Detailed Wooden Roller Coaster Poll Results 2011
Below, the 2011 results are listed in more detail.
The columns listed are: RANK, COASTER NAME, PARK, LOC (two letter
abbreviation of state, province, or country), RIDERS (number of polltakers
who indicated they rode each coaster), W (head to head wins versus other
coasters), L (losses), T (ties), WinPct (winning percentage), and TiBk
(tiebreaker..head to head preferences between those coasters tied).
Special attention should again be paid to the RIDERS column when viewing
the results. In general, the rankings of those coasters with more riders
will be more likely to truly reflect the popular sentiment about a coaster.
An asterisk indicates coasters that appeared on fewer than 2 % of ballots.
A blank line has been inserted where > (2/#coasters) WinPct gaps exist.
The program was run twice. Once excluding "My Favorite Steel" to get
the results for the wooden coasters so that they would not be affected
by it, and once including "My Favorite Steel" so it could be placed amongst
the wooden coasters.
Total Number of Ballots = 666
Average Number of Wood Coasters Ridden = 32.4
RANK COASTER NAME PARK LOC RIDERS W L T WinPct TiBk
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1 El Toro SFGAd NJ 307 163 0 0 1.0000
2 T Express Everland KR 24 160 1 2 0.9877 11
3 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT 193 161 2 0 0.9877 7
4 The Voyage Holiday World IN 235 159 3 1 0.9785 84
5 Phoenix Knoebel's PA 228 159 3 1 0.9785 67
6 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA 152 158 5 0 0.9693
7 El Toro Freizeitpark Plohn DE 51 154 7 1 0.9537 19
8 Balder Liseberg SE 116 155 7 1 0.9540 14
9 Troy Toverland NL 142 153 8 2 0.9448
10 Colossos Heide Park DE 143 153 10 0 0.9387
11 Prowler Worlds of Fun MO 97 152 10 1 0.9356 37
12 Thunderhead Dollywood TN 190 152 10 1 0.9356 32
13 Thunderbird PowerPark FI 48 150 12 1 0.9233
14 Twister Grona Lund SE 45 148 13 2 0.9141
15 Fireball Happy Valley Song CN 18 144 13 6 0.9018
16 Tremors Silverwood ID 54 146 16 1 0.8988
17 Raven Holiday World IN 234 141 20 2 0.8712
18 Wooden Warrior Quassy CT 74 139 20 4 0.8650 6
19 Joris en de Draak W de Efteling NL 127 139 20 4 0.8650 10
20 Hades Mount Olympus WI 123 141 22 0 0.8650 15
21 Shivering Timbers Michigan's Adventure MI 121 140 21 2 0.8650 9
22 American Thunder Six Flags St Louis MO 105 140 22 1 0.8620
23 Rampage Alabama Adventure AL 60 139 23 1 0.8558 18
24 Renegade Valleyfair! MN 84 139 23 1 0.8558 11
25 Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend KY 97 137 23 3 0.8497
26 Tonnerre de Zeus Parc Asterix FR 111 138 25 0 0.8466
27 Coaster Playland BC 47 135 23 5 0.8436
28 HellCat Timber Falls WI 101 135 26 2 0.8344
29 Joris en de Draak V de Efteling NL 125 134 26 3 0.8313
30 Apocalypse S. F. Magic Mountain CA 160 133 27 3 0.8252 42
31 Lightning Racer - L Hersheypark PA 286 134 28 1 0.8252 41
