Actually I was talking about the link he posted. Try this link http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-53103.html
Specifically this part:
Currently how fast is Superman and how fast is he compared to the Flash? Superman seems to have gone throuhg an unspoken power-up over the last few years. I know Wally is faster than Barry. And Superman was suppossed to be slightly slower than Barry Allen (the Silver Age Flash). So currently, how close is he to Wally (current Flash)? Is Flash much faster than Superman, or is Superman still supposed to be relatively close to the Flash.
Travelling speed, say, between galaxies, Superman has Faster Than Light capabilities... but that's by no means an operating speed (which is to say, that Superman could move, dodge, react, etc. at FTL). On Earth, even if Superman is potentially capable of such speed, he'd never use it because- unlike the Flashes- he doesn't have an aura that cancels out his affect on the environment. When he goes super-sonic, sonic booms follow. If Superman was to tear around Earth at lightspeeds, imagine the devestation that would follow in his wake!
http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/races.html
According to DC First: Flash/Superman (July 2002 - written by Geoff Johns), Wally would leave Superman in the dust and Superman is about Jay's speed. This is backed up by Flash v2 #209 (June 2004 - also written by Geoff Johns) where Wally loses Superman several times during the chase (but Superman's perseverance allows him to catch up whenever Wally stopped to search for Linda) and even outruns Superman's heat vision. This race also stresses Superman's reaction times are not on Wally's level even if he can force his body to move at comparable speeds.
(Incidentally, the most glaring contradiction between these two stories told by Johns is that in the first, Jay can speed steal Supes to a dead stop where as in 209 Wally says he can... but can't)
For my money, the three measures of absolute speed in the DCU are:
1. Speed Force barrier.
2. Time Travel barrier.
3. Instantaneous travel.
Given that failing to break #1 and bouncing off it can still yield you #2 (as in Max's case) #1 is the ultimate speed feat which only tiny few have crossed (much less returned from). Many can APPROACH the barrier (just about every DCU Speed Force speedster) but not break it like Wally. Given that Wally can do #1 and #2 at will and has done #3 with help, he should be unquestionably the fastest... what's harder, is determining Wally's operating speed (because in nearly all cases of #1/#2, they cross into the Speed Force Dimension and aren't running on Earth per se)...
This thread clocks Flash as being ludicrously fast:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=19725
For story purposes, I expect he'll typically operate at far below that range.
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