IShowSpeed's 100m time
IShowSpeed (Darren Watkins Jr.) has no officially timed 100m. His best-documented sprint is a 50m race against Olympic champion Noah Lyles in Orlando in November 2024: Lyles won, and no times were published. Figures quoted online come from streams and videos, with no sanctioned race or electronic timing behind them.
- 100mNo sanctioned, electronically timed 100m on recordUnofficial
- None verified
- 50m vs. LylesOrlando, Nov 2024; no official times publishedUnofficial
- Lost
Compare your own speed
We have no verified IShowSpeed time to start from, so the converter opens on a sample 11.50 100m. Put in your own time.
These numbers are estimates from a sprint velocity curve fitted to Usain Bolt's official Berlin 2009 splits. A 40 is timed from first movement and often by hand, so football 40s convert to optimistic 100m times. How the estimate works
- Usain Bolt 9.58 s (world record)Bolt wins by 19.0 m
- Noah Lyles 9.79 s (PB)Lyles wins by 16.9 m
- Gout Gout 10.00 s (PB)Gout wins by 14.8 m
- Tyreek Hill 10.19 s (HS 2012)Hill wins by 13.0 m
The Noah Lyles race
In November 2024 Speed drove to a track in Orlando to race Noah Lyles over 50m for a $100,000 prize. Lyles crossed first. Speed argued it was a tie after reviewing phone footage, and Lyles suggested settling it with a 100m rematch. ESPN's report includes no times.
Speed later said he plans to run the 100m at the 2028 Olympics. To get there he would need a legal time in a sanctioned race, which would also be the first verifiable 100m time we could list here.
Why stream times don't count
Official sprint times need a gun start, electronic (fully automatic) timing and, for records, a legal wind reading. Hand timing and video timing can be off by tenths of a second, which at 100m is the difference between a good high-school runner and a fast one. That is why the converter on this page doesn't compare you with IShowSpeed.
FAQ
More speed comparisons
- Usain BoltTop speed in mph and km/h, plus his 40-yard split
- Tyreek HillPro Day 40, track PRs and game speed
- Noah Lyles100m and 200m bests and a 40 estimate
- Gout GoutLegal vs. wind-assisted 100m, and the 19.67 200m
- Bo JacksonWhere the 4.12 came from, and what was timed
- Fastest 40-yard dashEvery Combine 40 of 4.27 or faster
- How fast can a human run?Record top speeds and what limits them
The Sprint University app
Train for an official time of your own
The Sprint University app builds a sprint plan around your current speed, so you go into your next meet with a time you trained for. Lawrence L.O. Johnson, a 6× NCAA All-American and Team USA sprinter, is behind the program.
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Sources
- ESPN: Noah Lyles vs. IShowSpeed 50m race (7 Nov 2024)
- Complex: “IShowSpeed says he'll run the 100 meters at the 2028 Olympics” (18 Nov 2024)
- Helene & Yamashita, “The force, power and energy of the 100 meter sprint,” Am. J. Phys. 78, 307 (2010): Berlin 2009 10 m splits and 0.146 s reaction (IAAF data)
- Samozino et al., “A simple method for measuring power, force, velocity properties, and mechanical effectiveness in sprint running,” Scand. J. Med. Sci. Sports 26:648–658 (2016)
- Wikipedia: 40-yard dash (36.576 m; Combine hand-start/electronic-stop timing since 1999)