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Lindybeige's armour experiment makes a case for keeping the squire

Alex the History Guy stays behind the camera, under strict instructions not to help with the fifteenth-century harness.

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How quickly can a 15th century knight don his armour ALONE?

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0:43The clock starts with the arming doublet, before the metal armour goes on.
11:35Fastening the mail collar becomes a lengthy obstacle, followed by elephant jokes.
23:37A wooden block supports the arm armour while Lindybeige tries to thread its awkward laces.
39:37The shoulder guards demand difficult reaching and some assistance from his teeth.
48:58The visor comes down and Alex delivers the final time.

The elbow armour requires a wooden block. The shoulder straps require some awkward reaching and help from his teeth. Somewhere in the middle, Lindybeige fills a lengthy collar-fastening delay with elephant jokes.

There were no new uploads this week, but "How quickly can a 15th century knight don his armour ALONE?" remains the strongest daily draw among his active videos. It turns getting dressed into a practical history experiment, with Alex the History Guy operating the camera and steadfastly withholding assistance.

The trouble is not simply the weight of the metal. It is threading points through holes he can barely reach, fastening buckles by feel and discovering that the laces have gone through the wrong holes. Lindybeige props his arm components on a block and defends the technique: "I don't think this is cheating, using a surface like this, okay, because in the medieval period, they had surfaces." By the time the visor comes down, nearly an hour has passed.

The wider channel had a subdued week, adding roughly 93,000 views while its subscriber total fell. Daily viewing is currently a little over half its usual level. The armour experiment supplies considerably more daily momentum than either the Connor Leahy interview about AI risks or the Jill Bearup conversation about becoming a recognisable online personality.

Those interviews show the channel's eclectic side, but the armour video returns to a particularly Lindybeige question: not just what historical equipment looked like, but how inconvenient it could be to use. His conclusion is practical: "Get help when donning armour, or just don't wear this sort of armour."

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The facts

Channel: Lindybeige
Subscribers: 1,240,000 ▼ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 93,435
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Lindybeige's week and active archive compare.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

3,373,191

2,204,025

1,739,555

1,504,183

288,403

235,289

113,202

93,435

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55,000

subscribers

1,240,000

▼ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

320,090,296

views per day

12,032

typical day: 21,755

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

1,430,000

1,340,000

1,250,000

1,240,000

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1,190,000

1,130,000

1,120,000

1,090,000

1,040,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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