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  2. Preferred walking speed - Wikipedia

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    Preferred walking speed. The preferred walking speed is the speed at which humans or animals choose to walk. Many people tend to walk at about 1.42 metres per second (5.1 km/h; 3.2 mph; 4.7 ft/s). [1][2][3] Individuals may find slower or faster speeds uncomfortable. Horses have also demonstrated normal, narrow distributions of preferred walking ...

  3. Walking - Wikipedia

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    The fastest "walks" with a four-beat footfall pattern are actually the lateral forms of ambling gaits such as the running walk, singlefoot, and similar rapid but smooth intermediate speed gaits. If a horse begins to speed up and lose a regular four-beat cadence to its gait, the horse is no longer walking but is beginning to either trot or pace.

  4. Tool-assisted speedrun - Wikipedia

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    A tool-assisted speedrunor tool-assisted superplay(TAS; /tæs/) is generally defined as a speedrunor playthroughcomposed of precise inputs recorded with tools such as video game emulators. Tool-assisted speedruns are generally created with the goal of creating theoretically perfect playthroughs. This includes but is not limited to the fastest ...

  5. List of pedestrian circumnavigators - Wikipedia

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    4 years, 3 months, 16 days. Distance. 23,250 kilometres (14,450 mi) Name. Steven M. Newman. Newman became the second man independently verified to walk around the world on April 1, 1987, exactly four years after his departure. His walk was very similar to Kunst's, covering four continents and 14,500 miles.

  6. Footspeed - Wikipedia

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    Footspeed. Sprinting is a sport that requires development of footspeed. Footspeed, or sprint speed, is the maximum speed at which a human can run. It is affected by many factors, varies greatly throughout the population, and is important in athletics and many sports, such as association football, rugby football, American football, track and ...

  7. Powergaming - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. Powergaming (also known as power gaming, min maxing, or optimization) is a style of interacting with games or game-like systems, particularly video games, boardgames, and role-playing games, with the aim of maximizing progress towards a specific goal. Other players may consider this disruptive when done to the exclusion of all other ...

  8. Pedestrian crossing - Wikipedia

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    Pedestrian crossings in (clockwise, from top left) London, Taipei, New York City and Brisbane. A pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk in American and Canadian English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road, street or avenue. The term "pedestrian crossing" is also used in the Vienna and Geneva Conventions, both of which pertain to ...

  9. Handcuffs - Wikipedia

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    A person handcuffed behind their back. Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists in proximity to each other. [1] They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each cuff has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist.