When do people do their best work? An ongoing exploration.
A long-running survey of when human beings reach their best work — by craft, by category, by the lists curators have actually published. Each category gets its own page: every entrant plotted by their age at peak, the median called out, outliers labeled, and a short editorial note on what the shape suggests.
13 categories, 1216 data points, last updated May 15, 2026