A good tier list idea has three things. Everyone in the room knows the items. Nobody agrees on the order. And there are enough items to fill six rows, about 15 to 40.
Here are 40 ideas that pass that test, in eight groups. Where one of our ready-made templates fits, the idea links to it, with the items already loaded.
Food and drink
Food is the easiest place to start. Everyone eats, and everyone is wrong about someone else's favorite.
- Fast food chains
- Candy
- Halloween candy, for sorting the trick-or-treat haul
- Breakfast cereal
- Soda
- Chips
- Pizza toppings
- Ice cream flavors
Games
Tier lists took off with fighting game players ranking characters, so games are home turf.
- Smash Ultimate fighters
- Valorant agents
- Pokémon starters
- Pokémon types
- Minecraft mobs
- The video games you've played
Movies, shows and anime
Rank a whole franchise, or one person's work from start to finish.
- Marvel movies
- Pixar movies
- Disney animated movies
- Anime series
- Every season of a long-running show
- A director's films
Music
- One artist's albums
- The songs on one album
- Music genres
- The last ten songs you played
Sports and brands
People and places
- Countries, by food, travel or flag
- US states
- US presidents
- Animals
School and the classroom
A tier list makes a quick class vote. Print the board and the cut-out cards, or put it on the screen.
- School subjects
- Fruit and vegetables, for younger classes
- Books from this year's reading list
- Planets in the solar system
Everyday life
The best arguments come from small things.
- Household chores
- Days of the week
- Holidays
Make one
Pick an idea with a template and you can start ranking right away. For anything else, open the tier list maker, type or paste your list, and drag. If you want to know what the rows mean first, read what S tier means.