jQuery counting items with class "checked"

Question

Im struggling with this one. I have a list of items and on a part of the form when something has validated it adds class "checked" to the corresponding list item.

<ul>
<li class="title">Checklist</li>
<li class="checkType checked">Card Type</li>
<li class="checkNumber checked">Card Number</li>
<li class="checkName checked">Name on Card</li>
<li class="checkMonth checked">Expiry Month</li>
<li class="checkYear checked">Expiry Year</li>
<li class="checkCode checked">Security Code</li>
</ul>

.title{font-size:23px; font-weight:bold;}
.checked{ color:#f00;}

But I need jQuery to check that each item has the class checked EXCEPT title.

Is this doable?

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/bQtEQ/1/

Thanks to the answers I now have the following

        var counting = $("li.checked:not(.title)").length;
    if (counting == 6){
        console.log(counting);
    }

Answer 1

This is doable with 1 simple selector

$("li.checked:not(.title)").length

The advantage here, apart from having to code less, is that the :not() selector is factored in during search to reduce the result set. This means less time for jQuery to instantiate dom elements. This means faster execution time, especially on older browsers.

Answer 2

This should give you all of the <li> elements with the class 'checked' that don't have the class title:

$('li.checked').not('.title').length

However - if you only wanted the count of the checked elements:

$('.checked').length

should suffice.