What percentage of the male population can dunk a basketball?

im 6' 3" and probably can't even touch the net. feels bad man. :(

D2sprinter wrote:

Standard 10 foot rim. Regardless of height or athletic background. If you picked random men off the street, gave them athletic clothing and shoes what percent can actually dunk? I personally think less then 1%.

Definitely less than 1% - I would think much, much less. Assuming that you mean to exclude the very young and very old (let's say all males from 16-50 years), about half are overweight, and the average height is less than 6'. Of the non-overweight folks, many never exercise, and of those that do, many of those never jump or do dynamic movements on the ground (think of your hobby distance runners, swimmers, etc., who are putting in the effort and maybe lifting, but never doing plyos or other jumping). Some others will only do vanity lifting, mostly ignoring the lower body.

All that being said, I'd venture that maybe one in ~150-200 (maybe fewer, depending on how old you're going with 'male population') can touch the rim. Being able to actually dunk would be even rarer.

Dunking's not that easy. I was the top high jumper at my high school (we sucked in the event) but I was just 5-11 and, more importantly, I couldn't palm a basketball. I could dunk, just barely, a volleyball but for real dunking, you also need bigger hands. Basically, not one person in my school of 1700 (figure 850 of them were boys) could dunk a basketball.

D2sprinter wrote:

If you picked random men off the street, gave them athletic clothing and shoes what percent can actually dunk?

Depends on which 'street'...

Hardloper wrote:

D2sprinter wrote:

If you picked random men off the street, gave them athletic clothing and shoes what percent can actually dunk?

Depends on which 'street'...

baker street.

Hardloper wrote:

D2sprinter wrote:

If you picked random men off the street, gave them athletic clothing and shoes what percent can actually dunk?

Depends on which 'street'...

But I thought Coevett taught us all that if it weren't for PEDs blacks would be worse than white people in all sports?

Probably about .6%

Oddly there are sub-populations where 99 % of a tribe might be able to dunk and many of them wouldn't even need to jump. Male or Female.

I'm a 5'7" white guy and I can dunk.

Thanks to these:

http://www.strength-shoes.com/images/ati-strength-shoes.jpg

Well You Know wrote:

Dunking's not that easy. I was the top high jumper at my high school (we sucked in the event) but I was just 5-11 and, more importantly, I couldn't palm a basketball. I could dunk, just barely, a volleyball but for real dunking, you also need bigger hands. Basically, not one person in my school of 1700 (figure 850 of them were boys) could dunk a basketball.

My experience was different. Our school had 800 and i bet there was about 20 at any given time that could dunk. Of those, i bet only 1 or 2 could still dunk

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