What If Your Reaction Time Was 10x Faster? — Transcript

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1. 0:00A fly buzzes past your face.
2. 0:03You don't even think. You just...
3. 0:06catch it.
4. 0:11Your friend knocks his coffee off the table.
5. 0:13The cup hasn't even started to fall...
6. 0:16and your hand is already under it.
7. 0:23How... how did you do that?
8. 0:27A normal human reacts in about a quarter of a second.
9. 0:31You react in two and a half hundredths.
10. 0:34So what if your reaction time was ten times faster?
11. 0:40Here's how it works.
12. 0:42Your eyes see, your brain decides, your muscles move.
13. 0:47Your brain got ten times faster.
14. 0:49Your muscles did not.
15. 0:52You can't move faster... you just start earlier.
16. 0:56The ruler test.
17. 0:58A normal person lets it drop thirty centimeters.
18. 1:02You?
19. 1:03Three millimeters.
20. 1:06That's...
21. 1:07not humanly possible.
22. 1:15To you, the whole world moves in slow motion.
23. 1:18A falling flowerpot?
24. 1:25Caught.
25. 1:27Whoa...
26. 1:31Your phone slips out of your pocket.
27. 1:34Caught.
28. 1:35Somebody throws a ball at your head.
29. 1:38Caught that too.
30. 1:47A car runs a red light.
31. 1:49Everyone else freezes.
32. 1:51You've already stepped back.
33. 1:57Online games?
34. 2:00While the other players are still seeing you,
35. 2:02you've already aimed,
36. 2:03shot,
37. 2:04and moved.
38. 2:07Thirty wins in a row.
39. 2:09They think I'm cheating.
40. 2:14But where it gets really crazy... is sports.
41. 2:18A table tennis smash crosses the table in a fifth of a second.
42. 2:23Normal players guess.
43. 2:24You don't.
44. 2:26You watch the ball leave the paddle, and you're already there.
45. 2:36Twenty-one to zero.
46. 2:38Who Is this kid?
47. 2:42Baseball.
48. 2:44A hundred-and-sixty-kilometer fastball reaches the plate in four tenths of a second.
49. 2:49Pros have to decide before it's halfway there.
50. 2:52You watch it the whole way...
51. 2:55and crush it.
52. 3:02Boxing.
53. 3:05You see every punch coming.
54. 3:09Nobody can touch you.
55. 3:19Okay. I give up.
56. 3:28But the sport that changes your life is football.
57. 3:32A penalty reaches the goal in under half a second.
58. 3:36Normal keepers guess a side.
59. 3:38You wait, watch the ball...
60. 3:41and go.
61. 3:43A perfect shot into the top corner is still out of reach.
62. 3:48Everything else?
63. 3:49Saved.
64. 3:50Nine out of ten?! Pack your bags.
65. 3:53You're going to the national team.
66. 3:57Eleven games, not a single goal conceded.
67. 4:00Fans are calling him The Wall.
68. 4:03Nobody is that fast without cheating.
69. 4:06So they test you.
70. 4:07No drugs. No tricks.
71. 4:10His brain is just... faster.
72. 4:13They even try you in the hundred-meter sprint.
73. 4:17Bang!
74. 4:18You're gone before anyone else moves.
75. 4:20False start! Disqualified!
76. 4:23It's a real rule.
77. 4:25React faster than a tenth of a second, and they decide you must have guessed.
78. 4:30And there's a cost.
79. 4:32The world feels slow.
80. 4:34Movies feel like slideshows.
81. 4:36Headaches.
82. 4:37Endless hunger.
83. 4:39You're bored again, aren't you?
84. 4:41Everything's just so... slow.
85. 4:46Two years later. The World Cup final.
86. 4:49A hundred and twenty minutes, still zero to zero.
87. 4:53Penalties.
88. 4:55Save.
89. 4:56Save.
90. 4:58Goal — top corner, nobody could stop it.
91. 5:00Save again.
92. 5:02One last kick.
93. 5:04Save it, and your country wins the World Cup.
94. 5:09The striker runs up.
95. 5:11And in that same moment, you see something nobody else sees.
96. 5:15The cable holding the TV camera snaps.
97. 5:17Right below it... the ball boy.
98. 5:20Huh?
99. 5:22Half a second.
100. 5:25You're the only person in the stadium with time to choose.
101. 5:29The ball...
102. 5:31or the boy.
103. 5:42Behind you, the ball rolls into the empty net.
104. 5:45You just lost the World Cup final.
105. 5:48Eighty thousand people go silent.
106. 5:51Then the replay comes up on the giant screen...
107. 5:55and one by one, they stand up and start clapping.
108. 6:01Mate.
109. 6:03You just won something bigger.
110. 6:10He lost the World Cup.
111. 6:12But he saved a life.
112. 6:14Tonight the whole world is talking about the goalkeeper who chose a boy over a trophy.
113. 6:22So... you lost the final.
114. 6:24There's a World Cup every four years.
115. 6:26There's only one of that kid.
116. 6:30Three days later, a long black car stops outside your house.
117. 6:37We've been watching you.
118. 6:39How would you like to test your reflexes on something... a lot faster than a football?
119. 6:45Faster than a football?
120. 6:47Like what?
121. 6:48Get in the car.
122. 6:50And with a brain ten times faster... you'd already made up your mind before he finished the sentence.
123. 6:58So what would you do with a brain ten times faster?
124. 7:02Tell us which sport you'd dominate in the comments.
125. 7:06And if you'd have jumped for that kid too... hit like, and subscribe for more What Ifs.