fastest elevator i've ever seen - 40 floors in 33 secs flat!

[connorboxer123]

I've been up 119 floors 1 journey 14 secs it was updown elevators & escalators co

[hendymartono]

matthew

[Skyscraper446]

I've been up 108 floors in 29 seconds.

[Windeelv20]

It is an old elevator, it must have been built in 1970. I wonder if it has been modernized yet...

[mrceleb2006]

Truly Japanese elevator made by Mitsubishi!

BTW, I hope the Japanese are OK after the devastating earthquake/tsunami, the worst since the earthquake in Haiti last year.

[georgef551]

Fastest Passenger Elevator EVER:

Search: "pointless milestone speedy"

One of many rides on the fastest passenger elevator is the World!

:)

[MrSidMan]

I'd have these reoccuring dreams of a certain building or plaza where the elevators were uncomfortably and curiously too fast.. Enough to give some good butterflies in the tummy. Being a resident to Las Vegas, we are frequently using elevators, but nothing matches these speeds... Stratosphere maybe, but I don't know exactly how fast it is..Seen some crazy things like the doors would open before it was fully level with the destination floor, halfway between levels! That could be a huge hazard.

[jerzeytpke]

@MrSidMan I remember when I went to the top of the World Trade Center that elevator was fast! There was a sign inside that said "as you decend you are becoming (I cant remember how many) pounds lighter. Felt like an amusement park ride.

[Windows446alt]

40 in 33? PFFT. I went up 108 in 29 seconds.

[UtubeJ8ke]

wtc ? wow

[dazilb]

this is the wtc that dint get hit

[dazilb]

i gto 40 in 40 seconds so

[BloodMagex]

And this one got 40 in 33 seconds

If you're going to say "so" you might want to state something that's faster not slower.

[jubjub5721]

well i have an explination.....japanese. lol

[Kingcoinhunter]

A Superb piece of machinery ... Amazing speed :-)

[cobiav8r]

jump!!!!!

[SallyAcornFan777]

This elevator reaches the speed of 1000 Feet Per Minute which is a decent speed.

[orangie84]

That's fast..

But before the twin towers in Manhattan were destroyed... back in the 80s my mother worked at the towers and she often took me to see her office when she worked there. I rode in those elevators.. I remember feeling g-forces as I rode on them.. I mean my throat went to my knees.. going up and in seconds we were around the 80th floor or so..

I mean in like 20 seconds! going down when I was younger I used to jump as it went down and I would nearly hit my head on the ceiling.

[nitish21]

lool thats sickk its that fast i wanna try that lol...i never got to go in the trade center ....suckss

[williegofar95]

omg !! i had a dream like that where i would be able to do that in an elevatier when the towers fel OMGOMGOMG

[alexrm82]

@orangie84

Everytimes I read such comments from people who had the possibility to visit WTC I feel sad because I would have appreciated so much to have had the same possibility :( What wonderful complex they should have been, when they stood over Manhattan...

[oros123456]

160 floors in 25 seonds is fast XD

[Shadowstep6278]

Look up the Stratosphere in Las Vegas.

[lukini101]

isn't that like dangerouse or something? going down that fast from that hight?

[dropdeadgorges101]

And it goes over 20 miles per hour my ears popped so bad.

[dropdeadgorges101]

I was on an elevator in Chicago (I live in Illinois Obviously) and it got to the 94th floor in 44 seconds.

[Windeelv20]

The building was completed in 1970. This elevator may be installed around 1970.

[beginmaster]

101th floor in 38 sec is fast (Taipei 101)

[zvcapricorn]

OMG 40 floors

[Londontownzy]

That was pretty fast

[fergiefart2]

110th floor in 60 secs is fast! (sears tower)

[tp444444444444444444]

try the Empire State Building lol. it goes fast

[ComputerTutorialz]

79th floor in 43 seconds is fast

[IntePent]

Does anybody know how old this elevator is, or in which year it was build?

[Mamba205]

The world's fastest elevator is at the Taipei 101 in Taiwan. It reaches 37.7 mph in just seconds. It goes from the 5th to the 89th floor (observatory) in just 38 seconds! They have all sorts of info at the building describing how the elevator works. The elevator is like a time machine. It is almost completely dark inside and they play trance/space age music on the ride up. They even have a LCD display that shows how fast you are going and stuff and where you are in the building!

[alexrm82]

Are you sure that it's the fastest elevator?

There's the elevator in Q1 building (australia), he needs only 26 seconds for 77 floors

[Mamba205]

The world's fastest elevator as of May 2008 is still the Taipei 101 at 37.5 mph. The second fastest elevator goes at 27 mph. So big difference. The worlds fastest elevator will be in the Burj Dubai at 40 mph when it opens next year.

[chumaster90]

@Mamba205 Its hella sick, i've been in one before. It goes up very (About 3 floors a second) and since it goes up that fast, the air pressure changes, so you have to swallow your spit

[DigitalGirl44]

lol, I took a vacation to New Orleans and went to this hotel. The elavator was REALLY fast! LOL

[dieselducy]

i love the vintage floor indicator

[chikotube]

looked like a speed indicator

[XCVY1]

Wow... bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech.

[cornbob]

I would've gotten sick or something...

too fast!

But, that's what elevators (and tower of terror) are for, getting places faster.

[auburn220]

I agree, i often get headaches when im on fast elevators.

[crapper1]

so many buttons i want to run my hand down em all and get off bwaha

[musicfreakcc]

I have a video of an elevator that ascends 52 floors in about 32 seconds.

[zonezonezone123456]

I was at GE Building in NYC, 59 floors in 45 seconds

[TomIRIDIUM]

Elevators at polish Palace of Culture and Science travel at similiar speed. 37 floors in 30 seconds.

[KWolfM]

Nope...I was 8th grade when I rode inside Sears Tower elevator lol. That happened in 2002 :-p

[KWolfM]

Yeah, I felt same way when I went up in Sears Tower elevator! I thought my ears were going pop!

[mitin007]

kooooooool..........hav a video of it doood????????

[clarkloveselevators]

@mitin007 I do! I will send it!

[yamahonkawazuki]

@KWolfM Been there im a chicago native. lol i know this feeling all too wll

[KWolfM]

Whoa, that was DAMN FAST! =-O

[mitin007]

yeah, i know...our ears were like blocked whn we were outta tht lift!!!!!!!!!