We kind of have a hall of fame: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

I've been scraping /bestcomments[0] since May for https://hcker.news and here are the top users golf ranked by # of best comments.

  1st, simonw, 28
  2nd, Aurornis, 17
  3rd, paxys, 14
  4th, tptacek, 12
  T5, duxup, 9
  T5, godelski, 9
  T5, hn_throwaway_99, 9
  T6, JimDabell, 7
  T6, JumpCrisscross, 7
  T6, neilv, 7
  T7, andy99, 6
  T7, crazygringo, 6
  T7, gruez, 6
  T7, habosa, 6
  T7, kentonv, 6
  T7, kragen, 6
  T7, stego-tech, 6
  T7, userbinator, 6
  T8, afavour, 5
  T8, Animats, 5
  T8, ChrisMarshallNY, 5
  T8, codingdave, 5
  T8, dang, 5
  T8, donatj, 5
  T8, lxgr, 5
  T8, perihelions, 5

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments