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The worst is when people drag out the final beat. One... Two.........THREE!!! We're supposed to sync up and you're trying to build suspense. Stop it.

Kaim unlocked a memory hidden deep within his heart

"2...6... heave" was always the one I heard in nautical surroundings. No idea why.

Reblog for Metric Count Down.

the painful second between "ZERO" and the actual buzzer going off

Ah-wan… Ah-tew… Ah-wan-ah-tew-ah-three-ah-four… ( polka intensifies )

I had this exact thought, actually, lol! Though it helps if everyone has the same duration for the "ー" :P I suppose English has the equivalents "Heave... ho!" and (as Google Translate supplies) "Ready, set, go!"

Nice, I'll never lose a gun duel again!

The last was me, just now. While cooking pasta for dinner

Oh yeah and then you have to ask if it's gonna be "rock paper scissors shoot" or "rock paper scissors Says Shoot"

Why would you end before all three options were listed? That's like going on one in a countdown.

the rhythm of it is much nicer with shoot. and everyone I've played RPS with has gone on shoot. I fear it may be the better candidate for the ISO standard

Rock Paper Scissors Says Shoot.

Dynamite beats them all.

in school we would say "rock paper scissors shoe" as a way to add a secret fourth option (your shoe) that beat everything

Agreed it’s “paper scissors rock” so players have 4 beats to sync and show their choice on the 5th beat of rock.

How much is that in Swiss Francs?

The problem is well known and should be standardized. A lot of people go on the "one" in the last example when clearly the correct time to go is on the "go"

*DeeDee Ramone intensifies*

In light of the title text, what I mean is that we go on zero. It would be silly to go on negative one.

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I hated it so much as a kid when someone was counting up to when I'd be in trouble and I didn't know what number they were counting to

Instructions unclear, not sure if supposed to react immediately on go or look at the other person and time my action with their action after go is said

Three, two, one, one, go! (Reverse Fibonacci)

When playing with my nieces and nephews, I do something like “seventeen, two thousand, ninety-nine, one, TWENTY-THREE”. I may vary the sequence each time, or keep it the same, but go on a different number… 😁

The Pitt inspired?

“wait, 3,2,1, *then* go, or 3,2, and go on 1?”

no you go on go.

One month laterthe standard is deprecated in favor of a new one that includes sync on the standard to use prior to the count?

"One, Two, Three, FAHH!" 🤣🤣🤣

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the extra click, I just find it amusing

Oh, I know, this is about something subtly different - if you open the xkcd website and hover over the image, an extra small joke caption shows up. We call these "alt text"s too. So it's interesting that the alt text here (for accessibility) doesn't have the xkcd alt text (the extra joke) in it.

Thankfully @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social exists, but yeah, making that account (mostly) irrelevant would be a nice addition.

So the hill you would die on is that there should be multiple different date formats that do *not* sort lexicographically?

That should actually be the MC5 quote, "kick out the jams, motherfuckers!"

I tend to do: "On three. THREE!"

Don't forget the ISO-U2 standard of "One, Two, Three, Thirteen"

That's actually not a bad idea.

On go...? or after go?

ISO 54321 is available... Just sayin'

Five, six, seven, eight, [silence] is also fully unambiguous!

One … Two … One Two Three Four

People who say “on three” when they mean “after three” don’t deserve synchronization.

three ... two ... ONE! 🏃

Programmers : 3... 2... 1... 0... go !

USA: Two, one, three, go

can we stop people counting up from one instead of zero as well

Wise beyond.

ready. set. go.

I suggest that every counting standard is prefixed with a standardised preamble: E.g. Let's do this after the count to three starting at one and including three with a following go which signifies the start. One. Two. Three. GO!

ah standing on the shoulders of giants etc

this is why we gotta codify saying "on go"

Had a high school classmate who counted down "three, two, ONE" and did the thing at one instead of zero. I hope he got therapy

FizzBuzz on the reals is somewhat harder than on the integers.

The long countdown: 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, ...

This is gold, pure gold

How about standardizing the interval between counts? Movie self-destruct countdowns seem to use a 1.5- to 2-second interval.

so is it on one or after one

Right! One... two... five!

In Japanese, they say "seino" as three syllables-- Se--i--no! and it's easy haha. I'm not even sure if it has meaning beyond the thing you say to count something down. I don't think it does. It's convenient and everyone does it the same way.

Today's luck ten thousand, if anyone is confused: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0

I prefer "on go ...x,γ,θ GO." Where x,γ, and θ are randomly selected integers. It forces you to actually wait for go instead of anticipate the actual countdown.

It’s the way nasa does it so this seems right!

Some students count 8n for music with 3 2 1 0. Dance teachers use 5 6 7 8.

If you're going to take over ISO, could you standardise what colour different recycling bins are? Every single council has a different colour set!

The right answer though would be “2, 6, go!” ?!?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two,_si...

I zeroed out

Thunderbirds are go

''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."

My counter argument would be all music and dancing. Counting up gives a feeling of progression and rhythm.

What about the old "One, two," *silent go alongside three*?

OK but if I say go on three then I'm going as soon as someone says three.

Ready, steady, … arms spaghetti, GO!

counting down already accounts for that implictly.

ISO has standards for everything. Just write them a letter. I am sure they could have someone work on this.

Americans: "One! Three! Two! GO!"

As well as the proper beat to count up to 12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTr_...

ok thanks for the earworm

the craziest thing is when someone says "on three!" and then you arent supposed to go until the word go is said anyway

I always just state "on go" then count back from three and I have never had an issue.

: Iʼve always beena fan of “1‑2‑Ready‑Go!”.

Five is right out!

ISO 321 - Riggs/Murtaugh sequentiallisation

But what if it is “ISO 32105”? Explanation of the pun: 5 in Japanese is “go”.

Okay. On the count of 7...

"Three... Two... One!"

okay but do you realize how expensive these standard food packets are?

Only eating standard reference materials

Ah, the rock paper scissors shoot conundrum

reminds me of the legendary Fischbach "GONOSTOP!!"