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what's the perfect height for a man in your opinion ?

Kurdquistador

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as you know i have ocd lel ....thats why i am often interested in categorizations . i like to discuss things like taxonomy and also height and other things

here are some question i would like you to answer :

1. what is your height ? (barefoot . and take the middle of your morning and evening height since we are taller in the morning after a good sleep)

2. how do you feel at your height ? do you like your height ?

3. what is the perfect height in your opinion ?

4. what height would you take if you had the opportunity to choose ? this is related to nr.3 but some people will find a certain height perfect but will still choose another height for various reasons



ok so this is my answer to the questions :

1. i am 176-177cm . (roughly in the middle of 5'9 and 5'10)

2. i like my height for sure . it is a decent height to be . very medium , healthy , good for fighting (especially since i am also muscular and have a heavy frame) because you are short enough to not loose agility and balance and have a lower center of gravity than tall men but you are tall enough to be heavy enough since weight is important in a fight and you also dont suffer too much from reach disadvantage . i have trained boxing and other stuff for years and did heavy sparring with guys of all kind of heights and builds and am speaking from experience . also great if not the best height for building muscle , you fit comfortable basically anywhere , you are taller than most women . and probably more good things that i cant recall right now . it is definitely a decent height ....BUT it is not perfect

3. the perfect height in my opinion is something around 180 - 185 cm range (5'11 - 6'1) . but on the higher end (185) you have to have very good proportions and not have some downsides which often come with tall heights like a horsy face , too long head , or lanky/gangly proportions , or looking and acting clumsy etc . no offense to anybody who has those things ....just my opinion . . i like 180cm a lot . in my experience it is the most beautiful / handsome height because it just looks "right" ....most aesthetic height in my opinion . and most good looking male celebrities are around 180cm like George Clooney , Jamie Dornan , and many more .

4. i think if i could keep my current proportions and build then i would take 183cm . basically a mesomorphic 183cm with good / harmonic body proportions is perfection . or maybe i would take 180cm .....well something around that



what about you ?
 
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Ben Dover

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At my lowest I am 175 cm and even in 3.5 cm shoes I feel like a midget sometimes here...
 

Ben Dover

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thats the thing . you feel

175cm feeling like a midget is a joke :D
But I do see a lot of people even women way taller than me. I am in the netherlands so don't forget about that. When I am in Georgia I don't feel that way. There I am average height
 

Kurdquistador

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to be honest i wouldnt want to be much taller

my height of 176-177cm feels nice . but i would like to have a couple of cm more . because even though my height is decent it is not ideal either

i would want to be something like 180 182 . if i was guaranteed to keep my body proportions and body type etc. and not get some bad features that can come with tall heights then i might take 185cm . but really only if i could keep my proportions / body type etc . i would rather be a good proportioned 180cm guy than a bad proportioned 185
 

Ben Dover

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@vengeance How many people do you see in everyday life taller than you in Germany? Because here in the Netherlands at a similar height, I really do feel short and it is not like I am giving extra cms to my actual height. I am 177 first thing after waking up and 175cm a few hours later when I hit my lowest
 

Kurdquistador

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i cant give you a certain number / value . germans are tall people but i still dont feel short overall . i would say though that for young german men my height is on the bottom end of the medium range i guess . if you include all ethnic groups that live here then my height is solid medium and sometimes a little over it even
 

Ben Dover

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i cant give you a certain number / value . germans are tall people but i still dont feel short overall . i would say though that for young german men my height is on the bottom end of the medium range i guess . if you include all ethnic groups that live here then my height is solid medium and sometimes a little over it even
Dutch on average are a little bit taller in all generations compared to Germans, but especially younger generation Dutch people are even taller on average. I believe the average male height for young Dutchmen is 184 cm. That's 9 cm taller than me and still just an average height not even a high end of average.

In Georgia the average male height is 173.8cm if I am not wrong and I feel very much average there. I am just 1.2cm taller than the average. If I claim 176 then it's 2.2 but still there isn't a huge difference
 

Kurdquistador

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today when i was in the grocery store i saw a man who was about 200cm . and he was built like a stick . as if you stretched him vertically etc. . it looked like shit

but it is better than below 170cm

i am gratefull to be 176-177
 

Hispania

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I don't understand the laughs. It is the perfect height. High life expectancy, low risk of disease, more strength compared to weight and you have to eat less.
 

Kurdquistador

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I don't understand the laughs. It is the perfect height. High life expectancy, low risk of disease, more strength compared to weight and you have to eat less.

not trying to mock what you said or short men . but it is FAR from the perfect height seriously

how tall are you ?
 

Hispania

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I am 174 and i think i'm too tall.
Some think that less than 175 is low, but it is actually too high for any human. I wish I was as tall as my grandfather of 160
 

Kurdquistador

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I am 174 and i think i'm too tall.
Some think that less than 175 is low, but it is actually too high for any human. I wish I was as tall as my grandfather of 160

174 is an okay height . not perfect but it is decent

160 is a bad height for a man . lets be real here . your grandpa lived in a different time and also south europe average height is lower

but in 2022 especially in central and north europe 160cm is very bad . you are even shorter than most women .
 

Hispania

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174 is an okay height . not perfect but it is decent

160 is a bad height for a man . lets be real here . your grandpa lived in a different time and also south europe average height is lower

but in 2022 especially in central and north europe 160cm is very bad . you are even shorter than most women .
160 is very low here too. Even when my grandfather was young he was considered very short (being from a rural and poor area). But what the rest of the world thinks doesn't matter. Ideally, all humans would be short, as we would live longer and be healthier but our mentality of "always being bigger, stronger..." has caused us to become abominations
 

Kurdquistador

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160 is very low here too. Even when my grandfather was young he was considered very short (being from a rural and poor area). But what the rest of the world thinks doesn't matter. Ideally, all humans would be short, as we would live longer and be healthier but our mentality of "always being bigger, stronger..." has caused us to become abominations

but as far as i know short men are also prone to certain diseases
 
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