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Microsoft Excel maybe.
Sorry but taller wide receivers are better. Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Antonio Brown, Gronk, etc.
Jockeys are the only "athletes" I can think of where height isn't an advantage.I means manlets with similar skill levels of their bigger counterparts. Where height isn’t an advantage.
Uh, ok. I can see this argument is going nowhere. I can also see the AB is 5 foot 10, and the leading receiver in the NFL, likely headed to the hall of fame someday
It's all relative also. Taller guys than Rice and Moss out there.
Regardless, in the NFL a world class manlet can excel against bigger opponents. That is clear to me. I didn't even talk about QBs, corners, and barely broached the RBs
Hockey
Being small certainly isn't an advantage, but it isn't insurmountable.
John Ross Roach, 5'5", Stanley Cup Winner, All Star
In Euro football it's an advantage to have a low center of gravity and the ability to accelerate quickly if you are playing certain positions. Messi has left hundreds of big defenders in the dust over the years.
In road cycling and long distance running it's an advantage not to be too big and heavy for obvious reasons.
I'd imagine most sports involving weapons make size irrelevant - archery, skishooting etc. I have a friend who does a sort of viking-style fighting sport in my country and apparently a crew of little guys wielding spears are widely feared and respected.
Tennis is mostly medium sized guys, interestingly. The big guys don't reach the pinnacle and the smaller guys don't seem to stay there long.
But even basketball has got people like Isaiah Thomas.