60.4% of matchups won
328 matchups
Elo 1655
tracked 2025/05/24 → 2026/09/25
mission: Explore human freedom and ethics · Philosophy and literature · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing60%
picked as helping wellbeing
292 matchups
67%
picked as hurting wellbeing
36 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
Albert Camus
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37.5% wins · French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
02
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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70.8% wins · Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)
03
Marquis de Sade
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48.8% wins · French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer...
04
Arthur Schopenhauer
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48.1% wins · German philosopher (1788–1860)
05
Michel de Montaigne
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39.1% wins · French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
Known for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Existentialism philosophy
- No Exit play
- Being and Nothingness
- Political activism
Based on 328 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/25. Full rankings ·
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