Ape Index.

For absolutely no good reason, what is your:

Height?
Armspan?
Age?
How many years have you been climbing?

A PM is fine if you'd rather not divulge this info publicly. If there are enough responses, I'll crunch the numbers.

height: 6 feet
armspan: 6 foot 1 inch
age 21
climbing 2.5 years

height: 5'8"
armspan: 5' 9.5"
age 38
climbing 7 years

height: 6'4"
wingspan: 6'9"
age: 38
climbing: 6 years

height: 6'
wingspan: 6'5"
age: 26
years climbing: priceless oops i mean 10

height 74"
armspan 81"
age 29
climbing 14 years

height: 5'11"
armspan: 6'
age 22
climbing 3 years

What are you up to there Mike?

6'3"
6'6"
51 (!)
30 years

height- 75"
armspan-81"
age-31
years-4

Height: 65"
Armspan: 65"
Age: 30 years
Years Climbing: 17

I'm also curious to know what you're up to.

Height: 5'8"
Armspan: 5'11"
Age: 59
Years climbing: 40

Height: 5'9"
Armspan: 70.5"
Age: 17
Climbing: 6 months

Check out how almost everyone has a positive ape index. As for me, 72" tall w/ a 71" wingspan. Sux. Plus, I log in at 210 lbs. with about 85% of that being above my hips (I look like a boxer who had a leg transplant from a Bangladeshi, the wife howls if I go out in public with shorts). My big fat 'ol mitts do not fit at all in Incredible Hand Crack, to me its off-fingers. Probably best built for offwidths, but yeeeeesh. What the hell am I doing this for?
Climbing for 21 years w/ a 10 year spell of only occasional outings and bouldering, 48.

Height-6'
Wingspan-6'1"
Age-40
Years Climbing-26
Wedding tackle-8"

Height - 65.5"
Arm Span - 66.5"
Age - 46
Years Climbing - 10

H: 70.5"
Span: 72"
Age: 29
Years Climbing: 12

Height: 6'3"
Ape Index: 6'9"
Age: 29
Climbing: 12 years

Age:29
Height: 5'10"
Wingspan: 6'2"
Years Climbing: 8

Height: 5'5"
Armspan: 5'7"
Age: 40-something
How many years have you been climbing: 2

Height: 5' 10"
Armspan: 5' 9" (boooooo)
Age: 24
How many years have you been climbing: 2(ish)

height 5'10"
armspan 6'4" (+6)
age 36
years 20+ (depending on what you consider climbing)

Ape index, huh? My spine is all messed up and crooked, which is what artifically decreases my height and thus pumps up the index.

Interesting- a few weeks ago I spanned out with "Too Tall Tim" (Davis) who is 6'6" or so and discovered he has only a couple inches of armspan on me. I do see that there is a guy on the list above who has me beat. (Travis) I wonder how he got so positive?

I read something more than a decade ago in a mag that suggested the human average is 0, but of course depends on race and gender... Males are generally +2 and females generally -2. Females have a higher torso to apendage ratio. I imagine it has something to do with Estrogen, as in both males and females, that is the hormone that stops the growth of the long bones, such as femur and humerus.