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Today’s smartphones are capable of going from zero to 100% in as quick as ~20 minutes, with even many mid-range phones capable of fully charging in an hour.

However, we wondered how many people let their phones hit zero in the first place before grabbing the charger. That was the topic of a featured poll earlier this week, and here’s what you told us.

We posted the poll on Tuesday, August 30, and over 3,200 people cast their votes to date. The winner by a landslide was the “no” camp, as almost 80% of respondents said they simply didn’t wait for their phone to hit zero before plugging in.

Reader comments supporting this stance note that letting the phone hit zero is bad for battery health. So we can see why many people would avoid this practice in the first place and simply plug in below a certain threshold (e.g. 10% or 20%).

Meanwhile, 15.48% of polled readers say they sometimes let the phones hit zero before reaching for the charger. A couple of readers noted that it was occasionally unavoidable that their phones would die. Finally, only 4.86% of respondents said they actually let their phones die before charging them.