Ranked Bar Race — effect skill for numbers & charts

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Ranked bars grow and overtake each other over time while the axis rescales and a year/date ticks.

What it does

Built on Bar Chart Race by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Horizontal bars with logos at their ends, sorted live, a big date counter in the corner; your product climbs to #1.

When: Market share, popularity over time, "fastest growing" stories.

Watch out: Do not run the race too fast; viewers need ~0.5–1 s per period to follow overtakes.

Timing: 0.5–1 s per period, smooth interpolation between periods, final hold 2 s.

Also called: bar chart race, ranking animation, leaderboard

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add bar-chart-race

Feed the time series as variables; ranks and the axis are recomputed per frame from time.

In Remotion

const t = frame / (fps*0.8); const i0 = Math.floor(t), k = t - i0;
const values = series.map(s => s[i0] + (s[i0+1]-s[i0])*k);
const ranked = [...values.keys()].sort((a,b)=>values[b]-values[a]);

In CapCut

Build in Flourish (Bar chart race template), screen-record the preview, import and trim.

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/0860592b3fb2/take-ranked-bar-race.mp4 — The Bar Chart Race component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add bar-chart-race), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Bar Chart Race, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/bar-chart-race)

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