# How fast can you shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761 "2005-01-20T18:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/21 "2005-01-21T01:21:02Z")
If I don’t wash my hair (just tie it up and out of the way) I can get myself soaped and rinsed in about two minutes. If I also use facial scrub that’s another minute right there. I rarely spend more than ten minutes in the shower, because…dorm showers. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/22 "2005-01-21T01:57:54Z")
I can get my business done in 6 or 7 minutes. Wet hair, lather, run soap all over the bod from top to bottom, rinse. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/23 "2005-01-21T02:27:09Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > IMHO, those shampoo and conditioner in one products aren’t worth the extra time saved. All the kinds I’ve used made my hair tangled and like straw. It’s worth the extra time conditioning separately if combing it out afterwards is quicker and easier. That depends. I use Pantene 2 in 1, and it works excellently on my hair. I have curly hair, though, and by curly hair products. In answer to the OP, I can cut it down to 3 minutes and get everything shiny clean, if I have to. Including my loooong hair. My average shower is usually 5-10 minutes anyway. If you’re in there longer alone, you’re either sleeping or masturbating. In \*my \* humble opinion. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/24 "2005-01-21T03:06:53Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > If you’re in there longer alone, you’re either sleeping or masturbating. > > In \*my \* humble opinion. 😉 …not that there’s anything wrong with that 😉 I enjoy having an ‘assistant’ in the shower with me to help things along, however when I tried this with a female companion I took far _longer_ to finish cleaning myself than normal. Hmm 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/25 "2005-01-21T03:14:06Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > …not that there’s anything wrong with that 😉 > > I enjoy having an ‘assistant’ in the shower with me to help things along, however when I tried this with a female companion I took far _longer_ to finish cleaning myself than normal. Hmm 😉 I didn’t say there was, I’m just saying masturbating & sleeping in the shower…don’t necesarily do the same thing for different people. And I have to confess that I don’t really like having anyone in the shower with me. I’m not saying the boyfriend and I don’t ever double up, but I just don’t like it and probably won’t like until I get a ten-foot square tub. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/26 "2005-01-21T03:36:28Z")
\Wanna see me do it again?\ ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/27 "2005-01-21T07:21:10Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > If you’re in there longer alone, you’re either sleeping or masturbating. > > In \*my \* humble opinion. 😉 If those are my only options I guess I’m sleeping, because I’m sure not doing the other. Not standing up and all. ---
**Author:** ![VampyChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5daacb/32.png) [@VampyChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VampyChick)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/28 "2005-01-21T09:05:41Z")
I went to a small summer camp every year growing up. Two showers for ten kids, and some of those kids apparently didn’t understand how hot water heaters work, and took loooooong showers. When I was thirteen, I became a counselor, and counselors shower last. So I perfected getting clean before the hot water ran out. Shampoo, soap, rinse, done. Maybe three minutes tops. I take slightly longer showers the rest of the year, but my camp habits are ingrained pretty deep. When I was living in the dorms, my suitemates marveled at how little time I spent in the shower. I can’t shave in an actual shower, due to an inability to see what’s in front of my face without glasses. I guess that’s a contributing factor to my speed. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761/29 "2005-01-21T20:01:48Z")
It’s my shower, and my tadger, and I’ll wash it as fast as I want! 😛 Barring any of that, if I’m going for speed I can get it done in about 1.5 - 2 minutes. Get wet, get soapy, rinse off, get out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-shower/285761.md?page=1)