Hamming distance

Hamming distance - number of bits that differ between two strings. Article “Hamming distance” in English Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.98 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Hamming distance”, its content was written by 184 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 795 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 246 times in English Wikipedia and cited 998 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5071 in May 2002
• Global: #2892 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23072 in November 2014
• Global: #33842 in November 2014

There are 31 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Hamming distance		37.6044
2	Indonesian (id) Jarak Hamming		24.2583
3	Norwegian (no) Hamming-avstand		22.5015
4	French (fr) Distance de Hamming		22.2818
5	Portuguese (pt) Distância de Hamming		22.1297
6	Greek (el) Απόσταση Χάμινγκ		20.5463
7	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		20.2812
8	Arabic (ar) مسافة هامينغ		20.1666
9	Russian (ru) Расстояние Хэмминга		18.2609
10	Serbian (sr) Хемингово растојање		16.2321

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hamming distance" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hamming distance		3 295 812
2	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		636 317
3	Russian (ru) Расстояние Хэмминга		309 827
4	Chinese (zh) 汉明距离		247 708
5	Japanese (ja) ハミング距離		244 258
6	French (fr) Distance de Hamming		236 400
7	Spanish (es) Distancia de Hamming		167 578
8	Italian (it) Distanza di Hamming		161 328
9	Polish (pl) Odległość Hamminga		97 706
10	Korean (ko) 해밍 거리		61 427

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hamming distance" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hamming distance		9 152
2	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		1 092
3	Russian (ru) Расстояние Хэмминга		691
4	Chinese (zh) 汉明距离		652
5	French (fr) Distance de Hamming		634
6	Japanese (ja) ハミング距離		522
7	Korean (ko) 해밍 거리		265
8	Italian (it) Distanza di Hamming		250
9	Polish (pl) Odległość Hamminga		231
10	Spanish (es) Distancia de Hamming		145

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

Language versions of the article "Hamming distance" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hamming distance		184
2	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		116
3	French (fr) Distance de Hamming		79
4	Italian (it) Distanza di Hamming		47
5	Russian (ru) Расстояние Хэмминга		45
6	Dutch (nl) Hammingafstand		27
7	Polish (pl) Odległość Hamminga		26
8	Hungarian (hu) Hamming-távolság		24
9	Spanish (es) Distancia de Hamming		22
10	Vietnamese (vi) Khoảng cách Hamming		22

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

Language versions of the article "Hamming distance" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		1
2	Arabic (ar) مسافة هامينغ		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Разстояние на Хеминг		0
4	Catalan (ca) Distància de Hamming		0
5	Czech (cs) Hammingova vzdálenost		0
6	Greek (el) Απόσταση Χάμινγκ		0
7	English (en) Hamming distance		0
8	Spanish (es) Distancia de Hamming		0
9	Persian (fa) فاصله همینگ		0
10	Finnish (fi) Hammingin etäisyys		0

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

Language versions of the article "Hamming distance" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hamming distance		246
2	French (fr) Distance de Hamming		90
3	Russian (ru) Расстояние Хэмминга		85
4	German (de) Hamming-Abstand		68
5	Ukrainian (uk) Відстань Геммінга		63
6	Japanese (ja) ハミング距離		44
7	Chinese (zh) 汉明距离		43
8	Spanish (es) Distancia de Hamming		36
9	Persian (fa) فاصله همینگ		36
10	Hebrew (he) מרחק המינג		35

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسافة هامينغ
bg	Bulgarian Разстояние на Хеминг
ca	Catalan Distància de Hamming
cs	Czech Hammingova vzdálenost
de	German Hamming-Abstand
el	Greek Απόσταση Χάμινγκ
en	English Hamming distance
es	Spanish Distancia de Hamming
fa	Persian فاصله همینگ
fi	Finnish Hammingin etäisyys
fr	French Distance de Hamming
he	Hebrew מרחק המינג
hr	Croatian Hammingova udaljenost
hu	Hungarian Hamming-távolság
id	Indonesian Jarak Hamming
it	Italian Distanza di Hamming
ja	Japanese ハミング距離
ko	Korean 해밍 거리
nl	Dutch Hammingafstand
no	Norwegian Hamming-avstand
pl	Polish Odległość Hamminga
pt	Portuguese Distância de Hamming
ro	Romanian Distanță Hamming
ru	Russian Расстояние Хэмминга
sr	Serbian Хемингово растојање
sv	Swedish Hammingavstånd
th	Thai ระยะทางแฮมมิง
tr	Turkish Hamming uzaklığı
uk	Ukrainian Відстань Геммінга
vi	Vietnamese Khoảng cách Hamming
zh	Chinese 汉明距离

Best Rank

English: #23072 11.2014

Global: #33842 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #5071 05.2002

Global: #2892 06.2003

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