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What's your current coaster count?

Following @Burbs lead, have some stats from me starting from March 2013:

-Travelled 801 miles (75.49 miles unique)
-Climbed 23.62 miles (2.7 miles unique)
-Inverted 4845 times (174 unique)
-Ridden 283 different coasters from 49 different manufacturers
-Ridden coasters in 6 different countries
-Made 256 visits to fairs/theme parks/other locations
-Most visited: Alton Towers (117)
-Most ridden: Nemesis (510)
-Most visited international park: Phantasialand/Europa Park/PortAventura (3)
-Most ridden international coaster: Lech (25)
-Most different places visited in a day: 7 (Paultons Park, Clarence Pier, Southsea Pier, Hayling Island Funland, West Sands Funfair, Harbour Park, Brighton Pier)
-Most different coasters ridden in a day: 17 (Energylandia)
-Most visits in a year: 60 (2021)
-Most rides in a year: 492 (2021)
-Manufacturer most ridden: B&M (827)
-Most different coasters from a manufacturer: Vekoma (41)
-Least ridden manufacturer: CAM Baby Kart/DAL Amusements/EOS/Holandia Lunapark/Horace Cole/Jay Weightman/KumbaK/Modern Products/Preston & Barbieri/Wisdom Rides (1 total ride on each)

I am missing some numbers from some terrible rides in terms of height and length but this is as close as I can do.
 
Here’s a few stats, no where near as geeky as @Burbs or @Poisson

So in 2022 I visited Alton Towers 34 times (probably more when I didn’t actually do any rides) and went on 219 rides, with Wicker Man being my most ridden ride with 34 rides in 2022.

Elsewhere I visited Thorpe 3 times riding 45 rides, Chessington 3 times with 32 rides and Blackpool twice with 19 rides.

Abroad I visited Europa Park for 3 days riding 74 rides, Plopsa Land I did 65 rides (with 25 on ride to happiness!) and 8 other foreign theme parks riding 132 rides!
 
Burbs said:
Finally tipped over 300 coasters this weekend! +10 at Wiener Prater although none of them were particularly amazing. And just to keep my streak of rubbish milestone creds going, Rollerball was my 300th.
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Congratulations @Burbs!

I’m still on 91 myself, but with Florida and the odd new UK coaster (hopefully Mandrill Mayhem) on the agenda, I’m hoping that 2023 might be the year I finally hit the 100 mark and get into triple figures!
 
Still at 283, currently planning 300th coaster. Might have to break the streak of them all being good wooden coasters (Rollercoaster GYPB for 100, Wodan for 200)
 
Poisson said:
Still at 283, currently planning 300th coaster. Might have to break the streak of them all being good wooden coasters (Rollercoaster GYPB for 100, Wodan for 200)
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I count the x50ths as sort of milestones too.
50th - Rhino Coaster, West Mids Safari
100th - Xpress: Platform 13, Walibi Holland
150th - Odyssey, Fantasy Island
200th - Fun Pilot, Walibi Belgium
250th - Coasterbahn, Hassenhorn
300th - Rollerball, Prater Wien
 
50: Boomerang - Toverland
100: Rollercoaster - GYPB
150: Mighty Mini Mega - Adventure Island
200: Wodan - EP
250: Polar X-plorer - Legoland Billund
 
I’ve just come to the realisation that if everything goes as planned on my upcoming Florida trip in June, and I get all the credits that I hope to get… I may find myself sitting on 99 coasters.

My current expectation (or perhaps hope?) for credit gain during the trip is:
  1. +2 at Islands of Adventure (VelociCoaster and Hagrid’s added since my last trip)
  2. +2 at SeaWorld Orlando (Ice Breaker and Pipeline added since my last trip)
  3. +4 at Busch Gardens Tampa (Iron Gwazi and Tigris added since my last trip, Scorpion and Sand Serpent not ridden on my last trip)
Having 99 coasters in my count will be a tantalising position to be in…

I’d better hope that Brean gets a wriggle on with reopening their Pinfari looper so that I can head down there and get the +3 before we go!

Or maybe I could hope that my parents might briefly drop me off at Fun Spot Orlando so I can ride White Lightning and Freedom Flyer, what with how close it is to Universal!

I can’t quite believe that I’m within such close range of triple figures, though… with my aspirational trip plans for 2023, I think I could well hit 100 coasters at some point during the year!
 
rob666 said:
Sorry, I make it 98.
You stood on Shockwave.
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Haha; that’s a good one!

But technically, that logic would also make it 97, seeing as I’ll also be standing on Pipeline!

