diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a919a1..9ce464a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ It's about time I started a changelog! This will serve from now on as the master
  - Add `//forest` command for quickly generating forests
  - Fix some minor bugs and edge cases
  - `//subdivide`: Print status update when completing the last chunk
+ - `//count`: Optimise by removing nested `for` loops
 
 
 ## v1.8: The Quality of Life Update (17th July 2020)
diff --git a/worldeditadditions/lib/count.lua b/worldeditadditions/lib/count.lua
index b5f1d1e..51f6adc 100644
--- a/worldeditadditions/lib/count.lua
+++ b/worldeditadditions/lib/count.lua
@@ -16,16 +16,11 @@ function worldeditadditions.count(pos1, pos2)
 	
 	-- z y x is the preferred loop order (because CPU cache I'd guess, since then we're iterating linearly through the data array)
 	local counts = {}
-	for z = pos2.z, pos1.z, -1 do
-		for y = pos2.y, pos1.y, -1 do
-			for x = pos2.x, pos1.x, -1 do
-				local next = data[area:index(x, y, z)]
-				if not counts[next] then
-					counts[next] = 0
-				end
-				counts[next] = counts[next] + 1
-			end
+	for i in area:iterp(pos1, pos2) do
+		if not counts[data[i]] then
+			counts[data[i]] = 0
 		end
+		counts[data[i]] = counts[data[i]] + 1
 	end
 	
 	local total = worldedit.volume(pos1, pos2)