I've seen some acceleration charts before for a range of aircraft, can't recall where just now. The charts indicated the fastest-accelerating aircraft was the P-38, at least up to it's top speed. The Spirfire was right there, too. The thing is the "excess power" available for the Spitfire is extremely dependent on mark. The Mk XIV had considerabley more excess power than the Mk V. As I recall the charts didn't delineate the specific variants of the aircraft depicted in the charts, so while they were very interesting, they were next to being practially useless. Without the specific variants, the power used, the test conditions, and the fuel used, who is to say whether or not the results were intentionally skewed?
Likewise aircraft "turning circle" charts are equally useless since variant, fuel, test weight and such are not specified. I notice the A6M Zero never seems to show up on these types of charts ...
We COULD rather easily come up with a spreadsheet for power to weight ratio for various planes and variants, but I can't post an Excel file in here. And I've noticed that people tend to go off when we specify some power point used from a pilot's manual. There are invariably several posts where somone claims the real MAP and power was some arbitrary higher value that was made OK in some vague memo that nobody can find except the guy claiming the memo exists.
Then there's the guys who argue that some power-to-weight ratio that is very small bit higher wins. In point of fact, when the ratio gets into even one unit in the first decimal place, the Cd, test weight, condition of the engines and prop, and probably the fuel make more difference than a power-to-weight delta of 0.1 over and above some other aircraft.
I have a spreadsheet with over 1,100 entries for piston-powered WWII aircraft and could throw that together rather easily, but I still can't post the file. When Excel files become acceptable, I'll gladly share the numbers for power to weight ratios for a wide range of aircraft and everyone can draw their own conclusions. The power-to-weight ratio is a very good place to start but is not the sole indicator of acceleration and climb performance, but that's just personal opinion. A pilot can shove the throttle fully forward, but if the mixture isn't just right and if the radiator doors and cowl flaps aren't properly configured, and if the plane took off from a muddy field into a swarm of bugs, then the acceleration and climb could vary considerably.