A lot of the reason for Phoenix being so smooth is Knoebels having its own lumber mill. You can even see new wood sections in the video.

Schwarzkopf was so far ahead of their time. Their coasters aren’t very janky (like their competitor Arrow) and still run butter smooth.

I completely agree! Balder is extremely smooth. Even in the back row! What a masterpiece of a coaster!

For GCI I would definitely say Heidi The Ride at Plopsaland. It's really surprising how smooth it is. In fact, it's the smoothest coaster in the park. Pure wooden butter. Also, if you think Balder is smooth (which it is), be excited for Colossos at Heide Park. It's smoother than 95% of steel coasters I've ridden. Feels like ice gliding. It feels straight up wrong for a woodie

RCCA “ I only rode Son of Beast, it was horrendous. Moving on.” 😂😂😂😂 nothing more needed to be said

“You’ll be pressed to find a rough B&M” Rougarou would like to enter the conversation.

I was blown away with how smooth Kentucky Kingdom's coasters were, although I didn't ride T3.

Funny how most of Kentucky Kingdom’s coasters are smooth, and then there’s the opposite with T3. Rest in pieces T3

I went to ZDTs for the first time last month, and yeah, Switchback is fairly smooth. I did get a headache after a while, but that’s probably less to do with the smoothness of the coaster, and more to do with the no-lines and I rode it 5 times in a row with no stops lol

Some of the smoothest I’ve ridden: Mack - Ride To Happiness Gerstlauer - Gold Rush RMC - Untamed Intamin - Kondaa Vekoma - F.L.Y. (hon. men.: Python’s retrack) B&M - Baron 1898 GCI - Heidi the Ride

I got on Leviathan at Sea World in Australia in September, and it's currently a smooth (and overall fantastic) ride. Having also ridden Kentucky Flyer, Switchback, and Voyage this year, I'd say Switchback is the smoothest. None are particularly rough though, as Kentucky Flyer is still pretty new and Voyage gets great maintenance.

Never thought I’d see the day where Kentucky Kingdom dominates a list

I love Slinky Dog Dash. It is one of the better Disney coasters I have been on and the best family coaster I have been on so far. It is so much fun.

A note about Yukon Striker, I've had a few rough rides, and one that gave me a terrible headache for a bit afterward. This happened in the back row on the left side. So, an edge seat. But when it's not rough, it's definitely extremely smooth. There doesn't seem to be an in between.

Great video! Congrats to Kentucky Kingdom for having 3 winners on this list even though they had T3 ( Lightning Run, Thunder Run, and Kentucky Flyer)

There are only a few manufacturers where I've ridden enough coasters to really have an opinion. Some smooth ones: - Arrow: Gonna go with Loch Ness Monster. Of course it's being rebuilt now to make it even smoother. - PTC: Yankee Cannonball at Canobie Lake Park. This wasn't particularly smooth most of the times I rode it, but a retracking a few years ago left it phenomenally smooth, though enthusiasts complained it was also robbed of force. I don't know, I think it's OK. - Vekoma: Expedition Everest, Disney's Animal Kingdom. Haven't ridden any of the neo-Vekomas. - B&M: Shambhala, PortAventura. Yeah, there might be smoother ones, but this is pretty great. - Intamin: Uh, I think the smoothest Intamin I've ridden is Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts at Universal Studios Florida. Does that even count? And some smooth coasters from manufacturers where I really haven't ridden enough to compare: - Gravity Group: Roar-O-Saurus, Story Land. I rode this when it was very new and I've heard tell that it got a bit rougher later. But it was running great then. - Hopkins: Polar Coaster, Story Land. Cute kiddie/family ride. - Zamperla: Dragon Coaster, Canobie Lake Park. My daughter's nostalgic fave. - RMC: Wicked Cyclone, Six Flags New England. Yeah, it's smooth as hell, like you said. Controversial hot takes: - Gerstlauer: Untamed, Canobie Lake Park. I dunno, people complain about the roughness of this but I don't see it at all. Maybe I'm just the right height for the restraints. - CCI: Stampida, PortAventura. Again, I've heard people complaining that this nearly killed them and, well, it's not glass-smooth but I thought it was fine for smoothness.

As someone who’s ridden Skyline’s most recent coasters, I can confirm that Skyline’s smoothest coaster is actually Brava at MASSMoCA. That thing rides like butter. I just rode both sides of Kid Flash at Over Georgia on Sunday and it’s shockingly rattly for how new it is. I honestly don’t think it’s gonna last 5 years tbh.

