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Roller Coasters & Theme Parks

Millennium Force

Cedar Point prints 93 mph. RCDB prints 93 mph. Coasterpedia prints 149.7 km/h, the same figure.

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Ride speed

Published as 93 mphPublished as 93 mphPublished as 93 mph

Operating speed, Cedar Point. Coasterpedia's 149.7 km/h matches 93 mph.

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In context

  • 1.4× a cheetah's timed top speedSourced · Cheetah, 29 m/s. Sharp 1997, mean of three timed runs over 201.2 m
  • A football field in 2.2 sConstant · American football field, 100 yd (91.44 m)
  • London to New York in 37 h 13 minConstant · London to New York, 5,570 km great-circle

Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

This list

Why it's so fast

A coaster is fast because it spends height, or a launch, on speed. A lift hill stores the energy as altitude. A launch spends it with a motor, hydraulics or magnets in a few seconds.

  1. Height or a launch

    Going up is how a traditional coaster stores the ride. Coming down trades that height for speed. A launched coaster skips the slow climb and accelerates on the flat.

  2. The speed the park prints

    The ranked figure is the operating speed the operator and the databases agree on. A theoretical simulation is not swapped in.

The launched extreme is Formula Rossa.

This is how the category works. A note written for this entry appears here once it is in the database.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 150km/h93mph41.6m/s80.8knRanked figure

    Operating speed, Cedar Point. Coasterpedia's 149.7 km/h matches 93 mph.

    Verified
    Cedar Point (opens source in a new tab)

Reference

Specs

Park
Cedar Point
Manufacturer
Intamin
Speed
93 mph
Opened
2000

Context

Background

Cedar Point says Millennium Force tops out at 93 mph. RCDB lists 93 mph. Coasterpedia lists 149.7 km/h, which is 93 mph at one decimal. The ranked unit is miles per hour.

The ride opened in 2000. The park does not print a day beside the speed, so the measurement has no date. The sentence is the operating maximum, not a record run.

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