diff --git a/substrate/utils/frame/remote-externalities/src/lib.rs b/substrate/utils/frame/remote-externalities/src/lib.rs
index 71e9320ebeeb..5c7a36867ff6 100644
--- a/substrate/utils/frame/remote-externalities/src/lib.rs
+++ b/substrate/utils/frame/remote-externalities/src/lib.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ use std::{
 	fs,
 	ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
 	path::{Path, PathBuf},
+	sync::Arc,
 	time::{Duration, Instant},
 };
 use substrate_rpc_client::{rpc_params, BatchRequestBuilder, ChainApi, ClientT, StateApi};
@@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ impl Default for SnapshotConfig {
 }
 
 /// Builder for remote-externalities.
+#[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Builder<B: BlockT> {
 	/// Custom key-pairs to be injected into the final externalities. The *hashed* keys and values
 	/// must be given.
@@ -400,41 +402,134 @@ where
 			})
 	}
 
-	/// Get all the keys at `prefix` at `hash` using the paged, safe RPC methods.
-	async fn rpc_get_keys_paged(
+	/// Get keys with `prefix` at `block` in a parallel manner.
+	async fn rpc_get_keys_parallel(
 		&self,
-		prefix: StorageKey,
-		at: B::Hash,
+		prefix: &StorageKey,
+		block: B::Hash,
+		parallel: usize,
+	) -> Result<Vec<StorageKey>, &'static str> {
+		/// Divide the workload and return the start key of each chunks. Guaranteed to return a
+		/// non-empty list.
+		fn gen_start_keys(prefix: &StorageKey) -> Vec<StorageKey> {
+			let mut prefix = prefix.as_ref().to_vec();
+			let scale = 32usize.saturating_sub(prefix.len());
+
+			// no need to divide workload
+			if scale < 9 {
+				prefix.extend(vec![0; scale]);
+				return vec![StorageKey(prefix)]
+			}
+
+			let chunks = 16;
+			let step = 0x10000 / chunks;
+			let ext = scale - 2;
+
+			(0..chunks)
+				.map(|i| {
+					let mut key = prefix.clone();
+					let start = i * step;
+					key.extend(vec![(start >> 8) as u8, (start & 0xff) as u8]);
+					key.extend(vec![0; ext]);
+					StorageKey(key)
+				})
+				.collect()
+		}
+
+		let start_keys = gen_start_keys(&prefix);
+		let start_keys: Vec<Option<&StorageKey>> = start_keys.iter().map(Some).collect();
+		let mut end_keys: Vec<Option<&StorageKey>> = start_keys[1..].to_vec();
+		end_keys.push(None);
+
+		// use a semaphore to limit max scraping tasks
+		let parallel = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Semaphore::new(parallel));
+		let builder = Arc::new(self.clone());
+		let mut handles = vec![];
+
+		for (start_key, end_key) in start_keys.into_iter().zip(end_keys) {
+			let permit = parallel
+				.clone()
+				.acquire_owned()
+				.await
+				.expect("semaphore is not closed until the end of loop");
+
+			let builder = builder.clone();
+			let prefix = prefix.clone();
+			let start_key = start_key.cloned();
+			let end_key = end_key.cloned();
+
+			let handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
+				let res = builder
+					.rpc_get_keys_in_range(&prefix, block, start_key.as_ref(), end_key.as_ref())
+					.await;
+				drop(permit);
+				res
+			});
+
+			handles.push(handle);
+		}
+
+		parallel.close();
+
+		let keys = futures::future::join_all(handles)
+			.await
+			.into_iter()
+			.filter_map(|res| match res {
+				Ok(Ok(keys)) => Some(keys),
+				_ => None,
+			})
+			.flatten()
+			.collect::<Vec<StorageKey>>();
+
+		Ok(keys)
+	}
+
+	/// Get all keys with `prefix` within the given range at `block`.
+	/// Both `start_key` and `end_key` are optional if you want an open-ended range.
+	async fn rpc_get_keys_in_range(
+		&self,
+		prefix: &StorageKey,
+		block: B::Hash,
+		start_key: Option<&StorageKey>,
+		end_key: Option<&StorageKey>,
 	) -> Result<Vec<StorageKey>, &'static str> {
-		let mut last_key: Option<StorageKey> = None;
-		let mut all_keys: Vec<StorageKey> = vec![];
-		let keys = loop {
+		let mut last_key: Option<&StorageKey> = start_key;
+		let mut keys: Vec<StorageKey> = vec![];
+
+		loop {
 			// This loop can hit the node with very rapid requests, occasionally causing it to
 			// error out in CI (https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/14129), so we retry.
 			let retry_strategy =
 				FixedInterval::new(Self::KEYS_PAGE_RETRY_INTERVAL).take(Self::MAX_RETRIES);
 			let get_page_closure =
-				|| self.get_keys_single_page(Some(prefix.clone()), last_key.clone(), at);
-			let page = Retry::spawn(retry_strategy, get_page_closure).await?;
-			let page_len = page.len();
+				|| self.get_keys_single_page(Some(prefix.clone()), last_key.cloned(), block);
+			let mut page = Retry::spawn(retry_strategy, get_page_closure).await?;
 
