64.8% of matchups won
3,605 matchups
Elo 1607
tracked 2025/05/29 → 2026/10/07
mission: Advance scientific knowledge · Physics and mathematics · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing67%
picked as helping wellbeing
2,779 matchups
58%
picked as hurting wellbeing
826 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2026-01-05Related
Similar people
01
Galileo Galilei
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70.4% wins · Italian polymath (1564–1642)
02
Archimedes
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66.9% wins · Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
03
Blaise Pascal
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52.1% wins · French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian...
04
Albert Einstein
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61.2% wins · german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
05
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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48.6% wins · German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Known for
- Laws of motion
- Universal gravitation
- Invented calculus
- Optics discoveries
- Mastered the Mint
Based on 3,605 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/07. Full rankings ·
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