interested me most vs interested me the most

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Interested me most' is used when comparing multiple things that have interested you, without specifying a superlative. 'Interested me the most' is used when comparing multiple things that have interested you and emphasizing the one that interested you the most.

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interested me most

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when comparing multiple things that have interested you, without specifying a superlative.

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We had many levels of performance from David Paymer, but the one that interested me the most was the most whiny.
And the one that most interested me... was to be a film about children's games.
What interested me the most was both the visual aesthetics, this kind of stereotype with this corpse-paint that you can make it into kind of a visual stereotype that both is something you feel you've seen before but is not quite like what you have seen before.
But in those days nothing and nobody interested me.
Continental drift never interested me much.
The atmosphere has always interested me.
That's what interested me, not the piano.
That interested me for a long time.
The natural sciences greatly interested me when I was a young man.
I was thinkin' about something that interested me.
Naturally, that girl interested me at once.
Anyway, it wouldn't have interested me.
You said something that interested me.
Truth is, I never found anyone who interested me.
Besides, gambling's never interested me...
That kind of nature interested me a lot when I was up here.
After all, this is not what interested me.
The math was fine, but what interested me was the wish fulfillment quality to the report.
In the meantime, I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me, knowing in advance my fate.
Capt Picard was the person who interested me in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Alternatives:

interested me greatly
interested me deeply
interested me significantly
interested me more than others
interested me above all

interested me the most

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when comparing multiple things that have interested you and emphasizing the one that interested you the most.

Show examples from the web [+]

We had many levels of performance from David Paymer, but the one that interested me the most was the most whiny.
What interested me the most was both the visual aesthetics, this kind of stereotype with this corpse-paint that you can make it into kind of a visual stereotype that both is something you feel you've seen before but is not quite like what you have seen before.
But in those days nothing and nobody interested me.
Continental drift never interested me much.
The atmosphere has always interested me.
That's what interested me, not the piano.
That interested me for a long time.
The natural sciences greatly interested me when I was a young man.
I was thinkin' about something that interested me.
Naturally, that girl interested me at once.
Anyway, it wouldn't have interested me.
You said something that interested me.
Truth is, I never found anyone who interested me.
Besides, gambling's never interested me...
That kind of nature interested me a lot when I was up here.
After all, this is not what interested me.
The math was fine, but what interested me was the wish fulfillment quality to the report.
In the meantime, I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me, knowing in advance my fate.
Capt Picard was the person who interested me in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
And the one that most interested me... was to be a film about children's games.

Alternatives:

interested me more than anything else
interested me above all
interested me to the greatest extent
interested me more than the rest
interested me primarily

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interested me most vs interested me the most