Brainfuck

Quality:

Brainfuck - esoteric, minimalist programming language. This programming language is the 27^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 19^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Brainfuck” in English Wikipedia has 36.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 29 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.43 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 19^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 27^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Brainfuck” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Brainfuck”, its content was written by 553 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1734 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Brainfuck is on the 19^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 43 times in English Wikipedia and cited 783 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #163 in March 2003
• Global: #312 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19 in August 2014
• Global: #41 in August 2014

There are 38 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Brainfuck		56.7013
2	Serbian (sr) Brainfuck		47.6181
3	English (en) Brainfuck		36.4194
4	German (de) Brainfuck		31.509
5	Simple English (simple) Brainfuck		31.3921
6	French (fr) Brainfuck		31.0439
7	Tamil (ta) பிரென்ஃப்ஃக்		30.0787
8	Czech (cs) Brainfuck		24.3585
9	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		23.9876
10	Arabic (ar) برين فاك		21.928

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brainfuck		10 083 440
2	German (de) Brainfuck		1 316 978
3	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		1 275 256
4	French (fr) Brainfuck		755 585
5	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		688 322
6	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		388 247
7	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		234 942
8	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		219 675
9	Portuguese (pt) Brainfuck		210 104
10	Italian (it) Brainfuck		158 567

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brainfuck		16 113
2	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		1 842
3	German (de) Brainfuck		1 620
4	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		1 304
5	French (fr) Brainfuck		1 077
6	Chinese (zh) Brainfuck		422
7	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		372
8	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		341
9	Portuguese (pt) Brainfuck		270
10	Italian (it) Brainfuck		191

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brainfuck		553
2	German (de) Brainfuck		187
3	French (fr) Brainfuck		187
4	Russian (ru) Brainfuck		98
5	Polish (pl) Brainfuck		73
6	Italian (it) Brainfuck		66
7	Japanese (ja) Brainfuck		55
8	Hungarian (hu) Brainfuck		41
9	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		39
10	Hebrew (he) Brainfuck		39

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brainfuck		3
2	Arabic (ar) برين فاك		1
3	Czech (cs) Brainfuck		1
4	German (de) Brainfuck		1
5	Catalan (ca) Brainfuck		0
6	Danish (da) Brainfuck		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Brainfuck (programlingvo)		0
8	Spanish (es) Brainfuck		0
9	Estonian (et) Brainfuck		0
10	Basque (eu) Brainfuck		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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