This is like playing a super-speeded-up recording of Gone With The Wind, watching it in nine minutes and then telling everyone the movie isn't really four hours long!
That's a good analogy. Faith is well-known for denying geological time and her calculations can be ignored.
The most rapid plate speeds are on the order of 10cm/year (relative motions) while the slowest are about a magnitude less. These speeds are directly measured and are also calculated from rock ages versus distance from their origin.
The geological evidence shows that the average rates of 'drift' have not changed much outside of the modern ranges over the last half-billion years. There have been times when the rates increased by (IIRC) 2x, such as during the Cretaceous Period. The evidence for this is greater volcanic production and transgression of the Cretaceous seas. I believe that this type of acceleration has occurred about 6 times since the beginning of the Cambrian Period about 540 million years ago.
Prior to that, it's hard to say as the evidence becomes sketchier. However, based on reasoning, higher heat-flows and thinner crust might have resulted in more rapid plate motion.
The kind of velocities that Faith declares is ridiculous in that it would produce such volumes of volcanic rock in such a short time that the planet would have been sterilized by the heat and the toxic gasses. The thought that this would have happened only 4000 years ago is laughable. And yet, Faith simply ignores this in a monumental exercise in denial.
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