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I've always found bike fit calculators to be pretty useless - or perhaps I should put it the other way around - my body is useless at fitting what the calculators say I should fit. I'm 6ft0 but both of my frames are 64x58 (I've only ever seen two frames in that size and I own them both) - they are both touring frames so ridden rather more upright than racing frames (I used to ride a 58x58 racing frame and that was fine... for racing).
I still have a 12cm of seatpost showing (or 20cm to top of saddle) and I'm using a tall stem (8cm sticking out of headset) so it's not like my frames are too small vertically. Tops of the bars are about 3-4cm lower than the saddle. The stem is short-reach and the bars are reasonably compact - it feels like the seattube is right, but the bike is only comfortable due to the short stem and bars - and I prefer the handling of a longer stem.
I would like to try a 60x56 and use a really tall quill stem (Technomic or VO or something) but I don't think I'll find anything in that size.
I think I must have long legs and a short body/arms. That said, I had some done proper measurements taken (by a trained ergonomicist with all the proper equipment) that have found that in totally normal (some might say perfect) proportion.