How the Breakfast Cereal bracket works
Cereal tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Lucky Charms or Frosted Flakes? Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Honey Nut Cheerios? — and after 31 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 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 choices in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Nut Cheerios.
Lucky Charms
Magically delicious
Frosted Flakes
They're Gr-r-reat!
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
The taste you can see
Honey Nut Cheerios
Bee happy, bee healthy
Froot Loops
Follow your nose
Cocoa Puffs
I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Frosted Mini-Wheats
Frosted wheat biscuits
Cap'n Crunch
Crunchatize me, Cap'n
Rice Krispies
Snap! Crackle! Pop!
Apple Jacks
Apple & cinnamon
Reese's Puffs
Peanut butter chocolate
Cheerios
The original
Life
Mikey likes it!
Corn Flakes
The classic
Raisin Bran
Two scoops of raisins
Golden Grahams
Graham cracker cereal
Cookie Crisp
Cookies for breakfast
Trix
Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids
Honey Bunches of Oats
Crispy flakes & oat clusters
Count Chocula
Chocolate cereal
Grape-Nuts
Dense & crunchy
Special K
Light & crispy
Cocoa Krispies
Chocolate rice cereal
Fruity Pebbles
Yabba Dabba Doo!
Cocoa Pebbles
Chocolate rice cereal
Kix
Kid-tested, mother-approved
Chex
Rice, corn, or wheat
Waffle Crisp
Waffle-shaped cereal
Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries
With berry pieces
Corn Pops
Gotta have my Pops
Honey Smacks
Sweetened puffed wheat
French Toast Crunch
Toast-shaped cereal
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 2 completed Breakfast Cereal brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
10W - 0L · won 2 brackets
100%
win rate
- 2
Frosted Flakes
8W - 2L
80%
win rate
- 3
Corn Pops
5W - 2L
71%
win rate
- 4
Cap'n Crunch
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 5
Lucky Charms
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 6
Froot Loops
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 7
Apple Jacks
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 8
Cookie Crisp
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 9
Trix
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 10
French Toast Crunch
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- 2The default run puts all 32 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the choice you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Breakfast Cereal bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Breakfast Cereal bracket?
The pool holds 32 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 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 cereal tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
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 31 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.