How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take Out in a Fight?

[All_That_Chaz]

Originally Posted by devonin

I think you'll find historically that -EVERYONE- thinks they could take on more of them then they actually could.

They consider how easy they would find it to beat up one 5-year old, and simply go "Multiplied by how much endurance I think I have" and come up with ridiculously high numbers.

The difficulty of fighting multiple opponents of any age is much more like exponential than linear, it gets much harder -much- faster than people realise.

Though the formulation of this question I was familar with specified that they got a full day of being shown how to work as a group against one large target, and you got one hour of being shown how to deal with being swarmed.

I mean, anyone who has young siblings/cousins, or has ever worked at a daycare/as a babysitter etc can tell you that even when kids aren't -trying- to take you down, even three or four of them can bowl you over unless you're actively trying to stop them.

I would estimate that the average person could probably handle about a dozen, maybe 15, and those who are in some combination of excellent shape, possessed of martial training, and willing to fight as dirty as they need to would probably max out at about 25.

Edit: I took the quiz and it said 30, but I don't think it is at all accurate.

More other edit: Everyone claiming that they're sure they could handle more than 30 is either confusing "at once" with "in a row" or just has no actual idea how tough it can be to knock out someone who is explicitly going to not be afraid of you.

You wasted 3 minutes of your life writing that. You'll never get them back. Why are you analyzing this pointless question?