Comprehensive Speed Scale

The following scale is a list of the calculated feats in fiction in terms of their speed and where they fit on the overall speed scale. Speed feats are listed, and calculations linked, along with the characters and series that they came from, going higher in scale.

Do note that this list is not to be taken as gospel, and is always subject to change based on new data.

Color Key:

Fiction Minimum required for speed level Real life phenomenon

Human/Peak Human

- Fastest recorded foot speed set by Usain Bolt: 12.422222 m/s

Superhuman:

Low

- 12.43 m/s

Mid

High

Faster Than the Eye:

Low

- 89 m/s

Mid

High

Supersonic:

Low

- Speed at sea level: 340.29 m/s - Muzzle velocity of a 9mm handgun bullet: Mach 1.05 - 1.27 - Muzzle velocity of the AK-47: Mach 2.1

 Mid

- AIM-9 Sidewinder: Mach 2.5 - Muzzle velocity of the M-4 Carbine: Mach 2.59 - Fastest Recorded Speed of the SR-71 Blackbird: Mach 2.88

High

- 125 mm APFSDS Kinetic Penetrators: Mach 4.99 - Mach 5.28

Hypersonic:

Low

- Mach 5 <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Lunar Escape Velocity: Mach 6.9 <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Fastest known surface to air missile (40N6): Mach 12 - Tao's pillar throw: Mach 13.95 (Dragon Ball) - Danny's rocket: Mach 16.9 (Danny Phantom)

Mid

<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Earth's Escape Velocity: Mach 32.91 - 23rd Budokai Picollo's ki blast: Mach 41.92 (Dragon Ball) <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Current Speed of New Horizons Spacecraft: Mach 47.7 - Goku vs. Burter and Jeice: ~Mach 58.88 (Dragon Ball)

High

<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Average Orbital Speed of Earth: Mach 87.5

Massively Hypersonic:

Low

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">- Mach 100 <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- First shockwave of a fission reaction nuke: Mach 100 - Speed of Helios 2 probe (fastest man-made object): <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);line-height:1.3em;">Mach 206.35 <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Average Orbital Speed of the Sun: Mach 646.5

Mid

- Freeza's Death Ball speed: Mach 1117.191 - 6703.147 (Dragon Ball) <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">-   Solar Wind: Mach 1,322.4 <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Solar Escape Velocity: Mach 1,815.2 - SSJ2 Gohan Kamehameha vs. Cell: Mach 4539.11 - 20,920.46 (mid-end Mach 7459.89) (Dragon Ball)

High

Sub-Relativistic:

Low

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">- 1% c (Mach 8,810.2)

Mid

- Gotenks's flight speed: Mach 31,016.474 (Dragon Ball)

High

Relativistic:

Low

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">- 10% c (Mach 88,099.12) <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">- Average Escape Velocity of a Neutron Star: 33.3% c

Mid

High

<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Speed of Light <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"> (c): 299,792,458 m/s (Mach 881,000)

FTL:

Low

Mid

High