Walking is defined as "an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step". Now, the average pedestrian walks at 3.1 mph (or 5 km for you Euro deep-v wearers out there). "In walking the body "vaults" over the leg on the ground, raising the center of mass to its highest point as the leg passes the vertical, and dropping it to the lowest as the legs are spread apart. Essentially kinetic energy of forward motion is constantly being traded for a rise in potential energy."
Now let's examine how hard Dewey Cox walked, approximately. Obviously, he has walked harder than any human has ever before. Trust me, you're gonna want some of this shit.
Walking hard can be directly correlated to walking faster, as the higher the rate (or frequency) at which someone walks in a line, the higher the speed. Since Dewey is pretty much twice the man that anyone else is (because he had to be twice the man he was after he cut his brother in half), we can calculate the he walks approximately twice as fast as the average human.
Thus, 2 x 3.1 miles = 6.2 miles/hour. Therefore, Dewey walks at an average rate of 6.2 mph.
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