Speed Records.

Teodor Zajder of Poland solved a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in 2.76 seconds at GLS Big Cubes Gdańsk 2026 on February 7–8, 2026, the official World Cube Association world record. The average-of-five record of 3.51 seconds belongs to China's Yiheng Wang.

Thomas Coville and the seven-strong crew of the trimaran Sodebo Ultim 3 sailed around the world in about 40 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes, finishing in January 2026. They took the Jules Verne Trophy from Francis Joyon's IDEC Sport, whose 40 days 23 hours from 2017 had stood for nine years.

Falcon's Flight, an Intamin LSM-launched steel coaster at Six Flags Qiddiya City (Saudi Arabia), reached a top speed of 250 km/h (155.3 mph) on opening December 31, 2025 — also the tallest (195 m) and longest (4,325 m) roller coaster in the world. It surpassed Formula Rossa's 240 km/h record, which had stood since 2010.

France's Charlie Dalin won the 2024–25 Vendée Globe aboard Macif Santé Prévoyance in 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds, finishing in Les Sables-d'Olonne on January 14, 2025. He beat Armel Le Cléac'h's 74-day race record from 2017 by about nine days.

Peter Hickman lapped the 37.73-mile (60.72 km) Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on public roads in 16:36.114 on a BMW M1000RR during the 2023 Superstock TT, an average of 136.358 mph (219.4 km/h). It is the outright lap record for the course.

India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy hit a smash at 565 km/h (351 mph) in a controlled test at Yonex's factory gymnasium in Sōka, Japan, on April 14, 2023. He broke Tan Boon Heong's 493 km/h from 2013.

Rolls-Royce's Spirit of Innovation, flown by Phillip O'Dell, averaged 555.9 km/h (345.4 mph) over 3 km at Boscombe Down, UK, on November 16, 2021. The FAI ratified it in January 2022.

Richard Browning, founder of Gravity Industries, reached 136.89 km/h (85.06 mph) in his body-controlled jet suit over Brighton, England, in November 2019, the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed in a jet-engine-powered suit.

Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia skated 500 m in 33.61 seconds at the ISU World Cup Speed Skating Final in Salt Lake City on March 9, 2019 — an average speed of 53.56 km/h (33.28 mph), the men's world record for long-track 500m speed skating, aided by Salt Lake City's high altitude and low air resistance.

A four-man bobsled reached approximately 157 km/h (97.6 mph) at the Whistler Sliding Centre during the 2019 World Championships — among the fastest speeds ever recorded in bobsled, on the same unusually steep Whistler track that also holds the luge speed record, since the track's design pushes all three sliding sports (bobsled, luge, and skeleton) to their fastest recorded speeds.

Denise Mueller-Korenek reached 296 km/h (183.9 mph) on a modified bicycle while drafting behind a race car on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on September 16, 2018 — the fastest speed any human has ever reached on a bicycle, breaking the previous 1995 record.

Timo Bernhard lapped the 20.832 km Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany in 5 minutes 19.546 seconds in the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo on June 29, 2018. It broke Stefan Bellof's 1983 record of 6:11.13 by nearly 52 seconds and is still the fastest lap of the circuit.

Romain Dumas drove the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R to the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado in 7 minutes 57.148 seconds on June 24, 2018, the course record and the first run under eight minutes. The course climbs about 1,440 m through 156 turns.

The sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) is commonly cited as the fastest fish in the ocean, with a widely repeated figure of around 110 km/h (68 mph) based on a 1940s measurement of fishing-line spooling speed. Modern hydrodynamic analyses argue this figure is likely a substantial overestimate and that sustained speeds are probably much lower, so this should be read as a widely cited but methodologically contested claim rather than a rigorously verified one.

France's François Gabart sailed the 30 m trimaran Macif around the world alone in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds, finishing off Ushant on December 17, 2017. He beat Thomas Coville's 49-day solo record from 2016 by more than six days.

Scottish cyclist Mark Beaumont rode around the world in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, starting and finishing in Paris, ending on September 18, 2017. He averaged about 370 km a day over a route of about 29,000 km.

