tierlists.org

Tier list ideas

Ideas · 6 min read

At a glance

The best tier list ideas are narrow enough to be arguable: not best films, but best horror films of the 2010s. Popular topics include anime series, football clubs, Pokemon starters, fast food chains, K-pop groups and days of the week.

A tier list is only fun if people disagree with it. That means the topic has to be specific enough that reasonable people land in different places. Best music is not a topic. Best decade for pop music is.

Anime and manga

  • Shonen protagonists, ranked by how much you would want them on your side
  • Anime openings you never skip
  • Studios, by how consistent their output is
  • Power systems, judged only on how well the rules hold up
  • Series you finished versus series you dropped

The ready made sets are in anime templates.

Games

  • Every console you have owned
  • Game genres, by how often you actually finish one
  • Boss fights, ranked by how good they felt rather than how hard they were
  • Franchises that should have stopped three games ago
  • Minecraft mobs, purely on vibes

Sets for these are in video game templates and Pokemon templates.

Sport

  • Premier League clubs by how much you enjoy watching them, not by table position
  • Football positions, ranked by how much you would want to play there
  • NFL teams by uniform rather than record
  • Sports that are better in person than on television
  • National teams by how entertaining they are at a World Cup

Music

  • Genres by how well they age
  • Decades of pop music
  • Instruments you wish you had learned
  • K-pop generations
  • Rappers, with the rule that you must justify anything in S tier

Food and everyday life

These are the easiest lists to start and the hardest to agree on, which is exactly why they travel so well.

  • Fast food chains near you
  • Fruits, with no mercy
  • Days of the week
  • Household chores by how much you avoid them
  • School subjects, judged from adulthood
  • Colours, which somehow always causes an argument
  • Pets, by how much work they are worth

Turning an idea into a chart

Pick one, open the template library, and if the set exists it loads straight into the maker. If it does not, add your items as text in a few seconds. The step by step is in how to make a tier list.

Read next

How to make a tier listFrom a blank chart to a finished image in about two minutes, plus the small habits that make a list readable instead of a mess.How toWhat is a tier list?A tier list is a ranking chart built from rows. Here is where the format came from, how the letters work, and when it beats a normal numbered list.Basics

Ready to make a tier list?

Scroll back up, add your items, drag them into tiers and download the image. No sign-up, and nothing you make is stored on our servers.

Create a tier list