Name something you can measure about the human body

October 29, 2026 · Daily Dive #106

Explore 1,750 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on October 29, 2026.

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1,750 recorded names on October 29, 2026, 1,506 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Measurement here spans the whole body: the tape-and-scale kind, the clinic readouts, the figures on a blood report, and the scored tests of how it performs. Any property, dimension, reading or test result quantified in or on a living human body counts; opinions, a diagnosis with no number, and measurements of objects do not.

1,750 recorded answers1,506 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,50585 pts
  • Rare20960 pts
  • Schooler3030 pts
  • Plankton510 pts
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Recorded answers

1,750 recorded answers

How to approach it

A fixed sweep beats free association here. Walk through the domains in order: outer dimensions taken with tape or caliper, the tissue proportions a scanner reports, the vital readings of a routine examination, the chemistry of fluid and breath, the output of organs working under load, the sharpness of the senses, athletic performance, and finally the scored questionnaires that turn behaviour into a figure. Inside each domain, skip the first obvious member and reach for the second or third tier, since the scoring rewards specificity. Phrase every candidate as a named quantity with a unit or a defined protocol rather than a loose attribute. When two options seem equally sound, pick the one a specialist would supply but a layperson would have to look up.

Get a hint

Start with the plain physical dimensions anyone could take with a tape or a scale, then let the field widen toward what gets written down during a routine clinic visit.

A little more

Past size and length, consider the signals a living body emits nonstop: rates, pressures, volumes and electrical rhythms that an instrument turns into a number.

One step further

Then head for the laboratory, where hundreds of substances in fluid or exhaled air are quantified, and for scored performances, sensory thresholds and questionnaire totals.

Reveal answers 1,750
  • CryoglobulinsDeep Cut85points
  • Crystallized intelligenceDeep Cut85points
  • CSF albuminDeep Cut85points
  • CSF amyloid betaDeep Cut85points
  • CSF cell countDeep Cut85points
  • CSF glucoseDeep Cut85points
  • CSF IgG indexDeep Cut85points
  • CSF lactateDeep Cut85points
  • CSF proteinDeep Cut85points
  • CSF/serum albumin ratioDeep Cut85points
  • CSF/serum glucose ratioDeep Cut85points
  • Cup-to-disc ratioDeep Cut85points
  • CuriosityDeep Cut85points
  • Cuticle lengthDeep Cut85points
  • Cyanide levelDeep Cut85points
  • Cycling powerDeep Cut85points
  • Cyclosporine levelDeep Cut85points
  • CYFRA 21-1Deep Cut85points
  • Cystatin CDeep Cut85points
  • D-dimerDeep Cut85points
  • Dark adaptationDeep Cut85points
  • DCPDeep Cut85points
  • Dead hang timeDeep Cut85points
  • Dead spaceDeep Cut85points
  • Deadlift maxDeep Cut85points
  • Decision-makingDeep Cut85points
  • Deep sleepDeep Cut85points
  • Defibrillation thresholdDeep Cut85points
  • Dementia severityDeep Cut85points
  • Demi-spanDeep Cut85points
  • Dental ageDeep Cut85points
  • Developmental ageDeep Cut85points
  • DHEA-SDeep Cut85points
  • Diadochokinetic rateDeep Cut85points
  • Diagonal conjugateDeep Cut85points
  • Diaphragmatic excursionDeep Cut85points
  • Diffusing capacityDeep Cut85points
  • Digit ratioDeep Cut85points
  • Digoxin levelDeep Cut85points
  • DihydrotestosteroneDeep Cut85points
  • Dilute Russell's viper venom timeDeep Cut85points
  • Dip countDeep Cut85points
  • Disease activityDeep Cut85points
  • DissociationDeep Cut85points
  • Dizziness scoreDeep Cut85points
  • DNA lengthDeep Cut85points
  • DNA methylation levelDeep Cut85points
  • Double support timeDeep Cut85points
  • Dream recallDeep Cut85points
  • Drug dependenceDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Scoring works as a rarity curve with three steps, and nearly the whole field lands on the middle one. Of 1485 recorded answers, 1101 took 85 points, the broad band of specific technical measurements, while 339 settled for 60 and a single answer reached 100. What separates the tiers is how fast a general player arrives there. Everyday dimensions and the readings anyone has had taken at a check-up sit in the lower band because they come to mind within seconds. The 85-point mass is where precision pays: 'Two-point discrimination' occupies the summit alone, while 'ACTH', '1,5-Anhydroglucitol' and 'Abdominal skinfold' illustrate the middle step, each a real named quantity a specialist would offer and a casual player would not. Naming a recognised test or analyte, rather than gesturing at a vague attribute, is what lifts an entry off the floor.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 29 Oct, 08:25 UTC

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