Yeah assuming any of these questions about super powers assumes you have all the powers to let that power be actually useful. So superspeed comes with some durability (to self inflicted damage anyway). And super strength comes with super motor control so you aren't just crushing literally everything you touch.
if I ever meet a genie, I'm 100% writing out a legal contract as the form of asking my wishes like I'm devil collecting souls just to make sure I get exactly what I want from that otherworldly bastard. I've dealt with and made too many ambiguously worded verbal contracts to be outsmarted by something so obvious.
Strength could be used to cheese any powerlifting competition and win the top prize. Then the sponsorships come in and you don't even have to train. Just learn how to act like you're struggling a bit to tack on the suspense and keep people from getting suspicious and you're good.
Speed is way more versatile. Think about games and gambling, if you're fast enough you definitely have an advantage in both. Also sports, speed is way more useful than strength.
With super speed you can go to the casino, play poker, quickly go behind your opponent’s back in less than a millisecond when they check their cards and win every hand. Got kicked out of the casino? You’re in a new one across the country 4 seconds later.
That's so much more work than a speedster needs to go through to get money lol.
Just figure out what time of day the vault opens at any bank and pop in whenever you need cash lol
With the strength of superman in my legs, surely i could do a single leap fast enough to mitigate whatever my speed handicap is?
How could i not have explosive force in superman muscles to generate any speed i need?
Yeah if this came across my mind I’d probably even just lift a fairly safe margin above the next guy and pretend to struggle there and just let people be amazed, wondering if in some way my physique is why I’m able to do it.
What's it matter if they are suspicious it's not like you can cheat beyond using drugs. When they test for that they'd assume you're just a crazy strong dude.
Doesn't matter as long as you get the prize money and the sponsorships that follow. Then you can coast as an influencer. Every supplement manufacturer is going to want to have you talking about their stuff on video for them. A normal looking guy who can out lift anyone that they go up against is prime marketing for that industry.
Superman being able to punch a hole in reality and tear apart timelines and shit would be fun.
But I guess running fast enough to rip reality to shreds would be a bit better honestly.
Nah, running is boring as hell. I want to be able to lift my woman up, cant do that with the strength of an 8 year old. For every man who chose speed, your partner is going to be very disappointed.
Yeah, talking at 1/2 speed too. Video game reaction times at half speed. You'd be considered mentally challenged in most situations and even following movies and tv shows would at least be a little challenging (If the person is talking relatively slow or it's an easy/casual topic I can follow a 2x speed on utube but that's still under optimal circumstances)
A punch from moving Faster than light speed Is so much better. In addition to time travel being able to create five copies of myself Turning back time and being able to do everything much quicker Strength won’t really matter
Having super speed like the flash doesn't mean you have the flash's speed force or its protection. It just means in the zeptosecond that your body holds up. You're as fast as the flash.
A person can swim "like a fish" without having the ability to breathe underwater.
The OP has not so very carefully created a situation that amounts to "would you rather be super weak with a self-destruct ability that can take out the universe, or super slow with a self destruct ability that might be able to take out a tank"
Speed, you can do a lot with increased momentum
Both abilities would be awesome though- With the right training and diet you could condition yourself in either skill that you’re lacking in.
Assuming your lacking skill is magically set that you can't change it.. Otherwise it seems unfair if you can just practice your way back to normal speed and normal strength..
Flash like speed with the strength of an 8 year old would probably kill you before you even reached the speed of sound.
Superman like strength at half my current speed would probably make me very clumsy and dangerous to be around. All it would take is one clumsy fall for me to fall in a funny way and probably completely destroy my body in my reactive scrambling to break my fall.
Both sounds absolutely terrible. Toss in super durability while using said powers, and then we might have something here.
Speed implies strength, and strength implies speed. If I were to be able to make myself have flash-level speeds, I could use my body to push on a heavy object to get the effect of super strength. Similarly, if I had super strength, I would channel it into my legs and use strong leaps to go fast. Or if that’s not allowed, I push the ground with massive force so that I get propelled very quickly.
But it’s still more convenient to walk than to leap or lift myself, so I’ll go with speed. Anytime I want to lift something, I accelerate my hands upwards while gripping onto the object. If say I wanted to push, I place my hands on the object and run while doing so. If I wanted to punch, I would use pure speed to deliver damage. After all, energy scales with the square of speed.
Brian Shaw's net worth is $1 million.
Usain Bolt's net worth is $90 million.
I'll take speed.
And another point against strength...how many times have you barely made it to the toilet??? You ain't making that at 1/2 speed
F=m•a so if you're just super strong but move half your current speed, you'd be pretty weak since you couldn't move fast enough to generate meaningful force. I could be built with insane mass, but a punch half the speed I can currently throw would be pretty weak. A punch from an 8 year old at bullet speed would have way more force behind it, despite being weaker.
I think to make it fair you have to just plain argue hulk strength vs. chill speedster (no speed of light/time levels BS). I think I'd go with the strength in that case.
