SortStack #148 — 2026-11-04
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A giant tortoise 500 m/h
Giant tortoises can live over 150 years, ambling through more than a century of slow, steady days.
- A casual cyclist 12.5 km/h
The bicycle is one of the most efficient machines ever made, turning muscle into distance better than walking.
- A running roadrunner 32 km/h
Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.
- A speeding hovercraft 145 km/h
A hovercraft floats on a cushion of trapped air, gliding equally well over water, land, ice and mud.
- An F-22 Raptor at top speed 2.4K km/h
The Raptor can supercruise, flying faster than sound without afterburners, sipping less fuel as it streaks along.
- A 5.56mm rifle bullet 3.1K km/h
Small, fast rifle rounds tumble on impact, transferring energy in ways a slower, heavier bullet would not.