Have You Ever Wondered How Many “Miles” You Scroll on Your Phone?

If you’ve ever wondered how much exercise your thumb is getting, the answer is… well, probably more than your legs.

A new study just calculated how far people “travel” each year with all that endless phone scrolling. Yeah, they somehow figured out how far your thumb moved, across your screen, in the process of scrolling. Weird times, amirite?

Here are the results, broken down by state:

Topping the list is Arizona, where people scroll an average of 115.4 miles a year. To put that in perspective, that’s about the distance from Phoenix to Tucson.

In other words, Arizonans are essentially hiking the desert with their thumbs. That also works out to nearly nine hours of screen time per day. Nine. Hours. A day.

The rest of the Top Five states are: Washington (108.2 miles), Kentucky (105 miles), Missouri (102 miles), and New Mexico (96 miles). Rounding out the Top Ten are: Texas, Maryland, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Georgia. Clearly, the South is putting in some serious screen work too.

On the flip side, the study didn’t officially rank the least-scrolling states, but data suggests Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Massachusetts are down near the bottom. Congrats to them, I guess… they’ll be the ones still making eye contact in public.

In total, the average American now spends 6 hours and 35 minutes per day on screens, which adds up to a wild 2,403 hours per year. We’re also checking our devices an average of 58 times a day, which is either dedication or a collective cry for help.

For the record, the “scroll miles” were calculated by converting screen time into seconds, factoring in the average 6.3-inch phone screen, and then tallying the virtual distance. So yes, science just proved your thumb is basically an endurance athlete.