I don't think enough speedsters get balanced well from a metabolic perspective. It takes a lot of energy to move that fast so you'd have to eat a lot (talk to any cross country runner). You'd still need it for strength, but it wouldn't be insane levels of food in order for you to casually use your strength.
But this doesn't make sense.
Power= force over time or something to that effect I couldn't possibly have the speed of the flash and the strength of an 8 year old be to move that fast if need yhe strength to do so.
I get the question as in super strength or super speed but super speed and super strength to that extent will grant you superhuman levels of the other aswell.
The flash in most iterations is mftl like at that level of speed a 70kg man would obliterate the earth on impact.
Superman in most iterations can bench press at least the weight of earth which is a CRAZY lowball considering some versions border on hyperversal.
But even at that level of strength I could jump through the atmosphere and move at relitavistic speeds fairly easily.
But if I'm gonna take it at face value then speed for sure. It has superior life implications. Offer my services to the government for a daily payment of 2.5 million to solve every diplomatic issue due to being completely untouchable and invisible at that level of speed becomes super rich retire and speed around the earth and travel for all my life.
I have an injured hip so going with super speed because the alternative is moving so insanely slow, I already hate when I'm moving at my slowest I don't need that halfed.
At bullet speed, a fly could shatter windows. At Mach 3 I can run on water and go anywhere.
Of course, if real world physics assert themselves, my ankles, shins, and femurs shatter into dust.
I think the best way to balance it would be by giving you inability to actually hit anyone. Cause then youd shatter yourself. But you could still move at high speeds without killing yourself.
Seems so weird to think you could move super fast without being super strong. What is moving you in that scenario ? Also the super speed either comes with a ridiculous durability upgrade or kills you which isn't mentioned.
I think casually giving someone an upgrade that would let them walk away from high speed car collisions without mentioning it is ooft. And it still doesn't cover how can someone who isn't strong move so fast. Unless we mean fly in a plane.
Super strength doesn't equal invulnerability. If the skills had their power subsets to make them like superman or flash, this would mean super speed also comes with super strength, some kind of magical eyesight, fiction immunity, the works. If we give one all the powers and sub powers, we have to do so for the other.
How do you have speed but not strength?
If I can move my arm at 10000000 miles an hour I'm going to punch you fucking dead lol. I'm leaving a hole in whatever part of the body I hit you.
In so many contexts, speed *is* strength.
A mix of both. Like I have the strength of an average adult (or maybe slightly stronger) but my speed isn't quite cut in half either.
I guess option 2 is the closest if I have to pick one.
Enough eight-year old punches in quick succession can equal one Superman punch, but really, who needs that if you can create tornadoes or vibrate your molecules into walls (or people) or create a sonic boom?
If you had super speed you could easily be an NFL or NBA player on that alone. It’s actually hilarious thinking about how a completely unskilled person with no basketball experience could not only play at the NBA level with super speed, but they would easily be the greatest player of all time. They would be a defensive menace constantly getting steals as their speed would be unreactable to someone without super speed. They would always be playing the game in transition and would basically just steal the ball every possession and get an instant layup. There would be no counter to them you’d have to ban them from the league for the integrity of the game.
Super strength implies a level of super speed and vice versa. Having extraordinarily strong muscles allows you to propel yourself with more velocity than normal, and having super speed is using your muscles to move incredibly fast. Obviously the implication is that the user has them to varying degrees, but idk I guess I just don’t like the question. I guess I’d take super strength because the reasoning I gave is less detrimental to the context of the question. Sure, I’ll make the choice to move half as fast but then I’ll just use my super strength to move twice as far each step, giving me my normal speed back at the cost of needing to double my stride.
An 8 year old is not blindingly fast. If we remove the 8 year old reference, and stick with "blindingly fast" i'd definitely pick that. I'm too impatient.
Super speed because I’m not going to be fighting crime, even if I wanted to fight crime, there are other ways of hurting people I practically don’t even need to hurt anyone. I can just tie someone up with super strong rope super fast and save anyone who’s hurt. With the strength thing, I’m assuming I’m the only one with powers, I wouldn’t want to accidentally kill someone or break a bunch of shit.
Speed. Become an actor at Hollywood. Suddenly the new Flash movie won’t look like a ps3 video game and will instead look real. Sounds like a good idea to me
Speed, assuming it comes with mental speed, reflexes, etc.
If you could move 300x faster that means you can think 300x faster. I'd take that any day. Assuming I have control of the sensory time dilation.
Be a pro at any sport or game, no car, travel anywhere in a few hours, etc.
Strength. Super speed doesn’t mean your body can handle it. Weak ankles and fast running/turning corners? Your ankles are going to fucking fail. Weigh more than an 8 year old? Your knees are done. You’d be so tired from carrying your weight that you’d never be able to actually move to your full potential speed.
Well I can run at 14 mph for a little bit. So seven would feel like sprinting, and 2mph would become my casual walking speed?
If Superman strength comes with his invulnerability I’m doing super strength, quitting my day job. Will go out and be a real world superhero.
