Kelly W - 4 ICs and won majority of tribal challenges
Amanda - 4 ICs and minority of tribal challenges, over 2 seasons
Jenna M - 3 ICs and majority of tribal challenges
Amber - 2 ICs and vast majority of tribal challenges over 2 seasons

Kim J - 2 ICs and majority of tribal challenges
Courtney Yates - 1 IC and all but 2 tribal immunity challenges!!

OK' that's only a joke to point out the type of individual challenges and the contribution of each woman in the tribal ones has to be considered.

I'd put Kelly first. She was great, especially in the final tribal IC that assured Tagi a tie at the merge.

Behind her, I'd include:
- Kathy O'Brien who beat Amber in a few A$$ confrontations
- Danni who won many Tribal challenges and 2 immunities.
- Amanda
- Eliza deserves a spot also. Isn't Eliza the only woman who ever won the car challenge? I'll have to check unless someone can help.

Jenna won a shuffleboard IC, a blindfolded IC where the guys were more interested in groping her and the final one that Matt quit. Not that impressive. Might as well add Darrah who also won quite a few "Mickey Mouse" challenges. Amber was pathetic in the Outback. Candice was more impressive than those 3.

Eliza and Cindy from Guatemala are the only women to win the car, and the curse that goes along with it.

How could I forget Cindy??!! I was looking for all the early seasons to make sure I wasn't forgetting one! Still Eliza is better overall.

Jenna actually won 4 IC's, but they were pitiful ones: Cocunut chop, shuffleboard, blindfolded maze, endurance that was handed to her.

Amber only won one individual immunity challenge. Amber won one out of twelve individual IC's, Steph won one out of thirteen, Parvati won one out of twelve, and Cirie won zero out of fifteen.

Eliza is very easily the best puzzle solver in the history of the show.

Kelly W actually won a minority of tribal challenges, but I would still put her on my list of best challenge performers.

My list based on challenge performance:
1. Kelly Wiglesworth
2. Eliza Orlins
3. Kathy O'Brien
4. Amanda Kimmel
5. Jenna Morasca

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I thought Jenna won 4 ICs, but I only remembered 3 for sure. All 4 were pretty weak, yes, but they are still wins. Only her, Kelly and Amanda have ever won so many, among the women.
Amber dominated the other women during the tribal challenges on All Stars. I would take her any day in challenges over Kathy O'Brien.
Danni did well during the tribal challenges, but she only 1 IC that wasn't handed to her. Cindy North actually kicked her butt at every IC they both competed in except the aforementioned one. Yes, Cindy won the RC that had the car (truck) as well. How could you forget? It forever stamps Cindy as one of the most pathetic Survivors of all time. Should I give 4 people all new trucks or keep one for myself? Ah, screw them! What a selfish little beyotch she was. Otherwise, she was one of the stronger female challenge performers.
I agree that Eliza deserves to be mentioned somewhere on the list. She is a fantastic tribal challenge performer.

>Terry was a jet fighter pilot.
>That is nearly the same
>as being a pro athlete.
>You have to keep yourself
>in great shape for that.
>Overall probably only 40% of
>all challenges are tailored to
>athletes, and the FIC virtually
>never is, as Terry can
>attest to.
>I laugh a little to see
>Stephanie referred to as one
>of the greatest challenge performers
>ever. Isn't Stephanie the all
>time loser at challenges? That
>was one of the endearing
>things about Stephanie. She is
>one of the most athletic
>women to ever play Survivor,
>and yet, she could never
>manage to win challenges, kind
>of like Alicia, who has
>to be the strongest woman
>to ever play Survivor.
>Actually, the best female challenge performers
>look something like this-
>
>Kelly W - 4 ICs and
>won majority of tribal challenges
>
>Amanda - 4 ICs and minority
>of tribal challenges, over 2
>seasons
>Jenna M - 3 ICs and
>majority of tribal challenges
>Amber - 2 ICs and
>vast majority of tribal challenges
>over 2 seasons
>
>>

To go purely by numbers is a bit misleading. If you do that, Colby in S2 or Ethan in S3 or Ruppert in S7 were great while BRob in S4 was not. However, as we saw in S8, BRob was a far superior challenge performer relative to any of them. Point is that competition matters. So to puth Jenna M or Amber in Steph's class is a bit misleading, though I agree that I probably would put Amanda in that category.

So back to Stephanee. Yes she had a terrible record. Her team was going against a team that had Tom, Ian, and a former college football player (name?) who was still in his 20s. Of course they were going to lose, especially when she had some losers as teammates. When she made the merge, she then had to compete against the three guys I just mentioned. I'm pretty sure Jenna Morasco (4 challenge wins in S6 or not) gets shut out in S10 too, and is not nearly as competitive doing it. I'm also sure that if you put Steph in S1, she wins all those same challenges that Kelly won (beating Rich and Rudy is not as hard as beating Tom and Ian). However, I will concede that Steph got exposed a little in S11 where Danni outperformed her in challenges.

As far as Alicia, very mediocre challenge performer. People get thrown off by the body building. Alicia is simply not a good athlete. If going on appearances, her and Osten would be the best athletes and we know neither was the case based on results. As point of evidence, did she ever outperform Amber in any challenge?

As far as the FIC, the last challenge that Terry lost actually was a physical challenge. He fell off balanace. Anyone can have a bad day, but it was still an athletics-based challenge where he not only lost to Aras but came in third behind the female (name?).

OK...I have the scoop on Terry only because I competed against him in HS.

Plain and simple...this guy was nothing short of phenomenal in HS. He quarterbacked his HS football team to an undefeated record. I saw him wrestle (I wrestled for my HS team) and thankfully we were in different weight classes. LOL He was pretty awesome. Yet his best HS sport was actually baseball. He was all-state and I believe got a scholarship to play baseball at the Naval Academy (then he became a fighter pilot).

When I told my sister that Terry was going to be on Survivor we just looked at each other and said Holy Moly...if the idiots they usually cast for that show can't figure him out early, this guy will run the table on them! Of course we said that in joke but it turned out to be the truth. Knowing what I knew, I personally was not surprised by his dominance.