SortStack #2927 — 2034-06-14
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- 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.
- An electric scooter 25 km/h
Shared e-scooters exploded across cities in just a few years, becoming a common sight on sidewalks worldwide.
- 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 downhill speed skier 255 km/h
Speed skiers tuck into an egg shape and wear airfoil helmets, accelerating faster than a free-falling skydiver.
- A fired shotgun slug 1.9K km/h
A shotgun slug is a single heavy projectile that turns a scattergun into a short-range, hard-hitting rifle.
- NASA's X-43 scramjet 11.9K km/h
The X-43 set an air-breathing speed record by burning fuel in a stream of air rushing through it many times faster than sound.