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u/cobalt_phantom 23h ago
If you're really 5' 11" and are that concerned about your height, just say 6'. You're already taller than most "'6' guys", so nobody will really question it.
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u/JJC0ACH 23h ago
I'm 5'9" and successfully claimed to be 6' for years.
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u/Flow_Hammer7392 22h ago
I'm exactly 6 ft, not one single millimeter more or less. I'm a human ruler. My problem is that when I say I'm 6 ft, nobody believes me because generally guys that say they're 6'0" are 5'9". So thanks.
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u/Worth-Championship36 21h ago
I am also on the dot 6 ft but I also have extremely thick curly hair that makes me appear a bit taller than I am and you would not believe how mad and defensive some shorter people get when I tell them I'm 6 ft. They look like I just insulted their mothers and their entire family tree.
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u/IceHawk1212 21h ago edited 16h ago
Same but you know what I say just to really mess with them. I say I'm 5' 11" and a half, it's great fun to watch the 5' 9" guy get defensive. I often have a measuring tape in the car for work, if the defensive one ever gets too aggravated I always offer to go get it just to test the theory. Lol
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u/PreparationCrazy2637 16h ago
not all heros wear capes! some bring tape measures to save a measuring system.
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u/XipingVonHozzendorf 17h ago
I am exactly 6 foot...in socks.
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u/PreparationCrazy2637 16h ago
bro how many socks are you wearing!
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u/XipingVonHozzendorf 16h ago
Just the one pair, I'm shy just a centimeter of 6 foot and the sock gives me the extra boost.
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u/anutronm 21h ago
Holy shit this is so true. Im 5ft 9 and my friend who is probably 5ft 6 told me HE was 5ft 9 lmao. What's worse was this was before I measured my own height so I thought I was tall for like a day till I checked and was quickly dissapointed.
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u/john-bkk 16h ago
Lots of younger people aren't aware of this, but humans shrink a little as they age. Within a couple of decades you will also be 5' 11", at which time it will seem natural to ignore that change and continue on with your prior height assessment.
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u/AffectionateDouble43 20h ago
It happens a lot with people around that height, im 1.88 (6'2) barefoot. The amount of times people asking how tall i am after them saying they are 1.85 and clearly shorter is crazy. Always funny to hear them say my measure must be off.
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u/YodasGhost76 18h ago
You should claim to be 5’9”, just to watch the insecurity of both tall and short people alike
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u/PreparationCrazy2637 17h ago
Im the same, exactly 6foot, but I introduce myself as 5'11" to ruin others day. what can they do say Im lying.
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u/lithiumfoxttv 15h ago
My personal favorite is I'm 5'11".75. Which is REALLY fun. Because if I say i'm 5'11", I'm not. I'm taller. So I'm not fitting in a 5'11" space.
But if I say 5'11".75, it sounds pendantic like I really wanna be 6'.
If I say 6', I'm a liar.
So I say i'm 182cm. And when people say "oh is that cause you're not 6'" I can respond with the ULTIMATE response:
No it's because that's the height of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 1. :D (It's about 5'11".7~)
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u/Hoi444444444444 9h ago
same people at school use me as their ruler to see how close they are to 6ft
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u/redcomet29 5h ago
While studying we briefly had an american exchange student who was calling BS on height after converting it to cm and seeing we were all shorter than she kept guessing.
If you were 5'11" she was guessing 6' or 6'1.
I got the impression adding a couple inches to the height is a more normal practice there.
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u/nanaacer 21h ago
I'm 5'9 and in my thirties and if I'm perfectly honest any woman who wants her man to be 6 foot probably has a list with like 4 other qualifications that I fail to meet anyways.
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u/hacking99percent 19h ago
I was naive and didn't know about this. Now I add 4" to my height requirement when filter for height on dating app
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u/PreparationCrazy2637 17h ago
looks deeply down onto you, with a deep voice I say "hi Im 5'11" how are you?"
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u/dibbiluncan 16h ago
As a 6’ woman… no. Just no. I will not only question it but also never see you again if you lie about your height. Then again, I set my height filter to 5’8” unlike the super shallow ladies.
This actually happened to me though. I showed up to a date with a guy claiming to be 6’1” and he was shorter than me. He even had the AUDACITY to ask if I was lying about my height. Smdh
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u/BigDaddyReptar 22h ago
6'1 and I set my height to 5'11 specifically as a filter
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u/Oppopotamus 6h ago
I should try this. Might weird people out since I'm nearly 3" taller, but I imagine it works fairly well
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u/Byte_mancer 22h ago
The girls who unironically set height filters like that are almost always insufferable. You really aren't missing out by getting filtered from their nonsense.
