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What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
The Groob Started conversation Jun 20, 2015
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What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
bobstafford Posted Jun 20, 2015
Count in the normal way but insert a short two syllable word between the numbers.
My science master taught us this for darkroom work it went thus
1 kodak 2 kodak 3 kodak and so forth up to as far as you like lift the pace when you reach double digits.
test yourself against a stop watch until you get used to it, it works for me. 
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 20, 2015
I was told it was 1 elephant 2 elephant etc. But I've never had any problem counting in seconds. My natural pulse is about 60 bpm or 1 per second, so counting seconds seems very natural to me. (Mind you, I've measured my pulse as low as 42 when I'm sleepy.
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Pink Paisley Posted Jun 20, 2015
Banana.
PP.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 21, 2015
I had heard it was 1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi etc.
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Mol - on the new tablet Posted Jun 21, 2015
What Gnomon said. Including the bit about heart rates.
Mol
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You can call me TC Posted Jun 22, 2015
I can only remember "One Jack Robinson Two Jack Robinson" which has not two syllables, nor three (elephant) but four. I can only assume this is for low numbers.
So, now, having tried it against a stopwatch I find that you have to speak very quickly to get Jack Robinson into a second. Elephants are definitely more suitable.
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 22, 2015
I would use Will Robinson rather than jack Robinson, because this adds an element of danger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwOJlOI1nU
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ITIWBS Posted Jun 23, 2015
...one thousand one... ...one thousand one... ...one thousand one... | n•s
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Xanatic Posted Jun 23, 2015
Drinking caffeine seems to speed up your inner clock, so don't do that.
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Todaymueller Posted Jun 23, 2015
Always been a Hippopotamus man myself.
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Xanatic Posted Jun 23, 2015
I'm a bit more like a giraffe.
What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
Xanatic Posted Jun 23, 2015
Slime molds can keep time. I'm not sure how they do it though.
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ITIWBS Posted Jun 24, 2015
They can?
When I was trying to train mine to run simple T-mazes, all they ever did in response to any form of stress or eustress I tried was to sporulate, transforming themselves into tiny shaggy mushrooms.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 25, 2015
"Always been a Hippopotamus man myself." [Todaymueller]
"One hippopotami cannot get on a bus,
Because one hippopotami is two hippopotamus"
--Allan Sherman
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What's the most accurate way to count seconds in your head?
- 1: The Groob (Jun 20, 2015)
- 2: bobstafford (Jun 20, 2015)
- 3: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 20, 2015)
- 4: Pink Paisley (Jun 20, 2015)
- 5: swl (Jun 20, 2015)
- 6: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jun 21, 2015)
- 7: Mol - on the new tablet (Jun 21, 2015)
- 8: You can call me TC (Jun 22, 2015)
- 9: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jun 22, 2015)
- 10: ITIWBS (Jun 23, 2015)
- 11: Xanatic (Jun 23, 2015)
- 12: Todaymueller (Jun 23, 2015)
- 13: Xanatic (Jun 23, 2015)
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- 15: ITIWBS (Jun 24, 2015)
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