So last night I was doing my 'all time ranking of the contestants' (which I think is a brilliant thread), and I thought it might be fun to rank all of the judges!

Obviously this isn't going to take you nearly as much time, so I was thinking lets give everyone until the end of the week to rank the judges, then I will calculate the result on Saturday.

So the rules are simple, all you have to do is rank all the permanent judges over the past 11 series. I'm only counting full time judges, (no Alexandra Burke, or audition stand in judges) and I decided not to include Brian Friedman.

So, the judges are...

Simon Cowell
Sharon Osbourne
Louis Walsh
Dannii Minouge
Cheryl Cole
Gary Barlow
Kelly Rowland
Tulisa
Nicole Scherzinger
Mel B

So rank them in order from your favourite to your least favourite.

Voting closes at 12pm on Friday night, and the results will be calculated by Saturday morning.

Happy voting!

My vote is...

Favourite

1. Dannii Minogue
2. Louis Walsh
3. Cheryl Cole
4. Sharon Osbourne
5. Simon Cowell
6. Nicole Scherzinger
7. Mel B
8. Gary Barlow
9. Kelly Rowland
10. Tulisa

Least favourite.

The top 5 was much harder than I thought, But the bottom 5 were easy to rank. I would say also, that there is a big gap between the top 5 and the bottom.

1. Dannii Minogue
2. Nicole Scherzinger
3. Cheryl Cole
4. Simon Cowell
5. Kelly Rowland
6. Sharon Osbourne
7. Mel B
8. Louis Walsh
9. Tulisa
10. Gary Barlow

1) Dannii Minogue
2) Nicole Scherzinger
3) Simon Cowell
4) Kelly Rowland
5) Sharon Osbourne
6) Mel B
7) Louis Walsh
8) Tulisa
9) Cheryl Cole
10) Gary Barlow

(The bottom 3 could be in any order for me tbh though)

Best to worst:

Simon Cowell
Nicole Scherzinger
Tulisa
Mel B
Sharon Osbourne
Cheryl Cole
Louis Walsh
Kelly Rowland
Dannii Minogue
Gary Barlow

Dannii has topped 3 peoples vote so far.

Nicole 2nd in 3

Nicole
Tulisa
Gary
Dannii
Simon
Mel B
Kelly
Cheryl
Louis
Sharon

The top 3 are all sitting very close and are quite far off everyone else.

01. Cheryl
02. Simon
03. Tulisa
04. Dannii
05. Gary
06. Nicole
07. Mel B
08. Kelly
09. Sharon
10. Louis

Where is Brian Freidman?

Edit: Never mind - just re-read first post - Will vote later - need to decide who wins now :'(

7 votes so far. Everyone keeps changing with every vote. Top 3 changing every time.

Having watched every X-Factor, IMHO

(01) --- Simon --- (Without him it doesn't make much sense)
(02) --- Dannii --- (Kind, fair and funny)
(03) --- Nicole --- (Kind, fair and funny)
(04) --- Gary --- (like him or not, he is a legend and makes sense on the show)
(05) --- Tulisa --- (Weird but somewhat interesting)
(06) --- Sharon --- (tedious)
(07) --- Louis --- (tedious)
(08) --- Mel B --- (Crackers and boring)
(09) --- Cheryl --- (Boring and Annoying - quite a talent)
(10) --- Kelly --- (Makes the yanks look worse than they are - hard to do)

1 - Dannii
2 - Cheryl
3 - Simon
4 - Kelly
5 - Mel B
6 - Nicole
7 - Tulisa
8 - Gary
9 - Sharon
10 - Louis

... I've just realised in ranking them, I don't actually like ANY of the judges. Except Dannii and Cheryl to an extent.

1 - Nicole
2 - Gary
3 - Mel B
4 - Kelly
5 - Louis
6 - Sharon
7 - Danni
8 - Tulisa
9 - Simon
10 - Cheryl

1. Louis
2. Simon
3. Mel
4. Gary
5. Nicole
6. Dannii
7. Kelly
8. Tulisa
9. Sharon
10. Cheryl

The top 3 remain dominant, the middle few keep swapping and the bottom 3 stay the same!

1. Simon
2. Louis
3. Sharon
4. Mel B
5. Cheryl
6. Nicole
7. Dannii
8. Gary
9. Tulisa
10. Kelly

1. Tulisa
2. Dannii Minogue
3. Gary Barlow
4. Nicole Scherzinger
5. Simon Cowell
6. Cheryl Cole
7. Louis Walsh
8. Mel B
9. Kelly Rowland
10. Sharon Osbourne

Literally every vote changes things. The middle lot are closing in on the top 3.

so - looking at these the ideal panel is

Simon - Nicole - Dannii -

Then a long gap to the rest....

I concur

Dannii
Simon
Louis
Nicole

Pretty Much so far, however a couple are creeping up. They 3 are the most consistent at the moment. Is does keep changing every time though. I'm pretty surprised at the order so far!

Just to say, as there are only 10 judges, we can only accept the full 10. Sorry :

A judge that was at one stage (do a tally every 3 or so votes) in 4th place is now is last please and a judge that was recently in last place is now in 5th place. So so close!

1. Nicole
2. Dannii
3. Simon
4. Cheryl
5. Sharon
6. Kelly
7. Tulisa
8. Mel
9. Gary
10. Louis