41.5% of matchups won
352 matchups
Elo 1262
tracked 2025/05/28 → 2026/09/20
mission: Promote faith and philosophy · Literature and theology · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing48%
picked as helping wellbeing
260 matchups
22%
picked as hurting wellbeing
92 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
Who rates it higher
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
A. C. Grayling
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44.9% wins · English philosopher
02
Aldous Huxley
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55.6% wins · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
03
Bertrand Russell
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58.7% wins · British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
04
Leo Tolstoy
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55.0% wins · Russian author (1828–1910)
05
Albert Camus
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37.5% wins · French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Known for
- Created Father Brown
- Wrote Orthodoxy
- Advocated distributism
- Influenced C.S. Lewis
- Nominated for Nobel Prize
Based on 352 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/20. Full rankings ·
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