SortStack #2808 — 2034-02-15
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A bottlenose dolphin 60 km/h
Dolphins sleep with half their brain at a time, keeping one eye open to breathe and watch for danger.
- A powerful soccer free kick 132 km/h
A well-struck free kick can swerve in mid-air as spin and airflow bend its path around a defensive wall.
- A fast cricket delivery 161 km/h
The fastest bowlers can make the ball rise off the pitch toward a batter's head in a fraction of a second.
- A racing snowmobile 190 km/h
Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.
- An arrow loosed from a bow 230 km/h
A modern compound bow uses pulleys to store huge energy, launching an arrow with deadly accuracy.
- 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.