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Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:57:49 GMT till Mon, 17 Feb 2014 03:57:49 GMT.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
  .filter((user) -> user.followers > 246)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

Made with data mining of GitHub.com (raw data, script) by @paulmillr with contribs of @lifesinger. Updated once per week.

# User Contribs Language Location
#1 qiangxue (Qiang Xue) 7579 PHP Virginia, U.S.A.
#2 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 6592 PHP Paris, France
#3 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 6415 Ruby
#4 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 6231 Shell Arkansas
#5 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 6078 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#6 brianchandotcom (Brian Chan) 5741 Java Los Angeles, CA
#7 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 5679 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#8 substack (James Halliday) 5562 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#9 beberlei (Benjamin Eberlei) 5533 PHP Germany
#10 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 5225 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#11 mdo (Mark Otto) 5211 CSS San Francisco, CA
#12 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 5066 JavaScript New Zealand
#13 c9s (Pedro) 4932 PHP
#14 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 4794 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#15 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 4733 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#16 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 4569 JavaScript Washington, DC
#17 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 4542 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#18 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 4488 PHP France
#19 kripken (Alon Zakai) 4282 JavaScript
#20 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 3964 C Winthrop, WA
#21 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3959 Ruby Berlin
#22 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 3915 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#23 hadley (Hadley Wickham) 3901 R Houston, TX
#24 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 3895 Ruby Denver, Colorado
#25 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3892 PHP Hutchinson, KS
#26 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 3743 Ruby Silicon Valley
#27 ujihisa 3721 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#28 josevalim (José Valim) 3559 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#29 randx (Dmitriy Zaporozhets) 3520 Ruby Kharkiv, UA
#30 dcramer (David Cramer) 3515 Python San Francisco, CA
#31 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 3501 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#32 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 3483 JavaScript Shenzhen, China
#33 juliangruber (Julian Gruber) 3481 JavaScript Kaufbeuren
#34 avelino (Thiago Avelino) 3382 Python Brazil - Sao Paulo / SP
#35 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 3364 JavaScript Brazil
#36 samdark (Alexander Makarov) 3308 PHP Russia
#37 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 3286 JavaScript Paris, france
#38 bergie (Henri Bergius) 3199 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#39 alex (Alex Gaynor) 3167 Python San Francisco
#40 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 3114 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#41 roojs (Alan Knowles) 2921 PHP Hong Kong
#42 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 2895 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#43 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 2876 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#44 rvagg (Rod Vagg) 2860 JavaScript South Coast NSW, Australia
#45 viatropos (Lance Pollard) 2855 JavaScript San Francisco
#46 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 2824 Python Rio de Janeiro
#47 willdurand (William Durand) 2812 PHP France
#48 audreyt (唐鳳) 2803 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#49 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 2801 Objective-C Seattle, WA
#50 fogus (Fogus) 2799 Clojure DC
#51 gka 2779 JavaScript Brooklyn
#52 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 2778 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#53 mizzy (Gosuke Miyashita) 2764 Ruby Kanagawa, Japan
#54 Shougo (Shougo) 2737 VimL Japan
#55 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 2706 PHP Nashville, TN
#56 remy (Remy Sharp) 2696 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#57 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 2694 PHP Germany
#58 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 2675 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#59 passy (Pascal Hartig) 2675 JavaScript London, UK
#60 ednapiranha (Jen Fong-Adwent) 2663 JavaScript Portland, Oregon
#61 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2640 Java San Jose, California
#62 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2632 Java San Francisco, CA
#63 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 2615 Ruby Milan, Italy
#64 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 2615 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#65 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2595 Haskell Israel
#66 mattn (mattn) 2587 VimL Osaka, Japan
#67 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2578 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#68 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 2576 JavaScript
#69 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 2570 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#70 radar (Ryan Bigg) 2568 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#71 eduardolundgren (Eduardo Lundgren) 2549 JavaScript Brazil
#72 markstory (Mark Story) 2542 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#73 rjbs (Ricardo Signes) 2524 Perl Bethlehem, PA, USA
#74 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 2517 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#75 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 2509 Haskell Peoria, Illinois, USA
#76 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2497 Emacs Chester, UK
#77 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 2480 Ruby Berlin
#78 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2450 R Ames, IA
