by SFT ExP
Tales involving AI, teleportation, nanotech, robots, drones, time travel, simulations, and much more.
Current
10/3/2026
Peak #42
2d
#13
8/11/2026
Peak #36
42d
#12
7/20/2026
Peak #41
22d
#11
7/15/2026
Peak #49
1d
#10
7/15/2026
Peak #50
0d
Observed Royal Road ranks are authoritative for lists where the story is active. Other eligible lists retain their Shadow RS ranks.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#2527 of 2,541 · 2477 below RS #50
By genre
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Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
