How Quick is Quicksilver? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Taking a cue from X-Men Days of Future Past, Quicksilver has yet another mind blowing scene in X-Men Apocalypse, but just how fast is he going this time? Kyle does some speedy math on this week’s Because Science!

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[saishmirajkar]

"No Spoilers"

"Quick Silver saves dozens of fellow mutants from mansion"

[skrillexx]

He went to a big mansion.
A building he has never been to.
He ate, drank, saved tons of students, and even played darts and set a safe landing for where he'll throw the kids onto. He even saved fishes.
This guy is insanely fast! And I love him for it.

[Nerdist]

There's a fun tidbit of corroborating evidence in that scene too that I didn't mention. At the beginning of the scene you see a bee buzzing around, and when Quicksilver shows up, the wings slow down and stop. It's almost like the whole scene happened within one wing beat. And guess what you get if you multiply the average number of wing beats a bee makes by the time I assumed Quicksilver would have in the mansion? One. Just one! Probably a coincidence, but it was like a "Eureka" moment when I did the math. -- KH

[Redrunner]

He out run an explosion. Minutes later he can't outrun Stryker's mutant ray.

[johnmagoola]

Actually, Quicksilver would be faster than noted here. Kyle's calculations assume sort of an empty square of space. In fact, he'd have to navigate hallways and stairs and stuff like that, so considering he isn't running straight through, he'd actually have to be even faster than calculated here.

[VC.TR]

Not as quick as Quickgold but quicker than Quickbronze.

[highplainsdrifter]

There was an Avengers comic that focused on the different members and and their thoughts feelings in inner dialogs. Quicksilver was thinking how everyone feels he is arrogant and aloof to everyone, but in reality, his brain functions so quickly that normal humans are like snails crawling across the floor.

[jimlobob]

Two things, First, it was Havoc shooting the blackbird exposed engine that caused the explosion not ceribro. Second, Beast said it was under the basket ball court, placing the source behind the mansion. Plugging in the correct position and adjusting for the second and third floors would give a more accurate number.

[dravenwrightlee]

These mathematically improbable speeds always make me like to think that he actually distorts time. He slows everything down so incredibly slow that he appears as a fast boi

[Nerdist]

Hey everyone! Thanks for all your comments and notes. I try to read and respond to every comment in the first 24 hours. Going forward, I will make sure to include both imperial and metric units (I usually do, just lasped this time) in every video. Thank you so much for watching. -- KH

[roosk]

Quicksilver must have the passive power to transfer his power to those he comes in contact with for a short time so they don't turn into salsa with hair.

[MVRCK-mkwu]

Just saying, Quicksilver goes fast even when time is slow, so...

[litlclutch]

This scene made me think that perhaps speed is only a byproduct of QuickSilver's power. In other mutant families there seems to be a relation of powers, take the Cyclops and Havoc, they both shoot energy. Being Magneto's son perhaps QS's real power is the manipulation of a different field, one that allows him to have an isolated pocket of accelerated time? This would also allow for him to have it affect others perhaps to mitigate the damage they would receive from the drastic acceleration they would experience during his rescue, also if he is just moving fast how did he fall fast enough during his back-flip out the window to land before the explosion catches up to him since that is during a scene of slow motion wouldn't he have been moving faster then gravity itself would explain? Also that would allow for him to drink a pop at a rate faster then gravity would pour it into his mouth. He might not even realize his power is anything beyond being fast since that is most apparent effect. Just food for thought.

[snavyblue]

That speed was just to take into account saving 1 person. He saved multiple people

[larrythelobster]

I'm gonna be honest. You're the only reason I'm subscribed to this channel.

[artfx]

I used to wonder: If you move someones finger at that massive speed, wouldn't it just fall off due to the acceleration?

[razzyrazberries]

I remember when that scene happened in the movie. Everything just stops, and you start hearing music playing, and it just pans to Quicksilver. I was all giddy like, "omg they are doing it again". It was an awesome scene.

[legomacinnisinc]

This makes me wonder if he has more of a Time dilation power. Where he, and what ever he touches, can enter a pocket of accelerated time. This would help with the whiplash problem, however, he'd have to be able to chose what speeds up or not because it shows him interact with objects that don't speed up. Still doesn't explain why the people he saves don't speed up with him but it would help explain how he can process that much information.

[Superfly]

Movie quicksilver is significantly faster than tv flash but still significantly slower than comic book flash. But they're all much faster than mcu Quicksilver who couldn't even dodge bullets.

[jonathanhillhouse]

He for sure runs more than just 700 and some odd feet.... He goes out and back in and out again and again to save each person/pair of people. So you figure he has to go down to the x-men floor at least 5 times, and that's twice the normal length it takes him to get outside when he's grabbing all those kids.... Plus, there's like what, 30+ kids? Not counting their pets, which he also saves, and the stuff he has to set up to keep them from getting hurt or killed from him saving them. So even if he grabbed two kids at a time, that's still at least 20 times he has to go in and out of the mansion, and they are all pretty far away from whee the mansion used to be at the time of the explosions end. So he probably runs closer to 6, 000+ feet really, if you figure the size of going in and out of just an average house to the area where the kids are when it's all over, which is like 150 feet one way. And that's being conservative given the size of the mansion and the fact that he's covering 3 different levels, one of which is not just at a normal basment level, but pretty far beneath the normal ground floor of the mansion. So maybe closer to like 7, 500 feet or maybe even more, aka a mile and a half at the very least....