Category profile
- Dominance
- 94
- Peak
- 96
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 96
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 50 | |
| 1930 | 60 | |
| 1931 | 70 | |
| 1932 | 79 | |
| 1933 | 89 | |
| 1934 | 99 | |
| 1935 | 96 | |
| 1936 | 92 | |
| 1937 | 89 | |
| 1938 | 85 | |
| 1939 | 82 | |
| 1940 | 78 | |
| 1941 | 75 | |
| 1942 | 71 | |
| 1943 | 68 | |
| 1944 | 65 | |
| 1945 | 61 | |
| 1946 | 58 | |
| 1947 | 54 | |
| 1948 | 51 | |
| 1949 | 47 | |
| 1950 | 44 | |
| 1951 | 40 | |
| 1952 | 37 | |
| 1953 | 33 | |
| 1954 | 30 |
Data sources
- ITTF official records
- World Table Tennis rankings
- Olympedia
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Viktor Barna ranks #3 in Table Tennis
Viktor Barna ranks 3rd among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 2725th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 93.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 94, Peak 96, Longevity 88, Honours 96, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Table Tennis reference universe of 291 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1929–1954 with 26 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1934, which sets the Peak component at 96. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 96 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world singles titles 5, world titles in all events 22, world team titles 8, english open titles 5.
Immediately ahead sits Jan-Ove Waldner on 94.1, a gap of 0.5 points. Directly behind is Deng Yaping on 91.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Viktor Barna GOAT Score explained
- Dominance94/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Barna stood above the field while competing. Scored 94/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak96/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1934. Scored 96/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 25 years of competition and 26 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours96/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 96/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Barna comparisons
Viktor Barna — frequently asked
- Is Viktor Barna the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Viktor Barna ranks 3rd in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 93.6, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Viktor Barna's GOAT Score?
- 93.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 94 (25%), Peak 96 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 96 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Viktor Barna rank all time?
- 2725th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 3rd within Table Tennis.
- Viktor Barna vs Jan-Ove Waldner: who ranks higher?
- Jan-Ove Waldner, on 94.1 against Viktor Barna's 93.6 — a margin of 0.5 points.