It would honestly take me 5 minutes to count one stack, putting them in piles of ten then recounting each pile and I would guarantee still get one wrong!
limette ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 01:37:10 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
If this is Chinese money, it helps to know the biggest yuan bill is the 100 yuan bill, which is about 14,50 USD. People get used to counting them fast, since you need so many of them to make any bigger purchase, as credit and debit cards are not that widely accepted.
Of course, there's fast, and then there's fast.
serg06 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:51:16 on June 4, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
The end is when he has (or thinks he has) less than 5 bill remaining. He proceeds to count left over individually
AKK3421 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:51:17 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I have no prior knowledge of this, but it looks like she's counting the number of hand movements she's doing. Most stacks of bills seem to be twenty sets of possibly five bills folded down, so one hundred bills per stack.
I assume they're not round figures because this seems like a competition.
Smellyp ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:50:03 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like she folds the stack to make the bills flip easier, then she flips her fingers across grabbing a seperate individual bill with each finger. Count the number of swipes, multiply by 4, add the remainder, and that should give you your bill count.
BFG_9000 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:22:37 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it 5?
4 fingers one way, then the thumb the other way...
I was a bank teller for a couple years. We aren't supposed to use bill counting machines except if we want to verify the number of bills that are run through it. We were told to count twice by hand and if we wanted, we could run it through the machine to check once more.
We weren't supposed to use just the machine to count bills. It isn't 100% reliable. The machine may miscount if there are bills stuck together.
Additionally, it doesn't look for counterfeit bills or bills that don't belong in there. I've had some customers who would come deposit money and have it already in straps for us. I'm sure some did it because it was convenient for them to organize it (these were businesses with large sums to deposit), but I've had some who got annoyed when I unwrapped them to count it because they think they're saving us time, but we have to verify everything that comes in. How do I know that this stack of 20s doesn't have fake bills in them? What if they used $1 bills to pad the stack? We can't rely on machines to check this for us. They did have a sensor that stopped when something looked strange, but again, it wasn't reliable.
Note that this was back in 2004-2006, so maybe there have been improvements to these machines since then, but when I was working at the bank, we only used them to recount the bills and only after we had already double checked by hand.
Yeah, I did mention that. You did remind me, though, that texture is also something we pay attention to when looking out for counterfeit bills, which a machine can't feel.
There are some new machines that can count different denominations of notes within 1 stack, used at a bank near me. I don't know if it can detect counterfeit notes but I would assume so.
Bill counting machines don't operate themselves. You'd have to pay someone to operate it and buy/maintain the machine. The human-only option could be cheaper depending on your needs and requirement for versatility.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:58:21 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Cashed up many tills in my time and got quite fast at counting notes. This person would get nowhere with the crap that comes out of a bar till using that technique.
For reference, this is a rough approximation of how you would pronounce numbers in Mandarin Chinese.
1: yi
2: er
3: san
4: ss
5: oo
6: liu
7: chi
8: ba
9: joe
10: shi
11: shi-yi
12: shi-er
13: shi-san
(you've probably figured out at this point that "shi" is 10)
then when it comes to larger numbers, you get:
53: oo-shi-san (oo=5, shi=10, san=3, so basically, five 10s plus 3)
saisar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:22 on July 20, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Hey thanks for your response, it inspired me to check this video... I will learn them by the end of the week. Thanks Again!
(For reference: I spent a couple of months in China in 2015, I even went out with a Chinese girl and couldn't understand nor learn any Chinese, not even the numbers, even if I tried really hard to learn them, it was so frustrating).
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w0rdd ยท 187 points ยท Posted at 16:04:09 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I'm broke and will never have a need for this skill
ihatetowait ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 11:19:01 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Chin up! You can use it to count your bills!
knownbynone ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:28:41 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Worst. Superpower. Ever.
IRELANDNO1 ยท 90 points ยท Posted at 16:40:52 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
It would honestly take me 5 minutes to count one stack, putting them in piles of ten then recounting each pile and I would guarantee still get one wrong!
limette ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 01:37:10 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
If this is Chinese money, it helps to know the biggest yuan bill is the 100 yuan bill, which is about 14,50 USD. People get used to counting them fast, since you need so many of them to make any bigger purchase, as credit and debit cards are not that widely accepted.
Of course, there's fast, and then there's fast.
serg06 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:51:16 on June 4, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, $14.50, not $14,500
DistraughtStrawberry ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 15:42:25 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain how this works?
๐๏ธ the_nebster ยท 177 points ยท Posted at 16:03:40 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
This might help explain it
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DistraughtStrawberry ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 16:05:59 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I was looking for! If only he ran through it more than once in slow motion. Thanks
gurenkagurenda ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 05:48:54 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
In Chrome: Shift-cmd-C (or shift-ctrl-c), click on the video. Console should pop up; type
$0.playbackRate = 0.5and hit enter.cmatute ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:01:53 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Now this is a protip
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DistraughtStrawberry ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:24:55 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
The end is when he has (or thinks he has) less than 5 bill remaining. He proceeds to count left over individually
AKK3421 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:51:17 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I have no prior knowledge of this, but it looks like she's counting the number of hand movements she's doing. Most stacks of bills seem to be twenty sets of possibly five bills folded down, so one hundred bills per stack.
chromiselda ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:02:01 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I assume they're not round figures because this seems like a competition.
Smellyp ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:50:03 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like she folds the stack to make the bills flip easier, then she flips her fingers across grabbing a seperate individual bill with each finger. Count the number of swipes, multiply by 4, add the remainder, and that should give you your bill count.
