Mental calculation

Quality:

Mental calculation - arithmetical calculations using only the human brain. Article “Mental calculation” in English Wikipedia has 36.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 12 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Mental calculation” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mental calculation”, its content was written by 420 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 944 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 194 times in English Wikipedia and cited 774 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1790 in September 2004
• Global: #5804 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6352 in August 2018
• Global: #14309 in August 2018

There are 27 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	Malay (ms) Congak		44
2	Russian (ru) Устный счёт		42.5444
3	German (de) Kopfrechnen		41.7877
4	English (en) Mental calculation		36.6145
5	Greek (el) Νοεροί υπολογισμοί		31.6333
6	Korean (ko) 암산		27.4821
7	Spanish (es) Cálculo mental		26.2258
8	Japanese (ja) 暗算		21.9599
9	Hungarian (hu) Fejszámolási módszerek		20.8718
10	Serbian (sr) Ментална аритметикa		20.1106

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mental calculation		2 003 225
2	Spanish (es) Cálculo mental		844 449
3	Arabic (ar) حساب ذهني		300 618
4	Russian (ru) Устный счёт		240 902
5	German (de) Kopfrechnen		215 112
6	Japanese (ja) 暗算		193 807
7	French (fr) Calcul mental		146 148
8	Persian (fa) محاسبه ذهنی		130 003
9	Dutch (nl) Hoofdrekenen		81 613
10	Hungarian (hu) Fejszámolási módszerek		63 779

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) Mental calculation		6 302
2	Spanish (es) Cálculo mental		639
3	Simple English (simple) Mental calculation		533
4	Russian (ru) Устный счёт		454
5	Japanese (ja) 暗算		380
6	Hebrew (he) חישוב בעל-פה		311
7	Arabic (ar) حساب ذهني		301
8	French (fr) Calcul mental		263
9	Chinese (zh) 心算		196
10	Hungarian (hu) Fejszámolási módszerek		181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mental calculation		420
2	German (de) Kopfrechnen		105
3	Spanish (es) Cálculo mental		59
4	Dutch (nl) Hoofdrekenen		47
5	Russian (ru) Устный счёт		37
6	Hebrew (he) חישוב בעל-פה		30
7	Persian (fa) محاسبه ذهنی		28
8	Japanese (ja) 暗算		27
9	French (fr) Calcul mental		22
10	Arabic (ar) حساب ذهني		20

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) Mental calculation		4
2	Basque (eu) Buruzko kalkulu		1
3	Korean (ko) 암산		1
4	Arabic (ar) حساب ذهني		0
5	Catalan (ca) Càlcul mental		0
6	German (de) Kopfrechnen		0
7	Greek (el) Νοεροί υπολογισμοί		0
8	Spanish (es) Cálculo mental		0
9	Persian (fa) محاسبه ذهنی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Päässälasku		0

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

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