SortStack #1268 — 2029-11-28
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A garden snail 50 m/h
A snail can sleep for up to three years during droughts, sealing itself inside its shell until rain returns.
- A housefly in flight 6.8 km/h
A housefly tastes with its feet, so it can decide whether something is food the moment it lands on it.
- A running gray wolf 57 km/h
Wolves can travel over 30 kilometres in a single day while hunting across their vast territories.
- A racing bobsled 150 km/h
Bobsled crews sprint to shove the sled at the start, then leap in, as those first seconds decide the race.
- A racing snowmobile 190 km/h
Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.
- A Formula 1 car at top speed 372 km/h
An F1 car generates so much downforce it could, in theory, drive upside down on a ceiling at speed.