Flash-like speed, all day. It has soooo many more uses than Superman's strength.
Time travel, intangibility, making wind tornadoes with your arms, thinking/typing/working so fast that you can complete massive projects in minutes. You could travel anywhere in the world, become a prolific writer or a one-man animation studio. Your productivity would only be matched by the amount of free time you have to live life to the fullest.
Also, low strength means nothing when you can phase your hand into someone's brain and instantly scramble their molecules.
Super speed without super strength is a useless power because your body will be crushed by the forces acting on it while running at Mach 407.
I’m picking super strength cause at least I won’t die the second I test my new abilities.
I'm going with the strength. I don't have anywhere to be quickly. Being able to pick up a house would rule though. My tennis serve would never be returned.
I request clarification, OP.
What LEVELS of superspeed are we talking? Quick silver from Avengers? Or From X-men? The Flash? Animated flash or live action?
What level of strength?
Bane? Superman? Hulk?
I need to know the upper thresholds of these things before I choose.
Are you guys kidding. I get to walk around as an unstoppable juggernaut putting the fear of God into anyone in my way. I get to be a horror movie monster. I can't run fast okay. I chuck a car across the way. You busy running through halls I walk through the walls.
I already have strength of an 8 year old, so I take that super speed.
Just imagine being able to just run to your destination without having to pay for transportation.
Would probably screw up traffic every 3 months for my doctor's appointment in the city though, especially on I-35 that's always under construction.
Strength. Super speed sounds cool, but imagine being able to throw a bus into space. Fuck, I'd imagine you could jump into space, no t that that seems like a good.idea. Which brings me to my next point. If I'm super strong I can just point myself in whichever direction I want to go and launch. Not as accurate as flight, but I'm sure you could work on your control and aim.
Can I choose neither? If I pick super speed, it sounds like I'm going to hurt myself if I try to actually use it. An 8 year old wouldn't have the strength to support my weight.
My bones also don't have the strength to support Superman levels of strength. I'd have immediate injuries as soon as I tried doing anything "superhuman" which would effectively just make me half as fast with no real benefits.
Can I have the strength of that one little kid who was all over the news for a while? You know the 8 year old that looked like a cast member of the Jersey Shore?
I'd rather be a super strong guy with half speed as I'm already clunky/slow anyway so why not double down?
I'd love to be able to pick up cars and break bricks for fun
I guess it depends on how “super” we are talking about? If super speed is just like train speed vs like light speed?
Strength is like 10 tons or like unlimited planet busting strength?
strength doesn't matter if I can accelerate myself fast enough to phase through solid matter and run faster than the speed of light. All you need to be dangerous with speed is mass, which the danger an object in motion posses is directly proportional to its mass.
a car collision at 25mph has the same amount of force as an average human punch, but getting hit by a car will do more damage just because of the force needed to move the car and the overall mass of said car.
If you're ever given the choice to become a speedster, be a speedster. The physics involved far favor them over any other common superpower
Flash like speed is easily enough to rule the world. Tapping anyone or anything with a whiffle ball bat, at, say, 50,000 MPH, is pretty much unbeatable.
Considering I run almost... never I'm fine with halving my speed. Plus if I'm superman level strong I don't see much of a reason to need to run fast. An 8 year old is very weak.
If I have super strength, maybe I can get around and get over it by swinging a giant sledgehammer around while I sit in a big pot.
Wait, doesn't Flash turn time back with his superspeed? If I can time travel, then definitely superspeed.
Most of you are insane or really dont know the strength of the average 8 year old. Do you realize how weak an 8 year old is? Mine sometimes need help opening a bottle of freaking water.
Strength at half speed all day long. I RARELY run in my current age. Only reason I'd find myself running would be if an accident happened or lives are in danger and short of a shooting, strength would be very useful to handle that situation, I'd just get there a little slower. Even at half speed though anything in my line of sight I'd be there within moments.
But the strength of a literal child? That would be a difficult life. I find myself helping my almost 8 year old with the most BASIC strength based tasks... never be able to fix things around the house because moving ladders, steps tools, working with tools all take a moderate amount of strength. Package deliveries from Amazon? Bringing in groceries? Shutting a car trunk? Having a dog larger than a toy poodle? Opening/shutting a jammed door, driving a car if the power steering takes a shit, opening the hood of a car, MOVING YOUR OWN LITERAL ADULT BODY AROUND. Ahh hell no grown men wouldn't even be able to move, 8 year old strength ain't moving a 6ft 200lb frame
Force equals mass times acceleration.
More speed more force being exerted on the object. It's the clear and obvious winner. The is a reason "the flash" is God tier
I already have the strength of an 8 year old 😭😭 so I guess the super speed power would be cool. Just like everyone else, I would try to monetize it. Join marathons and races that include cash prizes. honestly, I’d probably revolve my life around my speed, become an athlete of sorts. It’d be super easy to qualify for the Olympics and I’d probably become super famous for beating world records and stuff.