Perhaps a better, more accurate, term of phrase would be “my coaster count will sit at 99”?
 
Matt N said:
Haha; that’s a good one!

But technically, that logic would also make it 97, seeing as I’ll also be standing on Pipeline!

Perhaps a better, more accurate, term of phrase would be “my coaster count will sit at 99”?
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But a metaphysical construct like that number is also unable to sit
 
Now this is really geeky/sad/both (delete as applicable), but does anyone else have their own ways of tracking their coaster stats? Obviously there's various different websites that you can use (ridecount, Coaster-Count, Captain Coaster etc.) but these can be fairly limited if you want to go in to great depth of organising your statistics.

I took inspiration from @Dan a few years ago and have since spent too many hours developing a personal ride count spreadsheet:
From: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12bTuIi7jOy2AjpTqSYBvzaXuifAbLPpQf4rJDKYNWm8/edit?usp=sharing


I'd be interested to see what everyone else does!
 
I love doing this sort of thing with my theme park visitation/coaster riding, and I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one around these parts who enjoys a good bit of geeky statistic logging! To be honest, it’s a side of my theme park enthusiasm that I’m often a bit hesitant about expressing on TowersStreet, as I was under the impression that this site has a generally more casual member base who frown upon overly statistical folks like me…

My data logging is done across a number of separate spreadsheets rather than a beautiful amalgamated spreadsheet like yours, but I do have a number of different spreadsheets to show a number of different stats.

My spreadsheets are:
My Roller Coasters Ranked (I think I may need to update this one, as I think it doesn’t quite line up with my most recent Captain Coaster list)


My Theme Parks Ranked


My Historical Roller Coaster Rankings by Year


All the Roller Coasters I've Ridden in the Order I Rode Them


All the Parks I've Visited in the Order I Visited Them


Most Ridden Coasters & Most Visited Parks


Years in Review


View these at your pleasure! I've managed to compile quite a number of stats over the years, including my rankings over time, my most ridden coasters, my most visited parks, my best years for coaster and ride count, my best years for number of unique coasters ridden and parks visited, and my best years for rides per unique coaster and days per unique park!

By the looks of the brilliant spreadsheets shown here, though, it looks like there's so much more I could do with mine! @Poisson and @Burbs, your spreadsheets are quite a sight to behold!
 
Matt N said:
I love doing this sort of thing with my theme park visitation/coaster riding, and I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one around these parts who enjoys a good bit of geeky statistic logging! To be honest, it’s a side of my theme park enthusiasm that I’m often a bit hesitant about expressing on TowersStreet, as I was under the impression that this site has a generally more casual member base who frown upon overly statistical folks like me…

My data logging is done across a number of separate spreadsheets rather than a beautiful amalgamated spreadsheet like yours, but I do have a number of different spreadsheets to show a number of different stats.

My spreadsheets are:
My Roller Coasters Ranked (I think I may need to update this one, as I think it doesn’t quite line up with my most recent Captain Coaster list)


My Theme Parks Ranked


My Historical Roller Coaster Rankings by Year


All the Roller Coasters I've Ridden in the Order I Rode Them


All the Parks I've Visited in the Order I Visited Them


Most Ridden Coasters & Most Visited Parks


Years in Review


View these at your pleasure! I've managed to compile quite a number of stats over the years, including my rankings over time, my most ridden coasters, my most visited parks, my best years for coaster and ride count, my best years for number of unique coasters ridden and parks visited, and my best years for rides per unique coaster and days per unique park!

By the looks of the brilliant spreadsheets shown here, though, it looks like there's so much more I could do with mine! @Poisson and @Burbs, your spreadsheets are quite a sight to behold!
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Why did I think you might pipe up? :p

I make no apologies for my blatant spreadsheet fanboyism - I find it incredibly therapeutic and in a weird way is something to look forward to updating after a theme park trip somewhere, especially if visiting new places. Originally mine were like yours (a somewhat rudimentary list of coasters I'd ridden at different parks), but now it's just that one master spreadsheet and another one to track my individual trip ride counts, the data from which is pulled into the dashboard of the one I linked to above.

Feel free to nick anything from my sheets (ideas, formulas etc) - I spent a long time on it and it still changes from time to time. It's a good way to learn new formulas and how they work if nothing else, and I'd say it's developed skills I've been able to use at work too. I've also created stupidly detailed holiday spreadsheets too, off the back of this, which can work out all sorts, especially useful for groups of friends who are splitting costs.
 
Here are all my ridecount stats, which are sadly less detailed than all of yours. I'll be trying to add some more geeky stuff sometime in the future.
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