# Which toe is longer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933 "2005-03-11T00:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/21 "2005-03-11T13:31:45Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Male. Second toe is much longer. I can pick up a croquet ball with my feet(between first and second toes). I can fling golf balls with startling accuracy. This is me too. I often clean up the house using my feet to pick things up. All of my siblings are blessed in the same way. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/22 "2005-03-11T13:59:04Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Are you gay by any chance? Not that I have a clue, just recall an article on this recently where it’s supposed to be some sort of indicator in women. Wow! SCIENCE! My second toe is shorter than my big toe. I am a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/23 "2005-03-11T14:10:10Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > Second toe, but it’s a very close thing. > I’m female. > FWIW, I’m one of the minority of females whose ring finger is significantly longer than her index finger. :eek: I never realised but I have a longer ring finger too, but only on left hand - the right hand they’re pretty much of a muchness. Looking again I guess it’s not _significantly_ but only _slightly_ longer ☹ Anyway, longer second toe (both feet), obviously but not uncomfortably. (IIRC there was a thread on the ethnic origins of longer second toes during the summer) ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/24 "2005-03-11T15:12:26Z")
My left middle toe is shorter than the big toe next to it, but the right middle toe is longer. I’m a freak, I tell ya! But I love picking up stuff with my toes. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/25 "2005-03-11T15:38:22Z")
My big toe is longest, but my sister’s second toe is longest by at least half an inch. I used to tease her by telling her that her freaky second toe was proof that she was a werewolf. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/26 "2005-03-11T15:46:52Z")
Why, oh WHY did I open this thread? I knew opening this thread would be a mistake. The whole second toe longer than the big toe _seriously_ gives me the oogies. Yuck yuck yuck. LilMiss’s second toe is substantially longer than her big toe. You add that to the fact that she has finger looking toes… EUW! She finds perverse pleasure in sticking her toes in my face just to see me pale even more than my Casper visage will allow. Mean little kid. My big toe is longer than my second toe. My pinky toes curl over enough so you can’t see the itsy bitsy nails. And I’m female. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/27 "2005-03-11T15:48:06Z")
Male here. My first toe is slightly longer, though I wish it were otherwise. I love Morton’s toes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/28 "2005-03-11T16:09:22Z")
I think I read somewhere that if the second toe is longer, it’s called “the Egyptian toe.” ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/29 "2005-03-11T17:21:23Z")
Male, both second toes are longer. I dimly remember hearing that the ancient Greeks considered a long second toe sexy. Unfortunately, there’s a shortage of ancient Greeks around here… ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/30 "2005-03-11T18:01:58Z")
> [@sishoch](#): > > I dimly remember hearing that the ancient Greeks considered a long second toe sexy. Unfortunately, there’s a shortage of ancient Greeks around here… Well I’m not Greek, but _I_ find it sexy. Not that you probably care… Frankly, I think this is the first I’m hearing that some people find it icky. I always thought it was sort of the ideal. Or at least a desirable trait, like dimples or something. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933/31 "2005-03-11T18:47:28Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > I think I read somewhere that if the second toe is longer, it’s called “the Egyptian toe.” Hmmm…Egyptian…Egypt…camels… Are you sure we’re talking about the same kind of toe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-toe-is-longer/293933.md?page=1)