What would you do if you had the Flash’s powers for a week?

In My Humble Opinion
1

You’re given the powers of the current comic book version of the Flash (except for time travel/manipulation).

You’ll be able to move at light speed, have a nanosecond reaction time, conjure lightning/electricity and turn intangible with no issues or side effects.

The catch is that you only have 7 days (though with super speed you’d be able to stretch it indefinitely from your POV) before the powers vanish and you become a normal human again. What would you do in the meantime with the Flash’s powers?

2

I could destroy every sport’s record book forever.
:soccer: :baseball: :basketball: :football: :cricket_bat_and_ball: :bowling: :tennis: :curling_stone: :golf: :biking_man: :weight_lifting_man: :rowing_man: :surfing_man: :running_man:

3

I would look for ways to monetize the situation.

4

Clean the house properly. That should take most of the week.

5

Drinking contest.

Also, take out some truly toxic people in this world.

It’s probably best I don’t get these powers.

6

Can’t Flash speed read and retain all the knowledge? Time to read all of Wikipedia and then go on Jeopardy.

7

Finish my honey-do list.

8

I’d probably open a transportation business. $10,000 to anywhere in the world in the next minute or its free. 8 hours a day with 2 minutes chatting on each side + getting to the next pick up works out to 11.2 million in the week and then I could retire.

9

This is my initial thought. But I’m afraid others would fill the void.

I’d do it anyway.

10

Panty raid! :wink:

11

I will spend a lot less time walking back and forth to the bathroom.

12

So… no one here thought “fight crime”.

Interesting.

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That’d be me, too. Maybe combined with other features… like take out evil people, right after I find someone to pay me for it. Fight crimes that have a reward attached.

13

Wouldn’t the g forces experienced by the non-superpowered customers kill them?

14

Yeah, this, plus world tourism. I can see the Louvre, the Parthenon, the Kremlin, Tokyo, the Library of Congress…

While I myself am adverse to taking lives, I can see myself pranking Mr. Former’s Mar-a-Lago resort quite heavily. How many ping pong balls does it take to cover a golf course?

15

The Flash can interact with people and objects at super speed without issue so you’ll have the same power in this scenario.

16

That should be over enough time to wipe out the human race…

OK, (slightly) more seriously - that should be enough time to do a lot of real-world wealth redistribution, some rapid-fire refugee migration including very real on-file documentation, place some very dangerous dictatorial assholes in custody/deep holes, and time left over to get any real dirt on the 1% and publish it - passwords and locked safes should both be no problem.

17

The lottery is up to what $400 million? I’d win that. Then build a Pizza Joint/Comic Book Store/Bar and then retire and live upstairs.