Infinite monkey theorem

Quality:

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 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 2385 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 523 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #710 in November 2022
• Global: #684 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7630 in August 2010
• Global: #3985 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, 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	Turkish (tr) Sonsuz maymun teoremi		59.386
2	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		56.8831
3	Hungarian (hu) Végtelen sok majom és írógép tétele		53.9043
4	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		52.6393
5	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		41.1309
6	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		38.9956
7	Indonesian (id) Teorema monyet tak terhingga		36.9279
8	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		31.5065
9	Tamil (ta) முடிவில் குரங்குத் தேற்றம்		31.265
10	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		29.5741

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		6 255 372
2	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		665 656
3	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		652 046
4	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		560 019
5	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		501 752
6	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		441 757
7	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		393 185
8	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		336 356
9	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		255 882
10	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		234 988

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		20 711
2	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		3 596
3	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		2 405
4	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		1 955
5	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		1 762
6	Chinese (zh) 無限猴子定理		1 520
7	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		1 141
8	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		836
9	Simple English (simple) Infinite monkey theorem		704
10	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		635

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		795
2	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		214
3	French (fr) Paradoxe du singe savant		164
4	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		148
5	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		109
6	Hebrew (he) משפט הקוף המקליד		85
7	Italian (it) Teorema della scimmia instancabile		84
8	Spanish (es) Teorema del mono infinito		68
9	Portuguese (pt) Teorema do macaco infinito		66
10	Japanese (ja) 無限の猿定理		60

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	Polish (pl) Twierdzenie o nieskończonej liczbie małp		6
2	English (en) Infinite monkey theorem		2
3	Russian (ru) Теорема о бесконечных обезьянах		1
4	Arabic (ar) مبرهنة القرد اللامنتهية		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sonsuz meymun teoremi		0
6	Catalan (ca) Teorema dels micos infinits		0
7	Czech (cs) Věta o nekonečné opici		0
8	Danish (da) Sætningen om uendeligt mange aber		0
9	German (de) Infinite-Monkey-Theorem		0
10	Greek (el) Θεώρημα των απείρων πιθήκων		0

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

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