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Sport
Eras, positions and the arguments that never end.
24 contendersFootballLionel Messi or Pelé?Open the chart ↗24 contendersBasketballMichael Jordan or LeBron James?Open the chart ↗8 contendersFormula 1Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher?Open the chart ↗8 contendersTennisNovak Djokovic or Roger Federer?Open the chart ↗8 contendersBoxingMuhammad Ali or Joe Louis?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCricketSir Donald Bradman or Sachin Tendulkar?Open the chart ↗8 contendersGolfJack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAthleticsUsain Bolt or Eliud Kipchoge?Open the chart ↗8 contendersRugbyJonah Lomu or Dan Carter?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCyclingEddy Merckx or Fausto Coppi?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's footballMarta or Mia Hamm?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's basketballDiana Taurasi or A'ja Wilson?Open the chart ↗8 contendersManagersSir Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's cricketBelinda Clark or Mithali Raj?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's golfAnnika Sörenstam or Mickey Wright?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's rugbyPortia Woodman or Emily Scarratt?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWomen's boxingKatie Taylor or Claressa Shields?Open the chart ↗8 contendersGoalkeepersLev Yashin or Gianluigi Buffon?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDefendersPaolo Maldini or Franco Baresi?Open the chart ↗8 contendersSnookerRonnie O'Sullivan or Stephen Hendry?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDartsPhil Taylor or Michael van Gerwen?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAmerican footballTom Brady or Jerry Rice?Open the chart ↗8 contendersMMAJon Jones or Georges St-Pierre?Open the chart ↗8 contendersIce hockeyWayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux?Open the chart ↗8 contendersHorse racingFrankel or Secretariat?Open the chart ↗
Music
Players, voices and the work that outlived them.
8 contendersGuitaristsJimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page?Open the chart ↗8 contendersBandsThe Beatles or The Rolling Stones?Open the chart ↗8 contendersVocalistsAretha Franklin or Freddie Mercury?Open the chart ↗8 contendersRappersNas or Jay-Z?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDrummersJohn Bonham or Keith Moon?Open the chart ↗8 contendersComposersJohann Sebastian Bach or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?Open the chart ↗8 contendersProducersGeorge Martin or Quincy Jones?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAlbumsPet Sounds or Revolver?Open the chart ↗8 contendersSongwritersBob Dylan or Leonard Cohen?Open the chart ↗8 contendersJazzMiles Davis or John Coltrane?Open the chart ↗8 contendersPop starsMadonna or Prince?Open the chart ↗8 contendersSongsBohemian Rhapsody or Like a Rolling Stone?Open the chart ↗8 contendersElectronicKraftwerk or Daft Punk?Open the chart ↗
Screen
Directors, performances and the canon.
24 contendersFilmsThe Godfather or 2001: A Space Odyssey?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDirectorsStanley Kubrick or Martin Scorsese?Open the chart ↗8 contendersActorsMarlon Brando or Al Pacino?Open the chart ↗8 contendersTV seriesThe Sopranos or The Wire?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAnimated filmsSpirited Away or Toy Story?Open the chart ↗8 contendersScreenwritersBilly Wilder or Paddy Chayefsky?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCinematographersRoger Deakins or Conrad Hall?Open the chart ↗8 contendersHorrorThe Shining or The Exorcist?Open the chart ↗8 contendersScience fictionBlade Runner or The Matrix?Open the chart ↗8 contendersFilm composersJohn Williams or Ennio Morricone?Open the chart ↗
Games
Consoles, worlds and the people who mastered them.
8 contendersVideo gamesTetris or Ocarina of Time?Open the chart ↗8 contendersConsolesPlayStation 2 or Super Nintendo?Open the chart ↗8 contendersBoard gamesChess or Go?Open the chart ↗8 contendersEsportsLee “Faker” Sang-hyeok or Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDesignersShigeru Miyamoto or Hideo Kojima?Open the chart ↗8 contendersMultiplayerCounter-Strike or StarCraft?Open the chart ↗8 contendersIndieHollow Knight or Celeste?Open the chart ↗
Technology
The machines, languages and people that built the stack.
8 contendersOperating systemsUnix or Linux?Open the chart ↗8 contendersLanguagesC or Lisp?Open the chart ↗8 contendersProgrammersDonald Knuth or Ken Thompson?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCompaniesApple or Google?Open the chart ↗8 contendersWebsitesWikipedia or Google Search?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAppsWhatsApp or Google Maps?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDistributionsDebian or Arch?Open the chart ↗
Comedy
Timing, writing and the hardest job in entertainment.
24 contendersComediansGeorge Carlin or Richard Pryor?Open the chart ↗8 contendersSitcomsFawlty Towers or Blackadder?Open the chart ↗8 contendersComedy filmsMonty Python's Life of Brian or Some Like It Hot?Open the chart ↗8 contendersPerformersCharlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton?Open the chart ↗8 contendersSketch showsMonty Python's Flying Circus or Saturday Night Live?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCharactersBasil Fawlty or Homer Simpson?Open the chart ↗
Food & drink
The dishes, drinks and kitchens worth arguing about.
8 contendersFoodsPizza or Sushi?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDrinksCoffee or Tea?Open the chart ↗8 contendersCuisinesItalian or Japanese?Open the chart ↗8 contendersChefsAuguste Escoffier or Paul Bocuse?Open the chart ↗8 contendersDessertsTiramisu or Crème brûlée?Open the chart ↗8 contendersBreakfastsFull Irish or Japanese breakfast?Open the chart ↗
Science & ideas
The minds that changed what was thinkable.
8 contendersScientistsIsaac Newton or Albert Einstein?Open the chart ↗8 contendersMathematiciansLeonhard Euler or Carl Friedrich Gauss?Open the chart ↗8 contendersInventionsThe printing press or Writing?Open the chart ↗8 contendersPhysicistsAlbert Einstein or Isaac Newton?Open the chart ↗8 contendersChemistsAntoine Lavoisier or Dmitri Mendeleev?Open the chart ↗8 contendersBiologistsCharles Darwin or Gregor Mendel?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAstronomersGalileo Galilei or Nicolaus Copernicus?Open the chart ↗8 contendersMedicineHippocrates or Edward Jenner?Open the chart ↗8 contendersEngineersIsambard Kingdom Brunel or Nikola Tesla?Open the chart ↗8 contendersPsychologistsDaniel Kahneman or Sigmund Freud?Open the chart ↗
History
Consequence, judged at a distance.
Philosophy
Two and a half thousand years of arguing about how to live.
8 contendersPhilosophersAristotle or Plato?Open the chart ↗8 contendersAncientSocrates or Plato?Open the chart ↗8 contendersEasternConfucius or Laozi?Open the chart ↗8 contendersPoliticalNiccolò Machiavelli or Thomas Hobbes?Open the chart ↗8 contendersExistentialismSøren Kierkegaard or Friedrich Nietzsche?Open the chart ↗
Places
Cities, landmarks and the built world.
Books & theatre
The canon, argued over one shelf and one stage at a time.
Business
Who built it, and what the name is worth.
Animals
The living world, ranked entirely by vibes.