Peter Connolly of the UK reached 146.73 km/h (91.17 mph) standing on a skateboard down a closed mountain road at Les Éboulements, Quebec, Canada, on September 16, 2017 — the fastest standing skateboard speed ever certified by Guinness World Records, achieved during a gravity-sports downhill event.

The DRL RacerX, built by the Drone Racing League, reached a top speed of 263.3 km/h (163.5 mph) in 2017 — the fastest recorded speed for a battery-powered remote-controlled multi-rotor drone, certified by Guinness World Records.

Kamui Kobayashi lapped the 13.626 km circuit in 3:14.791 (194.791 seconds) in a Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 car during qualifying on June 15, 2017, averaging about 251.9 km/h. Today's slower Hypercar class makes the time unlikely to fall soon.

Fraser Corsan of the UK reached a horizontal speed of 396.88 km/h (246.6 mph) in a wingsuit over Davis, California, on May 22, 2017 — the Guinness World Record for fastest wingsuit horizontal speed, flying a specially modified suit with rigid wings rather than the flexible fabric wings used in typical wingsuit skydiving.

Valtteri Bottas's Williams was clocked at 372.5 km/h (231.4 mph) during final practice for the 2016 Mexican Grand Prix, aided by thin high-altitude air and a long slipstream-assisted straight — widely cited as the highest speed-trap reading ever recorded during an official Formula 1 session, though it came in practice rather than qualifying or the race itself.

Roger Schroer drove the Venturi VBB-3, built with Ohio State University, to an average of 549.43 km/h (341.4 mph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in September 2016.

Todd Reichert reached 144.17 km/h (89.59 mph) pedaling AeroVelo's fully-faired recumbent bicycle Eta at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, on September 17, 2016 — still the record as of 2026, a rare case where a human on a bicycle outruns most cars on a highway.

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov flew the Rozière balloon Morton around the world alone in about 11 days, 4 hours and 20 minutes, launching and landing in Western Australia and finishing on July 23, 2016. He beat Steve Fossett's 2002 solo time of about 13 days 8 hours by more than two days.

The high-speed elevators installed by Mitsubishi Electric in the Shanghai Tower in China travel at up to 20.5 m/s (73.8 km/h / 45.8 mph), certified by Guinness World Records as the fastest elevators in the world.

Ivan Origone of Italy reached 254.958 km/h (158.42 mph) in the speed skiing discipline at Vars, France, in April 2016 — the fastest speed any human has reached on skis, timed over a specialized straight, steep course designed purely for top speed.

French windsurfer Antoine Albeau averaged 53.27 knots (98.7 km/h) over 500 m at the Lüderitz speed canal in Namibia in 2015, the windsurfing speed record ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council. He had held the outright sailing speed record in 2008 with 49.09 knots.

Central Japan Railway's L0 Series superconducting maglev train reached 603 km/h (374.7 mph) on the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line on April 21, 2015 — the fastest any train has ever traveled. The line remains a test track as of 2026; commercial Chūō Shinkansen service using this technology is planned at a lower 500 km/h operating speed once launched.

NASA's Ames Vertical Gun Range and similar light-gas gun facilities can fire small projectiles at speeds of up to roughly 7 km/s (about 25,200 km/h, or 15,660 mph) to simulate micrometeoroid and orbital-debris impacts on spacecraft materials — among the fastest speeds any human-made object has been deliberately accelerated to at ground level.

'Bullet,' a purpose-built radio-controlled car by Nic Case, reached 301.2 km/h (187.2 mph) at El Mirage Dry Lake, California, in October 2014 — the fastest radio-controlled car ever recorded, powered by a miniature turbine engine.

The Sky Ace TIGA, built by Ashiya University in Japan, reached 91.332 km/h (56.75 mph) at Shimojishima Airport in Miyakojima, Okinawa, on August 20, 2014, the Guinness World Record for a vehicle powered only by solar panels.

The Eurocopter X3, a compound helicopter combining a conventional rotor with two forward-facing propellers, reached 472 km/h (293 mph) in level flight during a June 2013 test — the fastest helicopter-type aircraft ever flown, well beyond the roughly 300-370 km/h ceiling of conventional helicopters.

