Any comic fan worth their salt will tell you that The Flash is The Fastest Man Alive — but just how fast is that precisely? And how fast was Barry Allen when he first got his start as a superhero in the reality of the Arrowverse?
In the comics, the simple answer is that The Flash is as fast as the story requires him to be, with one story depicting him as being so fast that he could run between two points and beat someone with the power to teleport instantaneously. While Superman is more famous in popular culture for being "faster than a speeding bullet" (955-2046 mph or 1536-3292 km/h on average, depending on the weight of the bullet) The Flash has always officially been faster than Superman. A more practical metric for measuring his base speed is the fact that he doesn't break every single window in Central City with sonic booms every time he goes into action. This means Barry Allen probably cruises at somewhere just under the speed of sound (767 mph or 1235 km/h) while on patrol, but this still reveals little about his practical limits.
The pilot episode of The Flash was surprisingly detailed in laying out Barry Allen's limits as he and the team at STAR Labs tested his super-speed powers. In his first trial run down an abandoned airport runway, Barry was clocked at running just over 200 mph (321 km/h) with a radar gun before he crashed into a collection of water barrels used to stop wayward aircraft. The impact broke Barry's wrist, but he was completely healed in three hours. It normally takes 2-4 months for a basic distal radius fracture to heal and for the patient to regain full use of their hand.
By the end of the pilot, Barry was facing his first supervillain; a bank robber named Clyde Mardon, who had gained the power to control the weather in the same incident that gave Barry his super speed. When he was confronted by the police, Mardon created a giant category F5 tornado that threatened to destroy Central City. In order to unmake the tornado, Barry had to move faster than the winds Mardon was generating while running in the opposite direction. According to the team at STAR Labs, Barry was running at 700 mph (1127 km/h) when he accomplished this task. This is more than twice as fast as the highest recorded wind gusts used to designate a category F5 tornado (318 mph or 512 km/h) on the Fujita scale.
Barry topped this several episodes later in "The Flash Is Born," when he faced a villain dubbed Girder, who was able to transform his skin into organic steel. In order to hit Girder so he would feel it, Barry had to throw a punch at Mach 1.1 (837 mph or 1347 km/h). Building up that level of velocity required Barry run for 5.3 miles (8.5 km) in a straight line. STAR Labs engineer Cisco Ramon later dubbed this feat the Supersonic Punch, though it would be more properly called the Transonic Punch, as a body must move at least Mach 1.3 (915 mph or 1,470 km/h) to be considered supersonic. Whatever you call this metal-breaking punch, it was still an impressive feat that confirmed Barry Allen could give himself strength to match his speed and secured his status as The Flash.
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