Human Punch Force Calculator

Using our human punch force calculator, you can find out how many newtons of force is in your punch and learn how many pounds of punch force a human can deliver on average.

Here, we will tell you about your potential impact force and the pressure of your punch, all based on your weight, punching speed, time of delivery, and the surface area of your punch.

Please continue reading to learn about:

• How much punching force a human has;
• What is the average punching force; and
• How amateur punches compare to those of athletes.

In this calculator, we've often referred to force and pressure. If you want to improve your grip on these matters, check out our force conversion and pressure conversion tools.

The force of a human punch varies drastically based on the following significant factors:

• Mass of the punching and receiving body;
• Velocity at which the punch hits the target;
• Angle & surface area of the punch and the target;
• Time it takes for the punch to reach its max kinetic energy; and
• Cushion effect on both ends due to foam, padding, gloves, or wrapping.

General observation shows that an untrained person can deliver above 750 newtons of punch force with 150 psi of pressure in ideal conditions. In contrast, an elite boxer or mixed martial artist can go as high as 5000 newtons and 800 psi. So watch out! 👊

The human punch force calculator is an effective tool to help you understand your punch pressure and potential impact force, i.e., the maximum force attainable under the given conditions.

To use our tool, enter your body weight, e.g., 75 kg in the first portion of our human punch force calculator.

The system will then calculate your potential impact force and punch pressure using different default values.

Let's look at the parameters within our tool's Punch details segment to learn more about them and how we can utilize them. Before we proceed, click on the punch details heading first to display the following fields of our tool:

• Punch speed — where we enter the velocity of our punch, e.g., 3.8 m/s (default).

• Delivery time for the punch to gain maximum kinetic energy before hitting the target, e.g., 0.3 seconds (default). Upon entering punch speed and delivery time, our tool calculates the acceleration of the punch.

• Surface area — required to calculate the pressure of the punch, e.g., 4 inches² (default).

After providing (or modifying — if you're not the average kind of person) the different parameters mentioned above, we obtain the following results using our human punch force calculator:

• Impact force — punch force that we wish to calculate.

  Based on the previously given values, an average person with a mass of 75 kg can have a potential impact force of 950 newtons or 214 pounds-force.

• Punch pressure — gives the pressure of the human punch force based on the given surface area. For the sampled values, we get 53 psi.

Thus, the impact force result shows us how many newtons of force are in a punch, and the punch pressure expresses how much psi a punch exerts.

We use the following formulas to calculate how much force a human punch exerts:

For calculating the impact force, we use:

• $F = m \times a$

To learn more about this equation, visit the Newton's second law calculator!

Here, we know that:

• $a = v / t$

And for calculating the punch pressure:

• $P = F / A$

where:

• $F$ — Impact force of the punch, measured in newtons (N);
• $m$ — Mass or weight of the punching body, in kilograms (kg);
• $a$ — Acceleration of the punch, in meters per second squared (m/s²);
• $v$ — Velocity of the punch, measured in meters per second (m/s);
• $t$ — Time it takes for the punch to hit the target in seconds (s);
• $P$ — Pressure exerted by the punch, in pascals (Pa); and
• $A$ — Average surface area of the punch in square meters (m²).

Let's use these formulas in an example and find out how many pounds of punch force can a human of 100-kilogram mass deliver without training:

1. First, let's find the acceleration of the punch. We need to divide the velocity, a.k.a, the speed of the punch, by the time it takes to deliver the punch.

   Since our person is untrained, let's take an average punch speed of 3.8 m/s and a delivery time of 0.4 seconds.

   Placing the values in the acceleration formula, we get:

   $a = 3.8 / 0.4 = 9.5$

   Thus, the acceleration of our punch is 9.5 m/s².

2. Multiplying our given mass with this acceleration, we get the impact force of our punch:

   $F = 100 \times 9.5 = 950$

   And so, the potential impact force of the punch is 950 newtons.

3. To convert newtons (N) into pounds-force (lbf), we multiply our result by a constant number of 0.22481:

   $950 \times 0.22481 = 213.5695$

   Thus, an untrained human weighing 100 kilograms can deliver around 213.6 pounds of force.