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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 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:00:04 GMT till Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:00:04 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 > 200)
  .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.

# Username Contributions Language Location
#1 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 7474 PHP Paris, France
#2 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 6582 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#3 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 6005 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#4 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 5629 JavaScript Washington, DC
#5 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 5487 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#6 substack (James Halliday) 5322 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#7 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 5168 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#8 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 5079 PHP Arkansas
#9 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 4921 JavaScript New Zealand
#10 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 4807 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#11 c9s (Pedro) 4759 Perl Taiwan
#12 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 4718 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#13 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 4475 Ruby
#14 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 4354 JavaScript Brazil
#15 kripken (Alon Zakai) 4024 JavaScript
#16 kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz) 3944 Python Winchester, VA
#17 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 3910 Python Hangzhou, China
#18 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3855 PHP Lawrence, KS
#19 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3724 Ruby Berlin and San Francisco
#20 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 3710 Objective-C Seattle, WA
#21 dcramer (David Cramer) 3683 Python San Francisco, CA
#22 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 3664 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#23 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 3633 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#24 mdo (Mark Otto) 3606 CSS San Francisco, CA
#25 Raynos (Raynos) 3585 JavaScript San Francisco
#26 fogus (Fogus) 3422 Clojure DC
#27 gka 3398 Python Germany
#28 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 3366 C Winthrop, WA
#29 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 3364 PHP France
#30 radar (Ryan Bigg) 3323 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#31 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 3273 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#32 rvagg (Rod Vagg) 3214 JavaScript South Coast NSW, Australia
#33 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 3195 JavaScript Paris, france
#34 ujihisa 3163 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#35 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 3124 Ruby Silicon Valley
#36 lifesinger (lifesinger) 3107 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#37 randx (Dmitriy Zaporozhets) 3106 Ruby Kharkiv, UA
#38 postmodern (Postmodern) 3096 Ruby
#39 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 3088 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#40 Shougo (Shougo) 3084 VimL Japan
#41 josevalim (José Valim) 3069 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#42 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 3067 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#43 mattn (mattn) 3044 VimL Osaka, Japan
#44 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 3011 Python Rio de Janeiro
#45 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2943 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#46 benbalter (Ben Balter) 2866 JavaScript Washington, DC
#47 alex (Alex Gaynor) 2862 Python San Francisco
#48 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 2858 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#49 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 2824 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#50 sindresorhus (Sindre Sorhus) 2817 JavaScript Norway
#51 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 2763 Ruby Santa Monica, CA
#52 markstory (Mark Story) 2752 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#53 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 2738 Ruby Denver, Colorado
#54 jtimberman (Joshua Timberman) 2733 Ruby Denver, CO
#55 willdurand (William Durand) 2720 PHP France
#56 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2704 Java San Jose, California
#57 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 2701 JavaScript Ukraine
#58 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2669 Java San Francisco, CA
#59 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2633 Haskell Israel
#60 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2620 R Ames, IA
#61 freddix (Fryderyk Dziarmagowski) 2615 Shell
#62 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 2577 PHP Germany
#63 hadley (hadley wickham) 2542 R Houston, TX
#64 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 2501 JavaScript San Francisco
#65 bergie (Henri Bergius) 2473 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#66 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 2456 Python Los Angeles, CA
#67 dg (David Grudl) 2448 PHP
#68 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 2436 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#69 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 2420 JavaScript Oakland CA
#70 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2402 C Israel
#71 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 2400 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#72 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 2392 JavaScript San Jose, CA
#73 igorw (Igor Wiedler) 2376 PHP Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
#74 miyagawa (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) 2368 Perl San Francisco, CA
#75 torvalds (Linus Torvalds) 2363 C Portland, OR
#76 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 2360 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#77 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 2300 JavaScript New York, NY
#78 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 2290 Ruby Milan, Italy
#79 viatropos (Lance Pollard) 2285 JavaScript San Francisco
#80 qiangxue (Qiang Xue) 2262 PHP Virginia, U.S.A.
