How many different coaster types appear in your top 10?

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Rankings (1-15)

1. Voyage (Gravity Group Wooden)
2. Intimidator 305 (Intamin Giga)
3. Maverick (Intamin Blitz)
4. Skyrush (Intamin Hyper)
5. Mindbender, Galaxyland (Schwarzkopf Looping)
6. Fury 325 (B&M Giga)
7. Goliath, Georgia (B&M Hyper)
8. El Toro (Intamin Prefabricated Wooden)
9. Kumba (B&M Sitdown)
10. Phoenix (PTC Wooden)
11. Montu (B&M Inverted)
12. Wonder Woman, Fiesta Texas (RMC Raptor)
13. Mako (B&M Hyper)
14. Beast (In-House Wooden)
15. Iron Rattler (RMC Hybrid)

Results and Analysis
Manufacturers...
1. B&M (5 coasters) - Didn't realize I had this many B&Ms in my top 15! Even though Intamin is my favorite manufacturer, B&M is close behind - I have a soft spot for their best old-school (plus some of their new-school) coasters, they're extremely well engineered and just all-around pleasant to ride.

2. Intamin (4 coasters) - My top manufacturer. Intensity is my favorite aspect of a coaster, but I also love whippy transitions, rampant pacing and most significantly sustained ejector airtime, which every Intamin in my top 10 excels at. I'm incredibly eager to ride Pantheon and VelociCoaster as soon as humanly possible.

3. RMC (2 coasters) - Of the 6 RMCs I've ridden, only 2 made it into my top 15, but everything else besides Jersey Devil is firmly within the top 30. The lack of RMCs in my top 15 is likely because I haven't gotten around to riding their best yet (besides Lightning Rod, but over the years, it's ran very inconsistently for me), though that'll hopefully change with Steel Vengeance and Iron Gwazi this year.

The rest (1 coaster) - Schwarzkopf, Gravity Group, PTC, In-House

Types...
Wooden (4 coasters) - I've grown a fondness for wooden coasters over the years, especially ones with loads of charm and a beautiful secluded setting (looking at you, Voyage, Phoenix and Beast). Though that's not the only reason I love them - they've got powerful airtime or an endlessly long, relentless layout too.

Hyper (3 coasters) - I really enjoy sustained airtime, especially sustained ejector, and my favorite hypers deliver it in droves. Along with that, Skyrush is one of the most intense and wild coaster layouts ever designed, so...

Multi-looping (3 coasters) - Nothing's wrong with positive G-loaded inversions and a mostly smooth, long ride in my opinion - plus, Mindbender has one of the craziest (and best) first drops I've ever ridden.

Giga (2 coasters) - A super tall lift, blazing fast speeds and my favorite coaster drop of all time/flojector airtime or insane amounts of whip/greyout-level positive Gs (depending on the coaster) make for highly memorable and top-tier rides. Even Millennium Force is at the edge of my top 20, it's still a lot of fun with some fantastic views and very solid, sustained floater to flojector airtime.

The rest (1 coaster) - Single Rail, Hybrid, Blitz

 

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Looking at my unranked top 15 from my signature:

• Balder (Intamin Plug-&-Play)
• blue fire Megacoaster (Mack Launched)
• Expedition: Everest (Vekoma Custom)
• Helix (Mack Launched)
• Jetline (Zerier Custom)
• Kondaa (Intamin Mega)
• Lisebergbanan (Zerier Custom)
• OzIris (B&M Inverted)
• Ride to Happiness (Mack Xtreme Spinner)
• Schwur des Kärnan (Gerstlauer Infinity)
• Silver Star (B&M Hyper)
• Star Trek: Operation Enterprise (Mack Launched)
• Taron (Intamin Blitz)
• Valkyria (B&M Dive)
• Wildfire (RMC Topper Track)

• 3 are from Intamin
• 4 are Mack launched coasters
• 1 is from Vekoma (Expedition: Everest)
• 2 are Schwarzkopf-designed Zerier coasters
• 3 are from B&M
• 1 is from Gerstlauer
• 1 is from RMC

• 2 are wooden coasters
• 6 involve launches
• 2 are over 200 feet tall
• 8 have a top speed of 100km/h or above
• 11 are 1000m or longer in length
• 8 have inversions
• Only 1 isn't a sit-down coaster
• 5 are located in my home country of Sweden, 4 of those within the same park

Compared to my overall coaster count of 138:

• 7.9% or 11 overall are wooden (versus 13.3% in my top 15)
• 21.0% or 29 overall are from Mack (versus 26.6% in my top 15) — Europa Park drove the overall count up by a lot
• 10.1% or 14 overall are from Intamin (versus 20% in my top 15)
• 21.0% or 29 overall are from Vekoma (versus 6.6% in my top 15)
• 6.5% or 9 overall are from B&M (versus 20.0% in my top 15)

Overall, B&M and Intamin are both overrepresented in my top 15 while Vekoma is way underrepresented, which speaks to the difference in quality between most of the Vekomas and B&M/Intamins that I've ridden.