I just tried counting using Mississippi. When I got to 30, I checked my stopwatch and it was at 43 seconds. You have to count fast if you’re using Mississippi.
I suppose in German the challenge is to find a word short enough to say in only one second 
I got 33.46 seconds using my usual “Mississippi” pace. So pretty good. I don’t think mind is particularly fast, and I pause between the number and “Mississippi.”
In Spanish, at least in Peru, there is none. You just time it “uno…dos…tres.”
Personally, I’ve committed to memory the beat of the Jeopardy tune I’m never more than 1 second off in a 30-second count-
Mississippilessly!!??
Nice! I never tried that before, but I got 32.89, so even better than my Mississippis!
I got 33.43 so that does seem to be a good way to get to 30 seconds.
Darn it, I was hoping to hear “one kookaburra, two kookaburra…”
Ironically, I was woken this morning by one kookaburra outside my window, then two kookaburra when one down the street replied. Lasted more than two seconds, so they need to keep working on their accuracy.
USian here. In my Chicago neighborhood we always used one one thousand, two one thousand, etc. I didn’t learn about one-Mississippi till much later.
In Croatian it’s one twentytwo, two twentytwo… jen dvajzdva dva dvajzdva tri dvajzdva…
I’m wondering if that’s a borrowing from German.