# How many five year olds can you take in a fight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734 "2007-12-20T18:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/1 "2007-12-20T18:16:39Z")
[http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/](http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/) I could only take 11. I don’t think I’m ruthless enough. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/2 "2007-12-20T18:20:45Z")
1. But then I’m pretty bad-ass. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/3 "2007-12-20T18:39:12Z")
23, and I’m pretty surprised about the lengths I’d go to win. Holds barred? Nope, not even against 5 year olds. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/4 "2007-12-20T18:58:08Z")
1. That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/5 "2007-12-20T19:05:34Z")
1. I knew that from the other day, when we had this exact same thread. In fact this is at least the 4th thread we’ve had on this topic, but at least one of them was not from this week. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/6 "2007-12-20T19:28:41Z")
1. Bring it bitches. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/7 "2007-12-20T19:49:40Z")
1. I guess I’m the weakling so far! ---
**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/8 "2007-12-20T20:01:44Z")
1. That’s my twin sons’ entire Kindergarten class. Yeah, I can see that. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/9 "2007-12-20T20:16:12Z")
30 here. I am so bad! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/10 "2007-12-20T20:23:14Z")
28 and I just found this this morning independent of this website. A coworker can take 31. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/11 "2007-12-20T20:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=Lionne] 17. I guess I’m the weakling so far! [/QUOTE] Hah! I answered (truthfully) in the exact middle on every single question, and I came up with 12, so I assume that’s the “average”. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/12 "2007-12-20T21:25:35Z")
30 here. And then the leftovers can be used for soup… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/13 "2007-12-20T21:49:08Z")
13, but I’m fairly short and have never been in a fight. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/14 "2007-12-20T23:47:03Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/15 "2007-12-20T23:53:43Z")
25, although in reality I’m not sure if I could bring myself to bite a kid. For the purposes of the survey, I told myself they were mutant zombie children. It’s kill or be killed! ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/16 "2007-12-20T23:55:47Z")
1. I failed primarily on the moral compass part- I just don’t think I could eye gouge a five year old. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/17 "2007-12-21T00:17:45Z")
23[.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/) ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/18 "2007-12-21T02:24:22Z")
Of course, the \*real \* question is, how many five year olds can you take in a fight, **if one of them is Chuck Norris?!** Not so tough _now_, are ya? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight/430734/19 "2007-12-21T02:31:52Z")
Hey! I already started this same thread, on Tuesday. The only difference is I think I used “could” instead of “can” in the thread title. See [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448242). Harumph!