The Buquebus high-speed ferry Francisco, built by Incat in Tasmania and running between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, reached 58.2 knots (107.8 km/h) and is the fastest passenger ship in service. It is powered by two LNG-fuelled GE gas turbines driving waterjets.

Vestas Sailrocket 2, a purpose-built speed-sailing vessel, reached 65.45 knots (121.2 km/h) off Walvis Bay, Namibia, on November 24, 2012 — the outright world sailing speed record over a 500 m course.

Felix Baumgartner reached a top freefall speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph, Mach 1.25) during his October 14, 2012 jump from 128,097 ft as part of the Red Bull Stratos mission — the fastest speed any human has reached in freefall, and the first human to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.

Australia's Trent Grimsey swam from Shakespeare Beach, Dover, to Cap Gris-Nez, France, in 6 hours 55 minutes on September 8, 2012. He beat Petar Stoychev's 6 hours 57 minutes from 2007.

Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins hit a slapshot at 108.8 mph (175.1 km/h) at the NHL All-Star Skills Competition in Ottawa on January 28, 2012.

Rocky Robinson averaged 605.697 km/h (376.363 mph) in the Ack Attack streamliner at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on September 25, 2010. He was the first rider to average over 600 km/h.

Cuban-American relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman threw a pitch recorded at 105.1 mph (169.1 km/h) on September 24, 2010, while playing for the Cincinnati Reds against the San Diego Padres — the fastest pitch ever recorded in a Major League Baseball game, certified by Guinness World Records.

The small Tonga microplate, in the southwest Pacific, moves at up to about 24 cm per year relative to neighboring plates — the fastest tectonic plate motion ever measured by GPS geodesy, driven by the rapid rollback of the Tonga subduction trench.

Ohio State University's Buckeye Bullet 2 set FIA international land speed records for a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle on September 25, 2009 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, averaging 487.4 km/h (302.877 mph) over the flying mile and 487.7 km/h (303.025 mph) over the flying kilometre.

The British Steam Car Challenge's Inspiration, driven by Charles Burnett III, averaged 225 km/h (139.843 mph) over two runs of a measured mile at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 25, 2009. That broke a steam car record that had stood since 1906. The next day Don Wales drove it to 238.7 km/h (148.308 mph) over a measured kilometre.

During his 100 m world-record run of 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt reached a peak instantaneous speed of approximately 44.72 km/h (12.42 m/s) between the 60 m and 80 m marks — biomechanically the fastest a human has ever been recorded running.

Greenbird, a wind-powered land yacht designed by Richard Jenkins, reached 202.9 km/h (126.1 mph) at Ivanpah Dry Lake, California, on March 26, 2009 — faster than the wind itself, and still the record for a wind-powered land vehicle.

German luger Felix Loch reached 153.98 km/h (95.68 mph) at the Whistler Sliding Centre during the 2008-09 Luge World Cup season finale — the fastest speed ever recorded in luge, made possible by Whistler's unusually steep, fast track design. Luge is the fastest of the three Olympic sliding sports (luge, skeleton, and bobsled).

The two-year-old Thoroughbred Winning Brew, trained by Francis Vitale, ran two furlongs (402 m) at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 2008, at an average of 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph).

A modified French TGV set, V150, reached 574.8 km/h on the LGV Est line between Paris and Strasbourg on April 3, 2007. It remains the wheeled-train record; only Japanese maglev trains have gone faster.

Andy Green drove the JCB Dieselmax to 563.418 km/h (350.092 mph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats on August 23, 2006. The car used two modified JCB backhoe-loader engines.

American typist Barbara Blackburn reached a peak speed of 212 words per minute on a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, with a sustained speed of around 150 wpm — certified by Guinness World Records as the fastest typing speed ever recorded.

NASA's unmanned X-43A research aircraft reached Mach 9.6 — approximately 11,230 km/h (6,980 mph) — on November 16, 2004, powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine, the fastest speed ever achieved by an air-breathing aircraft, as part of NASA's Hyper-X program.