You do realise that Rock lee was in base when he did that right? He was at standard Jounin speeds. Every single jounin in the room could see him properly with the unaided eye. Rock lee wasn't even in first gate at that point.
The problem is, to genins, speeds like that are blinding because they're not used to it. It's the same way kakashi looks so quick to team 7 when they were training, but he's not that fast to the other average jounin. In fact, even
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, had
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to team 7.
The point is, Lee wasn't even that fast at that point. His base, unweighted speed, is literally listed as a 4 in the DB. That's just .5 above tsunade. Speed doesn't cause penetration. Penetration causes penetration.
Kimi also
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through the sand.
This is a low diff fight.
*PS: My arguments are based on her finger because that's all that's necessary. Thinking P1 gaara's sand could tank a punch anywhere near
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magnitude, or a kick like
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is borderline ridiculous.