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	9663613	1149	8410
2	Perl	6136343	1529	4013
3	Nibbles	5960312	637	9356
4	GolfScript	5658132	1067	5302
5	Ruby	5313351	1463	3631
6	Python	4204015	1466	2867
7	J	4186680	978	4280
8	iogii	4115728	524	7854
9	AWK	3245223	1061	3058
10	sed	3187778	984	3239
11	JavaScript	3132430	1247	2511
12	Bash	3104143	826	3758
13	C	3072785	1374	2236
14	Vim	2734023	680	4020
15	Ruby2	2595264	803	3231
16	PHP	2526737	776	3256
17	Jelly	2484878	354	7019
18	Burlesque	2375492	562	4226
19	goruby	2286891	559	4091
20	FlogScript	2145130	414	5181
21	Python3	2127996	902	2359
22	Haskell	2067811	1014	2039
23	K	2024699	552	3667
24	Bash (builtins)	2022155	773	2615
25	Scala	1996737	925	2158
26	Groovy	1973380	758	2603
27	z80	1966458	523	3759
28	dc	1955449	518	3774
29	BASIC	1703624	672	2535
30	Zsh	1685344	448	3761
31	xgawk	1592288	521	3056
32	jq	1509637	479	3151
33	Lua	1485692	703	2113
34	R	1466346	626	2342
35	bc	1330551	509	2614
36	Common LISP	1285148	596	2156
37	Fish	1252074	342	3661
38	Postscript	1244416	435	2860
39	Io	1218925	597	2041
40	Scheme	1215629	619	1963
41	Arc	1206118	465	2593
42	PARI/GP	1187970	402	2955
43	Maxima	1178478	517	2279
44	Perl6	1121485	426	2632
45	m4	1091037	294	3711
46	Atlas	1043561	196	5324
47	Xtal	979766	428	2289
48	OCaml	945950	516	1833
49	Java	940481	775	1213
50	Octave	919599	377	2439
51	Fortran	813675	404	2014
52	wake	810940	321	2526
53	Logo	801602	390	2055
54	Pascal	787599	502	1568
55	REXX	775875	347	2235
56	Befunge	729828	288	2534
57	Tcl	712426	356	2001
58	A+	698500	213	3279
59	Brainfuck	693873	481	1442
60	Asymptote	690177	324	2130
61	Forth	673883	272	2477
62	Prolog	632358	337	1876
63	D	613935	356	1724
64	Universal Lambda	604658	197	3069
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	><>	475403	151	3148
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	325767	223	1460
80	QCL	308978	151	2046
81	Whitespace	282979	370	764
82	jq 1.6	275382	56	4917
83	LilyPond	263992	111	2378
84	Erlang	263198	261	1008
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	179525	405	443
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 Aug 05 21:03:50 UTC 2026 (Thu Aug 06 06:03:50 +0900 2026)

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