The utility model relates to a steel wire rope for an elevator speed limiter, in particular to a steel rope for a speed limiter on an elevator car. The steel wire rope consists of an outer-layer strand and a middle filling material, wherein the outer-layer strand is entwisted by a steel wire, and the outer-layer strand is encircled around the middle filing material. The steel wire rope is characterized in that the middle filling material consists of three strands, wherein the production method of each strand of the middle filling material comprises the following steps of: making into a thin wire with polyvinyl proprionate grains and polyethylene grains according to the weight proportion of 1:1, and entwisting. The steel wire rope can prevent the elevator car from being out of control caused by the fault of the speed limiter, and can guarantee that the elevator can normally run.