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When you are playing a badminton match, how do you know that you are playing with the correct speed of shuttle? The laws of badminton are very precise on how to test a shuttle for speed.

Essentially you should use a full underhand stroke to make contact with the shuttle over the back boundary line. It should be hit at an upward angle and in a direction parallel to the sidelines.

A shuttle of correct speed will land between these markings on the court. If your court does not have these test marks then as a guide it is the region of the doubles flick serve line.

These shuttles have landed too far and would therefore be deemed as too fast and either discarded or tipped.
This shuttle is too slow.
At elite level players rarely use shuttles that land past the doubles flick serve line.