Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?

Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.

I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.

I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve always counted too slowly using this method. I think my general cadence is slower than average, as I tend to walk more slowly than most people, in spite of being tall. Also, I need to slow down fast talkers on YouTube, like Louis Rossmann. I imagine he’d get through 45 mississippis in 30 seconds.

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 hours ago

      You are blessed, this is a much better thing to deal with than walking, talking and counting too fast. I find that it’s more compatibke with human society to operate slightly slower than slightly faster in all these things

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      15 hours ago

      I am wondering if my counting has changed as I got older. Someone said to try 1 and 2 and 3, etc. But that seems to have the opposite problem where I am counting them way too fast.