Two rows running in opposite directions, with no beginning and no end to arrive at. You read whatever happens to be passing.

The rarest thing on this page. Sideways movement asks a reader to read against the grain of the language, and most winners decide it is not worth it.

One item, full width, the headline set as large as it will go. Everything else on the list waits its turn.

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A tenth of winners hand the first screen to a single picture. It works when there is one thing to say and fails the moment there are two.

A wall of pictures, grey until you point at one. The grid does the arranging; the cursor does the editing.

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The workhorse. A tenth of winners are built on it, and it is the default for anyone whose work is the pictures.

A deck you push through one card at a time. Drag it, flick it, or use the arrow keys.

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Rising. Roughly one winner in eight now expects a gesture rather than a click — and this is scroll-snap, so it costs no script and stays keyboard-reachable.

No pictures at all. Rules, figures and a monospaced column — the list as a working document.

A fifth of winners lead on type alone. This is the one arrangement that improves as the list grows — forty items read faster here than eight do anywhere else on the page.

A numbered index that looks like nothing until you move the cursor, and then the picture arrives beside your hand.

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Under a tenth of winners try it. It only works when every item is worth the reveal, which is why most lists cannot carry it.

The list bent into perspective. Nearest is largest; the rest fall away behind it.

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Depth is on nearly two in five winners — the most common ambitious move in web design, and the easiest to overspend on.

Nine frames, numbered in the margin, the way a photographer looks at a roll before deciding which one is the picture.

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Almost nobody does this on the web — four in a hundred — which is exactly why it still reads as a decision rather than a template.