I'm not sure about Dante's strength, so I don't know if she better than him. She is pretty strong though. And I think she's faster than him? Probably. As I said last page, in the second episode Ryuko cuts a hundred tennis balls into shreds in a split-second. And she becomes much, much faster than that later on, with Satsuki being her equal for much of the series. At the time Ryuko did that, she was only using a fraction of Senketsu's power due to not accepting him properly.