59.7% of matchups won
362 matchups
Elo 1730
tracked 2025/05/24 → 2026/10/27
mission: Explore imagination through art · Poetry and visual art · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing56%
picked as helping wellbeing
308 matchups
78%
picked as hurting wellbeing
54 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
John Ruskin
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64.9% wins · English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
02
Kahlil Gibran
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47.3% wins · Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
03
Lewis Carroll
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49.5% wins · British author and scholar (1832–1898)
04
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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22.4% wins · English poet, literary critic and philosopher
05
Leonardo da Vinci
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58.0% wins · Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Known for
- Songs of Innocence
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Illustrated Bible
- Innovative engraving techniques
- Dante's Divine Comedy illustrations
Based on 362 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/27. Full rankings ·
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