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	9709332	1155	8406
2	Perl	6130661	1531	4004
3	Nibbles	6050312	646	9365
4	GolfScript	5657915	1067	5302
5	Ruby	5328928	1467	3632
6	iogii	4216630	539	7823
7	Python	4203221	1466	2867
8	J	4186335	978	4280
9	AWK	3246636	1062	3057
10	sed	3208688	988	3247
11	JavaScript	3174891	1258	2523
12	Bash	3103708	826	3757
13	C	3079371	1379	2233
14	Vim	2733653	680	4020
15	Ruby2	2609154	808	3229
16	PHP	2538090	779	3258
17	Jelly	2483878	354	7016
18	Burlesque	2385785	565	4222
19	goruby	2286521	559	4090
20	FlogScript	2144505	414	5179
21	Python3	2130712	904	2356
22	Haskell	2069252	1016	2036
23	K	2027597	553	3666
24	Bash (builtins)	2022285	774	2612
25	Scala	2005237	931	2153
26	Groovy	1974929	759	2602
27	z80	1969235	524	3758
28	dc	1965136	519	3786
29	BASIC	1703707	673	2531
30	Zsh	1684909	448	3760
31	xgawk	1592288	521	3056
32	jq	1509637	479	3151
33	Lua	1485547	703	2113
34	R	1467638	627	2340
35	bc	1336203	511	2614
36	Common LISP	1296718	599	2164
37	Fish	1251639	342	3659
38	Postscript	1244416	435	2860
39	Io	1220427	598	2040
40	Scheme	1216961	620	1962
41	Arc	1206118	465	2593
42	PARI/GP	1189399	403	2951
43	Maxima	1179758	518	2277
44	Perl6	1121485	426	2632
45	m4	1101037	295	3732
46	Atlas	1043561	196	5324
47	Xtal	981530	429	2287
48	OCaml	945950	516	1833
49	Java	941775	778	1210
50	Octave	921384	378	2437
51	Fortran	815389	405	2013
52	wake	810940	321	2526
53	Logo	803775	391	2055
54	Pascal	787599	502	1568
55	REXX	775738	347	2235
56	Befunge	732867	289	2535
57	Tcl	712426	356	2001
58	Brainfuck	702519	483	1454
59	A+	698500	213	3279
60	Asymptote	691211	325	2126
61	Forth	673883	272	2477
62	Prolog	633534	338	1874
63	D	613935	356	1724
64	Universal Lambda	604658	197	3069
65	DOS	588599	191	3081
66	Smalltalk	557154	283	1968
67	Clojure	549993	283	1943
68	Icon	502405	291	1726
69	C#	476965	489	975
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	326819	224	1459
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	253540	127	1996
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	180589	410	440
95	Minus	174969	63	2777
96	Nemerle	172907	153	1130
97	COBOL	162707	199	817
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 Sep 02 20:14:18 UTC 2026 (Thu Sep 03 05:14:18 +0900 2026)

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