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Telekinesis. Lift weights, use their descent to drive generators. Profit and clean energy.
It said 2270 kg. 1kg dropped 1 m = 9.8 joules. 2270 kg dropped 100 meters ( reasonable large tower ) = 2.2 M joules . 2.2 MJ * 8 hours of lifting and dropping every 30 seconds = 73 KWatts. Which is about the power used by 1 Tesla.
If there are no monkey's paw-like downsides to any of these, then super speed by a mile.
Let not forget that any of those choices would make you instantly and legaly rich, except maybe for super speed since that is a purely physical trait.
The speed restriction on flight is way to harsh for it to be useful. You basically have the ability to fly but are still going to be late for work.
Superspeed is neat, but there are too many unknown factors to this power. Are you immune to damage while running or will hitting a single fly at almost Mach 1 kill you? What about agility, do you have inertia or can you turn or stop on a dime? Do you move normaly while everything else is in slow motion, or do you have to react to things coming at you at Mach 1 in real time? Do you have to consume an insane amount of calories to speed up or is it just magic? Can you still breath normally or will the air rushing past you nostrils make your lungs collapse? This power justbseems to be and accident waiting to happen.
Invisibility is solid. As side from the obvious pervy things you can do, you could be an insanely good journalist. Exposing corporate or goverment fraud by basically being a fly on the wall in closed door meetings. But since no light is hitting your retinas when you are invisible, you would be essentially blind during invisibility. This curbs this power a lot.
Telekinesis is the obvious choice. 2 tons is a lot of weight to lift. And there are no restrictions on how many or how small the things you can manipulate can be. You could be the worlds best mechanic. Taking apart an engine by turning all the screws simultaneously, exploding it into all components, replacing the broken one and putting it all together withing seconds. And this is only one of the many things you could do, to make use of your power. Basically any physical labor or craftsmanship you could do better, safer, faster and cheaper than anyone else. Not even counting the self serving advantages.
As a bonus you could potentially fly with Telekinesis as well, by just standing on a platform and moving it up with your mind.
Invisibility, basically live life like that guys from jumper just without the teleporting. Walk into banks fill up with money, steal art and stuff from rich people, become the world's greatest thief, fly free as you can just walk aboard any plane.
How does the telekinesis weight limit work with attached objects? E.g., can I exert unlimited force to detach 5000 pounds of rock from a mountain, or do I lose lifting ability in relation to pulling force? If it's the former, telekinesis hands down.
If not, probably speed. I could clean up at the Olympics one year and secure lucrative endorsement deals for life.
The latter. The more you lift, the more you struggle to lift. That's a great question though
Speed. Im true fan of flash. Btw what do you mean, you cant run on water? If you can reach speed of sound you can defenitely run on water
Kinda what I thought, like ok we're suspending our disbelief for superpowers AND breaking the laws of physics?
Instead of invisibility, can I just have the ability to turn off sound and sight so that I don’t have to hear or see the “it’s show time!” Folks. Fuck those guys.
As usual with "would you rather"s, so many people just boil it all down to how they can make the most money, and most not even in creative ways. Y'all need bigger imaginations.
Telekinesis hands down
Firstly, I take issue with your running on water limitation. I realize this is a for-fun conversation and everything but even Sonic the Hedgehog knows that water surfaces are nearly solid when there are adequate forces working on them. Geez. Anyway, I would use all four powers to invisibly float above a major city and telepathically-super-speed-manipulate a masturbatory aid onto myself and rain ejaculate on pedestrians. It would also cut down my commute considerably.
