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Rankings & Flags

Compare Slugfester interlocutor scores and topic-level reasoning flags across published debate assessments.

One-on-one scorecard averages

Group debate scores are excluded. These averages summarize the published sample, not a definitive ranking of ability. Small samples and different opponents limit comparisons. Interactive filters and comparisons require JavaScript.

All eligible interlocutors, ordered by published average
Interlocutor	Scorecards	Average /100
Phil Halper	2	89
Gregg Caruso	1	89
Justin Clarke-Doane	1	88
Daniel Linford	2	87.5
Peter Millican	2	87.5
Joseph Schmid	6	87.3
Alex Malpass	7	87.1
Gary Habermas	1	87
Hans Halvorson	1	87
Scott Clifton	5	86.4
Joe Folley	6	86.2
Sean Carroll	3	86
Sean McDowell	2	86
Ed Feser	1	86
Matt Dillahunty	32	85.6
Bart Ehrman	14	85.6
Alex O'Connor	28	85.5
Susan Blackmore	3	85.3
Justin Schieber	4	85
AC Grayling	2	85
James Fodor	2	85
Brian Cutter	1	85
David Baggett	1	85
Jeffery Jay Lowder	1	85
Keith Fox	1	85
Paul Draper	1	85
Sabine Hossenfelder	1	85
Shelly Kagan	1	85
Steven Pinker	1	85
Lance Bush	5	84.8
Paulogia	5	84.6
David Enoch	2	84.5
Graham Oppy	12	84.1
Christopher Tomaszewski	2	84
Joel Settecase	1	84
Kenny Pearce	1	84
Klemens Kappel	1	84
Peter Singer	2	83.5
Stephen Law	5	83.4
Daniel Dennett	7	83
Max Baker-Hytch	3	83
Michael Ruse	3	83
Erik Wielenberg	2	83
Andrew Pyle	1	83
Anil Seth	1	83
Dan Paterson	1	83
Daniel B. Wallace	1	83
John Shook	1	83
Peter J. Williams	1	83
Tony Blair	1	83
James Anderson	2	82.5
Richard Dawkins	9	82.3
Michael Huemer	7	82
Randal Rauser	7	82
Alvin Plantinga	2	82
Robert Sapolsky	2	82
Alex Carter	1	82
Austin Dacey	1	82
Don Loeb	1	82
Dustin Crummett	1	82
Eric Sampson	1	82
Guillaume Bignon	1	82
Jonathan Haidt	1	82
Marvin Olasky	1	82
Philip Clayton	1	82
Tariq Ramadan	1	82
Philip Goff	5	81.6
Antony Flew	2	81.5
Michael Tooley	2	81.5
Christopher Hitchens	15	81.5
Sam Harris	8	81.1
Michael Licona	7	81
Stephen Woodford	6	81
Craig Evans	2	81
Mike Winger	2	81
Derek Lambert	1	81
Fuz Rana	1	81
Jimmy Akin	1	81
Matt Lutz	1	81
Raphael Lataster	1	81
Michael Shermer	8	80.9
James White	5	80.8
Bernardo Kastrup	6	80.7
Ben Watkins	3	80.7
Josh Rasmussen	5	80.6
Richard Carrier	8	80.5
Lawrence Krauss	3	80.3
Shabir Ally	3	80.3
James Tour	4	80.3
Miles Donahue	3	80
Matthew Adelstein	2	80
Nathan Hawkins	2	80
Paul Copan	2	80
Bertrand Russell	1	80
Julian Baggini	1	80
Lee Cronin	1	80
Sy Garte	1	80
Robert Price	4	79.8
David Wood	5	79.6
Jonathan McLatchie	6	79.5
Blake Giunta	2	79.5
Cameron Bertuzzi	2	79.5
Craig Biddle	2	79.5
John Dominic Crossan	2	79.5
Stephen Meyer	2	79.5
Tyler Vela	2	79.5
Sharon Dirckx	2	79
Dave Farina	1	79
Dennis R. MacDonald	1	79
Than Christopoulos	1	79
William Lane Craig	30	78.8
Glen Scrivener	6	78.3
Richard Swinburne	5	78
David Silverman	1	78
Frederick Copleston	1	78
James Marriott	1	78
Justin Bass	1	78
Michael Nugent	1	78
S. Joshua Swamidass	1	78
Samuel Nesan	1	78
Simon Edwards	1	78
Slavoj Žižek	1	78
Stephen Boyce	1	78
Tom Holland	1	78
Trent Horn	9	77.7
Tom Jump	6	77.7
Ross Douthat	3	77.7
Francis Collins	2	77.5
William Albrecht	2	77
Braxton Hunter	1	77
Jonathan Sacks	1	77
Justin Brierley	1	77
Peter Hitchens	1	77
Dan Barker	7	76.9
John Lennox	10	76.7
Aron Ra	6	76.5
Gregory Pine	3	76
Al Sharpton	1	76
Alex Rosenberg	1	76
Dennis Nørmark	1	76
Derek McAllister	1	76
Rowan Williams	1	76
Michael Jones	14	75.9
Iain McGilchrist	2	75.5
Zac Sechler	2	75.5
Keith Ward	3	75.3
Dinesh D'Souza	7	75
Jay Dyer	2	75
Jonathan Pageau	2	75
Douglas Wilson	1	75
Elizabeth Oldfield	1	75
Lukas Ruegger	1	75
Luuk Vandeweghe	1	75
Jordan Peterson	6	74.8
Adam Lloyd Johnson	2	74.5
Cliffe Knechtle	2	74.5
Frank Turek	8	74.1
Alister McGrath	4	74
Shmuley Boteach	1	74
Kyle Butt	2	73
Ayaan Hirsi Ali	2	72.5
Eric Hernandez	4	72
Andrew Loke	2	72
Rabbi David Wolpe	2	72
Eli Ayala	1	72
Massimo Pigliucci	1	72
Peter Atkins	6	71.7
Matt Slick	4	71.3
Ben Shapiro	1	71
Lewis Howitt	1	71
Michael Egnor	1	71
William Dembski	1	71
Dennis Prager	1	70
Kenny Rhodes	1	70
S.J. Thomason	1	70
Stuart Knechtle	2	69.5
Michel-Yves Bolloré	1	69
Victor Stenger	1	69
Ben Fischer	1	68
Ray Comfort	1	68
John Ferrer	1	67
Deepak Chopra	1	66
Sye Ten Bruggencate	1	64