#skyrim math

[loremaster-lavellan]

Skyrim travel time calculations

In response to a question about how I figured out the travel times/distances for Skyrim, I've detailed my process here because it's much too long to explain in post comments.

It's basic algebra, a lot of division and solving for X, and I hope I've explained it coherently. It's more of a process than you might expect, but it's not difficult. There's a picture of the equations at the end, too.

I'm also no mathematician, so there are some discrepancies and personal choices included in this equation.

One last note, these calculations tell you about how long it would take if you traveled from A to B with no stops, no holdups, and perfect weather.

The Math

The first thing I did was dig up the Dragonborn's in-game travel speeds and convert them to MPH. They are:

Walking: 3.8 ft/sec, or 2.59 mph Running (default speed): 17.3 ft/sec, or 11.78 mph Sprinting: 23.4 ft/sec, or 15.95 mph

Step 2 was to travel from a chosen Point A to a chosen Point B. For this example, we'll be traveling from Whiterun to Solitude. I used the default running speed while traveling (because who has time to walk everywhere), but because I assume most people aren't jogging or sprinting for long journeys, we'll convert things to walking speeds later.

In this example, it took 5 hours and 17 minutes of in-game time to travel from Whiterun to Solitude. I measured this by marking what time I left Whiterun and what time I arrived in Solitude.

Note: Some journeys had multiple feasible paths. If the times were very different, I included both. If they were very close, I included the one that made the most sense (most towns en route, doesn't cut through Labyrinthian, etc.)

Step 2, here comes all the math.

Quick aside, this handy calculator can do most of this process if you don't want to do it manually.

Because this time isn't an even amount of hours, we have to convert the spare minutes into a percentage of 60 minutes. Divide the spare minutes (17) by 60, and we get .28. I rounded to a single decimal point, so we get .2.

This brings our converted time to 5.2 hours.

This step is unnecessary if you don't have spare minutes, say, if the time was 5 hours instead of 5 hours and 17 minutes.

Next, take this number and multiply it by 11.78mph (the running speed) to convert time to distance. We are using 11.78 because we decided to run everywhere. If you chose to walk instead of run, you'd use the walking speed of 2.59mph instead of the running speed, but they are not interchangeable.

5.2 x 11.78 = 61.2 miles (rounding to one decimal place again).

Step 3, convert this distance to time.

Because we want to know the walking time, we divide the distance by 2.59mph (the default walking speed).

61.2 / 2.59 = 23.62 hours.

Because we have a decimal and not a round number, we need to convert that .62 back into spare minutes. We do this by multiplying .62 by 60.

.62 x 60 = 37 minutes.

Making our total travel time (at walking speed) 23 hours and 37 minutes. Personally, I rounded all my numbers to the nearest 15 minute mark, making the new time 23 hours and 30 minutes.

Step 4, convert distance into other desired methods of travel.

For immersion purposes, I also calculated the travel times for horse and carriages and walking and trotting speeds - those are methods canonically available in Skyrim and that make sense for this kind of fantasy setting. To do this, repeat Step 3, replacing the walk speed with the speed of your desired method of travel.

A quick Google search told me that walking horses/carriages travel about 5mph, and trotting horses/carriages travel 8-12mph (I used 8).

Walking: 61.2 / 5 = 12.24 .24 x 60 = 14 minutes total time is 12 hours and 15 minutes (rounded)

Trotting: 61.2 / 8 = 7.65 .65 x 60 = 39 minutes total time is 7 hours and 45 minutes (rounded)

I hope this guide helps!

[boiledkwamaegg]

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[jeellyjams]

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[skyrim-addict]

Master Neloth pls unblock me im sorry i thought if anyone understood the dark happenings for knowledge it would be you im sorry about your missing ear tip pls unblock me master Nelorth )))): pls dont chain lightning me also </333

[zuutiomi]

It took me a while but here is also reference sheet for my last dragonborn Mikayla hehehe

plus here is some info about her :3

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Swan and Swan, continued are both up, here and on ao3.

We're almost to 100k, guys, but most importantly WE'RE FINALLY PASSED THE GRAND CRYSTAL BALL THANK AKATOSH

(actual footage of me and my beta as we wave Solitude goodbye)

[redmountain]

what if yahaz and creeper the scamp were besties? i gave him the ghorak name bc i thought that would be a fun connection. but i never put thought into what his relationships w the ghorak manor folks was like.

theres only one other ghorak by name in there--urul--who i guess would be yahaz's brother. i dont think they got along lol, i think yahaz was dragged around for the family operation, urul was the business-minded hard edged one. but yahaz loves mundane domestic ancient relics like teacups and pots and candlesticks and shit so scamp knew to separate out that stuff for him to take a look at before it got offered up on the ghorak black market lol.

i think he was also good friends with duma gro-lag the sculptor at the manor! maybe even lovers. they drank wine and talked about art and music probably

[moltengoldveins]

shoutout to my dm for letting me and my 385,737k memorized word document of random unnecessary information about textiles and their relationships with culture and the economy into the DnD session. He hasn’t regretted it yet but I also haven’t been trying very hard.

[maxs-hot-takes]

I've been obsessing over Neloth this past week and saw the meme and was immediately compelled to make my own. It's been a while since I edited a meme but I think I did fairly ok. Definitely not perfect though. I got really really tired by the time I got to the background and shit so that's why it looks so fucked.

[tadbitsketch]

i wanna draw silly little guys doing silly little things but i have to do homework bc i am nothing if not a princess of procrastination

[wayfarerxiii]

me and my 500 year old sire are just trying to offload some loot, durak

[still-lost-in-chaos]

Someone inject me with knowledge pls cos I'm thick as fuck xoxo

[jeellyjams]

okay tesblr i need some modding help. i have two questions

1. how do i learn about mod load order

2. does anyone use fnis and have some advice. i just wanted a khajiit caracal preset and im scared

[poparthuriana]

I know this is a different Taliesin, but à propos of his game with Nimue, I think it's fun that there's already a meme about someone named Taliesin losing at chess.

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[nerevar-quote-and-star]

*emerges from the crypt*

Hey guys. Long time no post 🥀 I started a class on quantitative reasoning back at the end of June and it has had my soul strung on a wire since. When I tell you I've been exhAUSTED TO THE POINT OF DESPAIR — I have. But I feel kinda better now. I still have one week to go, so wish me luck, but hopefully after that I'll be active again.

I'm sorry I've neglected y'all and the blog, but passing math has been my top most priority and sometimes we have to prioritize things we don't particularly like.

How's everyone been? Knowing my luck I've probably missed something hilariously scandalous on TESblr. 🤣

[laika-the-bitch]

saw a post saying that it was announced that starfield wasn`t going to have a minimap or quest markers and that you`d have to navigate cities by environmental signage and i can`t help but think that at some point, someone at bethesda saw breath of the wild getting popular by being, more or less, a more high-polish, zelda-themed version of morrowind and thought they should maybe bring back a few of the features from that game they`d been sandblasting off for the past twenty years