#79 mhartl (Michael Hartl) 2418 Ruby Pasadena, CA
#80 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 2412 Python Inland Empire, CA
#81 mythz (Demis Bellot) 2401 C New York
#82 creationix (Tim Caswell) 2373 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#83 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 2362 JavaScript Russia
#84 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 2345 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#85 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 2342 JavaScript San Francisco
#86 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 2338 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#87 Raynos (Raynos (Jake Verbaten)) 2331 JavaScript San Francisco
#88 dg (David Grudl) 2330 PHP
#89 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 2328 Python London, UK
#90 paulcbetts (Paul Betts) 2319 C San Francisco, CA
#91 ianstormtaylor (Ian Storm Taylor) 2286 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#92 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 2270 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#93 swannodette (David Nolen) 2258 Clojure New York
#94 benbalter (Ben Balter) 2247 JavaScript Washington, DC
#95 ramnathv (Ramnath Vaidyanathan) 2221 JavaScript Montreal
#96 freddix (Fryderyk Dziarmagowski) 2218 Shell
#97 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2216 Ruby Portland, OR
#98 jamesward (James Ward) 2207 Java
#99 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 2205 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#100 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 2195 JavaScript Oakland CA
#101 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 2182 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#102 FooBarWidget (Hongli Lai) 2176 Ruby Earth
#103 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 2172 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#104 postmodern (Postmodern) 2153 Ruby
#105 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 2152 Ruby Seattle
#106 SamSaffron (Sam) 2149 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#107 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 2142 Ruby
#108 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 2116 Ruby Japan
#109 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 2113 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#110 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 2098 JavaScript London, England
#111 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 2082 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#112 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2050 C Israel
#113 dfm (Dan Foreman-Mackey) 2041 Python Brooklyn, NY
#114 michalbe (Michal Budzynski) 2015 JavaScript Paris, France // Warsaw, Poland
#115 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 2014 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#116 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1992 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#117 necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) 1979 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#118 Unknwon (Joe Chen) 1979 Go Boston, MA
#119 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 1976 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#120 karmi (Karel Minarik) 1973 Ruby Prague, Czech Republic
#121 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 1969 Go Santa Clara, CA
#122 sole (sole) 1964 JavaScript London
#123 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 1957 JavaScript Santa Clara, CA
#124 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1941 Shell Seattle, WA
#125 stephenmcd (Stephen McDonald) 1933 Python Sydney Australia
#126 miyagawa (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) 1892 Perl San Francisco, CA
#127 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1885 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#128 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1876 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#129 ErisDS (Hannah Wolfe) 1872 JavaScript UK
#130 Contra (Eric Schoffstall) 1826 JavaScript Phoenix, AZ
#131 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1818 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#132 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 1817 JavaScript Belgium
#133 jgm (John MacFarlane) 1807 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#134 SamyPesse (Samy Pessé) 1801 JavaScript Paris, France / Palo Alto, CA
#135 azer (Azer Koçulu) 1799 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#136 romaonthego (Roman Efimov) 1798 Objective-C San Francisco Bay Area
#137 jtauber (James Tauber) 1798 Python Burlington, MA
#138 orta (Orta) 1789 Objective-C Manchester / NYC
#139 mikejolley (Mike Jolley) 1773 PHP England, UK
#140 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 1742 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#141 heynemann (Bernardo Heynemann) 1739 Python Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
#142 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 1732 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#143 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 1725 Python Portland, Or
#144 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1724 Python Creil, France
#145 leafo (leaf) 1722 MoonScript San Francisco
#146 roidrage (Mathias Meyer) 1701 Ruby Berlin, Germany
#147 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1701 PHP New York, NY
#148 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 1690 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#149 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 1659 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#150 lifesinger (lifesinger) 1649 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#151 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 1643 Perl Mountain View, CA
#152 MatthewMueller (Matthew Mueller) 1622 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#153 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1615 JavaScript Berlin
#154 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1606 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#155 gfx (Fuji, Goro) 1602 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#156 mmalecki (Maciej Małecki) 1591 JavaScript Amsterdam, Netherlands
#157 kraih (Sebastian Riedel) 1582 Perl Germany
#158 solnic (Piotr Solnica) 1575 Ruby Poland, Kraków
#159 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1574 Ruby Belgium