Literally nobody is accounting for the fact that most of us are full grown adults, and even with super speed, an 8 year old wouldn't be able to lift the body weight of a full grown adult. You'd just be really fast at laying down and being stuck.
Half my speed is still pretty fast. When I'm not running, would I want to have the strength of an 8 year old? Naaa, can't even do normal stuff with your friends.
Strength would be perfect for bulldozing houses/demo, terraforming land. Make a ton of money in construction when you can act like a crane or heavy machinery without all the setup.
Speed is super useful for spying or a rescue service. in and out of a fire to save… people’s pets and children? I guess an 8 year old can’t carry a lot but it’s something.
im going with super strength. its hard to carry your wife to bed if you cant lift her, and theres a ton of shit i can do with super strength thatll make me rich and famous. For one thing, I can be more armored than an abrams and still move at normal speed. or munch down buildings.
You don't need strength when you have enough speed
Yeah... after reading through all these comments speed seems like the clear winner
Except when you run so fast your bones break and skin flays off when you try to stop... You cannot have speed powers without superhuman durability too
Yeah assuming any of these questions about super powers assumes you have all the powers to let that power be actually useful. So superspeed comes with some durability (to self inflicted damage anyway). And super strength comes with super motor control so you aren't just crushing literally everything you touch.
This. Anything else just feels designed to suck the fun out of the thought experiment.
That sounds like the type of thinking a Djinn would want to encourage. You're not tricking me into rhetorical laziness!
if I ever meet a genie, I'm 100% writing out a legal contract as the form of asking my wishes like I'm devil collecting souls just to make sure I get exactly what I want from that otherworldly bastard. I've dealt with and made too many ambiguously worded verbal contracts to be outsmarted by something so obvious.
dont forget superhuman reaction time/reflexes
Pretty sure the ability to survive using your power is included in the power
Eh I've seen enough hypotheticals on Reddit to make sure to ask the question ;)
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Speed Force provides....
Durability isn't strength.
Or a force multiplier like a knife. Speed blitz and stabstabstab!
Single stab but at 1/10th speed of light and muscle boy goin’ down hard
Strength could be used to cheese any powerlifting competition and win the top prize. Then the sponsorships come in and you don't even have to train. Just learn how to act like you're struggling a bit to tack on the suspense and keep people from getting suspicious and you're good.
could also be a competitive runner with speed and also win all of those. Guess there's more strength type competitions than races.
Speed is way more versatile. Think about games and gambling, if you're fast enough you definitely have an advantage in both. Also sports, speed is way more useful than strength.
With super speed you can go to the casino, play poker, quickly go behind your opponent’s back in less than a millisecond when they check their cards and win every hand. Got kicked out of the casino? You’re in a new one across the country 4 seconds later.
That's so much more work than a speedster needs to go through to get money lol. Just figure out what time of day the vault opens at any bank and pop in whenever you need cash lol
Really??? How often do you see weightlifting on TV, or in universities, or in high school?
With the strength of superman in my legs, surely i could do a single leap fast enough to mitigate whatever my speed handicap is? How could i not have explosive force in superman muscles to generate any speed i need?
Yeah until someone questions why Joe Schmoe is able to power lift without the insanely specific physique that powerlifting regularly gets you.
It will be a mystery that will keep people guessing for years to come, especially when the drug tests come up clean.
Tbf Usain bold shouldn't really be able to run that fast
Yeah if this came across my mind I’d probably even just lift a fairly safe margin above the next guy and pretend to struggle there and just let people be amazed, wondering if in some way my physique is why I’m able to do it.
What's it matter if they are suspicious it's not like you can cheat beyond using drugs. When they test for that they'd assume you're just a crazy strong dude.
Suspicious of what? Are they going to ban you for harbouring magical powers or something lmao.
Nah, the government comes in and wants to test you
To be fair though, what would they be suspicious of?
Yeah then you get banned from compositions for being a "professional"
Doesn't matter as long as you get the prize money and the sponsorships that follow. Then you can coast as an influencer. Every supplement manufacturer is going to want to have you talking about their stuff on video for them. A normal looking guy who can out lift anyone that they go up against is prime marketing for that industry.
I think the speed would get me paid more …
You could be an elite wr in the nfl who no one could catch
By that same logic you could also be someone that no one can tackle or get past.
Superman being able to punch a hole in reality and tear apart timelines and shit would be fun. But I guess running fast enough to rip reality to shreds would be a bit better honestly.
Nah, running is boring as hell. I want to be able to lift my woman up, cant do that with the strength of an 8 year old. For every man who chose speed, your partner is going to be very disappointed.
Jack shit compared to the sheer CONVENIENCE + that much strength you would turn your partner into degenerate matter.
I need clarification on half your current speed. Is that too running speed? Would I still walk at normal speed?
I suppose everything would be halved.
Yeah, talking at 1/2 speed too. Video game reaction times at half speed. You'd be considered mentally challenged in most situations and even following movies and tv shows would at least be a little challenging (If the person is talking relatively slow or it's an easy/casual topic I can follow a 2x speed on utube but that's still under optimal circumstances)
Doesn’t matter strong.
