Lowest ranking from my top 10 is El puro at # 34
Lowest from the top 20 are on # 106 and # 110
So maybe our two similar examples might be statistically whithin what you could expect when each contributor only lists a Top 20. But surely there should also be several Top 20 lists that contain no SWs with ranking below say 50th - 70th place !?
Obviously there is a broad spectrum of SWs below the Leone first four SWs to choose from, implying the rankings far below the official Top 20 list are probably less reliable regarding valuating preferenses compared to a list based on each contributor’s Top 40 for example - as already discussed before though 
Yes, several lists are inside the top 50 exclusively, or are made mainly of top 20 films. Problem is also that there are still lists from people who have watched only the smaller amount of all Spags.
But I wouldn’t expect too much differences in top 40 or top 50 lists, because the top 20 films would also get more votes.
The alternative top 20 is also meanwhile not too far away from the ranks 20 to 40, and if Phil had given points for the ranking and not only for the naming of a film, it might be identical.
I think the list is accurate at least for the first 50 or 70. And becomes really arbitrary only after # 100.
OK, then, after 25 years of intensive SW watching, here’s my actual take on the top 25:
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly 11/10
Once Upon a Time in the West 12
For a Few Dollars More 9
The Great Silence 10
The Big Gundown 8
A Fistful of Dollars 9
Django 8,5
The Mercenary 10,5
Death Rides a Horse / Man to Man 6
Duck, You Sucker! 8
Companeros 9
Face to Face 7
A Bullet for the General 8
Day of Anger 6,5
Cemetery Without Crosses 9
Keoma 7
The Return of Ringo 7,5
My Name is Nobody 9
Django Kill…If You Live, Shoot! 8
Blindman 8
Run Man, Run 8
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death 7
10,000 Dollars Blood Money 7
Tepepa 7
Navajo Joe 7
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“The Mercenary 10,5” It was a 5/10 after my two Youtube experiences (except for the music) and “Duck, You Sucker! 8” 4 or 5/10 but I might watch them again before I die and possibly at least not down-rate them further 
Regarding the music Dead Men RIDE 12/10, Requiem For A Gringo and Kill The Wicked! 11/10 !
Just supernatural…
Why don’t just ignore the political parts and enjoy the western stuff?
Shouldn’t be much of a problem for The Mercenary, then you have a perfect companion to FaFDM and GBU, only much faster told.
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Maybe, but also those whiskers of the former original Django irritate me
But Duck, You Sucker! i disliked too much anyhow, but should revisit sometime to give them a last try or both of them…
So if Franco Nero was clean shaven, The Mercenary would be a 7/10?
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p → q does not nessecarily imply ¬p → ¬q, but it indeed that SW would be more tolerable without those whiskers - and if you skipped the zapata theme !
However, these whiskers I do like :
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Next 25 from # 26 to # 50:
And God Said to Cain 7/10
A Pistol for Ringo 7
Sabata 6
Mannaja / A Man Called Blade 3
God Forgives…I Don’t 8
Bandidos 7
California 5
Massacre Time 6
El puro 9
Kill and Pray / Requiescant 6,5
Light the Fuse…Sartana is Coming 6
The Forgotten Pistolero 6
Vengeance 4
Johnny Hamlet 6
Django the Bastard 6
Four of the Apocalypse 5
Matalo! 8
The Grand Duel 6
Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead 5
The Hellbenders 5
Arizona Colt 5
Ace High / 4 for an Ave Maria 7,5
The Specialists 7
Trinity is Still My Name 8
The Ruthless Four / Each One for His Own 6
Hello - new member of the forum here.
My uncle got me into SWs when I was a teenager. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago so I will dedicate my Top 20 in his memory.
I’ve seen around 50 SWs now, including all of the top 35 on the essential list.
So here is my contribution:-
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Leone
- For a Few Dollars More - Leone
- Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone
- A Fistful of Dollars - Leone
- Django - Corbucci
- The Great Silence - Corbucci
- Face to Face - Sollima
- Cemetry Without Crosses - Hossein
- God Forgives… I Don’t - Colizzi
- The Big Gundown - Sollima
- Keoma - Castellari
- Duck, You Sucker! - Leone
- Death Rides a Horse - Petroni
- Run Man Run - Sollima
- My Name is Nobody - Valerii
- The Return of Ringo - Tessari
- The Hellbenders - Corbucci
- Tepepa - Petroni
- Campaneros - Corbucci
- The Mercenary - Corbucci
Just missing out Bandidos - Dellamano
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Nice list. Welcome. 
