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Watch five millennia of rankings reorder themselves — market caps, medal counts, empires and megacities, animated as bar chart races.
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Four races that show what the site does — a platform war, an empire, a feud and a subscriber land-grab.
Most Valuable Public Companies
Forty-five years of the world's biggest companies by market value, from AT&T and IBM through Japan's bubble-era giants to today's AI-fueled trillion-dollar club.
Nvidia$3.90T
Largest Empires by Land Area
Four and a half thousand years of imperial reach, measured by peak land area in millions of km².
Russian Empire17.1M km²
Most-Subscribed YouTube Channels
YouTube’s subscriber race starts with individuals and ends with media companies, music labels and kid-video empires.
MrBeast410M
The Streaming Wars
Global paid subscribers of the big video streamers, from Netflix's lonely head start in 2011 to a crowded 2020s battlefield.
Netflix310M
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Longest races
Technology & Business
11Market caps, market share and the platform wars — the fastest-moving leaderboards on the site.
Most Valuable Public Companies
Nvidia$3.90T
Largest AI Training Runs
xAI90.0 YFLOPs
Smartphone OS Market Share
Android72.0%
Social Platforms by Monthly Users
Facebook3.08B
Search Engine Market Share
Google90.8%
EV Makers by Annual Sales
BYD2.05k
Solar Power Capacity by Country
China887.1 GW
Windows Version Market Share
Windows 1172.0%
Cloud Infrastructure Share
Amazon AWS29.0%
The Browser Wars
Chrome66.0%
Chipmakers by Revenue
NVIDIA$115.0B
Sports
11Careers and dynasties measured in weeks, points, golds and titles — some races run for a century.
Chess: The Rating Race
Magnus Carlsen2,833
Weeks at ATP World No. 1
Novak Djokovic428 wks
Weeks at WTA World No. 1
Steffi Graf377 wks
Olympic Gold Medals by Country
United States1,107
NBA Career Scoring Leaders
LeBron James43,500 pts
Formula 1 Driver Wins
Lewis Hamilton105 wins
MLB Career Home Run Leaders
Barry Bonds762 HR
World Cup Career Goals
Miroslav Klose16 goals
F1 Constructors by Points
Mercedes9,350 pts
Grand Slam Singles Titles
Novak Djokovic24
European Cup / Champions League Titles
Real Madrid15
Entertainment & Culture
9Box office, album sales and subscriber counts — fame, charted frame by frame.
The Streaming Wars
Netflix310M
Highest-Grossing Film Franchises
Marvel Cinematic Universe$31.9B
Best-Selling Music Artists
The Beatles804M
Music Streamers by Subscribers
Spotify290M
Highest-Paid Actors
Dwayne Johnson$88.0M
Most-Subscribed YouTube Channels
MrBeast410M
Best-Selling Manga Series
One Piece520M
Most-Visited Museums
Louvre9.0M
Highest-Grossing Films of All Time
Avatar$2,923M
Science & Infrastructure
10Height records, FLOPS, laureates and megacities — the slow, massive races civilisation runs against itself.
Longest Suspension Bridge Spans
Çanakkale 1915 Bridge2,023 m
World's Tallest Buildings
Burj Khalifa828 m
Fastest Supercomputers
El Capitan1.74 EFLOPS
Nobel Prizes by Country
United States430
Global Life Expectancy Leaders
Hong Kong85.3 yrs
World’s Most Populous Cities
Tokyo37.1M
World's Busiest Airports
Atlanta ATL106.0M
Wind Power Capacity by Country
China521.3 GW
Nuclear Power Generation
United States785 TWh
World's Largest Airlines
American226M pax
Money & Markets
7Economies, fortunes and war chests — who has the most, and who's catching up fastest.
World & Nations
7Populations, emissions and arsenals — the century-scale races that redraw the map.
Games & Play
6Consoles, franchises and prize pools — the leaderboards of how the world plays.
History & Antiquity
6The longest races on the site — empires, economies and faiths measured across millennia, from antiquity to now.
Wildcard
6Personal picks that don't fit a lane — starting with a companion race to One Infinite Fruit.
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