22.4% of matchups won
255 matchups
Elo 1381
tracked 2025/05/25 → 2026/10/05
mission: Advance Romantic poetry and criticism · Literature and philosophy · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing20%
picked as helping wellbeing
225 matchups
40%
picked as hurting wellbeing
30 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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59.5% wins · American philosopher (1803–1882)
02
Lewis Carroll
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49.5% wins · British author and scholar (1832–1898)
03
Walter Benjamin
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39.8% wins · German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
04
Novalis
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36.6% wins · German poet and writer (1772-1801)
05
Rabindranath Tagore
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64.0% wins · Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Known for
- Founded Romantic movement
- Wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
- Established conversational poetry
- Authored 'Biographia Literaria'
- Influenced American transcendentalism
Based on 255 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/05. Full rankings ·
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