How the Romantic Comedies bracket works
Rank rom coms without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — When Harry Met Sally or 10 Things I Hate About You? Pretty Woman or The Notebook? — and after 23 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two films is far easier than sorting 24 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 films in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. 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.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including When Harry Met Sally, 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty Woman and The Notebook.
When Harry Met Sally
1989
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Pretty Woman
1990
The Notebook
2004
Sleepless in Seattle
1993
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
Notting Hill
1999
Crazy Rich Asians
2018
The Proposal
2009
Clueless
1995
Hitch
2005
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
50 First Dates
2004
You've Got Mail
1998
Groundhog Day
1993
The Big Sick
2017
Legally Blonde
2001
Mean Girls
2004
Set It Up
2018
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2018
The Princess Bride
1987
About Time
2013
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 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 1 completed Romantic Comedies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Mean Girls
4W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
Notting Hill
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 3
10 Things I Hate About You
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 4
The Princess Bride
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 5
Pretty Woman
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 6
Clueless
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 7
Legally Blonde
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 8
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 9
The Notebook
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
- 10
Sleepless in Seattle
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 24 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the film you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Romantic Comedies bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Romantic Comedies bracket?
The pool holds 24 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which films are included?
When Harry Met Sally, 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty Woman, The Notebook, Sleepless in Seattle, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Crazy Rich Asians, The Proposal, Clueless, Hitch and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank rom coms take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
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 film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 23 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these films?
Every completed bracket feeds the Romantic Comedies 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 build my own romantic comedies bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, 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.