54.7% of matchups won
333 matchups
Elo 1478
tracked 2025/05/28 → 2026/10/10
mission: Explore human experiences through literature · Literature and feminism · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing57%
picked as helping wellbeing
268 matchups
45%
picked as hurting wellbeing
65 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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74.6% wins · English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
02
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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59.5% wins · American philosopher (1803–1882)
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Aldous Huxley
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55.6% wins · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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65.4% wins · Russian novelist (1821–1881)
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Kahlil Gibran
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Known for
- Middlemarch publication
- Realism in literature
- Critique of Victorian society
- Pioneering feminism
- Psychological character development
Based on 333 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/10. Full rankings ·
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