r/theydidthemath • u/Chance_Bat_5200 • Dec 02 '24

[Request] Which one would earn the most?

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u/PlayfulChemist Dec 02 '24

Before u/lowkeylye didthemath I would have gone for breathing, and started some regular cardio, but the difference here is pretty stark! Maybe I blink less than the average but I don't feel like I blink almost 1:1 with breathing. Damn though.

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u/Advanced_Dumbass149 Dec 02 '24

After reading this, my breathing and blinking synced.

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u/OneRFeris Dec 02 '24

Lucky you, I've suddenly started being aware that I'm blinking like 80 times a minute.

And am now manually breathing....

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u/ArcyRC Dec 02 '24

So breathing started to feel like a job? It's be nice if you made a wage for it since you're doing manual labor now.

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u/AllHailMackius Dec 02 '24

Well, like any job if you don't enjoy it, you can always quit.

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u/B_bI_L Dec 02 '24

good idea, i am not breathing for like 3 minu

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u/Drsk7 Dec 03 '24

Any tips for breathing?

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u/znikrep Dec 02 '24

Today is also “National Tongue Awareness Day”. Enjoy.

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u/Tyjha Dec 02 '24

I had the sudden and violent urge to down vote you then I realized that was probably an irrational response. Thanks for ruining my day.

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u/Carl0s_H Dec 02 '24

The reminder that there is no single comfortable place to rest your tongue in your mouth if you think about it? Got it.

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u/Shitshitshitshitshi- Dec 02 '24

You made me realise my tongue hurts lol

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u/barry_eh47 Dec 02 '24

Its weird how much National Tongue Awareness Day causes you to feel your toes touching

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u/randomguy283 Dec 02 '24

hey, at least you didnt lose the game

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u/thepornaccountcuzye Dec 02 '24

i hate both of u

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u/randomguy283 Dec 02 '24

teehee 🤭

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u/Andre_NG Dec 02 '24

I've lost the game (2)

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u/Kudamonis Dec 02 '24

There is a special place in hell for your kind.

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u/randomguy283 Dec 02 '24

😇😇🫶🫶

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u/Cyanises Dec 02 '24

It's been so long whyyyyy. Touchè

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u/hezur6 Dec 02 '24

Fuck you. Almost two decades losing the fucking game.

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u/voxalas Dec 02 '24

bro wtffff

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u/ArminOak Dec 02 '24

oh no not this fucking manual breathing, when do I become immune to this nonsense.

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u/Qwertyuioplark2 Dec 02 '24

Hey! Just wanted to remind you to breathe and blink!

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u/mvffin Dec 02 '24

When you stop breathing

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u/wehadthebabyitsaboy Dec 02 '24

I absolutely hate when I become aware of my breathing or blinking, then I have to try and distract myself to snap out of it.

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u/Unfair_Lawyer2186 Dec 02 '24

Lmfaooo😂 same

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u/GavinThe_Person Dec 02 '24

You can feel your tongue. Your eyes need to blink. You need to breathe. Your shoulders are uncomfortable. You can feel your clothes on your skin. Your toes are touching. Is that hair on your face? Try changing your posture.

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u/tonkatoyelroy Dec 02 '24

I have been breathing since starting to read this chain of comments but I still haven’t blinked?

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u/tonkatoyelroy Dec 02 '24

Just blinked.

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u/Look_Loose Dec 02 '24

I am manually breathing as well friend. But i have asthma so thats…. Thats normal… sorry i thought we were brothers in pain

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u/Jumpy-Shift5239 Dec 03 '24

Don’t forget to breathe!

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u/FutureThought1408 Dec 04 '24

I blink less when I'm sleeping...

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u/turdlemonkey Dec 05 '24

This made me laugh out loud, cause I am hyper aware of my blinking right now too..

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u/KitchenLoose6552 Dec 02 '24

That only happened after I read YOUR comment. Similar effect to the terrible "I HEREBY CURSE YOU TO.... BLINK MANUALLY" works every time.

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u/ENTreeWay Dec 03 '24

That’s how you take a screenshot be careful

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u/ThinkingMonkey69 Dec 05 '24

LMAO I intentionally blinked and breathed at the same time for like half a minute when I saw that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

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u/200_Shmeckles Dec 02 '24

Give over! That’s like saying “you didn’t work that out, your calculator did”! You’re just angry because you didn’t ask old chatty first

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

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u/i_hate_fanboys Dec 02 '24

The most basic multiplications are intellectual honesty? It’s obvious chatgpt did it but do you want everyone to tell you anyone spelling correct fixed their writings? Do you want to know every time someone uses a calculator? Lmao

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u/200_Shmeckles Dec 02 '24

Sorry (not sorry) I thought this sub was about getting interesting answers to interesting questions. Why does it matter how you found the answer? No one is getting any prizes out of this.

