Sugar cube
16 mm (0.6299 in)
Edge length of the square face
A standard sugar cube, which is really a small brick. 16 by 16 by 11 mm, and 3 grams.
Published
How big is that?
16 mm is 2.2 times a grain of rice and 19% of a credit card.
Sugar cube is the 4th smallest of the 31 Kitchen Table objects, and the 34th smallest of the 172 objects across all five SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: German cockroach (Adult) (Tiny Worlds), 14.5 mm long and 1 euro cent coin (Tiny Worlds), 16.25 mm across.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Sugar cube in orange beside the Kitchen Table objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Sugar cube |
|---|---|---|
| Grain of rice (Long-grain, milled)A single grain of long-grain white rice. | 7.15 mm long | 45% of the size |
| Coffee bean (Roasted arabica)A roasted arabica bean, ready for the grinder. | 10 mm long | 63% of the size |
| Sugar cube | 16 mm | – |
| Almond (Nonpareil kernel)The kernel of the most widely grown almond variety. | 24.16 mm long | 1.5× bigger |
| Espresso cupA small cup for a single shot, measured on an IKEA 365+ 6 cl cup. | 50 mm tall | 3.1× bigger |
In other units
| Millimetres | 16 |
|---|---|
| Centimetres | 1.6 |
| Metres | 0.016 |
| Inches | 0.6299 |
| Feet | 0.05249 |
How it's measured
Edge length of the square face. Standard size stated by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
Sources
- dpma.de: DPMA: weighs 3 grams and, with edge lengths of 16/16/11 millimetres, is actually not a cube but a cuboid.
Checked against the source on .
Could you have guessed it by eye?
Sugar cube is one of the objects in Kitchen Table, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.