Speed skating

Quality:

Speed skating - competitive form of ice skating in which competitors race each other. Article “Speed skating” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.76 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Speed skating”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1098 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 82 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 25304 times in all languages (6666^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #197 in February 2026
• Global: #524 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6032 in February 2014
• Global: #1232 in February 2014

There are 42 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	Malay (ms) Luncur laju		78.8992
2	French (fr) Patinage de vitesse		75.5367
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lengdeløp på skeiser		55.908
4	English (en) Speed skating		51.9289
5	Spanish (es) Patinaje de velocidad sobre hielo		41.9641
6	Russian (ru) Конькобежный спорт		39.973
7	Catalan (ca) Patinatge de velocitat sobre gel		39.513
8	Basque (eu) Izotz gaineko abiadura-patinaje		32.7786
9	Serbian (sr) Брзо клизање		27.4564
10	Hebrew (he) החלקה מהירה על הקרח		27.0641

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speed skating		2 277 627
2	Russian (ru) Конькобежный спорт		779 329
3	Japanese (ja) スピードスケート		653 802
4	Polish (pl) Łyżwiarstwo szybkie		498 058
5	French (fr) Patinage de vitesse		331 270
6	Spanish (es) Patinaje de velocidad sobre hielo		185 185
7	Czech (cs) Rychlobruslení		160 391
8	Italian (it) Pattinaggio di velocità su ghiaccio		145 485
9	Portuguese (pt) Patinação de velocidade no gelo		113 326
10	Korean (ko) 스피드스케이팅		110 805

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) Speed skating		2 975
2	Polish (pl) Łyżwiarstwo szybkie		1 210
3	Russian (ru) Конькобежный спорт		640
4	Japanese (ja) スピードスケート		592
5	French (fr) Patinage de vitesse		320
6	Spanish (es) Patinaje de velocidad sobre hielo		249
7	Chinese (zh) 速度滑冰		229
8	Persian (fa) اسکیت سرعت		199
9	Italian (it) Pattinaggio di velocità su ghiaccio		152
10	Czech (cs) Rychlobruslení		106

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Speed skating		328
2	French (fr) Patinage de vitesse		105
3	Russian (ru) Конькобежный спорт		69
4	Japanese (ja) スピードスケート		61
5	Italian (it) Pattinaggio di velocità su ghiaccio		56
6	Polish (pl) Łyżwiarstwo szybkie		50
7	Finnish (fi) Pikaluistelu		32
8	Danish (da) Hurtigløb på skøjter		27
9	Korean (ko) 스피드스케이팅		26
10	Spanish (es) Patinaje de velocidad sobre hielo		24

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	English (en) Speed skating		2
2	Catalan (ca) Patinatge de velocitat sobre gel		1
3	Swedish (sv) Skridskolöpning		1
4	Thai (th) สเกตความเร็ว		1
5	Chinese (zh) 速度滑冰		1
6	Arabic (ar) تزلج سريع		0
7	Belarusian (be) Канькабежны спорт		0
8	Czech (cs) Rychlobruslení		0
9	Danish (da) Hurtigløb på skøjter		0
10	Greek (el) Παγοδρομία ταχύτητας		0

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

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