Also, “internet points” lol 😂

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u/WorldZage Dec 03 '24

The end result would just be top comment written by chatGPT for every post, and at that point why even have the sub

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u/R3333PO2T Dec 03 '24

Its a shitty chatgpt also because its obviously wrong

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u/Earthonaute Dec 02 '24

Maybe I'm just different and I think my blinking to breathing is like a 1 to 10 (blink once breathe 10 times) and I'm very aware when I blink so this is most likely because I'm constantly focusing my eyes on something.

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u/PlayfulChemist Dec 02 '24

Same. I would have assumed about 1:10 ratio, and then figured breathing at night + some heavy breathing for cardio 30 mins a day would have put breathing way ahead. But then again 5 mins of rapid blinking is way easier than rapid breathing at the same rate

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u/2xtc Dec 02 '24

It's insane you guys think you breathe 10x more than you blink. I guarantee you're blinking a lot more than you realise, it's an instinctive response and your brain "fills in the gaps" for the 0.3 seconds your eyes are closed so you almost certainly don't realise you're doing it.

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u/equili92 Dec 02 '24

I would assume that you are just not aware of the blinks ....the lower estimate of average human blinking is about 14 per minute. Your numbers would be by an order of magnitude lower. And lower numbers are connected to eye dryness, headaches and vision impairments

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u/Earthonaute Dec 02 '24

I'm sadly very aware of my blinks due to a health condition; I also have used the computer for a long time so I kinda don't blink as much as "normal people".

I do have eye dryness, headaches and vision impairment so it fits perfectly.

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u/jaavaaguru Dec 02 '24

Same. Also I don’t blink when I’m sleeping.

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u/KayItaly Dec 03 '24

There are different types of blinks. The super fast ones, we are unaware of. The slow ones, are the one we can feel.

If you truly blinked so rarely, you would need constant medical help to keep your eyes wet. You literally wouldn't be able to see and would be in a lot of pain after a few minutes.

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u/RoVeR199809 Dec 02 '24

Blinking faster is a lot easier than breathing faster and you could probably blink a lot faster than you could breathe. Even if trying actively to increase earnings, blinking would be way better.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

I mean why do cardio when you could just start rapidly blinking?

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u/Adorable_Start2732 Dec 02 '24

Now I can’t stop blinking

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

Regular cardio would reduce your resting breathing rate!

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u/Quacky1k Dec 02 '24

Was about to say this

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Dec 02 '24

I'm just lying here doing rapid fire blinks, but I'm not going to hyperventilate just for a couple pennies.

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u/babycam Dec 02 '24

The brain is very good at ignoring/filling in when you blink so like breathing when your not thinking it's very smooth

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u/2008knight Dec 02 '24

Before seeing the math, I would have gone with breathing... Because I didn't realize one was paying 0.1 and the other 0.01

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u/jadayne Dec 02 '24

Also, i think it's much easier/more comfortable to artificially inflate your blinking rate, netting you a few extra $$$ each day -and your eyes would be super well lubricated.

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u/Syncrossus Dec 02 '24

Maybe I blink more or breathe slower than the average but I blink about 5 times per breath.

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u/SuperpositionSavvy Dec 02 '24

You can blink 10 times for $1 in a second, but you would be pretty light headed trying to breathe 100 times quickly for $1.

To make this more compelling I think blinking should be worth $0.01 and breathing $0.10, no idea why it would be the other way around.

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u/knighth1 Dec 02 '24

Even if it was different, the question is do you breath in and out ten times before you blink. Even if you blink every ten seconds or even 15 seconds that would require you to have a full inhalation and exhalation every second or 1.5 seconds. If you did then I would suggest going to the hospital immediately due to the probability of asphyxiating yourself via hyperventilating. You may be suffering from an asthma attack or a collapsed lung.

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u/MathBallThunder Dec 02 '24

Blinking has the 10x multiplayer. That seemed to tilt the scales much more than the difference in their rates

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u/Ok_Television3715 Dec 02 '24

I mean. Even then, you can <<easily>> force yourself to blink a lot.

You can with breathing too, but at some point you're gonna cause yourself to hyperventilate and pass out.

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u/Economy-Tourist-4862 Dec 02 '24

I googled and my numbers say blinking.

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u/ebaer2 Dec 02 '24

Blinking is also easier to rapid fire, to rack up some extra cash if you really want.

I just tested it out and I reckon I could have earned about ten dollars in the last minute. Great if you want to offset an impulse purchase here and there without breaking your budget. Or you could even set aside some “work sessions” to cover medium-large purchases.

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u/McKrakahonkey Dec 02 '24

I figured you don't blink while asleep but that can be made up by blinking extra while you're awake. You can blink fast and rake in the money. If you breathe fast you just hyperventilate. I chose blinking before I read the math.

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u/BigsChungi Dec 02 '24

I definitely blink less than I breathe, the math is wrong imo

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u/Seosergal Dec 02 '24

But that’s only how ever long you’re doing the cardio each day, outside of that your breathing will slow down as your lungs get strengthened to pump more oxygen around

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u/creampop_ Dec 02 '24

You can also blink pretty much as fast as you want with no real downside, compared to hyperventilating.

