63.4% of matchups won
574 matchups
Elo 1692
tracked 2025/05/18 → 2026/01/05
mission: Promote literature and freedom · Literature and politics · politicians · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing61%
picked as helping wellbeing
498 matchups
80%
picked as hurting wellbeing
76 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
Leo Tolstoy
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55.0% wins · Russian author (1828–1910)
02
Fernando Pessoa
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31.7% wins · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
03
Voltaire
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65.5% wins · French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
04
Antonio Gramsci
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17.8% wins · Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
05
Vittorio Sgarbi
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50.3% wins · Italian art critic, politician and television personality
Known for
- Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize 1967
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize 1994
- Prince of Asturias Award 1986
- Member of Académie Française 2021
Based on 574 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/01/05. Full rankings ·
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