| 100% | DOUG | 4 | He called Ike ''The best clerk I ever had'' |
| 50% | GREATCODALMIGHTY | 16 | "This is the best fish I've ever had!" |
| 49% | BYFAR | 5 | "This is ___ the best apple pie I have ever had!" (undoubtedly): 2 wds. |
| 49% | BYFAR | 5 | "This is ___ the best roast turkey I have ever had!" (undoubtedly): 2 wds. |
| 46% | BLONDEONBLONDE | 14 | Bob Dylan album that he called "the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind" |
| 44% | ITHURTSOBAD | 11 | Susan Tedeschi song with the lyric "You were the best man I ever had" |
| 43% | SAL | 3 | "The best pal that I ever had," in song |
| 43% | SAL | 3 | "The best pal that I ever had" of song |
| 41% | PAIGE | 5 | Whom DiMaggio called ''the best I ever faced'' |
| 41% | LOUCOSTELLO | 11 | "That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted" |
| 40% | WHATAJERK | 9 | *"That's one of the best quadriceps exercises I've ever seen!"? |
| 39% | AAMILNE | 7 | He wrote "You and I have brains. The others have fluff" |
| 39% | TOES | 4 | The new teacher is so good, he keeps me on my ___ |
| 38% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Food Network series) |
| 38% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Food Network show) |
| 38% | ATE | 3 | "The Best Thing I Ever ___" (Cooking Channel show) |
| 37% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 36% | EMINEM | 6 | He had the 2000 autobiographical lyric "I think I was put here to annoy the world |
| 36% | GREATEST | 8 | The best ever |
| 36% | INNOCENT | 8 | The only papal name to have ever begun with I |
| 36% | ALAN | 4 | Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 35% | SOME | 4 | "These are ___ of the best books I've ever read." |
| 35% | MLK | 3 | He delivered the "I have a dream ..." speech: Abbr. |
| 35% | MLK | 3 | He delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech: Abbr. |
| 35% | STANLEE | 7 | He had a cameo in The Avengers with the line "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!" |
| 35% | FIZZLED | 7 | *I thought I had a good firework joke, but in the end, it just ___ out! (ended weakly) |
| 34% | UPON | 4 | "He hung ___ me" (ended the phone call): 2 wds. |
| 34% | SUCKSBBYOU | 10 | "Good thing I don't have the same problem!" |
| 34% | ROONEY | 6 | Nine-decade actor, ''the best there has ever been'' per Olivier |
| 34% | OARS | 4 | "I don't think he has both ___ in the water" |