More than your final list, I would love to see a description of your criteria and methodology for determining the best relays. (If you’re up for it :)
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Oh wow you have 28 relays lmao
i know..... im baaaad. 
I had about 15 relays ~1week ago and was experiencing poor performance on several clients. Ppl recommended I pair down to 5-8 relays, and things have been great since. Caveat:
1 week in Nostr == 1 month in Bitcoin == 1 year in Earthtime
My methodology will be based on relays on different continents, ping times, popular relays, default relays used by clients, relays used by popular users, relays used by certain people I follow. I'd like to get down to 12 and and see how that goes. I'm sure a lot of relays will tick a lot of these boxes too. Maybe I'll make a spreadsheet. People love spreadsheets!
Sick. Spreadsheet would be a good start. As we refine and weight these metrics, I could see relay ranking systems emerge similar to Lightning router rankings
I don't know if this will be super scientific, but I will try my best to use the categories or methods I mentioned earlier.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HmHZNaGyrGZlI_y-d21vOeqKyo08dAY4WXZaTa5yTFo/edit?usp=sharing
I'm thinking that for every 3 "solid" relays we should include one wimpy ass "outlier" so that one gets connected AF and becomes kinda beefy.
Or am I just not understanding this at all?
right, we probably should not all just load up on popular relays, it may be best to spread the love and actually decentralize instead of recreating a small centralized network.