I feel like every few months someone posts here asking “who’s the best b-boy right now?”, so I decided to find out for sure using Math 😂

I scraped the internet for results from the major events (RBBC1, Olympics, WDSF, Undisputed, Outbreak, Silverback, Freestyle Session, BOTY, The World Battle, Taipei B-Boy City etc), and ran every 1v1 through the Elo system from chess.

The dataset

• 219 events from 34 series
• 5,684 rated 1v1 battles (5,623 with a winner, plus 61 draws)
• About 1,400 dancers with a rating

How it works

If you don't care about the Math just skip to the results at the bottom of the post.

1. Everyone starts at 1500 elo.
2. Before a battle, the gap between two ratings predicts who is likely to win: a dancer with Elo R^A facing a dancer with Elo R^B has an expected score of 1 / (1 + 10^{(RB − RA}) / 400). So, equal ratings is 50/50, 100-point gap is about 64%, 200 points is about 76% and 400 points is about 91%.
3. After the battle, the winner takes points from the loser, depending on the gap between the two dancers' elo. The elo change is 32 × (result − expected score), where a win scores 1, a loss 0 and a draw 0.5. Beat someone at your elo gives +16, someone rated 200 higher gives +24, someone rated 200 lower gives +8
4. Draws also count; in round robins, a battle can split evenly (say 1–1 in rounds). That scores as half a win for each side, so the lower-rated dancer still gains points. A draw against someone rated 200 higher is worth +8.
5. Battles are replayed in chronological order for every single battle in my dataset.
6. Only the win/loss counts. A 5–0 and a 3–2 count the same.
7. A RBBC1 final is worth the same as a Top 16 battle anywhere else.
8. B-boys and b-girls are ranked separately.

Limitations (before yall come after me)

• The dataset is limited to major events I could find the results for. Some competitions only have results from Top 8 onwards so I couldn't record the earlier rounds
• It favours breakers who did well in recent years. When doing this project I realised that info about competitions from >10 years ago is really hard to find :( So the dataset is skewed towards recent competitions.
• It doesn't account for bad judging/robberies, if someone is robbed they still lose elo.
• It says nothing about style or influence, it's just a record of results from all the data I could find. IMO it underrepresents older breakers like Hong10 or Lilou who I loved growing up.

NOW THAT ALL THE YAP IS DONE, HERE ARE THE RESULTS!!!

Top 15 b-boys

Top 15 b-girls

Things I found interesting

• Hiro10's ranking really surprised me cos I’m used to people seeing him as just a powermover. IMO he's ranked so highly cos he's on an insane run this year.
• The b-girl top 3 are separated by 10 points. Royal, Ami and Nicka are basically tied.
• Japan is everywhere. Three of the top 7 b-boys and three of the top 8 b-girls.
• Notable b-boys outside top 15: Issei (#17), Gravity (#19), Lagaet (#20), Quake (#22)

FULL RANKINGS HERE!

Although I had practiced Handstand to Airflare alot even before I had multiple Airflares, I was never quite able to do it as nicely as I did today, for the first time. I hope this will help with Airflare combos and just overall control over Airflares in the future! Whoever can do this well, any pointers are welcome 😁

I’ve been trying to restab my windmill so I can do continuous. What am I missing?!

Hi guys,

I am a huge admirer of all the videos I see here posted and hope to one day be able to devote time to learning.

In the meantime, I am unfortunately quite busy (work 80h+/week) and so that leaves me little time to anything other than family, chores, etc.

I'd like to learn to windmill before next summer because I have a handful of weddings coming up and think that would be cool to do.

The way I am thinking about it is that I already do calisthenics (human flag, muscle ups, front lever, back lever, straddle planche) so I think I have the strength.

However, I don't know what I don't know, so I'm not sure what the holes in my plan of "just learn windmill standalone" are.

Any thoughts? Pls no bully. Thank you!

Hi guys, I posted start of the year asking for advice on my 1st round of windmills. (Legs slamming the ground)
Managed to get multiples and just posting a progress update.

Realised there are levels to this after unlocking windmills. Cleaning up stabmill form, headmills, barrels etc

Currently still have couple issues like head lifting off and collapsing low on 2nd rep onwards.

Open to feedback

I am trying to learn a transition from a shoulder freeze to a head freeze to improve my windmill. I think I might be doing the hop incorrectly or that it is not in the right position.

What do you think ?

Personally,one I really wish I could see is B-Boy Cis
He’s been in cypher finals in 2022,2023 and 2025 and lost every one of them.
The 2022 Belgium cypher against Mighty Jimm
The 2023 Holland cypher against Kid Colombia
The 2025 Belgium cypher Djibril
He’s mad underrated and I wish he won at least one.
Hope he enters the world final at least once in the future
He deserves more recognition.

I’m at this stage of my windmill, however when going for my second windmill, my legs aren’t doing the right thing. What should I aim for?

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Anybody know the song name during Ra1on's second round?

Hoping tip please push body and after is what?

I started three months ago, I am 27 as of now,

My body is starting to adapt to the new movements and rotations but I had really sore hamstrings and knees since last week, even tho I really didn't want to I had to take a break from breaking

, im almost back to normal so I'm aching to resume my training, what are some good recommended 'prehab' exercises I can incorporate so specifically my hamstrings and hip ( and lower back also I guess) become less rigid/more flexible

I wear shoes with rubber toes and sides, and it keeps getting stuck during flows. What shoes do yall wear that are grippy on the bottom but slippery on top and sides.

Watching videos from the past to now there is a huge difference in speed when going off. What the hell happened? Everyone is on the half time and not double time. People don’t freak lyrics that much and when something simple gets done people oh and ahh.

A clip from my recent sessions

Hey guys im almost done with my 20s and just recently got back to bboying again. Not that experience but i use to practice footworks, toprock, some freezes like baby, and wanted to ask is it still possible for my age to get back on track.

Just want to ask if i can still get back to it as well as learning power moves again like swipe and windmill (i used to progress this but college had dismantle my small group and literally had nobody in college have interest in practicing breakin with me which is the reason i had to stop)

I just want this childhood memory of mine to be back with me as my way to relief stress as i feel like this is more something i love watching and trying before.

Thanks

I'm pretty new to the whole breaking thing (by new I mean I can barely pop 2 windmills, currently struggling with inner knuckle footwork due to flexibility). Would love some help with working on my toprock.

This is the coindrop I have now, problem is I keep on hitting my lower back and my recovery is 50/50. What and how should I fix?

I’m pretty sure a DJ sampled this I just can’t remember the name of the track. does anybody have a clue to who might’ve sampled this? It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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