Steps to Distance
“My phone says 8,400 steps — how far is that?”
Turn a step count into a real distance using your own step length — and find out that both of the famous numbers in step tracking, the 0.415 height rule and the 10,000 target, trace back to the same man's pedometer marketing.
- Distance from your step length, not from an unverifiable steps-per-mile constant
- Shows the measured accuracy band for phone and watch counts: about 1% to 32%
- What three large studies actually found, quoted, with what each one measured
- Calories as a deliberate range, with every assumption in the chain named
- Tells you how to measure your own step length in thirty seconds
- This one is finished and tested — not on the build list
- It will be $9, same as every other tool
- One email when it goes up, no list, no spam
Three steps, then you're done
And your height, or your measured step length.
Pace changes the time and the calorie band.
And the honest account of where the numbers came from.
Questions
Do I need to install anything?
No. Each tool is a single file. Double-click it and it opens in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox — whichever you already have. No account, no password, no software.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Your numbers and files never leave your computer — the tools have no way to send them and no internet connection is needed to run them. You can switch your wi-fi off and they still work.
I'm not good with computers. Is this too hard?
The first thing every tool does is walk you through it in five short screens with pictures. Then there's a button that fills it with example numbers so you can watch it work before touching anything.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes. Email yourself the file and open the attachment, or drop the files in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Google Drive and open them from there — then they're on every device you own.
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