Language Ranking

The score is the sum of 10000 * min(sizes of all solutions) / min(sizes of solutions in a language) for each problems.

Rank	Lang	Score	#	Avg.
1	gs2	9643030	1146	8414
2	Perl	6118704	1525	4012
3	Nibbles	5930312	634	9353
4	GolfScript	5648642	1065	5303
5	Ruby	5306961	1460	3634
6	Python	4189597	1459	2871
7	J	4187180	978	4281
8	iogii	4076591	520	7839
9	AWK	3241039	1059	3060
10	sed	3187228	983	3242
11	JavaScript	3124584	1243	2513
12	Bash	3099945	824	3762
13	C	3069775	1370	2240
14	Vim	2734023	680	4020
15	Ruby2	2589077	801	3232
16	PHP	2523693	775	3256
17	Jelly	2484878	354	7019
18	Burlesque	2368690	560	4229
19	goruby	2287457	559	4092
20	FlogScript	2145130	414	5181
21	Python3	2112158	895	2359
22	Haskell	2068053	1014	2039
23	K	2024699	552	3667
24	Bash (builtins)	2021891	772	2619
25	Scala	1991680	921	2162
26	Groovy	1973677	758	2603
27	z80	1966458	523	3759
28	dc	1947116	516	3773
29	BASIC	1703899	672	2535
30	Zsh	1681102	446	3769
31	xgawk	1592597	521	3056
32	jq	1509637	479	3151
33	Lua	1485657	703	2113
34	R	1466346	626	2342
35	bc	1323077	507	2609
36	Common LISP	1285538	596	2156
37	Fish	1247832	340	3670
38	Postscript	1244845	435	2861
39	Io	1219219	597	2042
40	Scheme	1215629	619	1963
41	Arc	1206118	465	2593
42	PARI/GP	1187970	402	2955
43	Maxima	1178889	517	2280
44	Perl6	1120374	425	2636
45	m4	1091037	294	3711
46	Atlas	1036561	195	5315
47	Xtal	979766	428	2289
48	OCaml	946164	516	1833
49	Java	940481	775	1213
50	Octave	919979	377	2440
51	Fortran	813936	404	2014
52	wake	810940	321	2526
53	Logo	800693	389	2058
54	Pascal	787740	502	1569
55	REXX	775875	347	2235
56	Befunge	729828	288	2534
57	Tcl	712529	356	2001
58	A+	698500	213	3279
59	Brainfuck	690430	478	1444
60	Asymptote	690335	324	2130
61	Forth	673220	271	2484
62	Prolog	632655	337	1877
63	D	614160	356	1725
64	Universal Lambda	604848	197	3070
65	DOS	586457	190	3086
66	Smalltalk	557154	283	1968
67	Clojure	549993	283	1943
68	Icon	502562	291	1727
69	C#	476541	487	978
70	><>	474278	151	3140
71	Cyan	448948	199	2256
72	REBOL	444465	255	1743
73	ObjC	435035	240	1812
74	Crystal	424540	178	2385
75	C++	384362	287	1339
76	Kite	355025	185	1919
77	gnuplot	339731	105	3235
78	Befunge-98	332438	117	2841
79	SNOBOL	325313	222	1465
80	QCL	308978	151	2046
81	Whitespace	282622	369	765
82	jq 1.6	275382	56	4917
83	LilyPond	263992	111	2378
84	Erlang	263436	261	1009
85	Euphoria	253627	127	1997
86	Curry	242738	135	1798
87	make	237309	142	1671
88	Pike	234901	161	1459
89	Go	229775	195	1178
90	Squirrel	220690	85	2596
91	Hexagony	219722	74	2969
92	Rust	201529	149	1352
93	Chapel	190771	109	1750
94	Lazy-K	179505	404	444
95	Minus	174969	63	2777
96	Nemerle	172907	153	1130
97	COBOL	162376	198	820
98	Labyrinth	147743	49	3015
99	Unlambda	147058	105	1400
100	LMNtal	135821	75	1810
101	D-compile-time	135784	73	1860
102	Ada	123331	140	880
103	FerNANDo	116277	171	679
104	Malbolge	103929	77	1349
105	Mind	102086	84	1215
106	x86	81272	65	1250
107	Pefunge	64879	22	2949
108	Aheui	57723	65	888
109	CLC-INTERCAL	53051	91	582
110	MNNBFSL	50795	30	1693
111	gas	43476	46	945
112	Grass	39235	48	817
113	JVM	37760	15	2517
114	Piet	31214	31	1006
115	Whirl	18953	29	653
116	VHDL	13693	37	370

gs2 is the programming tool of choice for discriminating golfers.

Perl is a fine programming tool for many courses.

Last update: Wed Jul 29 20:34:58 UTC 2026 (Thu Jul 30 05:34:58 +0900 2026)

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