Man, I wish Tunder Run was smooth when I rode it in July. I wasn't even in a wheel seat and it was bouncing and rattling like crazy. Timberwolf was smoother to me. Though I actually had like a 95% full train when I did Thunder Run, which is probably rare and might of made it run with to much weight.

I love this series called "Every Manufacturer's ........" I can't wait to see what is next!

Also, for Gravity Group, I think you forgot Roarasurus at Storyland. It is a fun and forceful ride that is worth the trip and somehow glass smooth still!

I love that three coasters on this list are at the Jersey shores! I've been on Great White and Hydrus, but not the tramcar one (my smoothest Zierer is easily "Impulse", located at the same place as the only other coaster on this list that I've ridden).

4:15 I gotta agree on Lightning Racer being smooth. Of the two GCIs I rode at HersheyPark, This is not only the smoother one, but I don’t have a grudge against it for making my gut hurt.

For B&M I gotta give a shoutout to Candymonium for being the smoothest roller coaster I’ve ever ridden

For me, the smoothest Arrow coaster is Road Runner Express at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. It's one of only a few mine train roller coasters I can think if without any rough transitions or bumpy spots. Some other smooth ones from Arrow that I can also think of are also mine train coasters such as Adventure Express at Kings Island, Goldrusher at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland. Some of their suspended coasters like Bat at Kings Island Ninja at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and the former Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens Williamsburg are among the smoothest that I've ridden from them also.

always a good day when chris uploads

For Intamin, you gotta get out to S.Korea sometime (I know, BIG ask) and do T Express. I was stunned how smooth it was in 2022, and apparently people actually consider it *rough* compared to usual, so they're retracking it this winter. That's gotta be in the talk for smoothest Intamin after the retrack I imagine..

Love your videos, man. Another great one as always!

I love how you said “Son of Beast, moving on….” 🤭

With such a low thrill level, I would be surprised if Slinky Dog Dash was rougher than the more thrilling coasters

Thunder Run opened with a double-up in the second half of the ride and it was intense with lots of airtime. When they re-tracked Thunder Run in 1995, they removed this element and put in a straight track section? It also opened with PTC trailer cars with no headrests, then changing to new PTC trains as it has now in 1996. The first drop was shortened some as well in 1995, but it’s still a great ride and smooth yes!

I love seeing Great White getting some love!! That coaster is my childhood and I've been meaning to take my kids down to Wildwood to experience it as I did.

I haven’t ridden all of the remaining Arrow coasters. But if the ones I have, I found Canyon Blaster to be the smoothest

Steel eel was insanely smooth. I was less impressed with comet and maybe Hershey park agrees with the new trains? Wicked cyclone is very smooth and I feel like even the 3rd lap is better?

For CCI, I think an honorable mention should go to Excalibur at Funtown/Splashtown in Saco Maine. They did a great job smoothing it out and it is a fun ride with a lot of Good Laterals

I already knew Mystic Timbers would make this list as soon as I watched the roughest coasters vid. It’s the only woodie that I can have my hands up on and not fear for my neck and spine lol. A great choice!

Great video! I had a feeling you were gonna choose Phoenix on the PTC part. And I'd honestly pick Steel Vengeance as the smoothest RMC I've been on. (As well as being the only one of its kind I have ridden so far)

One of my favorite KZfaqrs (this man is top tier)

For me so far: Arrow - Tennessee Tornado (definitely either this or Loch Ness) B&M - Batman the Ride SFOG (there are other smooth B&Ms like Orion, but it's impressive how well this runs despite its age) CCI - ??? (I've only ridden Cheetah and that's definitely NOT smooth) Chance - Joker Funhouse Coaster (only one I've ridden) E&F - Swampwater Snake GCI - Mystic Timbers Gerstlauer - FireChaser Express (Dare Devil Dive is also pretty smooth) Gravity Group - only ridden Mine Blower, so... Intamin - Hagrid's Mack - Slinky Dog Dash (it didn't even feel like I was on a track!) Maurer - Rip Ride Rockit for all of my smooth rides, Go Bananas for my rough ride on RRR Premier - Ice Breaker PTC - Cannon Ball RMC - uhh anything lol S&S - Tumbili (only ridden this one and it was smooth so) Schwarzkopf - Mindbender (pretty smooth, also the only one I've ridden lol) Vekoma - Dragonflier Wiegand - Rocky Top Mountain Coaster Zamperla - Galaxy Spin Zierer - Air Grover

I feel like for Mack rides, Dc Rivals at Movie world Australia deserves something, every time I ride, it has been one of the smoothest experiences

Yukon is one of my faves! Also found it quite smooth.

