# How tall are you?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 10, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639 "2007-09-10T02:37:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/1 "2007-09-10T02:37:34Z")
I know we’ve had these threads before, but I was just noticing the other day when I was at my son’s school (he’s now in middle school) that it’s becoming less and less the case that I’m taller than my son’s classmates. I admit, I’m short. I’m 5’2". But I’ve been the same height since probably 6th or 7th grade.
So here is the question: How tall are you? (please also say if you are M or F)
Also, how old were you when you got that tall?
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/2 "2007-09-10T02:39:01Z")
Off to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/3 "2007-09-10T02:41:36Z")
5’7" and male.
I don’t remember the age I was when I reached it.
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### Author:  [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/4 "2007-09-10T02:42:30Z")
female, 5’1".
I think I stopped growing at 14 or 15.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/5 "2007-09-10T02:46:12Z")
6’5" male. I forget when I stopped, probably about 18.
Tallest so far, but not for long I’m sure.
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/6 "2007-09-10T02:48:05Z")
5’6". Male. I don’t remember exactly when I hit my final height, but it was relatively young. I kept waiting for another growth spurt to push me up closer to 5’10" or so, but it never happened.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/7 "2007-09-10T02:49:48Z")
5’10" female
I was always towering over my classmates in school. It made me the nerd I am today. 🙂 Now I find many college students taller than me.
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### Author:  [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/8 "2007-09-10T02:51:33Z")
5’10’’ male, I weigh around 230-240 though.
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### Author:  [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/9 "2007-09-10T02:55:47Z")
5’1", female. I had finished growing (vertically, anyway) by the start of high school, probably before.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/10 "2007-09-10T02:57:30Z")
6’3", male. Probably stopped when I was 16 or 17.
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### Author:  [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/11 "2007-09-10T02:57:34Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
I know we’ve had these threads before, but I was just noticing the other day when I was at my son’s school (he’s now in middle school) that it’s becoming less and less the case that I’m taller than my son’s classmates. I admit, I’m short. I’m 5’2". But I’ve been the same height since probably 6th or 7th grade.
So here is the question: How tall are you? (please also say if you are M or F)
Also, how old were you when you got that tall?
[/QUOTE]
6’1" M 230. Was that tall since I was 17.
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### Author:  [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/12 "2007-09-10T03:00:59Z")
Male 6’1" Around 14 or 15 I guess.
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### Author:  [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/13 "2007-09-10T03:02:05Z")
5’7’’, male. Now aged 35, have been this height since about 17.
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### Author:  [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/14 "2007-09-10T03:03:51Z")
6’2" M. Got there at 16.
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### Author:  [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/15 "2007-09-10T03:06:10Z")
6’1", 250, probably around 17. I was around 200# most of my adult life, gained some in the last decade. I’ve never taken much note of people’s height, unless it’s extreme.
My mom was 5’2", my dad about 5’11". I’m taller than all my sibs, don’t know where that came from. My G-parents weren’t tall either.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/16 "2007-09-10T03:12:37Z")
5’ 7" female. Reached that around 16-17 years old.
Mum was 5’ 4", my father 6’ 3".
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/17 "2007-09-10T03:16:07Z")
Male. 6’3’’ – or 190.5 centimeters, as I list it over here. I was this tall by 16 or 17, I think.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/18 "2007-09-10T03:16:30Z")
5’9" female. Got there around 13 or 14. Early bloomer.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/19 "2007-09-10T03:17:43Z")
M, 40, 5’10 1/2", 185. I have been my current height since approximately age 17 (however I was 50 lb lighter then :rolleyes: ).
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### Author:  [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-tall-are-you/418639/20 "2007-09-10T03:19:15Z")
6’10". I did not stop growing until I was about 23 or 24… but I was probably about 6’7" At around 18. So I slowed down considerably at the end there.
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