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If you’ve spent any amount of time on Digg you’ll know how popular the “top (number)” lists are. Top 5, 10, 50 and 100 lists regularly reach the front page - but which number list is the most popular of all?

We analysed 766 list stories on Digg to find the most popular “top list”. To do this we searched for any story that reached the front page containing the word, “top” in the title.

Obviously, there were some stories that contain “top” in the title without a number, such as “Top Secret Pictures from Iran” and “Top Gear - Tiny Car Review” but only submissions that were in a numbered list format are included in the analysis regardless of whether the number was written as a word (ten) or as a number (10). Buried stories were not included.