The fastest animals
A Peakle category. Higher = faster (top recorded speed). Name answers one at a time, each one higher than the last. New to the game? Read how to play.
When it was played
- Puzzle #3, October 11, 2026 · replay in the archive
The numbers
- 85 answers count.
- The longest possible climb is 58 steps, because some answers are tied and a tie ends the climb.
How it's counted
- Top recorded speed, as listed on Wikipedia: diving for birds of prey, swimming for fish, running for land animals. Where a range is given, the top of it counts.
Source
Wikipedia: Fastest animals, as of October 8, 2026.
Every answer
Alphabetical. Their values stay a secret, so the climb is still worth replaying.
African buffalo · African elephant · African wild dog · American black bear · Anna's hummingbird · Antarctic minke whale · Asian elephant · Austrophlebia costalis · Big brown bat · Black mamba · Black marlin · Black rhinoceros Indian rhinoceros · Blackbuck · Blue whale · Bottlenose dolphin · Bowhead whale · Brown bear · Cassowary · Cheetah · Common dolphin · Common minke whale · Costa Rican spiny-tailed iguana · Coyote · Domestic Horse · Eland · Emu · Eurasian hobby · False killer whale · Fin whale · Frigatebird · Giraffe · Golden eagle · Grant's gazelle · Great white shark · Green Iguana · Grey-headed albatross · Greyhound · Gyrfalcon · Hare · Hartebeest · Hippopotamus · Human · Humpback whale · Hyena · Impala · Jackrabbit · Kangaroo · Komodo dragon · Leatherback sea turtle · Lion · Mexican free-tailed bat · Nauta salamander · Onager · Orca · Ostrich · Pantropical spotted dolphin · Paratarsotomus macropalpis · Peregrine falcon · Perentie · Pilot whale · Pronghorn · Raccoon · Red-breasted merganser · Right whale · Roadrunner · Rock dove · Sailfish · Sei whale · Shortfin mako shark · Six-lined racerunner · Sperm whale · Springbok · Spur-winged goose · Squid · Swordfish · Thomson's gazelle · Tiger · Tiger beetle · Tsessebe · Warthog · White-throated needletail swift · Wildebeest · Wombat · Yellowfin tuna · Zebra