 <p>Honestly, I find IDEA scarily good at reading my mind of what method I want to call next. And it usually just takes a couple letters for it to narrow down what I'm looking for pretty precisely.</p> <p>But, I think what you may be looking for is the "Sort lookup items lexicographically" option, in the Settings window under Editor / General / Code Completion. This always sorts the list by the name, rather than by predicting a few things to put at the top.</p> <p>You can read more about it and the other code completion options <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/code-completion-2.html" rel="nofollow">in the IntelliJ IDEA documentation</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qRlXK.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qRlXK.png" alt="Screenshot of Editor / General / Code Completion / Sort lookup items lexicographically"></a></p>