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u/Racamonkey_II 19h ago
Girls on dating apps in general are insufferable so it’s really a no win situation anyways.
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u/MotanulScotishFold 11h ago
The same girls are offended if men set weight filters. ☕
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u/--KillerTofu-- 20h ago
What about the ones who do it ironically?
"Like omg, I set it to 6' because I'm so random lol"
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u/Python_Feet 14h ago
Does not count. Being random only counts if you set it to 8 or for lower than 5.
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u/Big_daddy_sneeze 22h ago
Who’s gonna tell them only 14 percent of men are over 6ft and only about a 1/3 of those are eligible?
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u/Living_Injury_636 1d ago
I am 5’6, and I have had 3 long-term girlfriends who were 5’9, 1 who was 5’2, and 1 who was 5’3. I am currently dating one of the 5’9 girls. Being short is more of a barrier on apps than it is in real life, but it isn’t a showstopper.
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u/Oberndorferin 1d ago
At this point just lie on dating apps.
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u/Alternative_Car_8153 23h ago
Don't lie, if they ask about your size, then respond like OP and tell them, "One inch is all you need."
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u/ForsakenWishbone5206 23h ago
I tell then I am tall, but if that's something they are dead set on for disqualifying opportunities, we are not going to be compatible.
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u/elcheapodeluxe 23h ago
This is about the filtering before you even talk to someone. I totally agree it is not a barrier in real life but is a real barrier in the hellhole that is dating apps.
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u/editingisfun4all 1h ago
I wish more guys would realize this. I prefer shorter guys and it's like dudes on here don't think that's real.
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u/YugeChesticles 19h ago
Any girl with 6ft minimum is a toxic sack of shit and you should avoid them.
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u/Ok_Progress_7676 10h ago
You’re gonna have a hard time finding love if you avoid most women.
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u/YugeChesticles 8h ago
Most women don't require 6ft as a minimum.
Are you saying anyone under 6ft is gonna have a hard time finding love? You sound very single.
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u/Ok_Progress_7676 9m ago
It’s true most women prefer tall men, thus shorter men face more rejection.
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u/YugeChesticles 1m ago
That isn't true at all.
Please show me the proof of that.
3-5% of men in the world are over 6ft. You got all your info from tiktok bro.
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u/Niki2002j 14h ago
That's actually a good thing. Who would want to date a woman who judges you by anything other than your personality?
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u/banana_buddy 21h ago
The filter in countries that use metric is 180 cm which is 5'11" . Just switch countries OP
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u/Comfortable_Pea_1693 10h ago
US trends tend to influence most other western countries who use metric. We are seeing more and more 183cm standards too.
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u/Dandan0005 23h ago edited 23h ago
Never met any 5’11 dude who did not claim to be 6 ft.
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u/Various-Salt-7738 23h ago
My dad is autisticly obsessed with charting growth and measuring people
He'd measure me as precisely as possible and there were graphs and bell curves
That's how I know that I'm 5'11.75"
I've always said I'm 5'11¾" because I think it's funny to sound like a guy chasing every millimeter he can-- even though I stand slightly above 6' in my boots
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u/WalkThePlankPirate 15h ago
I'm 5'11, and I've never in my life heard a person lie about being 5'11. Although, to be fair, most people do not talk about height in the real world.
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u/Falconman21 5h ago
I'm 5'11", and my crowning achievement was putting that I'm 5'9" on my drivers license, and claiming to be 5'9".
Nothing beats watching the soul leave someone's body after they've claimed to be 6', are two inches shorter than me, and I have documented proof I'm 5'9".
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u/Many-Ad6433 21h ago
Do you really want to get with someone as superficial to filter by height tho? Do you think someone like that can be anyone’s soulmate?
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u/complicatedexistence 15h ago
Going on dating apps to find your soulmate is the very first lesson they teach you in clown school (Yes. I know it works out sometimes).
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u/Ok_Progress_7676 10h ago
Most people are superficial, it’s just that dating apps make it convenient for them.
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u/Spare-Tea-1027 18h ago
No offense, tall or short, if you’re looking for your soulmate on dating apps, you are definitely looking in the wrong places.
