SortStack #2024 — 2031-12-24

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. 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.

2. A manatee cruising 4.3 km/h

   Manatees are gentle plant-eaters so buoyant they use their heavy bones as ballast to keep from floating up.

3. An Olympic swimmer at full speed 9.3 km/h

   Top swimmers shave their bodies to cut drag, trimming fractions of a second that can decide a gold medal.

4. 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.

5. A running pronghorn antelope 97 km/h

   The pronghorn can run far faster than any predator alive today, likely escaping a cheetah that went extinct in America.

6. The Earth orbiting the Sun 107K km/h

   We are all hurtling around the Sun fast enough to cross between two cities in a single second, yet we feel nothing.

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