Between the Mane 6, rank them from busiest to least busy.

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How busy are the Mane Six? Rank them from the most to least busy under your thoughts.

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Applejack

Rarity

Fluttershy

Twilight Sparkle

Pinkie Pie

Rainbow Dash

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Twilight (Runs a Kingdom)

Applejack (Runs a farm)

Rarity (Runs a business that has lots of shops)

Fluttershy (Takes care of lots of animals)

Rainbow Dash (Is an athlete)

Pinkie (Party planner)

 

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For this, I’m going under the assumption that the ponies sleep for 5 hours a day, and their waking hours are 19 hours a day. A trip to Canterlot and back doesn’t seem to stay consistent so I’m going to assume it takes 4 hours. The mane 6 don’t go to school either, so it’s dependent on how long their job is. (This is just for fun, so no hate on the math!! Also if you want to change it to human hours subtract 4)

1.) Twilight Sparkle

She has the most going on in her life as a Princess with many responsibilities—including taking care of the well-being of everyone and the land. (This is particularly true for her to be #1 on this list from seasons 4+). Even before that, as a newcomer to Ponyville, every instance is with her learning, and not to mention the constant fighting and stress she has to endure. 

In Season 4 she becomes a princess, and after that you start to notice how they rely on her to do all the work (not that the other princesses ever do anything.) Even during the Canterlot Wedding (Season 2) between Cadence and Shining Armor, she was one the Mane Six who got less of a vacation. And she was the one taking charge in defeating Queen Chrysalis. This also just shows that even while all the Mane Six are fighting together, it’s always her job to lead.

During season 5, episode 1/2 Twilight was the one responsible for using the Friendship map to solve all the problems in Equestria while the rest followed behind. The others didn’t do much but provide support, if they weren’t there, Twilight would’ve been busy that entire day herself. Also, all her educational moments, and fights with Glimmer count for a lot. Then during the, “A Royal Problem” episode in season 7, she had to solve a family dispute while still having to hold responsibility as a leader.

Math: Twilight travels to Canterlot a million times in this series, often by herself. Each trip takes 8 hours to and from, and it’s almost like she travels 2 times a week. Every single magical fighting scene/argument probably takes around 3 hours, because the sun doesn’t seem to go down even when they start in the afternoon. Studying and research must take 2 hours a day, as she is Celestia’s most “faithful” student—she must have some long studying time. And she also social princess duties.

133 hours of Free time per week to start: if we remove travel time it goes down to 117. Which is about 16.7 hours per day of free time. You remove the daily work she does, which is about 6-7 hours you get 10 hours free time on an average.

 

2.) Applejack

Applejack works at the Sweet Apple Acres taking care of the farm and her family. “The Last Roundup” (Season 2) talks about the Appleloosan Rodeo which I’ll come back to later. I would like to mention however, that no matter how hard Applejack works, she will always work less during Winter times and such. Her busiest times are during the Fall. “Applebuck Season” (Season 1) shows enough of what is needed to be said about how hard she works. And she’s clearly one of the ones in charge of the family, as noted in “Apple Family Reunion” (Season 4).

Math: During her busiest seasons she might work 10-12 hours a day (hours of sunlight), on the farm and with family duties. There are also 6 episodes where the Appleloosa is mentioned, which means she must travel there more than once. Let’s say she goes twice a year, which would be .3 hours of travel a day. That’s 7.7 hours of free time per day during her busiest seasons and 10.7 hours of free time on an average day.

 

3.) Rarity

Rarity is busy with her business, the Carousel Boutique. In “Suited for Success” (Season 1), Rarity is constantly working on new designs to satisfy her customers all day. In “Rarity Takes Manehatten” (Season 4), she’s busy trying to make a name for herself in the big city. And there are multiple examples of her making dresses every season. There’s also an episode, that I can’t remember the name of or find, where she has a long schedule and makes some time for Sweetie Belle. There are also MANY holidays and Social events named in the show in which she makes designs for.

