Personal rollercoaster rating-scheme

Hi there!

I was just wondering if anyone of you has - and i'm sure many of you do - a personal rating-scheme for their ridden rollercoasters. And if you do have one, how does it look like?

Something like "Fun-factor: 0-7 / Intensity: 0-5 / Layout: 0-5 / Reride-factor: 0-2 / Any Bonus: 0-1 / makes a total of 0-20"

I would let the Fun Factor be a bigger part of myy score, and about the bounus point I don't count against it if I didn't award the point like If I found a perfect coaster my score would be 20/19 or what ever would work on my system.

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Chris Knight
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Point System, well sort of. Before I "rank" my coasters I seperate wood and steel (they are too different I believe) and then give them a rating of 1-5 1 being Excellent! and 5 being Horrible. Excellent means I will re-ride that coaster until I die if at all possible and you can guess what horrible is. Then within the categorys I do my ranking (all excellents are above very good etc.)

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Summer 03-CP, HP, Canobie, SFNE, SFWOA, and SFGAm.

I find that some ride experiences are so different that they can't be compared. Most hypers/gigas get ranked into an ordered list, but I still have no idea where to put X or hypersonic. Wood has its own list as well, but for now, there are only four entries that were worth putting in (Viper GAm., Ghost Rider, Boulder Dash, Phoenix).

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Be polite and ignore the idiots. - rollergator
"faster, cheaper, and more often" that's somebody's new sig -UpsideDawnGrrrl
My shirt in my photo seems to be for "Aging Bull"

Mine is simple:

Was that fun, and better than work? Please answer yes or no.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"The world rotates to The Ultra-Heavy Beat!" - KMFDM

I like it Jeff, too bad I don't know how work is...

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Don't Fight It, Ride It, RAGING BULL!!!!!!- Six Flags Great America

It's virtually impossible to be objective about ranking or rating coasters. There are multiple variables that must be taken into account, but virtually nobody does. For example, if I can ride Montu 10 times in a row without getting off because it's slow at BGT in February, how can I compare that to waiting 90 minutes for Alpengeist because the crew is stacking 3 trains? Obviously it will be more enjoyable for me to ride over and over, and that will affect my "ranking." Similarly, if it's pouring down rain the only time I ride Phantom's Revenge, but I have mulitple experiences on Magnum, how can I compare the two?

I just prefer to note whether or not I enjoyed the ride on that day at that time in those conditions. Going above and beyond that just seems silly.

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SRM 2003-Look for the guy with my name on his chest

One of mine is how fast the line moves. I mean
S:ROS at SFNE is the best but I hate the wait times.
Nitro on the other hand........

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Is it true its always happy hour here? If it is I'd like to stay a while....

My rating system is pretty much on a 1-10 basis. Some coasters can get an 11 if they blow me away.

I basically rate for fun factor. The more fun a coaster is, the higher the rating. If it's rough and the roughness takes away from the fun, the score goes down. It's hard to explain. Whatever though. I just go to ride coasters!

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I was asked to describe X in one word. The word? -- OhmygoshwhathaveIgottenmyselfintothisisthescariest
thingintheworldhelpmeIamgoingtodieAHHHH!!!

Jeff and I use the same system.

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"God bless Atheists!" - Homer Simpson

I'm with Jeff, Mark, and Moosh on this one. I don't like to rate coasters. I just take a ride for what it is, not what it isn't. That doesn't mean that I still don't have my favorites.
*** This post was edited by AirTimeMan 4/17/2003 5:06:49 PM ***

I prefer to rank coasters on a 1 (poor) to 10 (best) basis, and as a rule, only one coaster on my list can ever reach a perfect 10.0. The others rank behind the top coaster and are compared to that coaster, not necessarily in speed or intensity, but overall enjoyability.

As far as a "top ten", well, I do that ranking system as well, but I only rank ten coasters. Trying to compare coasters out of my top ten is very difficult to do. I generally like non top ten coasters but find it difficult to compare them against each other.

I think all things in life have to be ranked.

My rating system: poor average good excelent.

CP & Dells Clash.

I just ride it. If I like it, I ride it again. And again, and again...

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Without the chaindog, you'd never get up the lifthill...

I have a slight extension of Jeff, Moosh, and Air Time Man's system: Coasters that blew me away, Caosters that I had an incredible amount of fun on, coasters I had a lot of fun on, and coasters I had fun on.

I suppose, theorectically, there could be a coaster I won't have any fun on... but I doubt it.

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I hear America screaming...

Once when i was bored I made up a spreadsheet rating all the rides I've been on. I factored in excitement, intensity, theming, pacing, design, presence, train design etc etc. Ofcourse each of these factors were weighted (for ex. Excitement would get a higher factor than lets say...theming) Nitro ended up at #1 with a rating of 8.96/10, with Superman close behind at 8.85. My top wood was Ghostrider at 8.58.

I have my track record in order from best to worst, and I use the "Griswold" scale to rate them. But it changes everytime I look at it (which is maybe once every 6 months) just because sometimes I feel FoF is the best ride on earth, and sometimes it's The Raven, and who knows why I think that.

But I agree with Mark W., half the rides on there I've ridden once. Some of them I can barely remember riding. Now how can I judge that against The Raven, which I rode nearly 25 times in a row? I can't really, but then again it doesn't matter, so who cares.

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

If I giggle a lot during the ride, it's a good one.

If I don't, then odds are it's not a good one.
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'The sickest thoughts I ever had make my day less of a drag.' - We Regazzi

chris said:
If I giggle a lot during the ride, it's a good one.
If I don't, then odds are it's not a good one.
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'The sickest thoughts I ever had make my day less of a drag.' - We Regazzi

Chris likes almost everything he rides then... ;-)

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Mike Miller - SFMM: We have fewer flat rides than a bad church carnival.

Giggle?!? olol ur a girl!!!!!12111one

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.