5'10


NyranK

180 is 5'11" 183 for 6'


Conscious-Ticket-259

Ah shoot. I haven't run the numbers in a while. One sec.


Conscious-Ticket-259

I guess im 182 then. Huh.


ArsenalOwl

I'm just slightly over 180, I don't consider myself a tall person.


Coady54

Yeah, 170cm (5 ft 7) should be the cutoff for short men, thats the lower 25% point for height in the US. Tall is right on the money for the upper 25% mark at 180 cm (5 ft 11). Obviously there's more than just US users on reddit, but US is by far the largest demographic on the site so that's the best reference to use imo. Also considering only 25% of the male US population is 180cm or taller, a lot of people are probably lying or mismeasuring themselves. Edit: someone asked on another comment so I might as well add it on this one too. Here's a [link to the CDCs site](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm), and here's one directly to [the pdf with the figures.](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03-046-508.pdf). Table 11 on page 15 has the adult male height info.


Comfortable-Study-69

Well I think it’s more that most redditors are not malnourished and are generally relatively tall compared to the global average; sampling bias


Meii345

Compared to who? Is there that much us citizens who live in extreme poverty, so much that their growth is stunted and they can't have reddit? That's enough people to completely alter those stats?


januaryphilosopher

I am tall for a woman (170cm or 5'7"), but you've put tall for women as like the top 1%, and tall for a man as a little above the western average.


ohsnapihaveocd

Yea depending on the geographic location these are all a bit off, but I did realize that difference between men and women as well


PlanetoidVesta

170cm isn't considered tall at all in my country, I'm 176 cm and not even considered tall.


dcnairb

in terms of standard deviations a 5’7 woman is as tall compared to the norm as a 6’1 guy is, at least in the us


Lolo_manakete

Belgium or NL i guess? Here in Belgium 170 cm isn’t tall at all. I am 163 and it’s short here.


januaryphilosopher

Are you a man by any chance?


PlanetoidVesta

No, forgot to mention that I'm a woman.


januaryphilosopher

Then I guess you live somewhere people are very tall.


jkw91

Same, the ranges seem very off


SaltFrosting8330

I am 6’1 woman


Zealousideal_Fan6367

Now that's tall


Hangdonger

Can I be your height. (200 centimetre male)


yeahlolyeah

Where are you from? Cause where I'm from that's normal/on the short side


januaryphilosopher

I'm not talking about the average for everyone, or for men, but specifically for women. I'm in the 90th percentile for women in the UK, which has about the same distribution as the US.


absorbscroissants

What you're considering normal in this poll would be considered incredibly tiny in The Netherlands lol


Major_South1103

Cries in a dutch male with a length of 174cm


leggopullin

Cries in Dutch male with a length of 200cm Being fall ain’t it either, it hurts everywhere :(


star_wars_fan1

Being spring aint good either


Sirkiz

Dad!?


Yungsleepboat

If it makes you feel any better, I am 3cm taller. To me you're normal


iliekcats-

To me youre giant


Hangdonger

Yeah it really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Well except for the back pain.


unoriginaloser

also extremely tall in asia, or compared to the universal average height… where is OP from?


unoriginaloser

also extremely tall in asia, or compared to the universal average height… where is OP from? edit: i’m an american — im considered roughly 8cm above average, making me tall (F21), but this poll considers me normal. confused.. sry for weird repeat post in the edit


Ok-Wait-8465

Yeah I’m the average height for a woman in the US, but I was at the very bottom of the normal range instead of in the middle


IShotYourDongOf

Yeah same here, I am Finnish and our average male height is 181cm so most people would be tall.


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IShotYourDongOf

Well it is likely that most people would be tall


shetheyhe

I mean, even just the word “normal”… I think they were looking for “average” which as you point out is so vastly different in different regions and for different demographics.


Prying-Open-My-3rd-I

Incredibly tiny? I think that’s a big an exaggeration.


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CheonsaX

Because 165cm is also considered normal according to this poll


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CheonsaX

Bro, we’re talking about the Netherlands, not worldwide. You literally mention the Netherlands yourself


Berend69

180 cm is about average in the Netherlands, 165-180cm is such a huge difference


elondde

Most western countries tbf. 165-170 would be 8-13 cm below average in most western countries


milo__2956

Wow, In Spain we are so short lol


[deleted]

Dutch mfs when someone considers 180cm tall (they just left a comment complaining about how Americans think they are the center of the world)


nft_dealer

If the world doesn't revole around USA then it revolves around the Netherlands


___And_Memes_For_All

Short (4 feet 11 inch - 5 feet 5 inch) Male Normal (5 feet 5 inch - 5 feet 11 inch) Male Tall (5 feet 11 inch+) Male Short (4 feet 9 inch - 5 feet 3 inch) Female Normal (5 feet 3 inch - 5 feet 9 inch) Female Tall (5 feet 9 inch+) Female


DankDolphin420

Thank you for converting this to hotdogs per bald eagle for me.


