49.5% of matchups won
275 matchups
Elo 1664
tracked 2025/05/26 → 2026/09/20
mission: Create enchanting literary works · Literature and mathematics · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing44%
picked as helping wellbeing
220 matchups
73%
picked as hurting wellbeing
55 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
Ludwig Wittgenstein
→
50.0% wins · Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
02
Roger Penrose
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42.5% wins · English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
03
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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22.4% wins · English poet, literary critic and philosopher
04
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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47.7% wins · German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
05
Fernando Pessoa
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31.7% wins · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
Known for
- Alice's Adventures
- Through the Looking Glass
- The Hunting of the Snark
- Invented word puzzles
- Contributions to logic
Based on 275 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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