diff --git a/python/obitools3/commands/count.pyx b/python/obitools3/commands/count.pyx
index 9c84380..bd1ed18 100755
--- a/python/obitools3/commands/count.pyx
+++ b/python/obitools3/commands/count.pyx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def addOptions(parser):
     group.add_argument('-s','--sequence',
                         action="store_true", dest="count:sequence",
                         default=False,
-                        help="Prints only the number of sequence records.")
+                        help="Prints only the number of sequence records (much faster, default: False).")
  
     group.add_argument('-a','--all',
                         action="store_true", dest="count:all",