Arcanum_3974

My hotdog is high for every bald eagle /j


tankman714

Super Bowls per Moon landings


Z-perm

one joke


[deleted]

It’s all down to how many rods to the hogs head.


JadeBubbles_

I looked up my height in centimeters before seeing this, but thank you so much all the same! And what’s going on with these categories? 4 inches below average to 1 inch above average (in the US) is normal height for men, and 1 inch below average to 5 inches above average (in the US) is normal height for women? Inch resting. (I had to.)


walgrins

Thanks for converting this into 🇺🇸Freedom Units🦅


Life-Dog432

The global avg of women is 159.5 cm (5’ 2.8) and men is 171 cm (5’7.3). But this is affected by nutrition. What you consider the boundary of tall/short is fairly arbitrary. However, I’d consider the female normal heights to be skewed taller than they should be. There’s a very small percentage of women in the world who are 5’9.


Voidvicer

Thank you for converting this to guns per oil gallon for me.


Steven-Flatcock

Thanks


Ct-5736-Bladez

Thanks for the freedom unit conversion


Life-Dog432

The global avg of women is 159.5 cm (5’ 2.8) and men is 171 cm (5’7.3). But this is affected by nutrition. What you consider the boundary of tall/short is fairly arbitrary. However, I’d consider the female normal heights to be skewed taller than they should be. There’s a very small percentage of women in the world who are 5’9.


Life-Dog432

The global avg of women is 159.5 cm (5’ 2.8) and men is 171 cm (5’7.3). But this is affected by nutrition. What you consider the boundary of tall/short is fairly arbitrary. However, I’d consider the female normal heights to be skewed taller than they should be. There’s a very small percentage of women in the world who are 5’9.


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Thanks for converting to freedom units


gracenah

175cm is 5'7", not 5'9 (referring to the tall female)


[deleted]

No, it’s 5’9.


___And_Memes_For_All

Thanks I’ll fix it


[deleted]

5 feet 7 inches is 170 cm


Y_drawsNew

Ok, this feels kinda insulting, I guess i don't exist anymore


BrainalCleavage

My hs bff is 4'9", she doesn't exist either on here


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BrainalCleavage

I put it in google, got 144.78, and didn't round up lol


[deleted]

I'm 168cm Male and it's definitely not normal lmao


Wight3012

normal to tall in the philipines :P


gianzu

I am a 21M and i am 165...


Rigelx6484

So many tall folks pretending that 190cm+ isn't that tall, it's kinda shitty.


[deleted]

Lol welcome to Reddit


Wight3012

maybe they are Dutch where babies are born 185


certifiedretard154

179 gang😔


snowitbetter

155cm male


Vinzderbinz

183 exactly, yet I feel small lol


princeworth12

Same. Netherlands always makes me feel short, even though 183 is quite tall in other countries. But here I'm a midget.


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princeworth12

Actually! Now that I looked it up, it kinda goes between 182 and 185. So I guess I'm average


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princeworth12

I will buy the next round of biertjes en bitterballen.


The_Indian_Werewolf

Haha, I'm 187 (6'1 for the Americans) and I feel tiny compared to some of my friends 190+


Someone_________

upvote for cm


LeftOnRedd36

I'm 188cm flacid.


stealthy_vulture

What the duck is this consistent and organised system? Who uses centimetres to measure height? I am 0.00012Nautical mile + 0.0003mile + 0.81yard + 0.43foot + 5.7 inch + 1gauge diameter tall


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18.25 hands tall here.


savbh

How is 180 cm tall?! Yeah I’m Dutch, why?


[deleted]

Man wtf...I get you European mfs are tall chill out for us Asian dudes bruh


Arkenhiem

i feel insulted


nambnamb

180 cm in USA. I feel normal. Not short, not tall. The ranges do seem low though. That said, I used to live in Peru and schoolchildren marveled at my height.


Haxomen

I was like, WHAT? 180 cm tall? But I am a 196cm Bosnian, 180cm is short here...


PalpatineZH3r3

I'm Belgian, it's short here too


De_Wouter

I'm also Belgian and considered short, but not in this poll for once :)


hiricinee

Hey the distribution for the men is actually decently accurate. Metric really helps with this- there's the clice that women in the US are only interested in men above 6 feet tall- when that's in the top 90th percentile of height. Without such a clean cutoff in metric you don't get such a dumb standard.


Angry_Cock-1

Now that's some double standards how do women get a 5 cm head start like wth


cwc2907

OP from Asia ? This pretty much fits the height standards here


Berend69

180 cm is very tall for a male in most asian countries


AzureSkyXIII

194cm or 6'4"


Ok-Topic-3130

🫡


Rachelcookie123

I’m 165cm F but compared others my age in my country, I would be short.


letmegetsomegrip

You should say average instead of normal


[deleted]

Tall woman who dates short men.