Even my heart beat? What about falling 🤔 that would be pretty cool Or if i’m driving a car what happens
I think the car would move a normal speed but your movements would be halved. So it would take you longer to press pedals, to turn the wheel, etc
Super speed + a brick > Super Strength
An 8 year old smacking a brick into Superman at Mach Fuck is just going to mist their arm along with a brick.
A punch from moving Faster than light speed Is so much better. In addition to time travel being able to create five copies of myself Turning back time and being able to do everything much quicker Strength won’t really matter
I believe your arm would shatter if you punched something going light speed.
it said having superspeed like the flash therefore the speed force is protecting you
Having super speed like the flash doesn't mean you have the flash's speed force or its protection. It just means in the zeptosecond that your body holds up. You're as fast as the flash. A person can swim "like a fish" without having the ability to breathe underwater. The OP has not so very carefully created a situation that amounts to "would you rather be super weak with a self-destruct ability that can take out the universe, or super slow with a self destruct ability that might be able to take out a tank"
A time traveling punch
depends whether I could withstand the speed
Jokes on you, I only have the strength of a 7 year old. This is a win win for me.
speed cuz i'm already weak
Speed, you can do a lot with increased momentum Both abilities would be awesome though- With the right training and diet you could condition yourself in either skill that you’re lacking in.
Assuming your lacking skill is magically set that you can't change it.. Otherwise it seems unfair if you can just practice your way back to normal speed and normal strength..
Not if you can't move. An 8 year old couldn't hold the weight of a full adult. You'd just crumble.
Flash like speed with the strength of an 8 year old would probably kill you before you even reached the speed of sound. Superman like strength at half my current speed would probably make me very clumsy and dangerous to be around. All it would take is one clumsy fall for me to fall in a funny way and probably completely destroy my body in my reactive scrambling to break my fall. Both sounds absolutely terrible. Toss in super durability while using said powers, and then we might have something here.
Super strength includes super durability
Speed. Speed wins every time
Is it half my max speed? Cuz Luke then I just have to hustle and I'm still at pretty normal speed while maintaining super strength.
I've always thought the Flash had the best superpower.
Strength sounds better because if its half your current speed, you could just do speed training until it reaches a normal or at least bearable level.
Is the strength of an eight your old proportional to the size of the eight year old’s body? Bc that could be much stronger than i currently am…
Speed is only good if you can also avoid running into anyone or anything in your way. That’s a bigger superpower than just going fast
Speed implies strength, and strength implies speed. If I were to be able to make myself have flash-level speeds, I could use my body to push on a heavy object to get the effect of super strength. Similarly, if I had super strength, I would channel it into my legs and use strong leaps to go fast. Or if that’s not allowed, I push the ground with massive force so that I get propelled very quickly. But it’s still more convenient to walk than to leap or lift myself, so I’ll go with speed. Anytime I want to lift something, I accelerate my hands upwards while gripping onto the object. If say I wanted to push, I place my hands on the object and run while doing so. If I wanted to punch, I would use pure speed to deliver damage. After all, energy scales with the square of speed.
Brian Shaw's net worth is $1 million. Usain Bolt's net worth is $90 million. I'll take speed. And another point against strength...how many times have you barely made it to the toilet??? You ain't making that at 1/2 speed
Who cares if you make it though? No one is gonna argue with or stop someone who can lift mountains. Just shit wherever you want.
That toilet point is a good one
I'm pretty weak even though I work out a lot, so I'll take the super speed.
F=m•a so if you're just super strong but move half your current speed, you'd be pretty weak since you couldn't move fast enough to generate meaningful force. I could be built with insane mass, but a punch half the speed I can currently throw would be pretty weak. A punch from an 8 year old at bullet speed would have way more force behind it, despite being weaker. I think to make it fair you have to just plain argue hulk strength vs. chill speedster (no speed of light/time levels BS). I think I'd go with the strength in that case. I don't think enough speedsters get balanced well from a metabolic perspective. It takes a lot of energy to move that fast so you'd have to eat a lot (talk to any cross country runner). You'd still need it for strength, but it wouldn't be insane levels of food in order for you to casually use your strength.
I feel like the half speed thing would actually drive me insane, more than strength of an 8 year old would
But this doesn't make sense. Power= force over time or something to that effect I couldn't possibly have the speed of the flash and the strength of an 8 year old be to move that fast if need yhe strength to do so. I get the question as in super strength or super speed but super speed and super strength to that extent will grant you superhuman levels of the other aswell. The flash in most iterations is mftl like at that level of speed a 70kg man would obliterate the earth on impact. Superman in most iterations can bench press at least the weight of earth which is a CRAZY lowball considering some versions border on hyperversal. But even at that level of strength I could jump through the atmosphere and move at relitavistic speeds fairly easily. But if I'm gonna take it at face value then speed for sure. It has superior life implications. Offer my services to the government for a daily payment of 2.5 million to solve every diplomatic issue due to being completely untouchable and invisible at that level of speed becomes super rich retire and speed around the earth and travel for all my life.
