Hi, Big Rob from CelebHeights here, with a little video on the topic of tape measures.
And, how to read them.
In the UK we buy tape measures with feet and inches at the top
Imperial.
And centimetres at the bottom, which is metric.
Now to read inches, they are split up into divisions, which you can see the wee small
marks here, which represent 1/16ths of an inch.
So, 9 inches and 1/16th, 2/16th, 3/16th, all the way up to 15/16ths and 16/16ths is a full inch
Now, if you're measuring height, that's quite a small amount.
Up from 16ths is 1/8ths.
So you have 9 inches, plus 1/8th, 2/8th, 3/8th, 4/8th etc.
But, rather than saying 9 inches and 2/8ths, the next step up from eights is 1/4's.
So you've got 9 inches and 1/8th, 2/8ths which is a quarter.
3/8ths, 4/8ths which is a half, 5/8ths, 6/8ths which is three quarters, 7/8ths and 8/8ths
is your full inch.
So that's your inches.
For height, I would just stick with either 1/4 or even 1/8th.
It's quite a small amount.
For metric, we have centimetres down here.
And they're split up into divisions For each centimetre, that has 10 divisions,
which represents millimetres.
So, 23 centimetres.
23.1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.
When you're measuring height in centimetres I would just stick with using the full centimetre
or the .5 Cause 5 millimetres is like your quarter inch.
It's not a big amount, it's quite a small amount.
When you're marking on the wall, there's going to be a slight margin of error, so if you're
trying to go to the millimetres...I mean I sometimes do that on videos.
I'm going very precise.
But for people in general, the full centimetre or even half a cm, or 5 millimetres is more
than enough I think.
And the same when you're measuring yourself in feet and inches.
I would stick with...the lowest I would go is 1/8th of an inch, but 1/4's are ok.
A useful tip which tape measures have is, if we go up to, let's go up to my height.
We can see it on the top the imperial part of the tape measure
that
it has these other red markings.
Five Seven.
Now that's basically saying 5 foot and 7 inches is the next mark.
Of course they can't put that Five Seven there, because it would look stupid.
SO they put it there and they're basically saying, Five Foot and Seven inches is the
next even mark.
Five Eight, that's the next one.
So, 5 foot and 8 inches is 68 inches.
And then we've got Sly's height, Five Nine which is 69 inches.
And then we've got Arnie's, eh I mean eh, no not Arnie.
George Clooney maybe?
Five Ten, 5 foot 10 inches, 70 inches.
And then Tom Cr...no, that's Brad Pitt.
Five Eleven.
71 inches.
For metric, a way of remembering some values is 170 centimetres is very close to
5 foot and 7 inches and
180 centimetres or 1.8 metres is very close
to 71 inches, which is 5 foot and 11 and 6 foot is very close to 183 centimetres.
These are all values, which on CelebHeights, we see a lot, because a lot of people are
in between 5 foot 7 and 6 foot.
So, I hope that's been of some use to you.
Thanks for watching and please do like, and subscribe to my channel.
Keep walking tall like Rob Paul, who is 68 inches or about 173 centimetres.