UKC

Anyone want to supply a definition? I can't seem to find it documented anywhere.

ratio of arm span to height
stand next a wall, left hand on the floor, right hand high as poss
now draw all over the wall at you high point
then measure your height
one div the other gives the ratio
if positive then you is a frick'in chimp!

soz for crap type
i is on the phone wiv one hand

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Broadly correct, but more normally expressed in terms of the difference between arm span and height (i.e. subtract the latter from the former). Also for us europhobes usually expressed in inches. Mine's +4, in case you were wondering (and no jokes about gibbons please...)

Nic

Why not?
If I have to suffer being likened to a primate because my index is 4.5, then so can you! (said she chomping on her lunchtime banana.......)

Interestingly enough, when with a climbing group in Austria this summer we had an ape index comparison, and by far and away the best climber in the group had an index of 4.5 - not me, I hasten to add, but maybe there's hope for me yet!

Happy chimping, sorry, climbing!

Liz

Although one of the more powerful and talented climbers I know has an AI of -2!

Ha! but can you stand upright??????????

I've got an ape index of about +5.5/6 inches, but thats cos I am so short to start with, bummer!

mines 16 cm's and i'm 5ft 10 tall iv'e grown up with jokes about my arms but it's helped with my climbing.

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I make mine about -2 (inches) . . . explains a lot.

In reply to UKC News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8140795.stm

Perhaps we should try a similar move. The majority of us must be over voting age?!