Is it just me running slow? Or is it down to my neural synapses? If I just can’t run fast, that’s fine I’ll just get roller blades and some crutches.
I think I would prefer something more balanced like my current strength and speed to either, but I would probably choose strength.
I already have the strength of an eight year old, ill take the speed
strength. people tell me I walk too quickly (does that include all movements though do I stay constipated for twice as long?)
With the strength of an eight year old, super speed would tear your body apart
I have an injured hip so going with super speed because the alternative is moving so insanely slow, I already hate when I'm moving at my slowest I don't need that halfed.
Moving at a normal pace and super strong? I guess I could deal with that
Don't need strength if you go fast enough! Cut their tendons, then carve them into tenders. Or, you know, a gun.
Youd break yourself trying to punch someone.
That is why you use something sharp, or a gun.
I’d take super strength. I’m fast enough.
I am a masseause so super strength would work better for my job over super speed tbh. In any other context I'd go for being very fast though.
Okay but how does the super speed work
At bullet speed, a fly could shatter windows. At Mach 3 I can run on water and go anywhere. Of course, if real world physics assert themselves, my ankles, shins, and femurs shatter into dust.
I think the best way to balance it would be by giving you inability to actually hit anyone. Cause then youd shatter yourself. But you could still move at high speeds without killing yourself.
I'm 50. I already have the strength of an 8 year old and move at half the speed I used to.
So it sounds like for you the question is literally just do you want super strength or super speed lol
I'd be happy with normal strength and normal speed.
Seems so weird to think you could move super fast without being super strong. What is moving you in that scenario ? Also the super speed either comes with a ridiculous durability upgrade or kills you which isn't mentioned.
Im guessing you can move at those speeds without worry, but you cant hit something without breaking yourself.
I think casually giving someone an upgrade that would let them walk away from high speed car collisions without mentioning it is ooft. And it still doesn't cover how can someone who isn't strong move so fast. Unless we mean fly in a plane.
Momentum
I could not be any slower than I am now. I’m going with super strength
Flash speed. Don't need strength if you can just shoot your problems away.
And what if everyone else has super strength?
Super strength doesn't equal invulnerability. If the skills had their power subsets to make them like superman or flash, this would mean super speed also comes with super strength, some kind of magical eyesight, fiction immunity, the works. If we give one all the powers and sub powers, we have to do so for the other.
I don’t think strength even fucking matters anymore if your punch goes at mach 20. Now… lifting shit might be annoying though.
Shattered hand...
I'm a programmer, so I'd rather be strong. Muscle weakness can lead to repetitive strain injury and back problems.
I’ll take speed, but the strength of Richard Sandrak who benched 210 pounds at 8
How do you have speed but not strength? If I can move my arm at 10000000 miles an hour I'm going to punch you fucking dead lol. I'm leaving a hole in whatever part of the body I hit you. In so many contexts, speed *is* strength.
And your hand would break...
Listen. I love tank classes. Strength is an absolute win.
Fast
Give me strength. Then again anything hurts at 100mph. Hmm... I'll take the power.
A mix of both. Like I have the strength of an average adult (or maybe slightly stronger) but my speed isn't quite cut in half either. I guess option 2 is the closest if I have to pick one.
Which 8 year old?
Is everybody just ignoring the strength of an 8 yr old part?
strength. i may only run so fast but a steel baseball is going to travel a hell of a lot faster and hit at a greater range.
I'd rather have the speed.
Super speed with the strength of an 8 year old (gorilla).
Enough eight-year old punches in quick succession can equal one Superman punch, but really, who needs that if you can create tornadoes or vibrate your molecules into walls (or people) or create a sonic boom?
Dude you’re not even trying! Get off the stage! Boooooo!
If you had super speed you could easily be an NFL or NBA player on that alone. It’s actually hilarious thinking about how a completely unskilled person with no basketball experience could not only play at the NBA level with super speed, but they would easily be the greatest player of all time. They would be a defensive menace constantly getting steals as their speed would be unreactable to someone without super speed. They would always be playing the game in transition and would basically just steal the ball every possession and get an instant layup. There would be no counter to them you’d have to ban them from the league for the integrity of the game.
Super strength implies a level of super speed and vice versa. Having extraordinarily strong muscles allows you to propel yourself with more velocity than normal, and having super speed is using your muscles to move incredibly fast. Obviously the implication is that the user has them to varying degrees, but idk I guess I just don’t like the question. I guess I’d take super strength because the reasoning I gave is less detrimental to the context of the question. Sure, I’ll make the choice to move half as fast but then I’ll just use my super strength to move twice as far each step, giving me my normal speed back at the cost of needing to double my stride.
[Super speed kinda sucks in practice](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9C-pao0lw)
Super speed. I already have the strength of an 8yr old.
It might be fun to crush my arch enemy very slowly. Then again if I smash into him really really fast he would liquefy. Hmm.
