World Speed Ranking

[buck_futter]

I know what you're thinking: what the hell is this. Well I'll tell you.

My housemate and I usually have class around the same time and the walk from our place is about half an hour. To kill time, we usually come up with some ridiculous situations like "if you had to (insert terrible thing here) or your family would be shot..." etc etc etc. You know, those life questions that really make one ponder their existence.
Anyways, we were reading some other dudes post about the 5 year old ass whompings and we were inspired to put up one of our most heated debates:

In the entire world, how fast are you?

Pretty much, if all 6 billion people were to line up and a gun was to go off and you had to run the 100 metre dash, what place would you come in? We said about 7000th. Pretty good eh? yeah, well we started running, and it looked damn fast. And if you take out all the children, the elderly, retarded people, fat people and pretty much every woman minus Silken Laumann, I think that leaves like 7000 people faster than us. We haven't raced to see who is 7000 and who is 7001 yet, but it will happen and we'll keep you posted. So, what place do you think you come in?

[bholdr]

Are you a track star? there are at least 7k accomplished sprinters in the U.S. alone...

I'd put myself around 5 or 10 million, and i can sprint pretty damn fast. (or i could before i blew out my knees, and when i used to exercixe more often than i do know)

[kerssens]

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Are you a track star? there are at least 7k accomplished sprinters in the U.S. alone...

I'd put myself around 5 or 10 million, and i can sprint pretty damn fast. (or i could before i blew out my knees, and when i used to exercixe more often than i do know)

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Not to mention all the other professional athletes that train year-round...not that the average person is slower than all of them but probably the vast majority of them.

[Yeti]

Yeah I think you are way overestimating your ability here.

There's probably 7000 people who could run < 10.25.

[yellowjack]

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Yeah I think you are way overestimating your ability here.

There's probably 7000 people who could run < 10.25.

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[slickpoppa]

I don't know you, but I would estimate that there are probably 10,000 people in Kenya that could smoke you

[Chairman Wood]

Unless you're some kind of pro athlete or trained sprinter, now way are you 7000. If you are REALLY fast I would say you might be able to make it lower than 200,000

[captZEEbo1]

yeah, you are probably in the bottom 7000 for the worst estimater in the world.

[Reef]

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yeah, you are probably in the bottom 7000 for the worst estimater in the world.

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ya, stat exaggeration makes a post a billion-trillion times worse

[ilya]

Depends on the distance. Over 5K I think I'd be in the top 500 million. Over 100m, I'd be lucky to break 50th percentile.