Estimating the Height Ranking of the American Idol Season 10 Top 12


Since I was looking for more numbers to analyze, I noticed some people were wondering how much taller James Durbin was than Adam Lambert, since they had their pictures taken together last night. In seems that James must be pretty tall since Adam is supposed to be 6'1". So James must be about 6'3" or 6'4" depending on what shoes they were wearing last night. So that made me wonder about the heights of all the contestants. The easiest way to guess is to look at pictures of all of them standing and check what footwear they have, especially the ladies and compare them. The photo on top is a good one since it shows all of them pretty much standing in a line. Already in this one you can see James is the tallest as he is a full head over Stefano, who is definitely the shortest guy there. Haley and Thia appear to be the shortest over all, and they are both wearing heels. Let's look at some more standing photos.
After James, it seems like Jacob is the next tallest and then Scotty and then Paul. Casey seems a little shorter then Paul but definitely still a bit taller than Stefano. Casey misses a lot of photo shoots! Lauren, Naima and Karen seem to be about the same height with Pia just slightly shorter than those three. And then Haley and Thia are definitely the shortest. The photo below with all the ladies standing in the back shows that Thia is the shortest, probably 1 or 2 inches shorter than Haley

So using these four photos I will take my best guess as to the rankings of the Americal Idol Finalists, Tallest to Shortest:
Guys: 1) James, 2) Jacob, 3) Scotty, 4) Paul, 5) Casey, 6) Stefano
Gals: 1) Naima, 2) Karen, 3) Lauren, 4) Pia, 5) Haley, 6) Thia
Putting the guys and gals together is difficult due to the shoe heel issue, but I will assume everyone is wearing dress shoes in this ranking:

  1. James
  2. Jacob
  3. Scotty
  4. Paul
  5. Naima
  6. Karen
  7. Lauren
  8. Casey
  9. Pia
  10. Stefano
  11. Haley
  12. Thia

I could be completely wrong but it was fun trying to figure it out, and at least it is a ranking people cannot complain about.