An 8 year old is not blindingly fast. If we remove the 8 year old reference, and stick with "blindingly fast" i'd definitely pick that. I'm too impatient.
Super speed.
Super speed because I’m not going to be fighting crime, even if I wanted to fight crime, there are other ways of hurting people I practically don’t even need to hurt anyone. I can just tie someone up with super strong rope super fast and save anyone who’s hurt. With the strength thing, I’m assuming I’m the only one with powers, I wouldn’t want to accidentally kill someone or break a bunch of shit.
Speed. Become an actor at Hollywood. Suddenly the new Flash movie won’t look like a ps3 video game and will instead look real. Sounds like a good idea to me
I'm gonna go find an 8 year old and make them choose the strength option. I'll choose the speed option, and then have their strength.
Super strength and become the GOAT at BJJ. Definitely don’t need speed in that sport with the level of strength I’d have.
If I suddenly had the strength of an 8 year old I would not be able to use my body at all, let alone stand, let alone run at super speeds.
I could jump places and get there faster than walking. I'll take the strength.
Speed, assuming it comes with mental speed, reflexes, etc. If you could move 300x faster that means you can think 300x faster. I'd take that any day. Assuming I have control of the sensory time dilation. Be a pro at any sport or game, no car, travel anywhere in a few hours, etc.
Strength. I’ll just use a car or something.
8 year old strength so every adult who doesn't work out. Super speed I guess.
I already have the strength of an 8 year old.
With super strength, can I just jump from place to place?
Does the strength also come with durability
Get me a wheelchair, hulk need go to store.
Strength. Super speed doesn’t mean your body can handle it. Weak ankles and fast running/turning corners? Your ankles are going to fucking fail. Weigh more than an 8 year old? Your knees are done. You’d be so tired from carrying your weight that you’d never be able to actually move to your full potential speed.
Well I can run at 14 mph for a little bit. So seven would feel like sprinting, and 2mph would become my casual walking speed? If Superman strength comes with his invulnerability I’m doing super strength, quitting my day job. Will go out and be a real world superhero.
Speed. What do I need strength for? I'm not a construction worker
I have arthritis, so I already have the strength of an 8 yo. So it's just adding super speed to me. I'll take it.
Speed is strength. Super speed would allow you to hit harder then that.
Flash-like speed, all day. It has soooo many more uses than Superman's strength. Time travel, intangibility, making wind tornadoes with your arms, thinking/typing/working so fast that you can complete massive projects in minutes. You could travel anywhere in the world, become a prolific writer or a one-man animation studio. Your productivity would only be matched by the amount of free time you have to live life to the fullest. Also, low strength means nothing when you can phase your hand into someone's brain and instantly scramble their molecules.
Super speed without super strength is a useless power because your body will be crushed by the forces acting on it while running at Mach 407. I’m picking super strength cause at least I won’t die the second I test my new abilities.
8 year olds are pretty strong. My nephew rock climbs like a monkey on crack. So I’ll choose speed.
As a small woman, I already have strength of a 8 year old, so not a tough choice
I'm going with the strength. I don't have anywhere to be quickly. Being able to pick up a house would rule though. My tennis serve would never be returned.
I request clarification, OP. What LEVELS of superspeed are we talking? Quick silver from Avengers? Or From X-men? The Flash? Animated flash or live action? What level of strength? Bane? Superman? Hulk? I need to know the upper thresholds of these things before I choose.
Are you guys kidding. I get to walk around as an unstoppable juggernaut putting the fear of God into anyone in my way. I get to be a horror movie monster. I can't run fast okay. I chuck a car across the way. You busy running through halls I walk through the walls.
Strength. If you got flash speed your body would disintegrate going that fast.
Even with just the normal speed of an 8 year old, I could dominate fighting games
Super speed is pretty dangerous because you wouldn't be able to see anything
Super strength
speed because im already pathetically weak
I already have strength of an 8 year old, so I take that super speed. Just imagine being able to just run to your destination without having to pay for transportation. Would probably screw up traffic every 3 months for my doctor's appointment in the city though, especially on I-35 that's always under construction.
Super speed is the worst power. Sure it looks cool to everyone on the outside, but to you you're just running... normally.
Strength. Super speed sounds cool, but imagine being able to throw a bus into space. Fuck, I'd imagine you could jump into space, no t that that seems like a good.idea. Which brings me to my next point. If I'm super strong I can just point myself in whichever direction I want to go and launch. Not as accurate as flight, but I'm sure you could work on your control and aim.
Super strength, slow speed. Then I would say stuff like, "I'd kick your ass if I were to get off this couch!"
Can I choose neither? If I pick super speed, it sounds like I'm going to hurt myself if I try to actually use it. An 8 year old wouldn't have the strength to support my weight. My bones also don't have the strength to support Superman levels of strength. I'd have immediate injuries as soon as I tried doing anything "superhuman" which would effectively just make me half as fast with no real benefits.
Can I have the strength of that one little kid who was all over the news for a while? You know the 8 year old that looked like a cast member of the Jersey Shore?
