Knifehand strike

Knifehand strike - also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand. Article “Knifehand strike” in English Wikipedia has 28.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.5 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Knifehand strike”, its content was written by 81 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 59 times in English Wikipedia and cited 570 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19445 in February 2005
• Global: #57733 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #80613 in December 2010
• Global: #98294 in December 2010

There are 7 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	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		28.8779
2	English (en) Knifehand strike		28.5246
3	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		22.9601
4	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		4.4954
5	Spanish (es) Tegatana		4.4776
6	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		2.8159
7	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		1.6665

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Knifehand strike" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knifehand strike		609 491
2	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		546 532
3	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		18 078
4	Spanish (es) Tegatana		16 820
5	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		4 772
6	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		2 904
7	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		835

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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 "Knifehand strike" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knifehand strike		2 129
2	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		1 405
3	Spanish (es) Tegatana		141
4	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		75
5	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		41
6	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		22
7	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		15

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		85
2	English (en) Knifehand strike		81
3	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		11
4	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		7
5	Spanish (es) Tegatana		3
6	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		2
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		1

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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 "Knifehand strike" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Knifehand strike		0
2	Spanish (es) Tegatana		0
3	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		0
4	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		0
5	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		0
6	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		0
7	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		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 "Knifehand strike" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 手刀打ち		494
2	English (en) Knifehand strike		59
3	Spanish (es) Tegatana		6
4	Dutch (nl) Te-gatana		5
5	French (fr) Coup du tranchant de la main		3
6	Korean (ko) 손날목치기		2
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan tangan pisau		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Knifehand strike
es	Spanish Tegatana
fr	French Coup du tranchant de la main
id	Indonesian Serangan tangan pisau
ja	Japanese 手刀打ち
ko	Korean 손날목치기
nl	Dutch Te-gatana

Best Rank

English: #80613 12.2010

Global: #98294 12.2010

Best Rank

English: #19445 02.2005

Global: #57733 02.2005

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