The Best Fast Food Burger, Decided Head-to-Head
All 16 burgers here, ranked by 65 players. Five Guys Cheeseburger leads: it wins 69.8% of its matchups (n = 169) and was champion in 14 of 65 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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ShackBurgerShake Shack
Quarter Pounder with CheeseMcDonald's
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Fast Food Burgers: the community’s best
Win rate across 975 head-to-head picks from 65 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Fast food burger | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 118–51 | 69.8% | 14 | 169 | ||
| 2 | In-N-Out Double-DoubleIn-N-Out Burger | 96–56 | 63.2% | 9 | 152 | |
| 3 | Big MacMcDonald's | 81–55 | 59.6% | 10 | 136 | |
| 4 | 74–58 | 56.1% | 7 | 132 | ||
| 5 | 60–59 | 50.4% | 6 | 119 | ||
| 6 | 61–60 | 50.4% | 5 | 121 | ||
| 7 | 59–62 | 48.8% | 3 | 121 | ||
| 8 | Original SteakburgerSteak 'n Shake | 59–62 | 48.8% | 3 | 121 |
Fast Food Burgers: the community tier list
From 975 head-to-head picks in 65 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
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Five Guys Cheeseburger
- In-N-Out Double-Double
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Big Mac
- Baconator
- ButterBurger
- Whopper
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- ShackBurger
- Original Steakburger
- Animal Style Burger
- Quarter Pounder with Cheese
- Whataburger
- SmashBurger Classic
- McDouble
- Dave's Single
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Rodeo Burger
- Thickburger
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
How the Fast Food Burgers bracket works
This fast food burger ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — In-N-Out Double-Double or Big Mac? Whopper or Baconator? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 16-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 16 choices in the field. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same choice can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 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 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including In-N-Out Double-Double, Big Mac, Whopper and Baconator. Updated
- In-N-Out Double-DoubleIn-N-Out BurgerPhoto: CrispyCream27 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Big MacMcDonald'sPhoto: Christopher Rath / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- WhopperBurger KingPhoto: Lombroso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- BaconatorWendy'sPhoto: KForce / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Five Guys CheeseburgerFive GuysPhoto: Ser Amantio di Nicolao / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- SmashBurger ClassicSmashburgerPhoto: Kamil / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- ShackBurgerShake ShackPhoto: Missvain / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Quarter Pounder with CheeseMcDonald'sPhoto: Evan-Amos / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Dave's SingleWendy'sPhoto: Tony Webster / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- WhataburgerWhataburgerPhoto: Kyle Moore / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 1.0
- ButterBurgerCulver'sPhoto: JackFromWisconsin / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- McDoubleMcDonald'sPhoto: Evan-Amos / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rodeo BurgerBurger KingPhoto: Willis Lam / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Animal Style BurgerIn-N-OutPhoto: KDowell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Original SteakburgerSteak 'n ShakePhoto: Missvain / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- ThickburgerHardee'sPhoto: User:Random832 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 16 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 fast food burger 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.
- The default run puts all 16 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
What is the best fast food burger?
According to 65 BracketRanker players, Five Guys Cheeseburger (Five Guys). It wins 69.8% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 169) and was champion in 14 of 65 brackets (21.5%).
How many choices are in the Fast Food Burgers bracket?
The pool holds 16 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which choices are included?
In-N-Out Double-Double, Big Mac, Whopper, Baconator, Five Guys Cheeseburger, SmashBurger Classic, ShackBurger, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Dave's Single, Whataburger, ButterBurger and McDouble, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Fast Food Burgers 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 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Fast Food Burgers community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 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 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.