SortStack #2514 — 2033-04-27
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 sprinting cockroach 5.8 km/h
A cockroach can survive for weeks without its head, breathing through tiny holes along its body.
- A charging black rhinoceros 54 km/h
A rhino's horn is made of keratin, the same material as your hair and nails, not bone.
- 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.
- A top-fuel dragster 540 km/h
A dragster covers a quarter mile in under four seconds, accelerating harder than a fighter jet off a carrier.
- A bullet from a .357 Magnum 1.5K km/h
A supersonic bullet creates a tiny sonic boom, which is part of the sharp crack you hear from a gunshot.