# user names **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 25, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052 "2003-12-25T21:43:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/1 "2003-12-25T21:43:47Z")
Who has the shortest username? The longest? Most numbers? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/2 "2003-12-25T22:14:40Z")
Off to ATMB. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/3 "2003-12-25T22:40:06Z")
Well, if the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, then the Summer Solstice is the tallest? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/4 "2003-12-26T00:31:56Z")
No, the summer solstice produes the longest hyponenuse on the daily height of a Doper on the average. The winter produces the far shortest. They’re too damn cold to stand outside for that length of time. Tripler Trust me, I know these things through experimentation. ---
**Author:** ![Molson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Molson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molson)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/5 "2003-12-26T05:14:14Z")
There are lots of shortest and longest names. Shortest, many single letters of the alphabet are names, plus a few punctuation marks. But I found this one that tops them all - registered with a name of one space. No posts. Maybe you can sign up with a space but it can’t handle it at login? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=%20](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=%20) As for longest, there at lots who hit the max, which seems to be 30 characters. Here’s a recent one “the Good Intent,in King’s Road” [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=the%20Good%20Intent,in%20King’s%20Road](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=the%20Good%20Intent,in%20King's%20Road) handy was the high count king at 17495 posts, but I see he is banned, so I don’t know who’s second. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=handy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=handy) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/6 "2003-12-27T00:01:00Z")
What I meant by Most Numbers was the most numbers in one’s username.Like ralph12345 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/7 "2003-12-27T03:23:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*What I meant by Most Numbers was the most numbers in one’s username.Like ralph12345 \*\* I think one person has a username of pi written to about ten digits. ---
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-names/221052/8 "2003-12-27T08:20:33Z")
In that case the answer is 22 characters for **3\_14159265358979323846** [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=3\_14159265358979323846](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&username=3_14159265358979323846)