how long does it take to become a jedi?

From my experience, take a guess 😂 I have a wife, who constantly talks, at least I DON'T think she knows what she talks about. Maybe cause its because she only breathes every between paragraphs.

Dark Lady Mara, you say that Luke just kind of got a crash course. Yoda taught him the basics, then sent him on his way. "Good boy, now go kill the Emperor." Luke was really only intended for that one task.

So why did it have to be luke to kill vader and palpatine? yoda sat in that swamp for like 20 years; ben sat in that desert for like 20 years. ben was a jedi general and the "greatest of the Jedi knights," and yoda was one of the most powerful masters ever. why wait 20 years for a snot-nosed whining kid to come along so you can teach him for 5 days and then sick him on the evil sith lords who have controled the galaxy for decades? why not go kill them earlier? yoda and ben together could have done it (hey, luke did it! my grandma could have done it!). why?

I think what made Luke able to defeat Vader whereas Yoda and OB1 wouldn't have been able to was the fact that Vader loved his son.

Good call. Luke wasn't percieved as the same threat because of his youth. Plus he would have failed but it took a fathers love to save the galaxy. Vader and Palpy would have taken Yoda/Ben more seriously and would probably still defeated them as they did the other Jedi in the purge. It's very possible that Yoda/Ben forsaw that their future was to wait for Luke/train him, and that they would fail in direct conflict with Vader and the Emperor.

Darn you Xizor. With my work and all I miss making good comments because you sum it up like Socrates. 🙁

That was nicely put.🙂

Have you ever wondered if a Jedi can train him/herself without a master?
Perhaps, while not with Ben or Yoda Luke practised a lot by himself and looked into the history of the Jedi, so that he could learn all the things that he did.

it takes like a year

Luke could already feel the force but did not have FULL control of it. He did have some control with him pulling his saber out of the snow and force guiding proton torpedos into the exhaust port of the Death Star. All Yoda had to do was teach Luke how to control the force and fight off the temptations of the dark side. His training on Dagobah more like a couple of weeks than 3 or 4 days and besides all they that they didnt send Luke off to kill the emperor...he left to go save his friends. Hell, they begged and pleaded for him to stay and complete his training. Then you must look a the fact that Vader could have killed Luke if he had wanted to but his intentions were not to kill but to turn him because he knew he was his son.

Originally posted by darth stu
from episode I and some of the new fiction out there (pre episode I) we know that force-sensitive children are found soon after birth and trained until around 13 or so when they are apprenticed as a padawan. their subsequent training can last until around early 20s or so when they become a full jedi knight (we don't know as much about becoming a jedi master or a member of the council). so around 20 years to become a jedi.

here is my question. how long did it take for Luke to become a jedi knight? well, ben taught him for a few days at most in ANH. then yoda taught him in ESB. but how long did that last? from the film (ESB) it looks like it took around 2-5 days if even that long. this is because they keep shifting from luke on dagobah to the falcon in the astroids and at bespin. now, the falcon didn't take more than 2-5 days to go from hoth, through the asteroids, and to bespin (first of all, no one on the falcon even changed their clothes during the whole trip).

so from this, it looks like luke became a jedi knight in around 1 week total hands-on training time (over a period of, say 3-4 years at most given the time between ANH and ESB).

does it bother anyone that the last hope of the universe to defeat the sith duo vader and palpatine became a jedi in around 7 days? remarkable. comments please

cheers

It seens luke got the jedi skills so training him for a couple of days was needed.and no training for years was not or because of the movie being long as it is.
I do not think they would brother us with how long his training his.JM 😆

Jorus C'baoth was trained in four years.

It Takes the ****ing Piss really, Its Like one of those SW mock ups, Luke trainned for like 5 Days and he Took down and beat a Sith Lord Just like that, It makes Episode 1,2 and 3 look ****ing stupid.

It takes nine week to become a Jedi at Lawrence Tech. I can get my Jedi Master's degree in four years.

There is no exact estimate... I guess intil you finish the trials...

Wrong way to become a Jedi...

And the right way...

darth janus you have alot of pics on bush dont you

Originally posted by Xizor
about your jedi master question, a jedi becomes a jedi master once he successfully trains his patawan learner into becoming a jedi. Once a jedi's student is a jedi a jedi can become master.

So since in that clone wars cartoon, yoda cut off anakin's tail of hair and he became a jedi knight, that means obi-wan is a master!

ok... think about your own life. Think of all the things that have happened in it... Now think of all the things you know.

Your ability to drive a car, read a book, buy a house, raise a child, learn a new task.

All of the things you know are an accumulation of everything you have learned during your life. You could not drive a car unless you had first learned to walk, read, etc....

You could not buy a house or rent an apartment unless you had first learned how to count, work a job, earn money, talk to people, etc...

So as for Luke's training to become a Jedi... it took his entire lifetime up until the point he became a Jedi. All the hard work on Tatooine, the discipline of a moisture farmer, the loneliness of being an orphan and having to be somewhat independant at an early age, the pain of lossing his father (remember he did not learn the truth until confirmed by Yoda in ROTJ, his flying skills he had already learned when we first met him in Ep 4... all of this was part of his training.

He already had a strong connection in the Force due to his father's abilities AND his Mother's loving nature. Ben and Yoda just took the rough diamond and polished it!

Also remember that what to us appears as days, actually takes place over a much longer period of time.... the time between EP 4 and EP 5 was not just a day but 3 years (see the schedule of time provided in the novels following the movies such as The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II). Return of the Jedi (where he actually became a Jedi) was 4 years after A New Hope...

So if you want to lock him down to the minimum it is 4 years.. but I say it is his entire life.

Three movies, or a very good montage.