Someone had the brilliant idea to sort the IKEA catalog by assembly difficulty: it was exactly what we needed

A fan-made site, IKEA Complexity Index, ranks over 21,000 IKEA products by estimated assembly difficulty.

The ranking uses factors like parts count, number of steps, manual length, and assembly time.

It shows that higher-priced items are not always the hardest to build, with some simpler models ranking lower than expected.

The tool may help shoppers weigh effort and time, not just price or design, before buying IKEA furniture.