# Can you walk a straight line heel to toe for 25 paces? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609 "2014-11-04T12:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/21 "2014-11-05T02:08:16Z")
Nine months pregnant and can do this easily. Like others, I did run out of room and had to swivel around, but I have no doubt I could do 25 paces if I had the room. ---
**Author:** ![Morelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/22 "2014-11-05T02:12:49Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Easy. Did balance beam as a kid and still walk curbs and parking blocks when occupying myself waiting for buses or friends in stores or whatever. Ditto ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/23 "2014-11-05T02:23:35Z")
Sure. In fact I suspect anyone who’s spent any time in marching band could do it without too much trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Dinna\_Fash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Dinna\_Fash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinna_Fash)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/24 "2014-11-05T02:42:36Z")
Easy peasy. And now I know that my apartment is 47 paces long 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/25 "2014-11-05T10:25:26Z")
I can manage it if I really concentrate on it, but my screwed-up foot and joint pain make it quite a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/26 "2014-11-07T13:39:17Z")
Nope. I have bone spurs in my feet and they affect my balance - which I didn’t know until the doctor told me. I just thought I was uncoordinated. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/27 "2014-11-07T16:05:41Z")
No problem here. I did it both looking down at my feet and looking straight ahead. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/28 "2014-11-07T16:10:00Z")
I had to corral the cats so they wouldn’t help, but after that, yes. And I have a crap knee. Obviously the knee doesn’t enter into it. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/29 "2014-11-07T16:42:14Z")
I knew it wasn’t going to be a challenge, so I tried doing it with my eyes closed. That took two tries. [shameless bragging] For what it’s worth, the first time I saw some people practicing [slacklining](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacklining) in a park, I asked if I could try. It was only a couple of feet off the ground, so I wasn’t particularly worried. I didn’t do too bad. It was a good thing my wife wasn’t there because I was holding my then infant girl during the attempt, which blew the minds of the people there. [/shameless bragging] I was in my own world growing up, so I did the walking on curbs and all well past the time my childhood friends wouldn’t be caught dead doing something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/30 "2014-11-07T21:13:41Z")
Not I. I am very duck footed. I have always sort of worried about what will happen if I ever have to take a field sobriety test. ---
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/31 "2014-11-07T22:15:16Z")
I thought it would be a piece of cake , I stumbled after about 4 steps…my excuse is that I am old. I don’t drink at all so age has to be it. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/32 "2014-11-07T22:34:06Z")
Yes. We just tried it in my office area - both following a line, then not following a line, watching your feet and not watching your feet. Clearly we are line-walking superstars ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/33 "2014-11-08T04:27:37Z")
I have balance issues, and won’t even try. I have trouble walking normally without almost falling over. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/34 "2014-11-08T06:19:27Z")
Got it in one, easy as can be, no problem at all. All those years of yoga and dance classes do pay off. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/35 "2014-11-08T06:41:21Z")
I can only do it if somebody counts for me. After 10 I am lost. Even barefoot, I get cornfussed after 20. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609/36 "2014-11-08T23:11:48Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Not I. I am very duck footed. I have always sort of worried about what will happen if I ever have to take a field sobriety test. Hah! I did, and almost failed. I made got credit on the alphabet test, so it turned out ok. It requires a real effort for me to stand with my feet parallel. My left knee is oddly configured. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-walk-a-straight-line-heel-to-toe-for-25-paces/703609.md?page=1)