Texans Scroll Nearly 100 Miles a Year on Their Phones, Study Reveals

Have you ever stopped to wonder just how much you scroll on your phone? Most of us never think about it. We just open the app, swipe up, and keep on going until we finally realize an hour—or more—has slipped away.

There are a few ways you could try to measure your scrolling habits. You might attempt to count how many posts or feeds you swipe past in a day, but you’d almost certainly lose track. You could also measure by time, though that’s unreliable too, since these platforms are built to make you lose all sense of it.

Texans Scroll Nearly 100 Miles Each Year—With Just Their Thumbs

That’s why experts have stepped in to crunch the numbers. According to recent studies, the “average scroller” in Texas covers a whopping 95.8 miles every year with just their thumb. That’s right—Texans swipe nearly 100 miles annually without ever leaving their couch.

To put that in perspective, the distance between Austin and San Antonio is about 80 miles. That means the average Texan’s thumb is basically making a road trip every year, and then some.

Texans also scroll more than most. The state ranks 6th in the nation, well above the U.S. average of 86 miles per year. In other words, to hit “normal,” Texans would have to cut nearly 10 miles of swipes off their annual total.

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The problem is, doom-scrolling is addictive. Every time you think about stopping, the algorithm serves you one more story, one more video, one more meme. Before long, you’ve scrolled another mile. The question isn’t just how far we’ve gone—it’s how much further we’ll let our thumbs take us.