Only 1.76% of Americans have a perfect 850 FICO® Score in 2025. Here's who they are, what they do differently, and why ...

As Lynnette Khlafani-Cox looked at her credit score back in 2022, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The number that popped up on her screen: 850. She is a renowned money expert known as ‘The ...

In my perfect world, there would be no credit scores. And while I do not believe that credit is necessarily evil, in that perfect world of mine, there would be ...

Perfect credit, or even really good credit, opens doors for American consumers. Better interest rates on loans. Better odds of renting an apartment or landing a job. Lower insurance premiums. But how ...

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Some people doggedly pursue a perfect credit score: an 850. But they shouldn't. In this stock image, a bullseye is pictured. Getty Images April 13, 2014— -- There are some people in life for whom ...

Only a tiny fraction of Americans have reached the absolute top of the credit-scoring ladder in 2025, but that sliver of ...