[BRidal]

a free evening left me pondering what I would speculate to be the 10 best boulders in the world. I'm pretty sure similar things have been done on UKB for UK problems before, I don't know that it has been done worldwide though. I'm not nearly well traveled enough to make the list based purely on personal experience. So i'm basing my choices largely on, history/classic status and aesthetics/movement quality from pics and videos. I actually found this very difficult, it's easy to think of very good problems, but to be the very best that means being near faultless and widely known. I think this inevitably means they are mostly harder boulders, these are usually the most famous, allow for the most interesting movement, and follow the most impressive lines.
I haven't ordered them just listed of the ten I came up with:

Midnight Lightning
Evilution Direct
Meadowlark Lemon
Careless Torque
Misericorde
La Marie Rose
New Base Line
Ammagamma
Livin Large
The Hatchling

Thoughts? Is this list an abomination that is wrong in every way?

[turnipturned]

Meadowlark Lemon

The Hatchling

Thoughts? Is this list an abomination that is wrong in every way?

Meadowlark looks nice but its a choosy sandy piece of shite, you can replace that with Spectre

[Sasquatch]

Midnight Lightning
Evilution Direct
Meadowlark Lemon
Careless Torque
Misericorde
La Marie Rose
New Base Line
Ammagamma
Livin Large
The Hatchling

Thoughts? Is this list an abomination that is wrong in every way?

Yes - It's an abomination.   

I'm not sure most of those would even be the best in their given area... Most well-known might be a better list to make.

[jwi]

+1

[Will Hunt]

You can have Marie Rose off there straight away. Nothing special other then for the history and reputation.

[TobyD]

You can have Marie Rose off their straight away. Nothing special other then for the history and reputation.

Did you find it really hard then?

[abarro81]

There's better than ammagamma in the gramps.  Cherry picking and on the beach are supposed to be be the 2 best 8bs there

[cjsheps]

What about Karma? And +1 for Spectre.

[tomtom]

This list is for the best problems - not the best 8* grade problems....

[James Malloch]

No Burden of Dreams? Hard as it gets, no trickery and few moves.

The other nine would probably be in Parisellas...

[dave]

Miseriecord and Marie Rose can't be the best problems in font, jeez.

[moose]

Miseriecord and Marie Rose can't be the best problems in font, jeez.

I'd be surprised if Marie Rose was the best problem in font named after a seafood dressing.

[fatneck]

The OP is young and psyched and we're old and jaded. Just saying...

[User deactivated]

All ten from the cave I reckon! 

On a more serious note, most of the original list are dream ticks. Marie rose and misericorde aren't for me quite as good, especially Marie rose. Misericorde is up there but can think of better in the forest.

[nai]

Miseriecord and Marie Rose can't be the best problems in font, jeez.

I'm not even sure Marie Rose is the best problem on that block.

[Fiend]

Sounds like the "Marie Rose is grossly overrated" correction is in full effect, well done lads, don't need to add anything to that.

There's the usual confusion between acclaimed / sought after and actually "best".

[tomtom]

How about 're-igniting'* this thread into

"Top Ten DREAM Boulder Problems"...


*I've been reading too much marketing material...

[mrjonathanr]

New Base Line looks very dabbable and not that special to me. The Understanding on the other hand looks incredibly good.

[BRidal]

I was considering how classic a problem was as a substantial part of the criteria, perhaps more than should be if the title is 'best'. Spectre instead of Meadowlark seem's reasonable, I'd forgotten about that boulder. Clearly people are not a fan of Marie Rose, we'll agree to disagree on that  what would be in there instead? The forest has a lot to offer up.

[36chambers]

Partage > Misericorde
Lanny Bassham > Careless Torque
the walk from the car > Marie Rose

Livin Large is a definite. I wouldn't argue with Karma being on there either.

[cjsheps]

We've all missed the obvious list-topper that is Malc's One Armer. The essence of bouldering, distilled down to pure poetry in the motion of cranking  yourself two feet upwards off an arbitrary edge at The Tor.

[Johnny Brown]

Midnight Lightning doesn't climb that well either, it's like crimping glass. It does look good though.

[Doylo]

Vecchio Leone. And Dustkick in Parisella's.

[Will Hunt]

Lanny Bassham > Careless Torque

Back around. Careless Torque is way better looking than Lanny.
Also, I get that Karma is a classic, but it doesn't look like much fun to me (obviously moot as I'm not going to do it!).

[Wood FT]

Midnight Lightning doesn't climb that well either, it's like crimping glass. It does look good though.

"Pretty cool" though "huh"