Need for Speed

Quality:

Need for Speed - racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts. This video game is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 18^th most popular video game in English Wikipedia. Article “Need for Speed” in English Wikipedia has 85.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 187 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3359^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6193^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 18^th most popular in video games in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2340^th most popular in all topics.

The 3883^rd most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7329^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Need for Speed” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Need for Speed”, its content was written by 1019 registered users of English Wikipedia (6193^rd place) and edited by 3987 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3883^rd place).

Need for Speed is on the 18^th place in local ranking of video games in English Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 355 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2754 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #820 in May 2015
• Global: #637 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1013 in November 2010
• Global: #961 in March 2014

There are 45 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) Need for Speed		85.4701
2	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		81.8182
3	Tamil (ta) நீட் ஃபார் ஸ்பீடு		80
4	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		78.6025
5	Ukrainian (uk) Need for Speed (серія ігор)		73.0739
6	Hebrew (he) Need for Speed		59.7222
7	Korean (ko) 니드 포 스피드		57.5235
8	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		51.7281
9	German (de) Need for Speed		34.5
10	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		33.8249

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Need for Speed		24 884 822
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		11 635 236
3	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		4 669 905
4	German (de) Need for Speed		3 985 136
5	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		2 636 560
6	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		2 365 745
7	Italian (it) Need for Speed		1 726 994
8	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		1 353 639
9	French (fr) Need for Speed		1 251 978
10	Turkish (tr) Need for Speed		923 806

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) Need for Speed		61 668
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		32 694
3	German (de) Need for Speed		7 736
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		7 219
5	French (fr) Need for Speed		4 304
6	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		4 121
7	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		3 909
8	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		2 753
9	Italian (it) Need for Speed		2 634
10	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		2 630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Need for Speed		1 019
2	German (de) Need for Speed		496
3	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		245
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		233
5	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		194
6	Italian (it) Need for Speed		163
7	French (fr) Need for Speed		157
8	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		106
9	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		99
10	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		93

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	German (de) Need for Speed		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		3
3	English (en) Need for Speed		2
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		1
5	Korean (ko) 니드 포 스피드		1
6	Arabic (ar) نيد فور سبيد		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Need for Speed (oyun seriyası)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Need for Speed		0
9	Catalan (ca) Need for Speed (saga de videojocs)		0
10	Czech (cs) Need for Speed		0

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

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