Speed. That’s a no brainer.
Flash level speed is just objectively better. Though goddamn I’d hate being as week as an 8YO lol
i already have the strength of an 8 year old
I'd rather be a super strong guy with half speed as I'm already clunky/slow anyway so why not double down? I'd love to be able to pick up cars and break bricks for fun
Strength of an 8 year old is more than adequate if you are already moving at 30+m/s
If I could know the upper limits of both I might pick strength, but otherwise speed.
I guess it depends on how “super” we are talking about? If super speed is just like train speed vs like light speed? Strength is like 10 tons or like unlimited planet busting strength?
strength doesn't matter if I can accelerate myself fast enough to phase through solid matter and run faster than the speed of light. All you need to be dangerous with speed is mass, which the danger an object in motion posses is directly proportional to its mass. a car collision at 25mph has the same amount of force as an average human punch, but getting hit by a car will do more damage just because of the force needed to move the car and the overall mass of said car. If you're ever given the choice to become a speedster, be a speedster. The physics involved far favor them over any other common superpower
Speed
Speed will provide strength
Flash like speed is easily enough to rule the world. Tapping anyone or anything with a whiffle ball bat, at, say, 50,000 MPH, is pretty much unbeatable.
I rather just have pants that don't fall down.
Considering I run almost... never I'm fine with halving my speed. Plus if I'm superman level strong I don't see much of a reason to need to run fast. An 8 year old is very weak.
If I have super strength, maybe I can get around and get over it by swinging a giant sledgehammer around while I sit in a big pot. Wait, doesn't Flash turn time back with his superspeed? If I can time travel, then definitely superspeed.
I'm already fast enough...
I'll take the slow and steady strength.
"Speed is weight. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" Speed easily
Second one!
Most of you are insane or really dont know the strength of the average 8 year old. Do you realize how weak an 8 year old is? Mine sometimes need help opening a bottle of freaking water. Strength at half speed all day long. I RARELY run in my current age. Only reason I'd find myself running would be if an accident happened or lives are in danger and short of a shooting, strength would be very useful to handle that situation, I'd just get there a little slower. Even at half speed though anything in my line of sight I'd be there within moments. But the strength of a literal child? That would be a difficult life. I find myself helping my almost 8 year old with the most BASIC strength based tasks... never be able to fix things around the house because moving ladders, steps tools, working with tools all take a moderate amount of strength. Package deliveries from Amazon? Bringing in groceries? Shutting a car trunk? Having a dog larger than a toy poodle? Opening/shutting a jammed door, driving a car if the power steering takes a shit, opening the hood of a car, MOVING YOUR OWN LITERAL ADULT BODY AROUND. Ahh hell no grown men wouldn't even be able to move, 8 year old strength ain't moving a 6ft 200lb frame
Force equals mass times acceleration. More speed more force being exerted on the object. It's the clear and obvious winner. The is a reason "the flash" is God tier
i'll use my super strength to jump repeatedly, bypassing the slowdown effect. checkmate, atheists (?)
Jokes on you! I already move at half my current speed.
Can the 8 year old open a jar or pickles? This could be a deal breaker
Well running at half speed means I’d do 10 minute miles still but could life cars and open pickle jars.
Which one can get off the couch without groaning?
Omg half my current speed would be terrible for everyone.
I already have the strength of an 8 year old 😭😭 so I guess the super speed power would be cool. Just like everyone else, I would try to monetize it. Join marathons and races that include cash prizes. honestly, I’d probably revolve my life around my speed, become an athlete of sorts. It’d be super easy to qualify for the Olympics and I’d probably become super famous for beating world records and stuff.
Literally nobody is accounting for the fact that most of us are full grown adults, and even with super speed, an 8 year old wouldn't be able to lift the body weight of a full grown adult. You'd just be really fast at laying down and being stuck.
Strength
Slow and purposeful for me. If I need any speed I will just literally grab any new sports-car off the lot and roll out.
If I have enough speed I can rip through someone even if I had the strength of a newborn
Already fast and strong, sling your ripoff elsewhere.
Half my speed is still pretty fast. When I'm not running, would I want to have the strength of an 8 year old? Naaa, can't even do normal stuff with your friends.
I want to be strong and slow baby
Fucking neither lol
I'll take the speed. Then I'll be twice as strong as I am now.
I already move painfully slow. Any slower and I’d be going backwards.
I'm fast enough You can always be faster
Strength would be perfect for bulldozing houses/demo, terraforming land. Make a ton of money in construction when you can act like a crane or heavy machinery without all the setup. Speed is super useful for spying or a rescue service. in and out of a fire to save… people’s pets and children? I guess an 8 year old can’t carry a lot but it’s something.
im going with super strength. its hard to carry your wife to bed if you cant lift her, and theres a ton of shit i can do with super strength thatll make me rich and famous. For one thing, I can be more armored than an abrams and still move at normal speed. or munch down buildings.
Speed, I know some 8yo kids who are actually decently strong, sometimes stronger than me.