-			all_keys.extend(page);
+			// avoid duplicated keys across workloads
+			if let (Some(last), Some(end)) = (page.last(), end_key) {
+				if last >= end {
+					page.retain(|key| key < end);
+				}
+			}
 
+			let page_len = page.len();
+			keys.extend(page);
+			last_key = keys.last();
+
+			// scraping out of range or no more matches,
+			// we are done either way
 			if page_len < Self::DEFAULT_KEY_DOWNLOAD_PAGE as usize {
 				log::debug!(target: LOG_TARGET, "last page received: {}", page_len);
-				break all_keys
-			} else {
-				let new_last_key =
-					all_keys.last().expect("all_keys is populated; has .last(); qed");
-				log::debug!(
-					target: LOG_TARGET,
-					"new total = {}, full page received: {}",
-					all_keys.len(),
-					HexDisplay::from(new_last_key)
-				);
-				last_key = Some(new_last_key.clone());
-			};
-		};
+				break
+			}
+
+			log::debug!(
+				target: LOG_TARGET,
+				"new total = {}, full page received: {}",
+				keys.len(),
+				HexDisplay::from(last_key.expect("full page received, cannot be None"))
+			);
+		}
 
 		Ok(keys)
 	}
@@ -529,7 +624,7 @@ where
 						"Batch request failed ({}/{} retries). Error: {}",
 						retries,
 						Self::MAX_RETRIES,
-						e.to_string()
+						e
 					);
 					// after 2 subsequent failures something very wrong is happening. log a warning
 					// and reset the batch size down to 1.
@@ -590,7 +685,7 @@ where
 	/// map them to values one by one.
 	///
 	/// This can work with public nodes. But, expect it to be darn slow.
-	pub(crate) async fn rpc_get_pairs_paged(
+	pub(crate) async fn rpc_get_pairs(
 		&self,
 		prefix: StorageKey,
 		at: B::Hash,
@@ -598,8 +693,10 @@ where
 	) -> Result<Vec<KeyValue>, &'static str> {
 		let start = Instant::now();
 		let mut sp = Spinner::with_timer(Spinners::Dots, "Scraping keys...".into());
+		// TODO We could start downloading when having collected the first batch of keys
+		// https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/2494
 		let keys = self
-			.rpc_get_keys_paged(prefix.clone(), at)
+			.rpc_get_keys_parallel(&prefix, at, Self::PARALLEL_REQUESTS)
 			.await?
 			.into_iter()
 			.collect::<Vec<_>>();
@@ -628,9 +725,9 @@ where
 			.unwrap()
 			.progress_chars("=>-"),
 		);
-		let payloads_chunked = payloads.chunks((&payloads.len() / Self::PARALLEL_REQUESTS).max(1));
+		let payloads_chunked = payloads.chunks((payloads.len() / Self::PARALLEL_REQUESTS).max(1));
 		let requests = payloads_chunked.map(|payload_chunk| {
-			Self::get_storage_data_dynamic_batch_size(&client, payload_chunk.to_vec(), &bar)
+			Self::get_storage_data_dynamic_batch_size(client, payload_chunk.to_vec(), &bar)
 		});
 		// Execute the requests and move the Result outside.
 		let storage_data_result: Result<Vec<_>, _> =
@@ -644,7 +741,7 @@ where
 			},
 		};
 		bar.finish_with_message("✅ Downloaded key values");
-		print!("\n");
+		println!();
 
