SortStack #372 — 2027-06-16
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- An electric scooter 25 km/h
Shared e-scooters exploded across cities in just a few years, becoming a common sight on sidewalks worldwide.
- A running roadrunner 32 km/h
Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.
- A fast cricket delivery 161 km/h
The fastest bowlers can make the ball rise off the pitch toward a batter's head in a fraction of a second.
- An arrow loosed from a bow 230 km/h
A modern compound bow uses pulleys to store huge energy, launching an arrow with deadly accuracy.
- A .220 Swift rifle bullet 4.4K km/h
Among the fastest commercial rifle rounds, it leaves the barrel so quickly the bullet can melt slightly in flight.
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe 692K km/h
The fastest human-made object ever, it slingshots around the Sun, dipping into the star's blazing outer atmosphere.