36.6% of matchups won
328 matchups
Elo 1471
tracked 2025/05/28 → 2026/04/06
mission: Integrate poetry and science · Literature and Philosophy · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing38%
picked as helping wellbeing
295 matchups
27%
picked as hurting wellbeing
33 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
Who rates it higher
See who rates Novalis higher
The 1 splits (party, gender, age, US vs. international) are free with an email. No password.
Rating over time
Elo, 7-day averageRelated
Similar people
01
Hermann Hesse
→
50.9% wins · Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
02
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
→
47.7% wins · German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
03
Fernando Pessoa
→
31.7% wins · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
04
Martin Heidegger
→
52.5% wins · German philosopher (1889–1976)
05
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
→
48.6% wins · German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Known for
- Hymns to the Night
- Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Magical Idealism
- Fragmentary Writing
- Jena Romanticism Influence
Based on 328 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/04/06. Full rankings ·
Want the full story?
Tracking over time, custom demographic cuts, benchmarking and message testing.
Commission a study →