2021 Results

The results are in and the second year of Vote Coasters was even bigger than the first! Throughout November, close to 3,600 people ranked more than a combined 148,000 roller coasters. That’s an increase of 30% compared to 2020!

 
 

No. 1

Steel Vengeance

Cedar Point, USA
Hyper Hybrid Coaster
Opened in 2018

No. 2

Zadra

Energylandia, Poland
Hyper Hybrid Coaster
Opened in 2019

No. 3

El Toro

Six Flags Great Adventure, USA
Wooden Pre-fab Coaster
Opened in 2006

 

World’s Top 50 Roller Coasters

No. Roller Coaster Theme Park Country
1 Steel Vengeance Cedar Point United States
2 Zadra Energylandia Poland
3 El Toro Six Flags Great Adventure United States
4 VelociCoaster Universal Studios Islands of Adventure United States
5 Fury 325 Carowinds United States
6 Lightning Rod Dollywood United States
7 Hakugei Nagashima Spa Land Japan
8 Untamed Walibi Holland Netherlands
9 Voyage Holiday World United States
10 Maverick Cedar Point United States
11 Wildfire Kolmarden Sweden
12 Kondaa Walibi Belgium Belgium
13 Ride to Happiness Plopsaland de Panne Belgium
14 Taron Phantasialand Germany
15 DC Rivals HyperCoaster Warner Bros. Movie World Australia
16 Skyrush Hersheypark United States
17 Helix Liseberg Sweden
18 Expedition GeForce Holiday Park Germany
19 Taiga Linnanmaki Finland
20 Shambhala PortAventura Park Spain
21 Twisted Timbers Kings Dominion United States
22 Wicked Cyclone Six Flags New England United States
23 Twisted Colossus Six Flags Magic Mountain United States
24 Hyperion Energylandia Poland
25 Outlaw Run Silver Dollar City United States
26 Eejanaika Fuji-Q Highland Japan
27 F.L.Y. Phantasialand Germany
28 Storm Chaser Kentucky Kingdom United States
29 X2 Six Flags Magic Mountain United States
30 Millennium Force Cedar Point United States
31 Phantom's Revenge Kennywood United States
32 Schwur des Karnan Hansa Park Germany
33 Mako SeaWorld Orlando United States
34 Intimidator 305 Kings Dominion United States
35 Superman the Ride Six Flags New England United States
36 Lech Coaster Legendia Slaskie Wesole Miasteczko Poland
37 Iron Rattler Six Flags Fiesta Texas United States
38 Top Thrill Dragster Cedar Point United States
39 GhostRider Knott's Berry Farm United States
40 T Express Everland South Korea
41 Mystic Timbers Kings Island United States
42 Time Traveler Silver Dollar City United States
43 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce United States
44 Flying Aces Ferrari World Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
45 Phoenix Knoebels Amusement Resort United States
46 Nemesis Alton Towers United Kingdom
47 Montu Busch Gardens Tampa United States
48 Goliath Six Flags Great America United States
49 Leviathan Canada's Wonderland Canada
50 Colossos - Kampf der Giganten Heide Park Resort Germany
 

2021 Insights

3,582 users
took part

54 countries
included

1,381 coasters
ranked

In 2021 Vote Coasters reached further than ever before. Over 2,000 new people took part in the poll this year, whilst more than 1,000 voters from 2020 returned to update their rankings. We had users who ranked 10 roller coasters and others who ranked 900!

 
 

Over 50 countries took part

Though the poll was dominated by North American and European countries; people from lots of other places around the world took part too, like Argentina and the Philippines.

Most countries saw an increase in the number of participants this year. Most notably, France’s users quadrupled between 2020 and 2021 from 0.8% to 2.9%. Asia and Oceania also saw large increases too.

 

USA dominated the top 50

28 of the top 50 ranked roller coasters are located in the USA. Five can be found in Germany, three in Poland, and the rest are spread across a further 11 countries.

There’s no doubt that the USA is home to many of the world’s largest roller coasters, which is not surprising considering it features three times as many coasters as Germany, and 15 times more than Poland.

 

Newer rides are better

An impressive 58% of the roller coasters ranked within the top 50 were built between 2010 and 2019! During the last decade the roller coaster industry has evolved rapidly.

The current decade has started to produce some impressive rides too. Despite only a small number of rides opening in 2020, four roller coasters from the 2020s have broken the top 50.


Best New Addition

VelociCoaster at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure becomes the best new roller coaster of 2021, ranking 4th overall. The ride quickly stunned guests with its high intensity elements and immersive theming.

Kondaa at Walibi Belgium, another new for 2021 ride, ranked an impressive 12th; whilst the Ride to Happiness at Plopsaland de Panne debuted at 13th in its opening year.

 

Improvements

We’re always looking for ways to improve the accuracy of Vote Coasters. Well-known roller coasters with low numbers of riders can sometimes under perform within the rankings because they’re often only ranked amongst other high performing rides.

Over the next few months we plan to release an alternative set of Vote Coasters results, which impute data to improve the rankings of lesser ridden rides. These alternative results will offer examples of how the top 50 could look if lesser ridden coasters were ranked by lots more people. We’ll explain in more detail and announce this on our social media very soon!

Vote Coasters will return next November for the 2022 poll. Sign up to our events mailing list to make sure you’re notified when voting opens.

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Thank you

A huge thanks from all of us at Coaster Bot to everyone that took part in Vote Coasters in 2021, as well as all those that shared the poll. A special thanks goes to our supporters.

We’d also like to thank Jami for updating and improving the fantastic drag-and-drop ranking tool, and Andrew for keeping our roller coaster database up to date. Without those two (and all of you) the poll wouldn’t be what it is today!