Current FargoRate Top 10 Rankings: Filler Leads World, Gorst Tops USA

Joshua Filler leads the current FargoRate world list with a rating of 863, while Siming Chen heads the women's world ranking at 794, Fedor Gorst tops the USA list at 850 and Kristina Tkach leads the USA women's table at 751. This ranking snapshot was captured on August 28, 2026, and may change as new match results enter the FargoRate system.

Who is the highest-rated pool player in the world?

Joshua Filler holds the No. 1 position with a Fargo Rating of 863. His 13-point advantage over both Pin-Yi Ko and Fedor Gorst gives him a clear statistical lead, but the relatively compact gap shows that the top of international pool remains highly competitive.

Filler's rating is supported by 15,462 games of robustness, indicating that his position is based on a large established sample. Gorst has an even larger robustness figure of 16,814, while Shane Van Boening's 26,906 is the highest among the current world Top 10.

What are the current FargoRate world Top 10 rankings?

Rank	Player	Country listing	Fargo Rating	Robustness
1	Joshua Filler	Germany	863	15,462
2	Pin-Yi Ko	Chinese Taipei	850	8,259
3	Fedor Gorst	USA	850	16,814
4	Shane Van Boening	USA	848	26,906
5	Ping-Chung Ko	Chinese Taipei	847	7,315
6	Francisco Sanchez Ruiz	Spain	846	15,756
7	Ameer Ali	Iraq	843	651
8	Aloysius Yapp	Singapore	842	9,409
9	Jung Lin Chang	Chinese Taipei	842	6,579
10	Johann Chua	Philippines	840	6,319

Seven country listings are represented in the world Top 10. Chinese Taipei has three players, the USA list has two, and Germany, Spain, Iraq, Singapore and the Philippines each have one.

Ameer Ali is the most unusual entry from a data perspective. His 843 rating places him seventh, but his robustness of 651 is far lower than every other player in the Top 10. The rating is established because it exceeds FargoRate's 200-game threshold, although future high-level results can still move it more noticeably than ratings supported by many thousands of games.

Who are the highest-rated women in world pool?

Siming Chen leads the women's world list with a Fargo Rating of 794, 11 points ahead of Chezka Centeno at 783. Chieh-Yu Chou ranks third at 776, giving the leading group a 18-point spread across the top three positions.

Rank	Player	Country listing	Fargo Rating	Robustness
1	Siming Chen	China	794	3,511
2	Chezka Centeno	Philippines	783	2,899
3	Chieh-Yu Chou	Chinese Taipei	776	4,052
4	Xiaotong Wang	China	770	991
5	Sha Sha Liu	China	767	2,461
6	Seo Seoa	South Korea	767	2,583
7	Kelly Fisher	Great Britain	765	7,652
8	Han Yu	China	763	3,149
9	Rubelin Amit	Philippines	763	3,051
10	Jasmin Ouschan	Austria	761	7,837

China has four players in the women's world Top 10, more than any other country listing. The Philippines has two, while Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Great Britain and Austria each contribute one.

The rating range from first to tenth is only 33 points. That compressed spread suggests that a short race between any two members of this group can be decided by the break, table conditions and a small number of tactical errors rather than by a large underlying skill difference.

Who leads the current FargoRate USA list?

Fedor Gorst leads the USA list at 850, two points ahead of Shane Van Boening at 848. Skyler Woodward is third at 810, creating a notable 38-point drop between second and third.

Rank	Player	State listing	Fargo Rating	Robustness
1	Fedor Gorst	Indiana	850	16,814
2	Shane Van Boening	South Dakota	848	26,906
3	Skyler Woodward	Texas	810	16,744
4	Mike Dechaine	North Carolina	804	8,297
5	Justin Bergman	Illinois	797	9,173
6	Thorsten Hohmann	New York	794	16,029
7	Anthony Meglino	Florida	793	13,181
8	Tyler Styer	Wisconsin	792	14,257
9	Oscar Dominguez	California	791	16,018
10	Joven Bustamante	Arizona	787	9,402

The USA table reflects the country and state assignments shown in FargoRate records; it should not automatically be interpreted as a citizenship ranking. That distinction explains why internationally born players who are registered in the United States can appear on the list.

Gorst and Van Boening form a distinct top tier. Their ratings are separated by only two points, while both sit at least 38 points above the rest of the USA Top 10. Woodward leads the next group, with only 23 points separating third place from tenth.

Who leads the FargoRate USA women's rankings?

Kristina Tkach occupies the No. 1 position on the USA women's list at 751. Allison Fisher follows at 746, and Margaret Fefilova-Styer is third at 742.

Rank	Player	State listing	Fargo Rating	Robustness
1	Kristina Tkach	Indiana	751	9,929
2	Allison Fisher	North Carolina	746	5,248
3	Margaret Fefilova-Styer	Wisconsin	742	6,501
4	Eylul Kibaroglu	Texas	693	6,018
5	Briana Miller	Pennsylvania	683	5,768
6	Sofia Mast	Florida	676	7,432
7	Savannah Easton	Nevada	676	9,348
8	Kaylee McIntosh Driskell	Florida	671	3,468
9	April Larson	Minnesota	670	7,009
10	Joann Mason Parker	New York	666	2,710

The top three form a separate performance cluster. Only nine rating points divide Tkach, Fisher and Fefilova-Styer, but there is a 49-point gap between third-ranked Fefilova-Styer and fourth-ranked Kibaroglu.

Sofia Mast and Savannah Easton are tied at 676, with FargoRate ordering Mast sixth and Easton seventh. Easton's robustness is higher at 9,348 games, while Mast's rating is supported by 7,432 games.

What does a Fargo Rating actually measure?

A Fargo Rating measures relative pocket-billiards performance by comparing games won and lost against opponents whose own results connect them to the wider player network. Ratings for amateurs and professionals use the same global scale.

A 100-point difference predicts that the stronger player will win games at approximately a 2-to-1 ratio over a sufficiently large sample. Equal ratings indicate an expected 1-to-1 game ratio, although a single match can still be decided by normal competitive variance.

FargoRate includes results from 8-ball, 9-ball and 10-ball played on 7-foot and 9-foot tables. New games enter the dataset daily, and the global rating optimization is performed every day, which means rankings should always be treated as a current snapshot rather than a permanent historical order.

Why does robustness matter when reading FargoRate rankings?

Robustness is the number of games contributing to a player's rating and serves as a practical measure of reliability. FargoRate considers a rating established at 200 games, but a rating supported by several thousand games is generally less sensitive to a small batch of new results.

Robustness does not measure playing strength by itself. A player with a lower rating and 20,000 games is not automatically stronger than a higher-rated player with 1,000 games; the larger number simply provides more evidence behind the current estimate.

Who is No. 1 in the current FargoRate world rankings?

Joshua Filler is ranked No. 1 with a Fargo Rating of 863 in the August 28, 2026 snapshot.

Who is the highest-rated woman in FargoRate?

Siming Chen leads the women's world list with a Fargo Rating of 794.

Who leads the FargoRate USA rankings?

Fedor Gorst leads the USA list at 850, two points ahead of Shane Van Boening at 848.

How often are Fargo Ratings updated?

New game results are added daily, and FargoRate performs a global rating optimization every day.

What is FargoRate robustness?

Robustness is the number of games contributing to a player's rating and indicates how much match data supports the estimate.