Many people maybe surprised by how low I have ranked him. Although he was considered the best fighter in the first 華山論劍, he was only slightly better than his opponents, (took him 7 days to defeat them,) and this happened at a time when none of his opponents was fully developed; 洪七公 had not finished learning 打狗棒法 at the time. 王重陽 died shortly after the competition while each of his opponents lived at least 50 more years
and had greatly improved his power. Because of this reason, I truly do not think he deserves to be ranked any higher than this.