Cereal Tier List: The Best Cereals, Head-to-Head
All 32 cereals here, ranked by 108 players. Cinnamon Toast Crunch leads: it wins 81.3% of its matchups (n = 337) and was champion in 34 of 108 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Apple JacksApple & cinnamon
Frosted Mini-WheatsFrosted wheat biscuits
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Breakfast Cereal: the community’s best
Win rate across 2,724 head-to-head picks from 108 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Cereal | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinnamon Toast CrunchThe taste you can see | 274–63 | 81.3% | 34 | 337 | |
| 2 | Honey Nut CheeriosBee happy, bee healthy | 143–78 | 64.7% | 5 | 221 | |
| 3 | Lucky CharmsMagically delicious | 154–88 | 63.6% | 8 | 242 | |
| 4 | Frosted FlakesThey're Gr-r-reat! | 144–85 | 62.9% | 7 | 229 | |
| 5 | Froot LoopsFollow your nose | 143–90 | 61.4% | 5 | 233 | |
| 6 | Cookie CrispCookies for breakfast | 117–76 | 60.6% | 4 | 193 | |
| 7 | Cap'n Crunch's Crunch BerriesWith berry pieces | 122–83 | 59.5% | 6 | 205 | |
| 8 | Fruity PebblesYabba Dabba Doo! | 114–80 | 58.8% | 4 | 194 |
Breakfast Cereal: the community tier list
From 2,724 head-to-head picks in 108 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Honey Nut Cheerios
- Lucky Charms
- Frosted Flakes
- Froot Loops
- Cookie Crisp
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries
- Fruity Pebbles
- Reese's Puffs
- Apple Jacks
- Cocoa Puffs
- Cap'n Crunch
- Honey Bunches of Oats
- Frosted Mini-Wheats
- + 1 more
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Cocoa Krispies
- French Toast Crunch
- Cheerios
- Rice Krispies
- Corn Flakes
- Honey Smacks
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Trix
- Count Chocula
- Golden Grahams
- Corn Pops
- Special K
- Raisin Bran
- Kix
- Waffle Crisp
- + 1 more
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Chex
- Grape-Nuts
How the Breakfast Cereal bracket works
This cereal tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Lucky Charms or Frosted Flakes? Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Honey Nut Cheerios? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two choices is far easier than sorting 32 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 32 choices. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 32 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Nut Cheerios. Updated
- Lucky CharmsMagically delicious
- Frosted FlakesThey're Gr-r-reat!
- Cinnamon Toast CrunchThe taste you can see
- Honey Nut CheeriosBee happy, bee healthy
- Froot LoopsFollow your nose
- Cocoa PuffsI'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
- Frosted Mini-WheatsFrosted wheat biscuits
- Cap'n CrunchCrunchatize me, Cap'n
- Rice KrispiesSnap! Crackle! Pop!
- Apple JacksApple & cinnamon
- Reese's PuffsPeanut butter chocolate
- CheeriosThe original
- LifeMikey likes it!
- Corn FlakesThe classic
- Raisin BranTwo scoops of raisinsPhoto: Th78blue / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Golden GrahamsGraham cracker cereal
- Cookie CrispCookies for breakfast
- TrixSilly rabbit, Trix are for kids
- Honey Bunches of OatsCrispy flakes & oat clusters
- Count ChoculaChocolate cereal
- Grape-NutsDense & crunchy
- Special KLight & crispy
- Cocoa KrispiesChocolate rice cereal
- Fruity PebblesYabba Dabba Doo!
- Cocoa PebblesChocolate rice cereal
- KixKid-tested, mother-approved
- ChexRice, corn, or wheat
- Waffle CrispWaffle-shaped cereal
- Cap'n Crunch's Crunch BerriesWith berry pieces
- Corn PopsGotta have my Pops
- Honey SmacksSweetened puffed wheat
- French Toast CrunchToast-shaped cereal
Tier list instead?
Load all 32 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own cereal bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 32 so more of the 32 choices make the field.
- Watch for the choice you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
What is the best cereal?
According to 108 BracketRanker players, Cinnamon Toast Crunch (The taste you can see). It wins 81.3% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 337) and was champion in 34 of 108 brackets (31.5%).
How many choices are in the Breakfast Cereal bracket?
The pool holds 32 choices. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which choices are included?
Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Mini-Wheats, Cap'n Crunch, Rice Krispies, Apple Jacks, Reese's Puffs and Cheerios, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Breakfast Cereal bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and a run saves after every pick, so you can stop and jump back in later.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Breakfast Cereal community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a choice I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.