32 Megafobia Oakwood UK 92 133 29 1 0.8190
33 New Mexico Rattler Cliff's NM 25 130 29 2 0.8137
34 Lightning Racer - T Hersheypark PA 290 130 31 2 0.8037 23
35 Timber Terror Silverwood ID 56 130 31 2 0.8037 17
36 Cornball Express Indiana Beach IN 145 130 33 0 0.7975 32
37 Comet Great Escape NY 123 129 32 2 0.7975 31
38 Zippin Pippin Bay Beach WI 12 120 28 11 0.7893
39 The Legend Holiday World IN 231 125 37 1 0.7699
40 Grand National Blackpool UK 145 124 37 2 0.7669
41 Thundercoaster Tusenfryd NO 77 120 38 5 0.7515 18
42 Silver Comet Martin's Fantasy Is. NY 79 122 40 1 0.7515 18
43 Viper SFGAm IL 193 120 43 0 0.7362
44 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA 141 116 44 3 0.7209
45 Thunderbolt Kennywood PA 239 116 46 1 0.7147 94
46 Twister Knoebel's PA 214 116 46 1 0.7147 71
47 Wild Mouse Blackpool UK 141 115 46 2 0.7117
48 The Beast Kings Island OH 297 115 47 1 0.7086
49 Cyclone Astroland NY 187 112 49 2 0.6933 27
50 Rutschebanen Tivoli Gardens DK 101 112 49 2 0.6933 20
51 Boardwalk Bullet Kemah Boardwalk TX 61 108 48 7 0.6840
52 Cyclops Mount Olympus WI 133 110 51 2 0.6810
53 Jack Rabbit Kennywood PA 237 110 52 1 0.6779
54 Excalibur Funtown USA ME 71 106 56 1 0.6534 34
55 Yankee Cannonball Canobie Lake Park NH 104 106 56 1 0.6534 27
56 GhostRider Knott's Berry Farm CA 232 103 54 6 0.6503
57 Rutschebanen Bakken DK 82 105 57 1 0.6472
58 Loup Garou Walibi Belgium BE 105 103 56 4 0.6442
59 Cyclone Lakeside CO 45 102 58 3 0.6350
60 Mammut Tripsdrill DE 103 100 57 6 0.6319
61 Big Dipper Blackpool UK 138 101 61 1 0.6227
62 Roar SF Discovery Kingdom CA 138 100 61 2 0.6196 36
63 Wild One SF America MD 172 101 62 0 0.6196 35
64 Falken Farup Sommerland DK 72 99 62 2 0.6135
65 Vuoristorata Linnamaki Park FI 58 96 61 6 0.6074
66 Cannonball Lake Winnepesaukah GA 79 97 64 2 0.6012
67 Blue Streak Cedar Point OH 377 95 66 2 0.5890
68 Wildcat Hersheypark PA 296 92 71 0 0.5644
69 Hell Cat Clementon Lake NJ 80 89 71 3 0.5552
70 Great White Wild Wheels Pier NJ 120 90 73 0 0.5521
71 Robin Hood Walibi Holland NL 142 88 72 3 0.5491 20
72 Screamin' Eagle Six Flags St Louis MO 144 89 73 1 0.5491 16
73 Regina Tobu Zoo JP 34 86 71 6 0.5460 5
74 Coaster Thrill Ride Puyallup Fair WA 35 86 71 6 0.5460 3
75 Outlaw Adventureland IA 64 86 72 5 0.5429
76 The Boss Six Flags St Louis MO 137 86 76 1 0.5307
77 Racer Kennywood PA 237 85 76 2 0.5276
78 Hoosier Hurricane Indiana Beach IN 154 85 77 1 0.5245
79 Swamp Fox Family Kingdom SC 79 81 77 5 0.5123
80 Cheetah Wild Adventures GA 65 80 81 2 0.4969
81 Georgia Cyclone SFoG GA 182 79 83 1 0.4877 15
82 The Legend Arnolds Park IA 30 77 81 5 0.4877 8
83 Comet Hersheypark PA 291 78 83 2 0.4847
84 Grt Am Scrm Mach SFoG GA 173 76 85 2 0.4724 41
85 Lost Coaster of SM Indiana Beach IN 131 76 85 2 0.4724 38
86 Roar SF America MD 175 74 87 2 0.4601
87 Gwazi-Tiger Busch Gardens-Tampa FL 262 73 87 3 0.4571
88 Hullamvasut Vidam HU 17 65 80 15 0.4531
