How the Best Emoji bracket works
Emoji tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — 😂 or ❤️? 🔥 or 💀? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
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 options in the field. Because the draw is shuffled, two people playing the same bracket rarely face the same matchups. 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 😂, ❤️, 🔥 and 💀.
😂
Face with Tears of Joy
❤️
Red Heart
🔥
Fire
💀
Skull
👍
Thumbs Up
😭
Loudly Crying Face
✨
Sparkles
😍
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
👏
Clapping Hands
🤔
Thinking Face
😎
Smiling Face with Sunglasses
💯
Hundred Points
🙏
Folded Hands
🚀
Rocket
👀
Eyes
🎉
Party Popper
👋
Waving Hand
🤩
Star-Struck
🙄
Face with Rolling Eyes
🥺
Pleading Face
🤣
Rolling on the Floor Laughing
💅
Nail Polish
🤷
Person Shrugging
💪
Flexed Biceps
😩
Weary Face
👑
Crown
🍑
Peach
👻
Ghost
👽
Alien
🌈
Rainbow
🍕
Pizza
🤡
Clown Face
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 4 completed Best Emoji brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
😭
7W - 2L · won 1 bracket
78%
win rate
- 2
😂
6W - 2L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 3
🔥
6W - 2L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 4
🤡
8W - 3L
73%
win rate
- 5
💀
5W - 2L · won 1 bracket
71%
win rate
- 6
😍
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 7
❤️
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 8
👍
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 9
💅
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 10
🍑
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Trust the first instinct. Overthinking a matchup usually produces a ranking you do not agree with later.
- 2The default run puts all 32 options in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Best Emoji bracket FAQ
How many options are in the Best Emoji bracket?
The pool holds 32 options. 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 options are included?
😂, ❤️, 🔥, 💀, 👍, 😭, ✨, 😍, 👏, 🤔, 😎 and 💯, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the emoji 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 option 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 options that never met. If you would rather place the options 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 Best Emoji 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 option I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own options, 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.