SortStack #841 — 2028-09-27
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A duck paddling on water 1.6 km/h
Ducks have no nerves or blood vessels in their feet, so they can paddle in icy water without feeling the cold.
- 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 racing snowmobile 190 km/h
Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.
- A record tennis serve 270 km/h
The fastest serves leave the racket so quickly the returner must react before the ball has even crossed the net.
- A tank's sabot round 5.8K km/h
A sabot round sheds a casing in flight, leaving a slim dart of dense metal that punches through armour.
- A missile warhead on re-entry 24K km/h
An intercontinental missile arcs into space before plunging back down, its warhead glowing from the friction.