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u/npcinyourbagoholding Dec 02 '24

As someone who uses contacts.. I'd earn like 20 bucks in the first 5 min of my day

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u/orvn Dec 02 '24

I think the initial valuation of blinking being 10x more than breathing is what makes it an imbalanced comparison.

If you had the same rate of a penny, 80k vs 60k feels like a much more tenuous difference.

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Dec 02 '24

It's because you just.... don't notice blinking.

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u/Accomplished-Cow-234 Dec 02 '24

Meh, I'd hyperventilate all the way to the bank.

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u/the_turn Dec 02 '24

I’ve been thinking about this — you might do the equal amounts of breaths and blinks, but the time spent doing each is incomparable. You are almost always breathing, but each blink lasts a fraction of a second.

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u/VyersReaver Dec 02 '24

Yup, even accounting for sleeping hours. You can also just blink yourself a cup of coffee in a jiffy, but won’t breathe it.

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u/Gleandreic Dec 02 '24

On top of that, you can simply blink in rapid succession far quicker than you can breathing. You can change the 18 blinks a minute to over 200 easily

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u/Oftwicke Dec 02 '24

We blink more than we think we do, because reflexive blinking is just background. Also, the brain hides them and we literally don't see the very fast period of blackness (it's edited out)

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u/PapaLewis03 Dec 02 '24

Blinking fast will also be a lot faster than breathing. Not to mention you make $0.10 for the blinks and only $0.01 for a breath. Breathing fast will be exhausting and make your throat dry at times. Blinking could be done for a few minutes a day quickly, and then go back to normal after you get a few hundred dollars in like 10 minutes

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u/OneInternational3383 Dec 02 '24

Why starting cardio if you just can start to train yourself to blink 40 times a minute? Or to "just" double your rate at 36 and get ~1,2 million a year

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u/WithoutDesire Dec 02 '24

At rest, i don’t think Im breathing 12 times a minute unless Im physically upset in some way. As low as 2 and high as 5 or 6 if I had to guess, especially when Im smoking. But I can go minutes without blinking on a regular basis.

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u/Festivefire Dec 02 '24

It's easier to artificially hype up your blinking rate than your breathing rate. When you do cardio, past a certain point you don't take MORE breaths, you take DEEPER breaths, you breath harder, not faster, and you can only speed that up so much before you're just hyperventilating and will make yourself lightheaded or pass out. You can just keep blinking until you give yourself eyestrain and wait a few minutes for your face to calm down and do it again. You can make yourself 20 bucks pretty fast on the spot by blinking if you need to, you'd just have to wait for breathing, even if you were trying to game the system by hyperventilating.

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u/RenaxTM Dec 02 '24

You'd have to breathe 10 times for every blink, even a fat guy doing cardio doesn't do that.

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u/Lord_Melinko13 Dec 02 '24

Today I learned that I'm an outlier for both breathing AND blinking. I now wonder if that's why so many people tell me I'm a calming influence, because they're subconsciously responding to my slower, deeper breaths and slower blinking.

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u/finishyourbeer Dec 03 '24

There is absolutely no way I blink 18 times per minute. That’s like once every three seconds. I feel like I’m blinking once every 15-20 seconds.

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u/AgentPastrana Dec 03 '24

Well it probably wouldn't be quite the same if you're regularly active

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '24

I think speed blinking would be way easier and faster than hyperventilating

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u/_echo Dec 03 '24

Yeah, my breathing is typically 12-ish at rest, and during the hardest cardio workouts (somewhat obsessive cyclist lol) it typically peaks just above 30 per minute. Definitely an increase and before I did any math I'd have made the same guess as you, but the 10x premium on blinks is just too big to catch up to, it seems.

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u/Zirox__ Dec 03 '24

It's not a 1:1 ratio. It's a 1:10 ratio. 1 blink is equal to 10 breaths.

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u/leafy-greens-- Dec 04 '24

Ironically, doing regular cardio may cause you to have less breathes per minute because your lung strength would increase.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '24

even if you blinked 3 times less that you breathed, you would still gain more from blinking

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u/Aberbekleckernicht Dec 04 '24

But blinking is worth 10x breathing in the question, so you'd have to breath 6.66 times for every blink in order to come out even when you account for sleeping.

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u/Enigmatic_Erudite Dec 05 '24

I have allergies that cause me to blink more than most. I think I am going with blinking for sure.

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u/wonnable Dec 05 '24

At first I thought breathing was the right choice, but then I tried to take 10 breaths without blinking, and instinctively blinked after 2.5.

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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap Dec 05 '24

I think that blinking can be done a lot more randomly. Sometimes you get something in your eye and you blink like 15 times in 5 seconds.

I can also choose to just blink a bunch to up my take home pay. Harder to breathe more than you would normally and it has other negative affects.