About FlickPick

FlickPick helps you discover your personal top 10 films. Pick a seed list from curated rankings, then decide each head-to-head matchup — the algorithm narrows down your true favorites with minimal comparisons.

IMDb Top 250 — updated June 23, 2026

Letterboxd Top 500 — updated June 23, 2026

Douban Top 250 — updated June 23, 2026

Sight & Sound Greatest Films — 2022 Critics' Poll

TSPDT 1000 Greatest Films — 2026 edition

TSPDT 21st Century 1000 — 2026 edition

AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition

FlickPick uses a Tournament Tree with Replacement algorithm to find your Top 10 films with the fewest possible comparisons. It is the engineering-optimal solution for noiseless pairwise selection.

All films are placed as leaves of a complete binary tree. Adjacent films compete head-to-head, and winners advance upward. After N−1 matchups, the root holds your #1 film.

The champion is removed, and the path from its leaf to the root is re-evaluated. Each subsequent rank requires at most ⌈log₂N⌉ additional comparisons. The total is (N−1) + (K−1) × ⌈log₂N⌉.

For N=200 and K=10, you need only ~271 matchups — 85% fewer than fully sorting all films. This is the best achievable in the pairwise comparison model without noise.

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