59.5% of matchups won
368 matchups
Elo 1483
tracked 2025/05/24 → 2026/10/02
mission: Promote individualism and self-reliance · Philosophy and literature · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing63%
picked as helping wellbeing
296 matchups
46%
picked as hurting wellbeing
72 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
Who rates it higher
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Henry David Thoreau
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34.9% wins · American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
02
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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22.4% wins · English poet, literary critic and philosopher
03
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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70.8% wins · Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)
04
Ramana Maharshi
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54.6% wins · Indian Hindu sage (1879–1950)
05
Rabindranath Tagore
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64.0% wins · Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Known for
- Led Transcendentalist movement
- Wrote 'Self-Reliance'
- Influenced American literature
- Critiqued slavery
- Presented 'American Scholar'
Based on 368 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/02. Full rankings ·
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