#81 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 2261 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#82 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 2245 Go Santa Clara, CA
#83 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 2237 Ruby
#84 svenfuchs (Sven Fuchs) 2229 Ruby Germany/Berlin
#85 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2181 Emacs Chester, UK
#86 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2172 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#87 drogus (Piotr Sarnacki) 2130 Ruby Warsaw
#88 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 2127 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#89 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 2118 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#90 paulcbetts (Paul Betts) 2076 C San Francisco, CA
#91 Gozala (Irakli Gozalishvili) 2070 JavaScript San Francisco, USA
#92 davidfowl (David Fowler) 2047 C Bellevue, WA
#93 nddrylliog (Amos Wenger) 2005 ooc Helvetia
#94 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 2003 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#95 mythz (Demis Bellot) 1988 JavaScript New York
#96 davglass (Dav Glass) 1988 JavaScript Marion, IL
#97 beberlei (Benjamin Eberlei) 1986 PHP Germany
#98 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 1983 JavaScript Russia
#99 creationix (Tim Caswell) 1974 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#100 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 1972 Perl Mountain View, CA
#101 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 1952 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#102 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 1938 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#103 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1910 JavaScript Berlin
#104 remy (Remy Sharp) 1906 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#105 rjbs (Ricardo Signes) 1902 Perl Bethlehem, PA, USA
#106 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 1895 JavaScript China
#107 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 1889 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#108 jamesward (James Ward) 1884 Java
#109 durran (Durran Jordan) 1865 Ruby Berlin, Deutschland
#110 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1856 Shell Seattle, WA
#111 gfx (Fuji, Goro) 1856 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#112 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 1854 Python London, UK
#113 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1842 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#114 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 1840 Haskell Peoria, Illinois, USA
#115 scottgonzalez (Scott González) 1837 JavaScript York, PA
#116 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1820 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#117 romaonthego (Roman Efimov) 1808 Objective-C Chicago
#118 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1805 Ruby Bath, UK
#119 grosser (Michael Grosser) 1805 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#120 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 1792 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#121 ianstormtaylor (Ian Storm Taylor) 1782 JavaScript Cambridge, MA
#122 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1747 Python Creil, France
#123 obviousjim (James George) 1733 C Brooklyn, New York
#124 mikejolley (Mike Jolley) 1709 PHP England, UK
#125 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 1697 Ruby Berlin
#126 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1689 Ruby London, UK
#127 sorbits (Allan Odgaard) 1684 Ruby Denmark
#128 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 1668 Ruby Japan
#129 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1666 Java
#130 carlosantoniodasilva (Carlos Antonio da Silva) 1661 Ruby Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil
#131 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 1659 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#132 jcoglan (James Coglan) 1658 Ruby London, UK
#133 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1655 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#134 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1649 Shell Los Angeles
#135 shama (Kyle Robinson Young) 1646 JavaScript Napa, CA
#136 phalcon (Phalcon) 1642 PHP
#137 graemerocher 1630 Java
#138 solnic (Piotr Solnica) 1620 Ruby Poland, Kraków
#139 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 1618 JavaScript London, England
#140 SamSaffron (Sam) 1614 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#141 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1613 Ruby Belgium
#142 jcasimir (Jeff Casimir) 1603 Ruby Washington, DC
#143 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 1598 Ruby Seattle
#144 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 1593 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#145 klen (Kirill Klenov) 1591 Python Russia, Moscow
#146 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 1576 JavaScript Stanford, CA
#147 jgm (John MacFarlane) 1571 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#148 carljm (Carl Meyer) 1571 Python Rapid City, SD
#149 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 1551 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#150 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 1548 PHP Nashville, TN
#151 jsuereth (Josh Suereth) 1547 Scala Pittsburgh, PA