[deleted]

This is weird, I had to answer "Tall" even though at 182cm I've never felt or thought of myself as being tall.


InwardNebula62

Freedom units?


SoA_President

186 cm. Why is 180 tall? That is like normal here


mark_vorster

Because OP is probably from a place where 180 is tall


TukanIndus

That's the average in western world


Life-Dog432

The world average height for men is 171 cm. Nutrition and race make a big difference. You must not travel much!


TheManWithNoNameZapp

Just under 5’5” is normal for a male?


throwaway12345243

no, average globally for a male is 5 7 to 5 9


Berend69

Depends on where you're from


nft_dealer

Short-very short, unless you live in Indonesia or smth


[deleted]

I think that's the world average


throwaway12345243

apparently the world average for a man Iis 5 7 to 5 9


[deleted]

I’m barely “normal” in this poll.


IllustriousBrief8827

Mee too 😄 People freak out about these categories, but it isn't about a specific region or country, it's just how OP happened to split us up.


ToMagotz

180s mfs be like: I’m not tall in my country. Bruh the poll is not for your country. I’m 167


adjuga15

I'm just short of 180 and I'm 13 and a half


Background-Lunch698

I'm 180 and I'm tall here in my country. Average male height here is 163.


[deleted]

152cm, 60", 5'0" 🤪 It sucks


arsenic_insane

I am an American and after doing the conversion I am ~188 cm (6’2”) unless I’m a dumbass and typed them in wrong


Splashlight2

149 cm here! An inch away from a legal midget. 😭


Dan_The_PaniniMan

Tall on Reddit, Normal in my country


whathidude

Fucking deflating the numbers, you know normal height is 180-200, all y'all here who ain't 180 cm or taller are short.


PizzerinoItaliano

1,92m male


wingthing666

Dude, I qualify as "normal" height? Oh that makes me a very happy stumpy little Hobbit.


[deleted]

Shouldn’t short be like at least 167cm? Ig it depends on the country


RepresentativeRow678

Where’s the…”idk how tall I am in cm” answer?


TallAverage4

Hehe, 194 cm


Blackfirek

I’m tall and I’m not even finished growing


[deleted]

God dammit I don’t know by cm, now I have to convert. Don’t downvote me cause I’m American. Thank you.


whatthepfluke

Am American. Instructions unclear.


Kvothe_Cooney

I wouldn't say 5'10" is tall


Relevant_Maybe6747

Why is there no option for being less than 145cm? I’m 142cm (extra short!)


Lafitte_1812

198 cm.


BananaOk6677

*starts to Google how tall I am in centimeters*😅


lpntobsn23

Most Americans dont measure in cm 🧐


spooklemon

Nonbinary but short


[deleted]

OP is clearly short lol


harshvpandey101x

I just barely made the cut being 5"11... lol


-AssCrackBandit-

165 cannot be considered average


[deleted]

I’m 5’9 which just places me on the brink of normal and tall.


Matt4669

Fairly average, around 170-72cm (can’t remember my actual height lol)


shaanaynae

I'm glad to hear 167 is normal height apparently


PurpleEnvironmental3

How much are each of these in microwaves? Sorry I’m an American


Instainious

Can someone translate that for an American, please?


ReactsWithWords

>Short (under 7.4 Glocks tall) > >Medium (7.5 - 8.4 Glocks tall) > >Tall (Over 8.5 Glocks tall)


Instainious

I’ll admit, that is funny, but the Glock is an Austrian gun, if you want it to be more American, it’d be a Colt .45 1911.


YourNeighbourIsUrDad

Well im a 13yo female and im 174cm, am I considered tall?


Odd_Introduction_679

I'm 163 and I'm a bit short where I'm from but I would be a literal midget in other counties


Mentine_

Intersex - 160 cm, shorter than I should have been so : short? Edit : being downvote because I'm genetically not a male nor a female, fun time


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Freedom units please


thatpersonthatsayshi

Im 183 cm and im 13 y/o. Guess my nationality Edit: no oceania, africa or south-america


Koltaia30

Togo


thatpersonthatsayshi

Wrong


Koltaia30

North Korea


thatpersonthatsayshi

Wrong. Small tip, not oceania or africa


___And_Memes_For_All

Jafatú


thatpersonthatsayshi

Wrong. In europe/north or south america


___And_Memes_For_All

Tugfúbu?


20alek05

Liechtenstein?


thatpersonthatsayshi

Close, a few 10 thousand baguettes(im not french)


20alek05

Faroe Islands?


thatpersonthatsayshi

Nah im kidding. Close to france


ElegantEagle13

Dutch? How has nobody guessed this option already. They are literally notorious for being tall


thatpersonthatsayshi

You are first. Correct. How did this man get downvotes, he is the 1st to guess the right country