89 Blue Streak Conneaut Lake Park PA 68 73 89 1 0.4509
90 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR 35 69 86 8 0.4479 13
91 Skyliner Lakemont PA 123 72 89 2 0.4479 10
92 Nickelodeon Streak Blackpool UK 126 70 88 5 0.4448
93 Wild Mouse Luna Park-Sydney AU 15 64 82 14 0.4437
94 Tornado Adventureland IA 65 69 89 5 0.4387 28
95 The Grizzly Kings Dominion VA 269 71 91 1 0.4387 21
96 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA 125 66 89 8 0.4294
97 Cannonball Waterville USA AL 26 68 92 3 0.4264
98 Gwazi-Lion Busch Gardens-Tampa FL 261 68 94 1 0.4202
99 Racer Kings Island OH 291 65 95 3 0.4080
100 American Eagle SFGAm IL 205 63 96 4 0.3988
101 Thunderbolt SF New England MA 203 62 99 2 0.3865
102 Zeus Mount Olympus WI 130 60 99 4 0.3804
103 Rebel Yell Kings Dominion VA 268 61 101 1 0.3773 51
104 Leap the Dips Lakemont PA 118 60 100 3 0.3773 47
105 Tornado Stricker's Grove OH 65 58 99 6 0.3742
106 Le Monstre La Ronde QU 81 58 103 2 0.3620 3
107 Scenic Railway Luna Park-Melbourne AU 12 53 97 9 0.3616 2
108 Jack Rabbit Seabreeze NY 78 57 104 2 0.3558
109 Cyclone SF New England MA 214 56 106 1 0.3466
110 Roller Coaster Lagoon UT 39 50 102 11 0.3405
111 Roller Coaster Great Yarmouth UK 48 52 108 3 0.3282 8
112 Hochschaubahn Prater Park AT 39 48 103 10 0.3292 3
113 Thunder Road Carowinds NC 155 52 110 1 0.3221
114 White Cyclone Nagashima Spaland JP 34 48 109 6 0.3129
115 Timber Wolf Worlds of Fun MO 114 48 110 5 0.3098
116 Elf Hirakata Park JP 15 43 106 14 0.3067
117 Wildcat Frontier City OK 39 46 111 6 0.3006
118 Colossus S.F. Magic Mountain CA 254 47 113 3 0.2975 68
119 Thunderhawk Dorney Park PA 245 47 113 3 0.2975 66
120 Timberhawk Enchanted Village WA 39 42 114 7 0.2791
121 Rollo Coaster Idlewild PA 90 44 118 1 0.2730
122 Judge Roy Scream SFoT TX 131 41 117 5 0.2669
123 Dragon Coaster Playland NY 97 42 120 1 0.2607
124 Meteor Little Amerricka WI 41 41 121 1 0.2546
125 Stampida Port Aventura ES 127 38 119 6 0.2515
126 Big Dipper Camden Park WV 47 39 122 2 0.2454
127 Kingdom Coaster Dutch Wonderland PA 78 39 124 0 0.2393
128 High Roller Valleyfair! MN 99 38 124 1 0.2362
129 Comet Waldameer PA 148 37 126 0 0.2270 31
130 Wolverine Wildcat Michigan's Adventure MI 118 36 125 2 0.2270 30
131 Hurler Kings Dominion VA 264 31 130 2 0.1963
132 Rattler Fiesta Texas TX 97 31 131 1 0.1933 33
133 Hurler Carowinds NC 161 31 131 1 0.1933 29
134 Wildcat Lake Compounce CT 182 30 131 2 0.1902
135 Coastersaurus Legoland Florida FL 66 26 131 6 0.1779
136 Sea Dragon Jungle Jacks Landing OH 59 27 133 3 0.1748
137 Twister II Elitch Gardens CO 57 24 134 5 0.1626
138 Wild Beast Canada's Wonderland ON 119 24 136 3 0.1564
139 M.Can.Mine Buster Canada's Wonderland ON 127 24 137 2 0.1534
140 Tomahawk Port Aventura ES 113 21 137 5 0.1442 13
141 Pegasus Mount Olympus WI 125 22 138 3 0.1442 12
142 Little Dipper SFGAm IL 92 23 139 1 0.1442 8
