World's Fastest Elevators

I used to work in a building in which the elevators were so slow, you could get cheap amusement from watching the expressions of the Type-A after they punched the Up button.



In contrast, consider this Forbes article on speedster elevators:

The world's two fastest elevators, located in the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan, carry people from the ground to the top (101st floor) in 39 seconds, at an ear-popping 1,010 meters per minute, a speed one third faster than the previous record, according to engineer Roland Piquepaille. Not only are the cars fitted with pressure control systems, they're streamlined to cut down on whistling noise and vibration.