A favorites sorter is the honest way to answer “what's your #1?” It never asks you to rank a whole list at once. It shows you two things at a time and asks which you like more, then quietly assembles all your little choices into one complete order.
Paste your list, answer a run of quick this-or-that questions, and get a full ranking from 1 to N. Behind the scenes it uses a merge sort, so it asks far fewer questions than comparing every pair — about 44 questions for a 16-item list instead of 120.
People can't hold a fifteen-way ranking in working memory, but everyone can answer “this one or that one?” instantly. A sorter converts that easy judgment into a hard result. Because it remembers every answer and reasons about them together (if you like A over B and B over C, it never asks about A and C), close calls get settled without busywork.