#160 desandro (David DeSandro) 1573 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#161 jlord (Jessica Lord) 1564 JavaScript Oakland, Ca
#162 ianb (Ian Bicking) 1560 JavaScript Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
#163 obviousjim (James George) 1559 C Brooklyn, New York
#164 robhudson (Rob Hudson) 1554 Python Eugene, Oregon
#165 r7kamura (Ryo Nakamura) 1554 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#166 chrisdone (Chris Done) 1553 Haskell Italy
#167 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1552 Python Berlin, Germany
#168 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1528 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#169 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1526 Shell Los Angeles
#170 audreyr (Audrey Roy) 1512 Python Inland Empire, CA
#171 bitprophet (Jeff Forcier) 1501 Python Lafayette, CA
#172 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 1492 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#173 codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz) 1485 Go Sierra Madre CA
#174 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1481 Ruby London, UK
#175 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 1477 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#176 shama (Kyle Robinson Young) 1447 JavaScript Napa, CA
#177 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1446 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#178 fool2fish (Zhouxuan Yang) 1445 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#179 gregkh (Greg Kroah-Hartman) 1436 C
#180 sethladd (Seth Ladd) 1430 Dart Mountain View, CA
#181 durran (Durran Jordan) 1423 Ruby Berlin, Deutschland
#182 drogus (Piotr Sarnacki) 1422 Ruby Warsaw
#183 yyx990803 (Evan You) 1419 JavaScript New York
#184 kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz) 1397 Python Winchester, VA
#185 igorw (Igor Wiedler) 1383 PHP Berlin
#186 jtimberman (Joshua Timberman) 1374 Ruby Denver, CO
#187 stof (Christophe Coevoet) 1366 PHP Paris
#188 darkwing (David Walsh) 1364 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#189 jsuereth (Josh Suereth) 1358 Scala Pittsburgh, PA
#190 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1358 Python United Kingdom / Austria
#191 klen (Kirill Klenov) 1357 Python Russia, Moscow
#192 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1347 JavaScript Bath, UK
#193 coolwanglu (Lu Wang) 1343 Shell
#194 btford (Brian Ford) 1340 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#195 tommy351 (SkyArrow) 1333 JavaScript Taipei
#196 leto (Duke Leto) 1329 Perl Portland, OR
#197 ryanseys (Ryan Seys) 1328 JavaScript Ottawa
#198 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1300 Python Chennai
#199 pengwynn (Wynn Netherland) 1298 Ruby TX
#200 kangax (Juriy Zaytsev) 1297 JavaScript New York
#201 Haacked (Phil Haack) 1287 C Bellevue, WA
#202 xinyu198736 (芋头) 1285 JavaScript china 杭州 西湖区
#203 davidfowl (David Fowler) 1282 C Bellevue, WA
#204 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1278 Java
#205 jcoglan (James Coglan) 1277 Ruby London, UK
#206 bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick) 1265 Go San Francisco, CA
#207 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1259 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#208 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 1258 JavaScript New York, NY
#209 carlosantoniodasilva (Carlos Antonio da Silva) 1257 Ruby Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil
#210 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1253 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#211 amatsuda (Akira Matsuda) 1219 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#212 robashton (Rob "Hurricane" Ashton) 1211 JavaScript London
#213 phalcon (Phalcon) 1210 PHP
#214 toastdriven (Daniel Lindsley) 1203 Python Lynnwood, WA
#215 chloerei (Rei) 1192 Ruby china, beijing
#216 jakevdp (Jake Vanderplas) 1181 Python Seattle WA
#217 michaelficarra (Michael Ficarra) 1178 JavaScript Chicago, IL
#218 DataTables (Allan Jardine) 1175 JavaScript
#219 chjj (Christopher Jeffrey) 1174 JavaScript MN
#220 josh (Joshua Peek) 1171 Ruby Chicago, IL
#221 astaxie (astaxie) 1168 Go Singapore
#222 davecheney (Dave Cheney) 1168 Go Sydney, Australia
#223 bryanveloso (Bryan Veloso) 1168 Python Los Angeles, CA
#224 levey (朱建刚) 1166 Objective-C Hangzhou, China
#225 soimort (Mort Yao) 1163 Shell Skåne, Sweden
#226 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 1163 Perl Seattle
#227 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1155 Emacs Norway
#228 Gozala (Irakli Gozalishvili) 1154 JavaScript San Francisco, USA
#229 cyanogen (Steve Kondik) 1148 C Seattle, WA
#230 mneorr (Marin Usalj) 1148 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#231 PaulKinlan (Paul Kinlan) 1139 JavaScript a few places.
#232 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1139 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#233 gnuwilliam (William Oliveira) 1134 JavaScript Brazil
#234 jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas) 1128 Ruby On the Road
#235 schneems (Richard Schneeman) 1128 Ruby Austin, Tx
#236 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 1128 JavaScript China
#237 joshaber (Josh Abernathy) 1125 Objective-C Yellow Springs, OH
#238 mxcl (Max Howell) 1120 Objective-C Chicago
#239 weavejester (James Reeves) 1119 Clojure London, UK
#240 loopj (James Smith) 1110 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#241 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1107 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#242 maryrosecook (Mary Rose Cook) 1104 JavaScript New York City
#243 sorbits (Allan Odgaard) 1104 Ruby Denmark
#244 tarcieri (Tony Arcieri) 1100 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#245 lloyd (Lloyd Hilaiel) 1097 JavaScript Denver, Colorado
#246 mikeal (Mikeal Rogers) 1091 JavaScript Oakland, CA, USA
#247 naoya (Naoya Ito) 1084 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#248 soffes (Sam Soffes) 1082 Ruby San Francisco
#249 tonymorris 1066 Haskell
#250 turingou (Guo Yu) 1065 JavaScript ShenZhen, Mainland China
#251 antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) 1059 C Campobello di Licata, Sicily, Italy
#252 johnmyleswhite (John Myles White) 1057 Julia San Francisco, CA
#253 kylemcdonald (Kyle McDonald) 1056 C Brooklyn, New York
#254 felixge (Felix Geisendörfer) 1055 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#255 AshFurrow (Ash Furrow) 1049 Objective-C Toronto, ON
#256 ProLoser (Dean Sofer) 1048 PHP San Francisco

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