Let the Musk praising begin ! <| sep |> I suspect the logic is that 0 and medium are the two most common choices , so they ' re on the most convenient location . Then the rest are on order . It would make more sense if the list were longer . Like putting USA at the top of a drop down for country instead of making you scroll noisy of the way down for it . Edit actually I ' m going to amend that to theorize that it used to go medium , very low , low , strong , very strong , and the option for 0 didn ' t used to be there and got added recently by someone who didn ' t realize it wasn ' t in order . Related I have a friend whose waffle iron has four settings LOW , MEDIUM , WAFFLES , HIGH . Edit 2 utabenari 1 points out that very strong and strong are out of order , so my theory is wrong !