47.7% of matchups won
298 matchups
Elo 1583
tracked 2025/05/17 → 2026/10/26
mission: Advance literature and science · Literature and science · politicians · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing46%
picked as helping wellbeing
252 matchups
54%
picked as hurting wellbeing
46 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
Who rates it higher
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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48.9% wins · German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
02
Hermann Hesse
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50.9% wins · Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
03
Novalis
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36.6% wins · German poet and writer (1772-1801)
04
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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48.6% wins · German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
05
Johannes Kepler
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38.0% wins · German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
Known for
- Faust creation
- Sorrows of Young Werther
- Weimar Classicism
- Botanical studies
- Influential philosophy
Based on 298 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/26. Full rankings ·
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