SortStack #1338 — 2030-02-06
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A sea turtle cruising 3 km/h
Sea turtles can hold their breath for hours while resting, slowing their heart to a beat every few minutes.
- A person walking 5 km/h
The average person takes around 7,000 steps a day, walking the equivalent of several times around Earth in a lifetime.
- A migrating monarch butterfly 8 km/h
Monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres to the same forests their great-grandparents left, guided by instinct alone.
- 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.
- 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 meteor entering the atmosphere 50K km/h
Most shooting stars are no bigger than a grain of sand, burning up bright from sheer speed alone.