Common method for onomantic divination

One of many more common methods to achieve onomamtic divination that can be used if you would like to see the specific order of something like for instance, who will be more successful at something, is done by adding the numerical values of all letters in the names of two subjects, dividing the total by 9 and then comparing the remainders, the lower number of the two remainders will come out on top with this method. This can be used for a variety of situations, anything from completely trivial things to something much more substantial such as, who will live longer...