Quote Originally Posted by Abdula
You misunderstand the point Assertn. There is no 128 palms. Neji was able to double his speed because he received some proper training from Hinata's father, rather than training by himself. The point of the training wasn't to use some fictitious technique it was simply so that he would be able to use 64 palms faster. What Neji was doing with the falling spiders was using 64 palms, he was just using it twice as fast as normal and doing it over and over, because there were more than 128 spiders. The idiot people who did the anime decided that instead of using that simple explanation they would create a new technique, 128 palms.

Not only is that stupid because for example if it took him 30 seconds to do 64 normally, with his increased speed he would be able to do it in 15 however what they decided to do was make him do 128 points which even with his increased speed would have taken him the original 30 because he was doing twice as many attacks, so it defeats the purpose. Not to mention that there are only 64 points on the body. Frankly I was kinda surprised we didn't see TS Neji bust out 1024 when he was fighting his doppelganger
And I'm afraid you misconstrued the point of my contribution, Abdula.

I'm not arguing whether or not there are 128 palms. I'm not arguing that 128 palms is a useless technique against any human opponent, since 64 sufficiently locks them down.

I'm just stating that the situation was different than any other battle in which Neji would use the palms technique, and therefore you can take this conversation with a grain of salt.

Also for the record, the number of the palms is not the number of total strikes, but rather the number of the highest chain of strikes. The strikes go as follows:
1) 1 strike
2) 2 strikes
3) 4 strikes
4) 8 strikes
5) 16 strikes
6) 32 strikes
7) 64 strikes

And in total, that comes out to 127 strikes.
Therefore, you could say that a 128 palm version would be able to take out 255 spiders.