Best Squid Game characters

Cho Hyun-ju – 120 leads the Netflix ranking with 1359 ELO points over 479 duels, ahead of Seong Gi-hun – 456 and Hwang Jun-ho.

A 33 ELO point gap separates Cho Hyun-ju – 120 from Seong Gi-hun – 456 at the top, marking the sharpest divide in the ranking. Despite Seong Gi-hun – 456 winning 62% of his duels compared to Cho Hyun-ju – 120's 52%, the latter holds the lead with a stronger ELO score. Hwang Jun-ho sits at rank 3 with 1310 points, followed by Thanos – 230 at 1304 and Kim Jun-hee – 222 at 1299, showing how tightly contested the top 5 remains. At the bottom, the abstract symbols fare poorly: O button lands at rank 18 with 1051 points after 388 duels, while X button scores 1071 points at rank 17. The recruiter, a character from the franchise's origins, closes the bottom three at rank 16 with 1074 points, suggesting voters favor the second season's core cast over peripheral figures.

This Netflix ranking draws from 4454 duels cast by 79 players across 18 contenders, updated on 12 October 2026. The vote reflects which Squid Game 2 icon resonates most with the community, balancing character depth against screen presence. Cast your own duels to shape the ranking and see if Cho Hyun-ju – 120 can maintain the edge or if Seong Gi-hun – 456's higher win rate will eventually close the gap.

Updated on October 12, 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.

How our rankings are made →