

Approximately how fast can people move around with the 3D Maneuver Gear (3DMG)
in _Attack on Titan_? What is the maximum speed attainable? If people can move
faster when the hook is reeled in, then I want that answer, if they can move
faster in the air by swinging then I want that answer. But I don't want the
speed of the hooks.


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How fast is the 3D Maneuver Gear (3DMG)?


_**Disclaimer**_

After looking through several of the episodes, looking at the initial take
offs from both a stand still position and running position I have determined
that the speed for take off fluctuates allot. As I am assuming this is to the
amount of boost given by the user I will be working with a few different
scenarios, and using rough estimates based on those scenes. As some of these
scenario's

With that aside

_**How fast do they go on average?**_

During Episode 5 while Eren fights the colossal titan _(3:13)_ , he runs along
the arm, attaches the hooks, and accelerates towards the giant. Using the
image below as reference we can see that the distance at which he accelerates
is:

roughly ~20 meters, after a ~4 meter sprint. It takes Eren ~1.5 seconds to run
the distance **(2.667 m/s)** after which it takes him ~5.5 seconds to get
behind it **(3.636 m/s)**

So with a running start, slightly moving upwards.

Eren can go about as fast as a bike. **8MPH (13.09 km/h)**

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GSWCN.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GSWCN.jpg)

_**So is this this their top speed?**_

Oh no, even by far from, the speeds differ greatly, and are considerably
higher when moving downwards. Lets take the intro of episode 8 where Eren goes
straight up, and whips himself down to the neck of a titan in roughly 0.2
seconds, over a distance of the story of 1 house which is 10 feet (3.0 m)
which would already sum up at **15m/s** which is already **5 times higher then
the average given speed!**

So would this finally be their top speed? Well, simply said. no. If for some
reason they would be able to apply a whip effect to this acceleration they
could reach even higher speeds. There is quite some math behind this so for
exact numbers on that feel free to crack your head using [these
formula's](http://web.archive.org/web/20151106132019/https://www.math.arizona.edu/%7Eura/031/Taft.Jefferson/Report.pdf)
but after a really quick and dirty look over it I determined it would add
roughly another **~10 m/s**

Adding the final speed up to **~25 m/s**


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it should also be noted how fast eren caught up to the abnormal that ate
thomas, how fast mikasa made it to the armory, how fast she killed the weird
running titan, and how fast levi went during his god mode moments


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