SortStack #1912 — 2031-09-03

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A gray squirrel 19.5 km/h

   Squirrels plant thousands of trees by accident, forgetting where they buried many of the nuts they hid.

2. A leaping blue marlin 108 km/h

   Marlins can change colour when excited, their stripes lighting up electric blue during a hunt.

3. A racing snowmobile 190 km/h

   Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.

4. A bullet train at full speed 330 km/h

   Japan's bullet trains have a near-perfect safety record, with average delays measured in seconds, not minutes.

5. The winds of a violent tornado 480 km/h

   The strongest tornado winds ever measured can strip bark from trees and drive straw into solid wood.

6. 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.

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