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Arena@arena · Oct 2, 2025 · Leaderboard

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Text Arena

Arena's leaderboard drew 86.8K views on X: 11x its typical post and #26 of 89 Arena charts we track by views. Read Oct 10, 2026.

🚨 Leaderboard shakeup in the top slot!

Posted on X by @arena (Arena), Oct 2, 2025. Source: x.com · See its data

Why it spread

This post spread because it hit a hot topic that week and rode launch timing, with the account drawing 403 likes against its typical 20, which is about 20.1 times its normal performance, alongside 31 reposts, 10 quotes, 57 saves, and 86,777 views.

What worked

  • The post framed a leaderboard shakeup as breaking news, which matched a hot topic that week and the launch timing of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
  • The account's own audience responded far above its baseline, reaching 403 likes versus a typical 20, roughly 20.1 times normal.
  • The leaderboard format made a simple, shareable claim that Claude Sonnet 4.5 ties for first in the Text Arena, which helped it collect 31 reposts, 10 quotes, and 57 saves.

What to borrow

We could reuse the leaderboard form by pairing a clear ranking change with timely news, while keeping our own source line visible and our design polish higher than the low polish seen here.

Careful

Do not over-read the low design polish, the medium self labelling, the missing source line, or the below average quote rate as causes of success, since the main reasons given are the hot topic that week and launch timing.

Written by our analysis model from the measured numbers above, not by Arena.

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On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 5b4f13ea4cdc.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.30 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/5b4f13ea4cdcTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/5b4f13ea4cdc/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/5b4f13ea4cdc/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/5b4f13ea4cdc/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
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claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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How far did Arena's "Claude Sonnet 4.5 Text Arena" chart travel?

86,777 views, 403 likes, 31 reposts and 57 saves on X, read Oct 10, 2026. A normal post from @arena gets about 7.9K views.

What kind of chart is it?

A leaderboard. Claude Sonnet 4.5 ties for first in Text Arena.

Can I use Arena's chart?

Use the format, not the picture. The chart, logo and design belong to Arena. ViralChart redraws the chart type with your numbers and words, and credits the original publisher.