Roughest and smoothest coaster built by a park in-house?

i love Medusa at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, always smooth, and never breaks down

Chris, I love your channel and the content you create. I have been a subscriber for almost a year, and I admire your opinions and rankings. But I have to STRONGLY disagree with your pick of Tennessee Tornado as the smoothest Arrow. I rode it last month, and it was really janky. I don’t know if I just got a bad ride, but after getting off, I said I would not be doing that again. The only other Arrow I have ridden is Dahlonega mine train at SFOG, and I felt that was smoother.

I’m genuinely excited when he uploads

Gotta give b&m to the swarm. So smooth but yet so intense

RCCA: moving on. This dude is smart.

I found back row on Diamondback to be surprisingly smooth even though it’s known to have a rattle. Honestly it wasn’t that bad

I mean Balder has just received a retrack so it makes sense but it’s not like it was rough before

Phoenix at Deno's is hands-down the smoothest coaster I've ever ridden. It's so smooth that you can feel the seams between track segments, something I've never felt before (although the ride's lack of intensity certainly makes it easier to notice)

Just came back from school for the weekend and this made my weekend wayyy better edit: I've been on an SBF visa spinner (Full-Scale) at bawadi mall Al Ain its pretty rough tho you bang on the sides of the seat but it's still fun

Guardian’s of the galaxy is the smoothest coaster I have ever road on. Butter smooth and like nothing else out there.

I gotta give the smoothest Arrow to Gemini, that thing was surprisingly butter smooth

I’ve ridden 4 B&M hypers- Nitro, Mako, Candymonium, and Apollos chariot and every one of them were super smooth

Kentucky Flyer is still a pretty smooth ride, I did notice a little more rattle than usual on drop after the turn around this season but nothing I would consider rough or unpleasant. I'm honestly kind of shocked to know that so many of the smoothest rides are in my little home park. (Guess we had to have something other than T3 🤣)

Helix is my pick for smoothest Mack but I've not ridden anywhere near as many coasters as this dude

Finally let’s gooo part twoooooooo

I will give you Tennessee Tornado for Arrow… but Loch Ness Monster was a brain basher for me. Hoping for the best with the refit.

Kentucky flyer is still smooth i went last month and it’s smooth

I got my first Giovanola coaster rides over the past month or so, and based on everything I'd heard I wasn't expecting much. Because of that they blew away my expectations. Especially Titan. Titan in the front row is amazing. The airtime is good if not great but it's just such a unique ride. In the front row coming off the brake run after coming almost to a stop and tilting 90°, in the front car it genuinely feels like it's just going to dump you right out. Ride front row left side for the best experience. The front row also hits that first helix at what feels like an out of control speed. You pull so so many G's through that helix and it seems like it's never going to end. Your hands over your head feel like they weigh 200lbs and you get several seconds where you can't even breathe. Put all that together with write ops that don't staple you and it's a beautiful recipe. When I was there last it was a really foggy night, and the top of the lift hill was obscured in fog. It was such an eerie sight, just days before Halloween I think. The lift till looked like it went up into Oblivion. These were some of my most fun rides ever on any coaster. Can't wait to get back down there and ride again.

I’m gonna say for Zeirer their smoothest coaster is verbolten because it is smooth like pudding and I think PTC”s smoothest coaster is swamp Fox at family kingdom in Myrtle beach.

fønix being the smoothest coaster at vekoma

dear airtime thrill. Leviathan has been rough since day one, gravity group is just rough

Thanks dude 🙂

In my opinion vekoma should be Guardians of the Galaxy. Such a great ride!

Kentucky Kingdom: highest smoothest coasters per capita. Nice.

I think GCI should've been Wicker Man at Alton Towers, it feels like you're levitating

I love how most of these are more thrill rides then you got slinky dog dash also I thought this was a cool idea

I agree with mist. Buyt for Schwarzkopf it's definitely Olympia Looping and for Togo it's Fujiyama. As for Vekoma, there are some good ones in Europe.

Wildcat at Washington State Fair - my 1st coaster credit ever way back in 1983 or 84! So good for what it is - although going to the fair just 2wks after a Disney/Universal/Knotts/SFMM weeklong coaster trip really...sucks... ride-wise!

Runaway tram is the only zierer I’ve ridden but it is super smooth

Thunderhead at Dollywood was surprisingly smooth

Kentucky Kingdom coming in strong. I definitely need to visit this park, even though Kings Island is my home park.

