Big fan of rate mirrors. Though I'm noob so maybe I'm wrong haha.
I use this script and have it called whenever pacman updates a mirrorlist via a hook:
❯ cat ratem_hook.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
tmpfile=$(mktemp)
sudo chown user $tmpfile
if [[ "$1" == "arch" ]] then
[[ -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch.pacnew ]] && sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
sudo -u user rate-mirrors --save $tmpfile $1 && sudo cp $tmpfile /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
elif [[ "$1" == "chaotic-aur" ]] then
[[ -f /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist.pacnew ]] && sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
sudo -u user rate-mirrors --save $tmpfile $1 && sudo cp $tmpfile /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
elif [[ "$1" == "artix" ]] then
[[ -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew ]] && sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
sudo -u user rate-mirrors --save $tmpfile $1 && sudo cp $tmpfile /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
fi
Again, I am noob so I'm probably doing very awkward scripting things but it works so there's that :P