BFG_9000 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:22:37 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it 5?
4 fingers one way, then the thumb the other way...
DistraughtStrawberry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:26 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry if this is obvious. Why multiply by four? And add what remainder?
PookiePie333 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:55:11 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
4 fingers 1 thumb. She is using her fingers across the money.
Remainder would be at the end if it's not a full count of 4.
DistraughtStrawberry ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:56:51 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Got it! Instead of counting fingers she's counting times her hand does the full swipe then multiplying by number of finger swipes.
georgekelp ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:45:19 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Five finger discount.
rocketmonkeys ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:41:19 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Five finger this count!
249ba36000029bbe9749 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:14:20 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
A few questions:
torankusu ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 19:58:36 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I was a bank teller for a couple years. We aren't supposed to use bill counting machines except if we want to verify the number of bills that are run through it. We were told to count twice by hand and if we wanted, we could run it through the machine to check once more.
We weren't supposed to use just the machine to count bills. It isn't 100% reliable. The machine may miscount if there are bills stuck together.
Additionally, it doesn't look for counterfeit bills or bills that don't belong in there. I've had some customers who would come deposit money and have it already in straps for us. I'm sure some did it because it was convenient for them to organize it (these were businesses with large sums to deposit), but I've had some who got annoyed when I unwrapped them to count it because they think they're saving us time, but we have to verify everything that comes in. How do I know that this stack of 20s doesn't have fake bills in them? What if they used $1 bills to pad the stack? We can't rely on machines to check this for us. They did have a sensor that stopped when something looked strange, but again, it wasn't reliable.
Note that this was back in 2004-2006, so maybe there have been improvements to these machines since then, but when I was working at the bank, we only used them to recount the bills and only after we had already double checked by hand.
249ba36000029bbe9749 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:46:43 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Looks like current counters will do at least some fake detection like UV light tests.
I suppose using both would be the best solution.
Andthentherewasbacon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:00:31 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
It's not about accuracy. It's about always having someone to blame.
gurenkagurenda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:51:02 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it would be pretty hard to spot counterfeits when using this method too.
torankusu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:44 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I did mention that. You did remind me, though, that texture is also something we pay attention to when looking out for counterfeit bills, which a machine can't feel.
MustLoveAllCats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:55:44 on July 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
triggered
chromiselda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:02 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
There are some new machines that can count different denominations of notes within 1 stack, used at a bank near me. I don't know if it can detect counterfeit notes but I would assume so.
hohohoohno ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:15 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Bill counting machines don't operate themselves. You'd have to pay someone to operate it and buy/maintain the machine. The human-only option could be cheaper depending on your needs and requirement for versatility.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:58:21 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
The Wooten method
webchimp32 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:05:43 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Cashed up many tills in my time and got quite fast at counting notes. This person would get nowhere with the crap that comes out of a bar till using that technique.
monsieurpommefrites ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:26:38 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing she doesn't work at a bar.
confessrazia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:32 on August 17, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you think the money from the bar till ends up, mate?
CrunchyPoem ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:07:29 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
NetteFraulein ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:01 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Try doing that with new ones...
webchimp32 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:04:35 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Try doing it with a stack of used tatty notes that are crumpled, with small tears and creases.
rafads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:40 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I'd count this fast if only I had that much money...
fatclownbaby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:59 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
We should all just kill ourselves and let the Asians have it.
MustLoveAllCats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:24 on July 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, let the asians have your body...
claque ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:55 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Did you watch her face or the money?
Pm_Me_Gifs_For_Sauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:57 on June 21, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Of course she's Asian.... Because they prefer paper bills!
James_Russle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:30 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure most places require you to view the full bill/note in order to count it so although this is impressive, it's against da rules.
She a thug.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:03:26 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
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dpash ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:45:29 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
As this appears to be a competition, I'd guess they already know how much is there.
I'd assume that getting the wrong number would be a failure.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:49:44 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
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dpash ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:01:59 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's timed.
PM_ME_YOUR_PANINIS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:05:25 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Multiple people are watching her
saisar ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:41 on March 18, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Now imagine counting in Chinese, my head hurts
slickyslickslick ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:28:49 on March 23, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
it's actually easier to count in Chinese. every digit is one short syllable rather than two or single long syllables like SE-VEN and EIGH-T.
saisar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:57 on March 23, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Yes I was thinking counting with my actual zero Mandarin language skills. I bet for them is way easier.
funnytoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:14 on July 20, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
For reference, this is a rough approximation of how you would pronounce numbers in Mandarin Chinese.
1: yi
2: er
3: san
4: ss
5: oo
6: liu
7: chi
8: ba
9: joe
10: shi
11: shi-yi
12: shi-er
13: shi-san
(you've probably figured out at this point that "shi" is 10)
then when it comes to larger numbers, you get:
53: oo-shi-san (oo=5, shi=10, san=3, so basically, five 10s plus 3)
saisar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:22 on July 20, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Hey thanks for your response, it inspired me to check this video... I will learn them by the end of the week. Thanks Again! (For reference: I spent a couple of months in China in 2015, I even went out with a Chinese girl and couldn't understand nor learn any Chinese, not even the numbers, even if I tried really hard to learn them, it was so frustrating).
Edit: Forgot the video https://youtu.be/WoKI-FUQRGw
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:32 on March 19, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I can do that too. I could actually do it faster, without shuffling through the stacks, considering they're already banded by denomination.