143 Rolling Thunder SFGAd NJ 292 20 140 3 0.1319
144 Kiddie Coaster Playland NY 21 15 135 9 0.1226
145 Jupiter Kijima Korakuen JP 20 14 137 11 0.1204
146 Zach's Zoomer Michigan's Adventure MI 112 19 144 0 0.1166 23
147 Woodstock Express Kings Island OH 206 19 144 0 0.1166 31
148 Teddy Bear Stricker's Grove OH 62 19 144 0 0.1166 21
149 Blue Flyer Blackpool UK 122 18 144 1 0.1135
150 Ghoster Coaster Kings Dominion VA 206 17 144 2 0.1104
151 Woodstock Express Carowinds NC 122 15 147 1 0.0951
152 Ghoster Coaster Canada's Wonderland ON 118 14 148 1 0.0890
153 Underground Adventureland IA 61 10 153 0 0.0613
154 White Canyon Yomiuriland JP 34 8 152 3 0.0583
155 Predator Darien Lake NY 125 8 153 2 0.0552 60
156 Mean Streak Cedar Point OH 377 9 154 0 0.0552 51
157 Tyrolean Tubtwist Joyland UK 28 5 151 7 0.0521 4
158 Lil' Dipper Camden Park WV 44 7 153 3 0.0521 4
159 Magnus Colossus Terra Mitica ES 48 7 154 2 0.0491
160 The Grizzly Great America CA 140 4 158 1 0.0276
161 Antelope Gulliver's World UK 30 1 155 5 0.0217
162 The Bandit Movie Park DE 114 3 160 0 0.0184
163 Coaster-Express Parque Warner Madrid ES 85 2 160 1 0.0153
164 Anaconda Walygator Parc FR 77 2 161 0 0.0123
The following Standing but not Operating coasters are not included in the official results:
Rank indicates how they would have placed if included.
15 Ozark Wildcat(SBNO) Celebration City MO 43 161 15 2 0.9101
43 Dania Bch Hurricane Dania Beach FL 83 133 41 4 0.7584
53 Screechin' Eagle(S) LeSourdsville Lake OH 29 122 50 6 0.7022
71 Big Dipper (SBNO) Geauga Lake OH 153 105 72 1 0.5927
73 Zingo (S) Bell's OK 18 98 71 8 0.5763
91 Mega Zeph (SBNO) SF New Orleans LA 26 79 88 11 0.4747 10
99 Thunder Run Kentucky Kingdom KY 126 79 97 2 0.4494
108 Starliner (SBNO) Cypress Gardens FL 45 69 101 8 0.4101
112 Roller Coaster (S) Joyland KS 13 56 98 23 0.3814 5
137 Twisted Twins-S (S) Kentucky Kingdom KY 93 41 131 6 0.2472 14
142 Scenic Railway Dreamland UK 29 35 138 5 0.2107
143 Twisted Twins-L (S) Kentucky Kingdom KY 91 35 140 3 0.2051
163 Cyclone (SBNO) Williams Grove PA 49 19 156 3 0.1152
176 Son of Beast (SBNO) Kings Island OH 198 5 173 0 0.0281 4
These coasters did not have enough riders take the poll this year to be included in the results:
*2 Wood Coaster Knight Valley CN 8 144 0 5 0.9832 5
*15 Aska (S) Nara Dreamland JP 10 162 11 8 0.9171
*51 Montana Rusa La Feria MX 9 108 39 18 0.7091 6
*76 Wild Mouse Aussie World AU 8 90 66 19 0.5686
*121 Tree Topper Upper Clements Park NS 9 51 95 19 0.3667
*150 Zipper Dipper Esselworld IN 2 4 26 7 0.2027
*161 Medusa Six Flags Mexico MX 9 14 140 23 0.1441
*167 Montezum Hopi Hari BR 2 0 9 3 0.1250
*175 Auto BergBahn Prater Park AT 5 1 61 8 0.0714
One coaster had no riders take the poll this year:
* Cyclone Nicco Park IN 0 0 0 0 0.0000
For an explanation of the tabulation algorithm and much more about this
poll, visit the website BestRollerCoasterPoll.com