Infinite monkey theorem

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Infinite monkey theorem - humorously stated theorem that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.. Article “Infinite monkey theorem” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Infinite monkey theorem”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2436 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 440 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #708 in November 2022
• Global: #685 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7667 in August 2010
• Global: #4095 in March 2014

There are 38 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, 2026 (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	Turkish (tr) Sonsuz maymun teoremi		59.6895
2	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		54.9999
3	Hungarian (hu) Végtelen sok majom és írógép tétele		51.1099
4	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		50.2858
5	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		40.4972
6	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		38.9465
7	Indonesian (id) Teorema monyet tak terhingga		36.0057
8	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		31.4554
9	Tamil (ta) முடிவில் குரங்குத் தேற்றம்		31.1801
10	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		29.1874

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		6 494 253
2	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		710 810
3	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		694 296
4	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		575 520
5	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		515 363
6	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		458 812
7	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		403 971
8	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		351 563
9	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		263 497
10	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		243 704

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) Infinite monkey theorem		18 013
2	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		4 678
3	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		1 855
4	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		1 515
5	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		1 343
6	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		1 039
7	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		981
8	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		888
9	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		528
10	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		439

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		803
2	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		217
3	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		189
4	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		169
5	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		110
6	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		86
7	Hebrew (he) משפט הקוף המקליד		85
8	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		71
9	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		67
10	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		63

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) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		3
2	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		3
3	Arabic (ar) مبرهنة القرد اللامنتهية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Sonsuz meymun teoremi		0
5	Catalan (ca) Teorema dels micos infinits		0
6	Czech (cs) Věta o nekonečné opici		0
7	Danish (da) Sætningen om uendeligt mange aber		0
8	Greek (el) Θεώρημα των απείρων πιθήκων		0
9	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		0
10	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		0

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

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