50.9% of matchups won
344 matchups
Elo 1600
tracked 2025/05/29 → 2026/09/14
mission: Explore spirituality and self-knowledge · Literature and spirituality · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing48%
picked as helping wellbeing
298 matchups
67%
picked as hurting wellbeing
46 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
Who rates it higher
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Eckhart Tolle
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44.0% wins · German author
02
Novalis
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36.6% wins · German poet and writer (1772-1801)
03
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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47.7% wins · German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
04
Aldous Huxley
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55.6% wins · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
05
Rudolf Steiner
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40.6% wins · Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
Known for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Published Siddhartha
- Wrote Steppenwolf
- Authored The Glass Bead Game
- Established literary legacy
Based on 344 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/14. Full rankings ·
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