37.5% of matchups won
248 matchups
Elo 1596
tracked 2025/05/24 → 2026/10/25
mission: Promote humanism and absurdism · Literature and philosophy · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing34%
picked as helping wellbeing
203 matchups
53%
picked as hurting wellbeing
45 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Jean-Paul Sartre
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60.4% wins · French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
02
Cornelius Castoriadis
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39.3% wins · Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
03
Aldous Huxley
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55.6% wins · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
04
Michel de Montaigne
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39.1% wins · French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
05
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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59.1% wins · French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Known for
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1957)
- The Stranger novel
- The Plague novel
- Combat newspaper editor
- Philosophical influence
Based on 248 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/25. Full rankings ·
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