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SHEET 00 · METHOD · REV 2026-07

MinMaxxer is for min-maxers — people who love getting the best value and the most useful products for their money. We find the exact price where performance stops scaling, and name the product that wins.

Min-maxing is a habit borrowed from RPG character sheets: put every point where it pays, waste nothing on stats that do not move the outcome. Applied to gear, it means finding the price where performance stops scaling. Most categories have a $20 to $60 product that lands within a few points of the flagship. Our job is to name it and show the math.

Every product on a sheet gets an MMX score, a street price and a value index. The copy stays out of the way. If a $19 set keeps 94% of a $320 set's score, that sentence is the review.

How the numbers work

Definitions of the three site metrics
MMX score	Editorial bench, 0 to 100, scored within its channel. A 90 mouse and a 90 IEM are not the same thing.
$ / pt	Street price divided by MMX score. Lower is better. This is the column that ends arguments.
Value index	Points per dollar, scaled so the channel's best ratio equals 100. The yellow bar.

Data status: Scores are editorial (0–100, within each channel). Prices are reviewed and updated regularly — always confirm the current price at the retailer before buying.

Independence

Picks are data-driven. Links may earn commission. Nobody pays for placement. Rankings are computed from score and price, then the links get attached. Never the other way around.