Fastest snail, land snail

The fastest moving species of land snail is probably the common garden snail (Helix aspera). On 20 February 1990, a garden snail named Verne completed a 31-cm (12.2-in) course at West Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, USA, in 2 min 13 sec at 0.233 cm/sec (0.09 in/sec). To put this into perspective, the snail racing equivalent of a 4-minute mile would be roughly an 8-day mile.