The Split

Who is the bigger name?

Drawing a pair…

Pick a side with a tap, a click, or the left and right arrow keys. Each decided pair writes one row and moves both ratings by the Elo maths below — you see the numbers the server wrote, not an optimistic guess.

The count

In the poolstill reading

Active people this site can draw a pair from.

Votes, all timestill reading

Counted matchup rows since the board opened.

Votes todaystill reading

Since 00:00 UTC. Frequently zero — the board is new.

The tape

What your votes are feeding

The last five results, read live. Zero is a real answer here.

Reading the log…

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The method

What a vote does: A decided pair writes one matchup row and updates both people in a single transaction. Ratings are Elo with a K-factor of 32 and a floor of 100; everyone enters at 1500.
What stops a flood: Voting is anonymous — there is no account and no sign-in. Ballot stuffing is limited by an address window of 60 votes per five minutes; over that, the vote is refused and the Split says so rather than pretending it counted.
How a pair is drawn: Pairs are not random across the whole pool: the server draws a person at random and matches them with the nearest-rated person to them, which is what makes a rating settle rather than wander.

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