HEIGHTCOMPARE · REACH A LITTLE HIGHER

Your reach. Your jump. One clear result.

How to use ↓

Floor to fingertips with your arm extended and both feet flat. Enter a measured reach, not your body height.

Feet use decimals: 5.5 ft means 5 ft 6 in. Use the same footwear and measuring setup for both readings.

Standing Reach & Vertical Jump Calculator

Measure your reach. Calculate your vertical jump.

This calculator uses your measured floor-to-fingertip standing reach and highest jump touch. It never estimates reach from body height. Compare a standing jump with another standing jump; a run-up changes the test, so keep approach-jump results separate.

How to use

  1. Choose vertical jump from highest touch, or highest touch from a measured jump.
  2. Measure standing reach from the floor with one arm extended and both feet flat. Keep the same measuring setup and footwear for both readings.
  3. Enter your highest jump touch, or an already measured vertical jump. Select the correct units for each input. Decimal 5.5 feet means 5 feet 6 inches.
  4. Label the jump method: standing with no approach, or with a run-up.
  5. Optionally enable a target and enter its measured height from the floor.
  6. Select Calculate reach & jump. Read the large result, target gap and measurement bars. Download the PNG card or copy a link containing your entered measurements.

Formula and example

Vertical jump = highest touch − standing reach. A standing reach of 220 cm and highest touch of 270 cm gives a reach-based vertical jump of 50 cm, or about 19.69 inches. In reverse, a 220 cm standing reach plus a 50 cm jump gives a 270 cm highest touch.

With a 305 cm target, this example is 35 cm below the target. The required reach-based jump to touch it is 85 cm. This arithmetic describes fingertip touch only; it does not tell you whether you can dunk a basketball or clear an obstacle.

Understanding the result

The bars start at floor level and compare reach, touch and the optional target on one scale. A target below your standing reach needs zero additional jump. Results are rounded to two decimal places for display; unit conversion does not improve measurement accuracy. The maximum supported jump is 250 cm and the maximum touch or target is 750 cm; these are input limits, not performance standards.

Measurement method

The jump-and-reach method subtracts the flat-footed reach mark from the highest touch mark. Arm position, footwear and technique can change the readings. This is a reach-based score, not a force-plate result, flight-time estimate, fitness percentile or prediction. Record the test method when comparing sessions.

Reference: Special Olympics British Columbia functional testing protocol (October 2016), Vertical Jump. Our calculator applies the measurement difference without assigning normative ratings.

Questions and answers

Is standing reach the same as height?

No. Standing reach is the floor-to-fingertip distance with an arm raised. Measure it directly; people with the same body height can have different reaches.

Why is my touch lower than my reach?

Check the units and floor reference. This calculator rejects a highest touch below standing reach rather than displaying a negative jump.

Can I compare a running jump with a standing jump?

Keep them labeled separately. The optional method label appears in results, downloaded cards and copied links.

Are my measurements saved?

Entries stay in the current page. The tool does not store them in the personality database or automatically save a browser history. A copied result link includes the measurements in its URL fragment. A downloaded card includes the shown results; share only information you want others to see.

Also try the wingspan-to-height ratio, height converter and height history tracker.