About
rankl is a website where the internet ranks 10,033 things. Not literally everything -- nobody needs “grey mug” vs. “white mug” -- just the things that matter.
Where the list comes from. The catalog is Wikipedia's Vital Articles (levels 1-4): roughly 10,000 subjects that Wikipedia editors have argued into being the most important ones: people, foods, movies, animals, ideas, all of it. We re-sync with Wikipedia once a day; promotions and demotions by their editors show up on the Changes page.
How the ranking works. You vote up or down on random things, or pick the winner of a random head-to-head duel (the winner gets an upvote, the loser a downvote). Items are ordered by the lower bound of the Wilson score confidence interval on their upvote proportion, the same math Reddit uses for its “best” sort. In plain words: how good is this thing, pessimistically, given the evidence so far. A thing with 6 votes can't leapfrog a thing with 600 on luck alone.
Tips. On the voting page, press ↑ for yes, ↓ for no, and → to skip. So far the internet has cast 134 votes.
Titles, descriptions, and images come from Wikipedia and are licensed CC BY-SA.
A site by Sean Yang and Eric Zhong.