Ride records · Top speed · United States
The Fastest Roller Coasters in the USA
Operating US coasters only, ranked strictly by published top speed. Kingda Ka and Superman: Escape from Krypton held the top two places until they closed, so neither appears here.
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Top Thrill 2
Cedar Point's reborn strata coaster trades hydraulics for LSMs and adds a backwards launch up a second spike.
Top speed193 km/h - 2
Fury 325
The definitive modern giga: 99 m, 153 km/h and a first drop that runs the whole length of the midway.
Top speed153 km/h - 3
Millennium Force
The first giga coaster and still the benchmark for relentless, cable-lifted speed over water.
Top speed150 km/h - 4
Intimidator 305
A 93 m plunge into a first turn so forceful it was retracked — still the most aggressive giga built.
Top speed145 km/h - 5
Tormenta Rampaging Run
Opened July 2026 as the world's tallest, fastest and longest dive coaster — a 94 m giga dive with four inversions.
Top speed140 km/h - 6
Goliath
A grey steel monolith famous for its greyout-inducing helix at the end of the layout.
Top speed137 km/h - 7
Xcelerator
The original hydraulic-launch coaster, a 1950s hot-rod theme wrapped around a 62 m top hat.
Top speed132 km/h - 8
Nitro
New Jersey's airtime machine — eight hills of floater over the Pine Barrens.
Top speed128 km/h - 9
Iron Gwazi
North America's tallest hybrid coaster and the world's fastest and steepest, with a 91-degree drop off a rebuilt wooden structure.
Top speed122 km/h - 10
Skyrush
Notorious for brutal ejector airtime and lap bars that make every hill a fight.
Top speed121 km/h - 11
Steel Vengeance
Over 27 seconds of airtime across four inversions — routinely voted the best coaster in the world.
Top speed119 km/h - 12
Jurassic World VelociCoaster
Two launches, a mosasaurus roll over the lagoon, and the tightest theming-to-thrill ratio anywhere.
Top speed113 km/h - 13
El Toro
The gold standard for wooden coasters — a 76-degree drop and airtime that lifts you clean out of the seat.
Top speed112 km/h - 14
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
A rotating-vehicle indoor coaster that spins riders toward each show scene as it launches backwards.
Top speed96 km/h - 15
Expedition Everest
Disney's most expensive coaster: a Himalayan mountain, a broken track and a backwards plunge in the dark.
Top speed80 km/h - 16
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure
Seven launches, a vertical drop track and story beats woven into every metre of the Forbidden Forest.
Top speed80 km/h - 17
Time Traveler
The world's fastest, steepest and tallest spinning coaster, launched three times through the Ozarks.
Top speed80 km/h - 18
Space Mountain
The original indoor space coaster — slow on paper, terrifying in total darkness.
Top speed45 km/h
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