 		// Check if we got responses for all submitted requests.
 		assert_eq!(keys.len(), storage_data.len());
@@ -778,8 +875,9 @@ where
 		pending_ext: &mut TestExternalities<HashingFor<B>>,
 	) -> Result<ChildKeyValues, &'static str> {
 		let child_roots = top_kv
-			.into_iter()
-			.filter_map(|(k, _)| is_default_child_storage_key(k.as_ref()).then(|| k.clone()))
+			.iter()
+			.filter(|(k, _)| is_default_child_storage_key(k.as_ref()))
+			.map(|(k, _)| k.clone())
 			.collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
 		if child_roots.is_empty() {
@@ -799,11 +897,10 @@ where
 		let mut child_kv = vec![];
 		for prefixed_top_key in child_roots {
 			let child_keys =
-				Self::rpc_child_get_keys(&client, &prefixed_top_key, StorageKey(vec![]), at)
-					.await?;
+				Self::rpc_child_get_keys(client, &prefixed_top_key, StorageKey(vec![]), at).await?;
 
 			let child_kv_inner =
-				Self::rpc_child_get_storage_paged(&client, &prefixed_top_key, child_keys, at)
+				Self::rpc_child_get_storage_paged(client, &prefixed_top_key, child_keys, at)
 					.await?;
 
 			let prefixed_top_key = PrefixedStorageKey::new(prefixed_top_key.clone().0);
@@ -846,7 +943,7 @@ where
 		for prefix in &config.hashed_prefixes {
 			let now = std::time::Instant::now();
 			let additional_key_values =
-				self.rpc_get_pairs_paged(StorageKey(prefix.to_vec()), at, pending_ext).await?;
+				self.rpc_get_pairs(StorageKey(prefix.to_vec()), at, pending_ext).await?;
 			let elapsed = now.elapsed();
 			log::info!(
 				target: LOG_TARGET,
@@ -1110,7 +1207,7 @@ mod test_prelude {
 	pub(crate) type Block = RawBlock<ExtrinsicWrapper<Hash>>;
 
 	pub(crate) fn init_logger() {
-		let _ = sp_tracing::try_init_simple();
+		sp_tracing::try_init_simple();
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1440,4 +1537,26 @@ mod remote_tests {
 			.unwrap()
 			.execute_with(|| {});
 	}
+
+	#[tokio::test]
+	async fn can_fetch_in_parallel() {
+		init_logger();
+
+		let uri = String::from("wss://kusama-bridge-hub-rpc.polkadot.io:443");
+		let mut builder = Builder::<Block>::new()
+			.mode(Mode::Online(OnlineConfig { transport: uri.into(), ..Default::default() }));
+		builder.init_remote_client().await.unwrap();
+
+		let at = builder.as_online().at.unwrap();
+
+		let prefix = StorageKey(vec![13]);
+		let paged = builder.rpc_get_keys_in_range(&prefix, at, None, None).await.unwrap();
+		let para = builder.rpc_get_keys_parallel(&prefix, at, 4).await.unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(paged, para);
+
+		let prefix = StorageKey(vec![]);
+		let paged = builder.rpc_get_keys_in_range(&prefix, at, None, None).await.unwrap();
+		let para = builder.rpc_get_keys_parallel(&prefix, at, 8).await.unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(paged, para);
+	}
 }