How fast does electricity flow in a wire?
72 cm/hAbout 2.36 ft/h · Creep
The signal is near light speed, but the electrons themselves drift at only about 0.2 mm a second.
A red kangaroo at full speed (56 km/h) is about 78,000 times faster.
🔌72 cm/h
🎋growing bamboo
By speed: electrons in a wire is about 19× faster than growing bamboo.
Things about as fast
- How fast can bamboo grow?3.79 cm/h
- How fast is a furlong per fortnight?59.9 cm/h
- How fast does blood move in your capillaries?1.08 m/h
- How fast does a dwarf seahorse swim?1.5 m/h
- How fast does the fastest glacier move?1.67 m/h
- How fast does a garden snail move?3.6 m/h
- How fast does the tip of Big Ben's minute hand move?26.4 m/h
- How fast does ketchup pour?45 m/h
Many real things vary, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].