Ice Cream Flavor Tier List, Decided Head-to-Head
All 24 flavors here, ranked by 180 players. Cookies & Cream leads: it wins 74.2% of its matchups (n = 415) and was champion in 37 of 180 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Rum RaisinBoozy & fruity
CoconutTropical cream
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Ice Cream Flavors: the community’s best
Win rate across 3,484 head-to-head picks from 180 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Ice cream flavor | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 308–107 | 74.2% | 37 | 415 | ||
| 2 | 301–116 | 72.2% | 25 | 417 | ||
| 3 | 208–138 | 60.1% | 14 | 346 | ||
| 4 | VanillaTimeless favorite | 238–160 | 59.8% | 12 | 398 | |
| 5 | ChocolateThe classic | 212–152 | 58.2% | 6 | 364 | |
| 6 | Brownie BatterChocolate fudge | 185–134 | 58% | 8 | 319 | |
| 7 | Peanut Butter CupReese's-inspired | 184–146 | 55.8% | 12 | 330 | |
| 8 | Birthday CakeSprinkles & vanilla | 162–152 | 51.6% | 6 | 314 |
Ice Cream Flavors: the community tier list
From 3,484 head-to-head picks in 180 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
- Cookies & Cream
- Cookie Dough
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Mint Chocolate Chip
- Vanilla
- Chocolate
- Brownie Batter
- Peanut Butter Cup
- Birthday Cake
- Strawberry
- Rocky Road
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Salted Caramel
- Coffee
- Neapolitan
- Mango
- Dulce de Leche
- Cheesecake
- Cotton Candy
- Pistachio
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Butter Pecan
- Coconut
- Black Cherry
- Peppermint
- Matcha Green Tea
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Rum Raisin
How the Ice Cream Flavors bracket works
This ice cream flavor tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Chocolate or Vanilla? Cookies & Cream or Mint Chocolate Chip? — 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 24-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 24 choices. 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 or 24 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 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookies & Cream and Mint Chocolate Chip. Updated
- ChocolateThe classicPhoto: User:Managementboy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 1.0
- VanillaTimeless favoritePhoto: Steven Depolo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Cookies & CreamOreo piecesPhoto: BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mint Chocolate ChipGreen & refreshingPhoto: Famartin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cookie DoughRaw dough chunksPhoto: pamramsey / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- StrawberryFruity classicPhoto: TheCulinaryGeek / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Rocky RoadChocolate, nuts & marshmallowsPhoto: stu_spivack / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Butter PecanButtery & nuttyPhoto: kochtopf / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Salted CaramelSweet & saltyPhoto: T.Tseng / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- PistachioGreen & nuttyPhoto: Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- CoffeeCaffeinated treatPhoto: Veganbaking.net / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Peanut Butter CupReese's-inspiredPhoto: Bahnfrend / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- NeapolitanThree-in-onePhoto: Pschemp / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- MangoTropical delightPhoto: Ivar Leidus / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cotton CandySweet & colorfulPhoto: F ASTILY / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Birthday CakeSprinkles & vanillaPhoto: Missvain / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- Dulce de LecheCaramelized milkPhoto: Yakshitha / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Black CherryRich cherry flavor
- Brownie BatterChocolate fudgePhoto: JAYASHREESATHIYAMOORTHY / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Matcha Green TeaJapanese-inspiredPhoto: City Foodsters / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Rum RaisinBoozy & fruityPhoto: Kyu3 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- CoconutTropical creamPhoto: Anilakeo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- CheesecakeGraham cracker swirlPhoto: Martin Lewison / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- PeppermintCool & festivePhoto: theimpulsivebuy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 24 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Build your own ice cream flavor 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 24 so more of the 24 choices make the field.
- 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 ice cream flavor?
According to 180 BracketRanker players, Cookies & Cream (Oreo pieces). It wins 74.2% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 415) and was champion in 37 of 180 brackets (20.6%).
How many choices are in the Ice Cream Flavors bracket?
The pool holds 24 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, 24 slots.
Which choices are included?
Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Cookie Dough, Strawberry, Rocky Road, Butter Pecan, Salted Caramel, Pistachio, Coffee and Peanut Butter Cup, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Ice Cream Flavors bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a ice cream flavors tier list or a ranking?
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 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community ice cream flavors ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Ice Cream Flavors community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which choices are included?
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 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.