Need for Speed

Quality:

Need for Speed - racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts. This video game is the 9^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 208^th most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Need for Speed” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 208^th most popular in video games in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2285^th most popular in all topics.

The 3999^th most popular in AI.

The 9^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8726^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Need for Speed”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3981 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3999^th place).

Need for Speed is on the 208^th place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 9^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2705 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #366 in August 2008
• Global: #637 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3613 in January 2008
• Global: #875 in December 2010

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, 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	English (en) Need for Speed		86.8172
2	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		81.8182
3	Tamil (ta) நீட் ஃபார் ஸ்பீடு		80
4	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		77.6169
5	Ukrainian (uk) Need for Speed (серія ігор)		71.5799
6	Hebrew (he) Need for Speed		59.0428
7	Korean (ko) 니드 포 스피드		57.6332
8	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		52.0615
9	German (de) Need for Speed		39.6366
10	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		33.709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Need for Speed		25 710 514
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		13 719 122
3	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		4 740 902
4	German (de) Need for Speed		4 100 658
5	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		2 702 795
6	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		2 405 134
7	Italian (it) Need for Speed		1 771 202
8	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		1 389 642
9	French (fr) Need for Speed		1 317 570
10	Turkish (tr) Need for Speed		948 969

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		52 665
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		20 289
3	German (de) Need for Speed		5 624
4	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		4 665
5	French (fr) Need for Speed		4 068
6	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		3 689
7	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		2 344
8	Italian (it) Need for Speed		2 192
9	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		2 152
10	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		2 079

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		1 030
2	German (de) Need for Speed		498
3	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		252
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		236
5	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		195
6	Italian (it) Need for Speed		167
7	French (fr) Need for Speed		158
8	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		108
9	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		101
10	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		94

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	Greek (el) Need for Speed		2
2	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		2
3	Hebrew (he) Need for Speed		2
4	Arabic (ar) نيد فور سبيد		1
5	Armenian (hy) Need for Speed		1
6	Romanian (ro) Need for Speed (serie)		1
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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