Three seconds rule

Three seconds rule - the player may not be in the other team's restricted zone for more than 3 seconds. Article “Three seconds rule” in English Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Three seconds rule”, its content was written by 59 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 149 times in English Wikipedia and cited 332 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #69260 in February 2019
• Global: #99382 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37960 in March 2024
• Global: #69614 in March 2024

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	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		21.2743
2	English (en) Three seconds rule		16.9893
3	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		11.0738
4	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		10.3802
5	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		8.8381
6	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		3.0124
7	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		1.3492

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Three seconds rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three seconds rule		1 565 929
2	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		211 168
3	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		163 600
4	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		93 630
5	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		41 021
6	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		26 806
7	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		14 880

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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 "Three seconds rule" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Three seconds rule		1 702
2	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		480
3	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		465
4	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		302
5	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		220
6	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		98
7	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		40

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Three seconds rule		59
2	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		18
3	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		11
4	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		8
5	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		6
6	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		6
7	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		2

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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 "Three seconds rule" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		0
2	English (en) Three seconds rule		0
3	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		0
4	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		0
5	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		0
6	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		0
7	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		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 "Three seconds rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Three seconds rule		149
2	Polish (pl) Błąd 3 sekund		129
3	Greek (el) Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων		30
4	Japanese (ja) 3秒ルール		13
5	Russian (ru) Правило 3 секунд		6
6	Turkish (tr) Üç saniye kuralı		3
7	Italian (it) Regola dei tre secondi		2

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#	Language	Value
el	Greek Κανόνας τριών δευτερολέπτων
en	English Three seconds rule
it	Italian Regola dei tre secondi
ja	Japanese 3秒ルール
pl	Polish Błąd 3 sekund
ru	Russian Правило 3 секунд
tr	Turkish Üç saniye kuralı

Best Rank

English: #37960 03.2024

Global: #69614 03.2024

Best Rank

English: #69260 02.2019

Global: #99382 08.2013

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