CCI coasters aged like hell, but I remember GhostRider at Knott's being extremely smooth for its first 5-ish years of operation. Boulder Dash, Raven, and Legend were also known as smooth rides in their early days.

nice vid keep it going :)

I rode Thunder Run in 2020 as well and it was a good time. But by 2022 it had developed a back breaking pot hole on the first drop.

Stunt Pilot and Tremors are in my top 5 smoothest coasters I’ve ever ridden, still can’t believe how good the latter was, almost felt like a GCI

10:28 They’re open now and they’re great! I rode both sides at SFOG. Yellow was butter smooth, red had a minor vibration that is likely wheel gaps or smth

Cmon Chris, Arrow's Canyon Blaster at the Adventuredome in Vegas is so smooth!

vekoma's STC (Suspended Thrill Coaster) Prototype hals-über-kopf at Tripsdrill in germany is buttery smooth for a suspended thrill coaster. you should consider it in your list

Twisted Timbers was AMAZING when I rode it. I wonder if it’s still running smoothly now

Copperhead strike has crazy rattle in the second half so I don’t know how that could be considered smooth

B&M's Leviathan at Canadas Wonderland is my personal smoothest.

GCI smooth candidate in Europe: Heidi the Ride at Ride to Happiness European Mack Rides contender: any Mack Coaster at Europapark (except Euromir) European smooth Gerstlauer contender: Karacho at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill or G'sengte Sau at the same Park European smooth Vekoma contender: F.L.Y at Phantasialand Smooth European B&M contender: Oblivion: The black Hole at Gardaland or Black Mamba at Phantasialand. Smooth European RMC Contender: Untamed at Walibi Holland

Kentucky Kingdom taking 3 of the smoothest 👏👏👏👏

For Vekoma id myself probably say either the Python Retrack (in my opinion so smooth its nearly boring) or FLY at Phantasia. For a flying coaster i was truly amazed.

I suspect penguin trek is going to be the smoothest coaster ever.

Surprised to see Thunder Run on this list, when i rode it in June last year it was horrible. It jacked all of our backs right up 😫

i just rode lightning racers for the first time a few months ago and my main takeaway was it was rough haha

When I went on lightning racer I got jackhammered in every single valley. It was so painful.

The demon at six flags great america got new trains and trackwork this year, it now runs like a modern looper, I never even have to brace, its glossy smooth.

Candymonium is my smoothest B&M. That or Orion. Felt like I was just floating on clouds.

The smoothest arrow is undoubtedly Ninja at magic mountain. I cannot be convinced otherwise. Compared to any other arrow suspended swinger, ninja is smooth, fun, and great on the terrain!

I have only rode wiegand alpine coasters and they are shockingly smooth

Also Dare Devil Dive was the smoothest Gerstlauer I've ridden

I also think Thunder Striker at Carowinds is smooth as glass!

I recently went on Manta at SeaWorld San Diego!

I would like to nominate Ravine Flyer II for large-scale Gravity Group

Arrow: In my experience, it's Corkscrew at Michigans Adventure. B&M: I agree about Yukon Striker, with an honorable mention to Leviathan & Mako. CCI: My thoughts exactly on both GhostRider & Great White. Dinn: Having not ridden the retracked Predator, my pick is Wolverine Wildcat, edging out Timber Wolf. Thunder Run was much smoother in 2020 than it was in 2022 & 2023. GCI: agreed Gerstlauer: None have been very rough for me. I agree with Hydrus, with Monster a close 2nd. Gravity Group: My pick is easily Zippin Pippin. Intamin: Pantheon edges out Millennium Force. Mack: agreed, with Time Traveler a close 2nd. Morgan: easy pick there Pinfari: They're all glossy smooth. I'll go with El Bandido at Western Playland. PTC: Phoenix wasn't rough, but it wasn't smooth for me. I pick Comet at Waldameer or Racer 75--KD. RMC: So many options, but Iron Rattler seems the smoothest to me. S&S: My pick is Steel Curtain, but Maxx Force was very smooth too. Shwarzkopf: I never rode yours, so I'm going with Shock Wave--SFOT. Togo: My only one is the perfectly smooth Ultra Twister at Astroworld. Vekoma: Dragonflier & Phoenix are basically a tie for me. Zamperla: Moto Coaster or Steeplechase are smooth, but my pick is Daddy's Pig Coaster in Florida. Zierer: yeah, probably. E&F Miler: It's hard to pick, since they all seem perfectly smooth.

I think "Monster" at Adventureland should be on here...

T3 had to balance out Kentucky kingdom’s smoothness