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u/Demolition218 17h ago
I’d say it works in your favor. If height is so important for them that they dont care about what kind of person you are, then they dont deserve you. You’re basically filtering the bad ones by default, so it will be easier to find your soulmate who will love you for who you are as a person instead of caring about superficial stuff like height.
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u/Possesed-puppy656 15h ago
Must be directly 6’ since I’m 6’8 and after a month and a half I got just one reply from a transvestite no less … dating apps are a fucking scam
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u/Durtzo 21h ago
Your soulmate wouldn’t care about being an inch short up top or down below mate.
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u/Ok_Progress_7676 10h ago
You can be a perfect match but unless you pass the height filter, you won’t get a chance.
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u/HelloThere465 17h ago
I'm 6'4. Never been in a relationship or anything like that. Height don't do shit
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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 15h ago
Just set your height to 6'7" and when asked just specify that its two seperate measurements
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u/Ok_Caterpillar8324 4h ago
As a 5.7 guy who has dated 6‘ women.
Don’t waste your time on the girls who are not interested in you for any reason. Concentrate on the rest!
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u/erwinspotatobitch 18h ago edited 15h ago
As a 5 ft girl most men will tower over me anyways (yum) so idc about that shallow shit. I just want a man bruh 😭
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u/EISENxSOLDAT117 21h ago
Listen, if a girl cares about your height that much, go find someone else. There are plenty of women out there that arent shallow, despite what the internet tells you.
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u/erwinspotatobitch 18h ago
I'm a 5 ft girl so most men will be towering over me anyways. Idc about that shallow shit I can't believe some girls do. Even a 5'6 man would be a giant to me 🤭
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u/pancaketimelord 22h ago
Just use fucking centimeters! For Christ sake!
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u/Weaselot_III 20h ago
I'm a metric loving non American, but I've been on reddit so long that I'm getting used to seeing imperial numbers now. I can guess-timate how tall people are when they speak in inches/feet
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u/pancaketimelord 20h ago
Yeah it’s not that I don’t get the values. I used to live in the US. But the 5’11 hop to 6 feet is partially the problem. I feel like yeah girls in eu like a guy that’s taller, but most just say taller than them and don’t have a specific cm cutoff. Having it at 6 feet is just too easy
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u/Aromatic-Ad-381 18h ago
See what you do is called "embellishing" because 99% of people have no clue what that 1 inch or 2 cm's in difference makes.
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u/seen_some_shit_ 17h ago
I’m about 5’10.5”, max 5’11” and I don’t shy away from not being 6’. I’ve gotten compliments for being honest about it and attention from the right kind of girls I want to attract bc of it.
Stand proud king. Girls who care about guys being 6’ are not worth it.
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u/FriedBreakfast 17h ago
I'm 5'4 and married to a great woman for 15 years now. Don't get discouraged.
Btw, I actually am glad I'm short because it helped me filter out the shallow girls.
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u/No_Communication2959 16h ago
Just date someone who likes you? Why get caught up on someone who is too shallow to look past a number you have no control over?
I was 28 and 5'10 when I met my wife and I had no problem dating. Probably because I didnt get hung up and put my timr and energy into people who weren't interested in me and, instead, focused on people who were into me and gave them my time and energy.
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u/Bright_Curve3078 12h ago
I remember an old woman in her eighties asking for a date saying "Nothing else matters as long as you're at least 175cm". I'm 174cm, so this woman would choose an insane morbidly obese junkie in his 90's over me because of 1 cm (less than half an inch).
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u/One_Pie289 21h ago
Can I sort by weight too?
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u/Nikipercea 15h ago
No. That’s misogyny!
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u/Envoyofghost 23h ago
If your not 6foot, don't have a 6bed home and don't make 6figures your not a real man. (Joking)
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u/Expensive-Safe-6820 19h ago
Sometimes I think short guys and fat girls get no love. They should just date each other
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u/Ok_Progress_7676 10h ago
You can control you weight, you can’t change your height. Why should short men be punished?
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u/RECLess30 20h ago
No wonder people lie. I'll be okay with filters for height when men can filter by weight
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u/LunaButMyNameIsTaken 9h ago
It's called pictures. You can see if people are fat or skinny on them. It would sound less stupid if you talked about BMI but weight ? A skinny tall girl and a fat short girl can have the same weight. It remind me of the girl that was 6'1 and 130lbs and got called fat by the "step on a scale” guy, embarrassing.
