USB Killer

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USB Killer

Quality:

USB Killer - USB thumb drive that allegedly destroys the physical component of any hardware device that it is connected to. Article “USB Killer” in Japanese Wikipedia has 9.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.51 points.

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

Since the creation of article “USB Killer”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 47 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Japanese): #32652 in July 2018
  • Global: #37941 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Japanese): #193086 in January 2019
  • Global: #94977 in May 2025

There are 12 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
USB殺手
38.4408
2English (en)
USB killer
31.0531
3Catalan (ca)
USB Killer
30.533
4Spanish (es)
USB Killer
29.9004
5Russian (ru)
USB Killer
28.2974
6Italian (it)
USB Killer
25.9239
7Korean (ko)
USB 킬러
24.8069
8Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
24.2947
9French (fr)
USB Killer
23.3873
10German (de)
USB-Killer
22.7824
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "USB Killer" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
USB killer
415 547
2Spanish (es)
USB Killer
83 396
3French (fr)
USB Killer
34 411
4Italian (it)
USB Killer
30 476
5Russian (ru)
USB Killer
25 534
6Chinese (zh)
USB殺手
22 757
7Japanese (ja)
USB Killer
21 854
8Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
16 509
9German (de)
USB-Killer
9 474
10Korean (ko)
USB 킬러
3 545
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "USB Killer" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
USB killer
9 210
2Russian (ru)
USB Killer
1 726
3German (de)
USB-Killer
898
4French (fr)
USB Killer
752
5Spanish (es)
USB Killer
734
6Japanese (ja)
USB Killer
374
7Italian (it)
USB Killer
364
8Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
358
9Chinese (zh)
USB殺手
327
10Arabic (ar)
يو أس بي القاتل
114
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "USB Killer" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
USB killer
62
2French (fr)
USB Killer
16
3Spanish (es)
USB Killer
12
4Italian (it)
USB Killer
9
5Japanese (ja)
USB Killer
8
6Chinese (zh)
USB殺手
7
7Catalan (ca)
USB Killer
6
8Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
5
9German (de)
USB-Killer
4
10Arabic (ar)
يو أس بي القاتل
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "USB Killer" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
USB killer
4
2French (fr)
USB Killer
1
3Arabic (ar)
يو أس بي القاتل
0
4Catalan (ca)
USB Killer
0
5German (de)
USB-Killer
0
6Spanish (es)
USB Killer
0
7Italian (it)
USB Killer
0
8Japanese (ja)
USB Killer
0
9Korean (ko)
USB 킬러
0
10Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "USB Killer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
USB killer
29
2Russian (ru)
USB Killer
6
3French (fr)
USB Killer
3
4Japanese (ja)
USB Killer
3
5Italian (it)
USB Killer
2
6Spanish (es)
USB Killer
1
7Korean (ko)
USB 킬러
1
8Portuguese (pt)
USB Killer
1
9Chinese (zh)
USB殺手
1
10Arabic (ar)
يو أس بي القاتل
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
يو أس بي القاتل
caCatalan
USB Killer
deGerman
USB-Killer
enEnglish
USB killer
esSpanish
USB Killer
frFrench
USB Killer
itItalian
USB Killer
jaJapanese
USB Killer
koKorean
USB 킬러
ptPortuguese
USB Killer
ruRussian
USB Killer
zhChinese
USB殺手

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#193086
01.2019
Global:
#94977
05.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#32652
07.2018
Global:
#37941
07.2020

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on USB Killer from Wikipedia articles about Universal Serial Bus, USB flash drive, USBKill, USB dead drop and Optical disc. Whereas reading the article about USB Killer people most often go to Wikipedia articles on USBKill, Southbridge, The College of Saint Rose, Modular connector and Silesian University of Technology.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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