Best meats to eat

Beef leads the Meat ranking with 1389 ELO points over 328 duels, ahead of Duck at 1347 points and Chicken at 1297 points.

The sharpest divide in the ranking separates Chicken from Pork: 95 ELO points create a clear break between the top three meats and the rest of the field. Beef dominates with a 72% win rate, while Duck holds second place despite a more modest 57% success rate. Pork and Veal share fourth place at 1202 points each, though Pork edges slightly ahead in duels won. At the bottom, Horse and Fish in General sit near-identical at 1080 and 1078 points respectively, with Rabbit trailing at 1055. The lower ranks reveal a community that decisively rejects certain options, with Horse winning just 35% of its encounters.

This ranking draws on 1486 duels cast by 74 players across 10 contenders, last updated on 11 October 2026. The data reflects direct head-to-head preferences rather than abstract ratings, capturing which meats voters choose when forced to pick between two options. The tight clustering at fourth and fifth place, and again at the bottom, suggests these matchups remain contested. Cast your own duels on VAINKEURZ to push your favorite meat up the ranking or confirm the current order.

Updated on October 11, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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