The Grand Galloping Gala is said to be yearly so she makes at least 6 designs in a year. She made a wedding dress for “The Ticket Master,” she made a design called “Grace and Beauty” for “Boast Busters, (Season 1). She made that one yellow dress, the Bridesmaid dress, the detective outfit, etc. 

Math: There’s like 24 social events in the whole show, that’s 2 dresses per month. And she makes at least 6 dresses during those days, and at least 1 per day—per shop. In this case she has 3. And she makes every dress at least twice!! And her magic probably makes dress-making faster, and it’s unclear how long it takes her in the show, but she definitely favors quality over quantity. If she works 6 days a week, that’s actually 21 dresses a WEEK. If it takes her 2 hours per dress that’s 21 hours a week.

I think she might travel once a week which is another 8 hours. Then another 1 hour per day she spends fashion designing, which is another 6 hours.

That leaves her with 11 hours of free time on average.

4.) Rainbow Dash

I’m surprised Rainbow Dash isn’t higher on this list. I think she probably spends the most of her time during Wonderbolts training, and controlling the weather like the rest of the pegasi. She’s also actively training/doing competitions in each of these episodes (feel free to tell me more):

“Newbie Dash” (Season 6)

“Wonderbolts Academy” (Season 3)

”The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000” (Season 2)

“The Best Night Ever” (Season 1)

“Testing, Testing, 1 2 3!” (Season 4)

“Rarity Investigates!” (Season 5)

“The Saddle Row Review” (Season 5)

”The fault in our Cutie Marks” (Season 6)

“Parental Glideance” (Season 7)

“The perfect Pair” (Season 7)

”The Washouts” (Season 8)

“The Last Crusade” (Season 9)

 “The Crystal Empire pt. 2” (Season 3)

“Daring Don’t” (Season 4)

This already says enough about her commitment to flying. And during “Hurricane Fluttershy” (Season 2) even though Fluttershy takes the lead. Rainbow Dash was heavily involved in coordinating the weather team.

Math: Rainbow Dash travels often for the Wonderbolt events and competitions which is 2ish times per season if you split it up. I’d say this is once every month, so .25 days per week. And I’ll also add an extra day each month for special Canterlot events. which is 2 days a month. 1/2 days a week spent on traveling is 129 hours of free time. Then she probably spends a total of 5 hours on training and weather control, I’m deciding this on the time she would start to when it becomes night time.  This leaves 13.5 hours of free time per day

N/A Pinkie Pie

Pinkie Pie’s responsibilities are way more light hearted than everyone else’s. PARTY PLANNING!! So that’s one party for every resident of Ponyville. But she also throws random parties like in the episode, “The Party of One,” (Season 1). She threw a welcoming party for a pony once, and an after-party, etc.

Math: In the show she threw a party for Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Herself. There are 200+ named characters and possibly 300-5,000 ponies. She would probably need 3 parties a day. And each party takes her several hours to a full day. She also helps at the Sugarcube Corner, and babysits, which could look like 1 hour in total. With all this being said, her party planning is also part of socializing. So, even though she would have about 0-1 hour of free time, it’s more like 18 hours.

She travels to Canterlot 3-4 times in total, Appleloosa once, Manehatten once, and Crystal Empire once. That’s like 0.01 times traveled per day, and 0.15 hours. So she has pretty much all day free. 

N/A Fluttershy

(I’m exhausted now and I’ve lost momentum.) Fluttershy does take care of animals. And the animal who sleeps the shortest amount of time of which she takes care of, is the bird, which sleeps for 8 hours, so at most she works 16 hours, however they only need 1 hour of maintenance. The animal who needs the most amount of maintenance is the ferret, which takes 3 hours from her day. They also sleep 18 hours a day. So like Pinkie Pie, so has all day of free time, unless she would rather socialize.

If however, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy switched jobs, Pinkie Pie would have 3 hours of free time, and Fluttershy would have none.

Summary:

1.) Twilight

2.) Applejack

3.) Rarity

4.) Rainbow Dash

5.) Pinkie Pie

6.) Fluttershy

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Cryst4lMoonDust