Yep, hope you soon find the time to watch 50 more …
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And # 51 to # 75 :
The Bounty Killer 7/10
Dead Men Ride 6,5
I Want Him Dead 4
Duel in the Eclipse / Requiem for a Gringo 8
I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death 6
Death Sentence 6
They Call Him Cemetery 5
Black Jack 6
They Call Me Trinity 7
Johnny Yuma 7
A Stranger in Town 8
Vengeance Is Mine / For 100 000 Dollars per Killing 5
Django, Prepare a Coffin 4,5
Yankee 6
The Price of Power 6
A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die 8
No Room to Die / A Long File of Crosses 5
The Dirty Outlaws / El desperado 5,5
Adios Sabata 7
A Bullet for Sandoval 8
The Moment to Kill 5
Red Sun 5
Cut Throats Nine 4
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend…Sartana Will Pay 7
Garringo 6
Dead Men Ride 6,5 mine 9 the music and mood !
Duel in the Eclipse / Requiem for a Gringo 8, agree !
Django, Prepare a Coffin 4,5, no rather an 8 and more entertaining than the original Django with the slightly wooden Nero IMO
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Yeah, but Nero is made of charismatic wood …
Prepare a Coffin has a few good scenes, but also a lot of weak ones, it’s a very uneven film. And Hill’s Django feels too light, in fact he gave a much better Django impersonation in all 3 Colizzi Spags, there he looks as grim as he should do in the Baldi film.
Apart from that Corbucci’s original is so much better directed.
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My latest update seems not be included, but I have forgotten the last version. Here is my current Top 20 :
1 For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1965
2 Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1968
3 Dead Men Ride/At The End Of The Rainbow (Aldo Florio) music Bruno Nicolai 1971
4 Django Kill If You Live Shoot (Giulio Questo) music Ivan Vandor 1967
5 The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima) music Ennio Morricone 1967
6 A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1964
7 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone) music Ennio Morricone 1966
8 My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii) music Ennio Morricone 1973
9 Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein) music André Hossein 1969
10 Requiem For A Gringo/Duel In Eclipse (Eugenio Martín, José Luis Merino) music Angelo Lavagnino 1968
11 Johnny Yuma (Romolo Guerrieri) music Nora Orlandi 1966
12 The Forgotten Pistolero/Gunman Of Ave Maria (Ferdinando Baldi) music Roberto Pregadio 1969
13 The Stranger Returns/A Man, A Horse, A Gun (Luigi Vanzi) music Stelvio Cipriani 1967
14 Kill The Wicked/ God Does Not Pay On Saturday (Tanio Boccia) music Angelo Lavagnino 1967
15 El Puro/The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine (Edoardo Mulargia) music Alessandro Alessandroni 1969
16 Viva Django / Django, Prepare A Coffin (Ferdinando Baldi) music Gianfranco Reverberi 1968
17 The Big Silence / The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci) music Ennio Morricone 1968
18 Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni) 1967
19 Day Of Anger (Tonino Valerii) 1967
20 Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini) music Marcello Giombini 1969
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Yes, because it didn’t look like an update …
Some more bullshit:
Taste of Violence 9/10
Texas Adios 4
Cost of Dying / Taste of Death 6
Today it’s Me…Tomorrow You 6
One Silver Dollar 4
The Silent Stranger 6
The Stranger Returns 7,5
Night of the Serpent 5
A Hole in the Forehead 6,5
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone 4
Sonny and Jed 4
One after Another 4,5
Long Days of Vengeance 6,5
I am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin / A Fistful of Lead 6
Long Live Your Death 4
For the Taste of Killing 6
Cowards Don’t Pray 6
Ben and Charlie 5
Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe 3
The Last Killer 8
Boot Hill 8
Shoot, Gringo…Shoot! 6
Five Man Army 5
Blood at Sundown / 1 000 Dollars on the Black 3
John the Bastard 7
A Man Called Sledge 4,5
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The one we’ve all been waiting for. Glad my stanton score prediction was correct.