Kidding aside, this superb SA article offers five_ways to beat the S&P Index. The author is a University of Chicago MBA. I'm a subscriber to his material.
BTW, the first Index fund I bought decades ago was the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund that includes small and medium cap indexes. The ETF version trades under VTI. It has topped the normal S&P 500 Index (SPY) most years.