SortStack #1569 — 2030-09-25

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A crawling baby 1.4 km/h

   Babies often invent their own crawling styles, from the classic hands-and-knees to a one-legged commando shuffle.

2. A person jogging 10.8 km/h

   Humans are among the best endurance runners on Earth, able to outlast horses over very long distances in heat.

3. A swarming desert locust 14.5 km/h

   A single locust swarm can contain billions of insects and devour as much food in a day as tens of thousands of people.

4. A striking barracuda 42 km/h

   Barracudas can lunge in sudden bursts to ambush prey, sometimes mistaking a swimmer's shiny jewellery for fish.

5. A speeding hovercraft 145 km/h

   A hovercraft floats on a cushion of trapped air, gliding equally well over water, land, ice and mud.

6. An ice hockey slapshot 178 km/h

   A slapshot flexes the stick like a spring, snapping stored energy into the puck for a brutal release.

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