One click, and what happens behind it
The game takes no explaining. The ranking underneath it does, so here it is in full.
A run
Two contenders appear. You pick one. The winner stays on screen and a fresh challenger takes the other side — so what you are really doing is defending your last choice, over and over. After 15 duels whatever is still standing is your champion.
You can stop early at any point and crown whatever is on screen. A run that ends because somebody got bored is a real result, not a failure, and it counts the same.
Who you get shown
Challengers are not random. Each one is picked to be close in rating to your current champion, so the duel is worth thinking about, and biased towards contenders that have been shown least, so the whole field gets covered instead of the same lucky few. Enough noise is mixed in that two runs never look alike, and nothing you have already seen comes back inside the same run.
What your vote does
Every vote moves two ratings: the winner gains, the loser loses, and the amount depends on who was expected to win. Beating a contender rated far above you is worth a great deal; beating one far below you is worth almost nothing.
New contenders move faster than settled ones, so a fresh arena sorts itself out within a few hundred votes and then stops churning every time somebody clicks. At the end of a run you are shown exactly what your votes moved — including where your champion would sit if your run were taken back out of the numbers.
The duel of the day
One question, the same one for everybody, replaced at midnight UTC. One vote per device, and the split appears the moment you answer.
It exists for a reason beyond novelty. Votes spread across thousands of different pairings never accumulate into a percentage anyone can be shown — on this site’s first few hundred votes, not one pair reached five. Pointing everybody at the same pair for a day is what turns clicks into an actual number.
Head-to-head pages
Every pair the site has settled gets a permanent page — /vs/interstellar-vs-inception and so on — showing the split and where both stand. They only enter search once the pair has 8 votes behind it, because a page reading “1 vote, 100%” is worth nothing to the person who clicked it.
The finals
The top of a leaderboard is its most visible part and its least earned one. In a normal run the champion beats a chain of challengers drawn from the whole field, so first and second place almost never meet — their order comes from who each of them happened to beat along the way.
A finals run fixes that: the top 10 are made to face each other, so every duel is between two contenders whose order is genuinely in question. It opens once an arena has 100 votes, because below that the top ten is whoever got lucky.
Expect the ranking to shift when finals run. That is the point — those are the votes that actually compared the leaders.
What is remembered about you
Nothing until you play, and then only on your own device: an anonymous id so the site can keep one vote per day per person and remember which arenas you have settled. No account, no email, no ads. The full detail is on the privacy page.
Last updated 17 August 2026.