Not intended as any kind of slight, it’s just that I have never seen a woman pull off a t-shirt and so have never been puzzled about why they do it that way.
Also I remember my sister complaining about how both her (serial) husbands had used method 1 (and then dropped them on the nearest flat surface) expecting her to both pick them up and turn them right-side out. She never did those things but they never seemed to learn that she wasn’t their mommy.
One leg at a time, just like everyone else.
Dr. Banner, I presume? 
Method 1 ensure the collar does not get stretched out, and the inside is always the dirtiest side, so I want them inside out in the laundry anyway.
Usually method 1. Sometimes grabbing the neck. Sometimes ripping it open like Hulk Hogan.
Except I’ve heard that if the shirt has some sort of graphic printed on it, that graphic will last longer if the shirt is washed inside out. So after the graphic on a shirt I rather liked got completely obliterated when the shirt wasn’t all that old, I started turning all my t-shirts inside out before they go in the wash. Since I do method 4 out of habit, it actually creates more work for me a laundry time than if I used a method that resulted in them being inside out anyway.
+1. I had to really think about before answering. All I know is I don’t crawl out through the head-hole.
My method as well. I voted “other.”
It does help many shirts. Some use a pretty good printing process that will fade along with the rest of the shirt, others don’t use dyes as colorfast, and in some cases it’s like the image is painted on. When they’re printed well the stitching wears out before the image. One of my favorites shirt was a black shirt with a B&W image of Jerry Garcia on it. I think they used bleach to do the white parts because the cloth slowly dissolved away on those parts of the shirt with each washing.
The trouble with the over the neck method is that it puts a lot more stress on the neck than the shirts can take and that whole stitched ring that forms the collar will begin to rip away from the rest of the shirt.
People who are flexible enough can pull the front up over their head, then bring their arms and shoulder blades towards each other behind them and the shirt will just drop down their arms.
I grab the neck but more at the front so I can pull it off without disturbing my glasses.
Usually from the neck but running shirts & other sticky ones in the summer from the bottom so as to peel them away from my skin.
I had never really given it any thought, so I had to try it to be able to answer. Here’s my method: I cross my arms so that each hand can grab the opposite sleeve (either the end of the sleeve of somewhere in the armpit area) and then I lift my elbows and pull up. I have no idea when/where I learned to do it like this.
It would be an interesting question to ask women too, but I suspect you might get a different distribution of answers. Closer-fitting t-shirts, more curves to get over, often more hair to deal with and get out of the way.
I just tried the ‘neck’ method which seems to be the blokey favourite, experimentally. Needed both hands but after some struggling, tugging and yanking I did manage to get it off. Think I’ve wrenched something in my right shoulder though.
I grab the neck by the sides/front and pull it off over my head. If I grab it by the back of the neck, then it will take my glasses off with it and that gets old real fast.
Interesting. When I grab the back of the neck with both hands, it seems natural to pull the back over the top of my head and then off, leaving the glasses undisturbed. When I’m at the gym and the t-shirt is sweaty, as it happens I have developed the habit of taking my glasses off first (they’re coming off anyway as I head to the shower) so they’re not an issue.
I don’t normally wear tight t-shirts, I wonder if that makes a difference. It seems like it might make it harder to pull off from the top, and might make the drawing-the-arms-in method more attractive.
Pull left arm inside shirt. Bunch up from the bottom on the left side, then up to the collar and over my head. Right arm comes out as it pulls away. Shirt stays right-side-out.
Flex my right leg outward and incumbent on my left, reach up and over the left elbow with the right hand, grab the left sleeve and rip.
Why would you get a different distribution of answers if women were included? Yes, most women have curves, by which I assume we mean breasts, but some men have their own curves: big bellies. And I’ve seen men wearing tight tees and women wearing loose tees. There are only so many ways to take off a tee shirt.
I didn’t do the poll since I’m not a man, but I pull the tee up to my arms, pull my arms through, and lift it over my head. Whether I’m wearing a close-fitting tee or not makes no difference. I’m pretty well endowed, but my breasts don’t affect the way I remove my tee shirts. I’ve been removing them the same way since I was old enough to undress myself, and that was way before puberty hit.
This isn’t to snark, by the way. I just don’t see how including women would’ve thrown off the data.
Maybe I just wear particularly tight t-shirts. But, yeah, when I tried it, the large shelf in the middle of my chest was definitely among the things that was making taking a shirt off that way to be hard physical labour. A gut wouldn’t be the same - it’s at the bottom of the shirt
Also, I usually think that things involving body-mechanics are likely to have different answers among men and women, because of our different body shapes. And the neck-yank does seem to be stereotypically male, though maybe that’s just because it looks like a more athletic movement.
I may be completely wrong of course. So lets do science!!
I went with pulling off by the neck, as that is most common. But it’s not universal If the shirt it tight, I’ll probably do the wrong side out method, and then flip it back around. If it’s just tight in the arms, I’ll probably pull them out first before doing the neck thing.