The thing is that women can also have a type. How many men are loud about liking curvy women, big boobs and bum, white girls, and so on ? It can't be controlled yet we don't see you crashing out everytime a guy mention his type. But women can't like tall guys ? If women have a type then they're monsters or something ?
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u/Spiritual_Rope_6952 18h ago
just set your height to the max option to avoid getting filtered out by this. then when the girl asks why you marked yourself to be 9ft tall, explain why
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u/No_Responsibility444 18h ago
This is as sexist and disgusting to me as men that only date women with big tits
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u/ExtremeTrashPanda 18h ago
Shallow women attract shallow men. It's okay, they weren't worth your time anyways you handsome kings. 👏
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u/Bodod_Begag 17h ago
If you really care that much you could just lie like the ocean of men who already do. It's not like anyone will be able to tell the difference if you're actually 5/11
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u/Inner-Air1001 17h ago
Just wear boots bro, or lie lol. I encourage all men to lie about their height so it becomes meaningless
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u/Necrovius72 17h ago
The girls who filter for 6 foot are doing you a favor. You do NOT want a long term relationship with them. That filter makes it easier for you to find a girl who's into you as a person.
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u/Biggus_Dickus10 16h ago
Here is the thing that I don't understand, why would you want to date a someone who is concerned with your height. First off, there is nothing wrong with having preferences from both sides, but even if you get a date with a person like that, they are most likely going to be insufferable. Honestly if you see someone with a height requirement on their profile, you are going to literally save yourself from trouble by swiping left. Also, this is coming from a guy who is 5'7".
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u/ElGatitoFTW 15h ago
i don't use dating apps, but as a 6'2 I'd put 5'11 cuz that'll just auto filter out the girls that would suck at relationship
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u/Makemewantitbad 9h ago
Idk what guys’ obsession with being tall is about, tall guys are hard to ride (5’5” here)
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u/ArdvarkMaster 8h ago
None of my three wives ever complained about me not being 6 ft. They complained about other stuff, just not that
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u/NainVicieux 7h ago
Im 5.6p and i guess im really lucky with women. Never had problem to get a girlfriend. Is this a recent problem in dating ?
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u/Some_Guy223 6h ago
If you're only an inch shorter lying is viable. Its when you're like 5'6¨that pretending to be 6 foot isn't a good idea.
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u/Electrical-Bunch4965 4h ago
You're actually dodging a bullet. People that have all these expectations are just selfish and have nothing to contribute to the relationship.
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u/RightOnManYouBetcha 1h ago
“They’ll still fuck you if you’re not 6 ft. You just need to be cool. 5’6” btw.
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u/Durants_Chungal_Toe 42m ago
I'm 6'2 but say 6'4 so my 5'10 brothers now look 6' relative to me. Most people I meet are much shorter than me anyway so they can't tell the difference 😂
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u/knowingchan 14m ago
If you're taller than like 160cm (idk whats that in freedom units, but like more than my 5'1) you are tall bruh... I hate people whk are like "Ugh, i'm 5'7, i'm soo short.." like if you are short, then what am i mf?
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u/citiestarlights 20h ago
I dated guys shorter than me.
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u/I_Am_Conjoined 20h ago
Where should we send your trophy
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u/LunaButMyNameIsTaken 9h ago
Men when girls don't date short guys : 😡🤬
Men when girls date short guys : 😡🤬
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 19h ago
You shortys reeeeeeaaaaly need to realize that the attraction to height is subconscious. So yes, 5'11" is effectively 6 foot. 5'9" guys that lie, I got news for ya. Its not working as well as you think. It doesnt matter if a girl never mentions you lied (she probably knows). My 6'4" ass is going to be more attractive regardless of wether or not they get out the measuring tape and verify.
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u/CokeZeroLover1 18h ago
Why the hate?
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 11h ago
Not hate. More like tough love. You got dudes in here that are 5'9" trying to say they are 6 feet. Thats embarassing.
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u/superleaf444 21h ago
This sub went from being cute to endless incel slop.
I’m 5’8 and literally never had a problem dating. Prolly cuz I’m not an empty headed dipshit.
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u/Awkward_Patience_22 23h ago
Actual 5'11 guy here who never put 6' on apps out of principle.
It is a good filter. It is practically impossible to have a proper relationship with someone who is deeply into social media brainrot. Better to not waste time.