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I was thinking fighter, but you can overwhelm someone with great reflexes by throwing feints. They react to every one, and it messes them up. Eventually they stop trusting their reactions.
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3/8 oval sprint car drivers running direct drive Methanol engines have to move pretty damn quick.
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Consequences wise a cop has to.be up there. Not just physical reaction time, but mentally process and take in tons of information then make life altering choices from it. All while knowing it will be watched more than any bad play at the big game if things don't go right.
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I don't get all the guys saying fighter pilot. Nothing about that job screams top .01% reaction time. The planes aren't that quick.
I'd say NHL goalie, MLB batter or infielder, maybe F1 or MotoGP racer. Or professional boxer/fighter. |
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Formula One driver or fighter jet pilot.
Well... The Isle of Man race is the king of racing. You can add squirrel-suiting a d base-jumping to that list. |
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Tyreek Hill Does F1 Formula 1 Reflex Drill with Pierre Gasly INSANE SKILLS F1 driver gets my guess. |
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Quoted: Bullfighting on acid. View Quote YES!!! That's Awesome! |
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View Quote Double Perfect Reaction Time at Pomona 2014! |
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Probably anyone who is paid to kill people quickly? Cops, troops, etc.
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Democrats. They have to cut & run at lightning speed so you can't catch them lying.
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Quoted: Went to an NHL game last night and was admiring how fast the goalies are when defending the net and it got me to wondering what profession required the fastest reflexes? First three I came up with were the NHL goalie, a fighter pilot and an F1 driver. What else ranks up there? View Quote Remove Fighter Pilot. They are great and all but much of what makes them great is being great at calculating complex patterns in 3D. Baseball batters should be added instead. |
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F1 watch a replay of their steering wheel reactions. Incredibly fast.
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Quoted: Professional gamer View Quote There is truth in that. The gaming industry is 100% legit. Raking in more money than the music industry. It is transparent to much of society just how much gaming makes because much of it is digital sales and services. Guys spend a ton gaming. It also takes insane eye/hand coordination. When my son applied to become a dust off HH-60 pilot the interviewer actually asked if he flew DSC and gamed. It was desirable. |
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Rally car drivers and formula 1 drivers.
The fact that can take a rally driver and put him in an f1 car and do well tells you all you need to know. Get that nascar bullshit out of here |
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The other thing about pro video gamers is they have beat a much larger prospective pool than any other profession listed. They had to be the best of a couple million people who play a game, not just the best of the small cohort of graduates or whatever that year.
Also, people that said cops have to have good reflexes have never seen a real life police officer |
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Outside of the obvious job descriptions already mentioned, if you think about how quickly your subconscious takes action, it’s pretty remarkable. For example, typing.
No conscious thought about every character, but your neural auto pilot is taking care of all of it. Supposedly, this is one of the reasons why humans are so smart, because of our dual thinking systems theory. |
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F1.
They also have to be able to withstand huge g forces. Not everyone can do it. |
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Quoted: Outside of the obvious job descriptions already mentioned, if you think about how quickly your subconscious takes action, it's pretty remarkable. For example, typing. No conscious thought about every character, but your neural auto pilot is taking care of all of it. Supposedly, this is one of the reasons why humans are so smart, because of our dual thinking systems theory. View Quote Can you type? |
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Lucy and Ethel did a documentary on this at a chocolate factory.
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NASCAR
In NASCAR a momentary lapse can result in death, in hockey and many other sports, not so much. Required being the operable word. |
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Quoted: Race car driver and fighter pilot are good candidates. Surgeons, too. View Quote Not surgeons. Unless “reflexes” mean something different these days. A random, unexpected operative field seldom occurs in a well-trained, experienced surgeon. Trauma surgery is different, but it’s more strategy & application of hemostatic principles (stopping bleeding holes & thinking ahead to the cellular “what next?” More speed chess, IME. I don’t know about flying, but I would think fighter pilots, and both formula 1 & motorcycle motocross (if that’s what the cross country on an unknown course is called, not sure) and trick shooter, like Bill Jordon and others. Hockey goalie, yes! I forgot about jai lai. Isn’t that the fastest ball in the Guinness book? Per Wikipedia: Hockey puck: 100mph Jai lai ball: 204mph At least they didn’t alleged soccer…. |
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High level boxing seems like it would be right up there. Anytime a guy can throw three punches in a single second, that would qualify as having insanely fast reflexes.
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Cat like reflexes were helpful a few times while flying.
Even once in the spiffy little jet they let me fly. |
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F1 has power steering, IndyCars don't.
I'd say the reflexes of a fighter pilot are more consequential than the rest, especially those on a carrier. G-forces and spatial orientation abilities certainly exceed F1 |
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From what I saw, before my wife became a "stay at home mom", being a special needs para at a local public school is way up there. They had classroom staff getting hit constantly.
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Anyone who can get out of the way of Whoopi Goldberg when someone tosses a ham sandwich down the aisle to the make up room.
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View Quote That is a good video and illustrates the hand-eye coordination skills. Now add the entire body to it. It gets a mite tougher. Stand in front of a wall about 6 feet away. Turn and face the wall. Get into your goaltending stance. Now have somebody standing behind you throw tennis balls at the wall from differing heights/angles. Now your entire body is in play. As you progress in skill & reaction the balls get thrown faster. Want to add a new dimension? Get one of those “crazy balls” that bounce in random directions. 10 minutes of that and you are drained. |
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