SOLVED. Childrens/YA Fantasy. Boy finds out he can move so fast time slows for him 'Fast, Faster, Fastest'. [s]

[SceneNothing]

What I remember: Unsure if fantasy world or our world with fantasy elements, want to say the first.

Boy lives in community (want to say a village? may not be. There is a forest nearby) and one day accidentally (maybe?) runs so fast his perception of time stops and he can walk around normally for him but barely any time is passing.

I have a vivid memory of a description of this happening for the first time and him walking around the street and going around people, someone is watering something (either with a hose or a watering can) and he can see the droplets and notices they are falling really really slowly which is how he learns time hasn't stopped, just slowed.

There is also the phrase 'Fast, faster, fastest' which he thinks to get to the super speed ness.

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There's also a girl who can do the same thing and they have to travel far away to save the day in some way (get help, find something, who knows). However they come to the problem that because for them when going 'fastest' time seems to pass normal even though in reality it would take barely any time they would still need supplies for a weeks long journey. So instead they go 'fast, faster' and stop there and so are just running really fast, through the forest


Read before 2007, could be as far back as late '90s. Unsure if contempory, read a lot of old fantasy. Think this was in my school library, in the UK.

[Ayshe]

Whizzard! maybe?

[SceneNothing]

I think it might be. Thank you!

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, SceneNothing. Here are quotes from Whizzard! by Steve Barlow - Ayshe's find - using Google Book's snippet search:

https://books.google.com/books?id=MZF...

"...with other wizards and giving Tym a hard time to show how masterful he was . Blow that for a lark , thought Tym . Time for some fun . He closed his eyes in concentration . He willed his heart rate to speed up . Fast . . . faster . . . fastest ."

"Fast . . . faster . . . fastest . . . Moving at Whizzard speed again , Tym and Colyn slipped out of the storeroom and along the corridor . Tym checked the rough map the King of Thieves had given him . They were in this corridor here , so the Lady ..."

"We have a long way to go - and I ' ll feel a lot better when we put some distance between your itchy fingers and the temptation of that hoard ! ” Fast . . . faster . . . fastest . . . It was evening as the Whizzard and his companion reached 226."