Fastball

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Fastball

Quality:

Fastball - type of pitch in baseball. Article “Fastball” in German Wikipedia has 10.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Fastball”, its content was written by 30 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 426 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 51 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4869 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #12996 in July 2005
  • Global: #25461 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #89011 in December 2023
  • Global: #22311 in January 2013

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Fastball
42.3114
2Chinese (zh)
快速球
36.4135
3Japanese (ja)
速球
26.4235
4French (fr)
Balle rapide
17.9516
5Korean (ko)
속구
14.7859
6Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
11.2225
7German (de)
Fastball
10.4465
8Swedish (sv)
Fastball
3.4084
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Fastball" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Japanese (ja)
速球
2 898 522
2English (en)
Fastball
1 546 981
3Chinese (zh)
快速球
324 144
4German (de)
Fastball
124 292
5Korean (ko)
속구
36 408
6French (fr)
Balle rapide
23 634
7Swedish (sv)
Fastball
12 164
8Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
496
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Fastball" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Japanese (ja)
速球
7 832
2English (en)
Fastball
6 095
3Chinese (zh)
快速球
1 372
4German (de)
Fastball
442
5Korean (ko)
속구
121
6French (fr)
Balle rapide
62
7Swedish (sv)
Fastball
24
8Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
20
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Fastball" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Fastball
223
2Japanese (ja)
速球
102
3German (de)
Fastball
30
4Chinese (zh)
快速球
27
5Korean (ko)
속구
25
6French (fr)
Balle rapide
10
7Swedish (sv)
Fastball
8
8Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Fastball" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
速球
1
2German (de)
Fastball
0
3English (en)
Fastball
0
4French (fr)
Balle rapide
0
5Korean (ko)
속구
0
6Swedish (sv)
Fastball
0
7Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
0
8Chinese (zh)
快速球
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Fastball" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Japanese (ja)
速球
3 179
2English (en)
Fastball
1 074
3Korean (ko)
속구
197
4Chinese (zh)
快速球
175
5French (fr)
Balle rapide
167
6German (de)
Fastball
51
7Swedish (sv)
Fastball
24
8Vietnamese (vi)
Fastball
2
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
German:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Fastball
enEnglish
Fastball
frFrench
Balle rapide
jaJapanese
速球
koKorean
속구
svSwedish
Fastball
viVietnamese
Fastball
zhChinese
快速球

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#89011
12.2023
Global:
#22311
01.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#12996
07.2005
Global:
#25461
04.2007

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Fastball from Wikipedia articles about Shohei Ohtani, Cutter, Yu Darvish, Wikipedia article and Masahiro Tanaka. Whereas reading the article about Fastball people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sinker, Cutter, Forkball, Shuuto and Magnus effect.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 速球
ko: 속구

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