It’s obviously the one in the country I live in. All the others that I have had zero experience with are from Satan.

This is the most definitive argument that type J is superior to all others:

Image showing an arrangement of 3 swiss plugs in the same footprint as one french one

There was two different ways you could have ordered this alphabetically, and you failed to do either.

Type I.

ElectroBoom (Youtube) made some points about Australia’s Type I. Seems it was very hard for him to electrocute himself. Lots of breakers on the outlets. I mean he did electrocute himself, but he was always going to.

Swiss Type J, because you can have three of them, taking up no more space than one German or French plug.

The British plug has a lot of features that are supposed to make it very, very safe. It’d be interesting to see if there’s a study out there that tries to make apples-to-apples comparisons of electrical accidents in different countries. Do those features actually work out in practice?

The US plug is bad, but does that actually translate into more accidents? Hard to say. If you can do the study above, then you can start making the argument for switching to something else.

The UK plug is nice. Very robust, it connects to ground before it reaches the power line and has a switch but it’s clunky.

Well the answer is obviously the UK plug some of those others are just plain bad. The question is are they all made largely obsolete by USB C ? and is that the closest we are likely to get to a universal plug and socket?

All outlets should just be replaced with IEC C13. Robust and compact.

Brazilian Type N looks like it’s not a big deal, but the shape and depth are actually extremely good - you get a fantastic connection that never wobbles but also comes out when you need it without having weird pins or moving locks that always end up failing in some other designs. It’s also compact and stacks nicely.

I have a strong preference for the German and Swiss types, but I think we can all agree that Japan massively fucked up. They took the already shitty American plug and just forgot about the ground.

Still trying to figure out why Germany is listed separately from the EU.

I really like the power outlets in the EU. You don’t have to fart around with different sized prongs and the voltage is higher which makes things like tea kettles far more efficient.

Name a more painful thing to tread on than the British plug. Bonus points if it’s incorrectly wired to be live.