#152 desandro (David DeSandro) 1546 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#153 mizzy (Gosuke Miyashita) 1545 Ruby Kanagawa, Japan
#154 FooBarWidget (Hongli Lai) 1532 Ruby Earth
#155 kraih (Sebastian Riedel) 1532 Perl Germany
#156 audreyr (Audrey Roy) 1531 Python http://instagram.com/pyaudrey
#157 necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) 1511 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#158 JacksonTian (Jackson Tian) 1501 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#159 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1495 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#160 ericam (Eric Meyer) 1487 Ruby Denver, CO
#161 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 1484 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#162 jmettraux (John Mettraux) 1484 Ruby Hiroshima
#163 azer (Azer Koçulu) 1479 JavaScript Oakland, CA & Kalkan, TR
#164 jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas) 1472 Ruby On the Road
#165 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1472 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#166 yrashk (Yurii Rashkovskii) 1469 Erlang Vancouver, BC, Canada
#167 audreyt (唐鳳) 1465 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#168 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1443 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#169 bitprophet (Jeff Forcier) 1442 Python Lafayette, CA
#170 indexzero (Charlie Robbins) 1441 JavaScript NYC
#171 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1436 Emacs Norway
#172 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1410 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#173 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1397 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#174 Marak 1366 JavaScript San Francisco, California
#175 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 1364 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#176 kaepora (Nadim Kobeissi) 1359 JavaScript Montréal, QC
#177 tarcieri (Tony Arcieri) 1358 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#178 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1354 PHP New York, NY
#179 johnmyleswhite (John Myles White) 1350 Julia Brooklyn, NY
#180 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1336 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#181 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1309 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#182 jtauber (James Tauber) 1309 Python Burlington, MA
#183 everzet (Konstantin Kudryashov) 1304 PHP London, UK
#184 robashton (Rob "Hurricane" Ashton) 1303 JavaScript London
#185 csswizardry (Harry Roberts) 1299 Shell Leeds, UK
#186 tomas (Tomás Pollak) 1291 JavaScript Santiago, Chile
#187 mmalecki (Maciej Małecki) 1284 JavaScript Poznań, Poland
#188 pengwynn (Wynn Netherland) 1280 Ruby TX
#189 indirect (André Arko) 1278 Ruby San Francisco
#190 jnunemaker (John Nunemaker) 1276 Ruby South Bend, IN, USA
#191 daleharvey (Dale Harvey) 1269 JavaScript Edinburgh, Scotland
#192 tpope (Tim Pope) 1266 VimL Brooklyn, NY
#193 lloyd (Lloyd Hilaiel) 1266 JavaScript Denver, Colorado
#194 jrburke (James Burke) 1262 JavaScript
#195 chjj (Christopher Jeffrey) 1259 JavaScript MN
#196 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1256 Python Chennai
#197 gregkh (Greg Kroah-Hartman) 1247 C
#198 saberma 1247 Ruby ShenZhen China
#199 ProLoser (Dean Sofer) 1244 PHP San Francisco
#200 arturoc (arturo) 1239 C
#201 derickbailey (Derick Bailey) 1234 JavaScript Waco, TX
#202 bnoordhuis (Ben Noordhuis) 1232 C Gouda, the Netherlands
#203 joshaber (Josh Abernathy) 1226 Objective-C Yellow Springs, OH
#204 felixge (Felix Geisendörfer) 1223 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#205 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1219 Python Berlin, Germany
#206 seancribbs (Sean Cribbs) 1214 Ruby DeKalb, IL
#207 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1211 Python United Kingdom / Austria
#208 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 1211 JavaScript Belgium
#209 jmathai (Jaisen Mathai) 1207 PHP San Francisco / Sunnyvale, CA USA
#210 kriskowal (Kris Kowal) 1207 JavaScript Pasadena, CA, USA
#211 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1189 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#212 technomancy (Phil Hagelberg) 1187 Clojure Seattle, WA, USA
#213 rdegges (Randall Degges) 1170 Python Bakersfield
#214 levey (朱建刚) 1166 Objective-C Hangzhou, China
#215 jimweirich (Jim Weirich) 1161 Ruby Cincinnati
#216 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1161 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#217 Raynes (Anthony Grimes) 1161 Clojure Los Angeles, CA
#218 twada (Takuto Wada) 1159 JavaScript Tokyo, Japan
#219 swannodette (David Nolen) 1159 Clojure New York
#220 tyru (tyru) 1151 VimL
#221 roidrage (Mathias Meyer) 1150 Ruby Berlin, Germany
#222 kylemcdonald (Kyle McDonald) 1143 C Brooklyn, New York
#223 kentaro (Kentaro Kuribayashi) 1142 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#224 btford (Brian Ford) 1141 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#225 rwaldron (Rick Waldron) 1140 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#226 parndt (Philip Arndt) 1134 Ruby Christchurch, New Zealand
#227 derickr (Derick Rethans) 1131 PHP London, England
#228 zenspider (Ryan Davis) 1129 Ruby Seattle, WA
#229 soffes (Sam Soffes) 1122 Ruby San Francisco
#230 happypeter (Peter Wang) 1122 Ruby Qinhuangdao China
#231 codahale (Coda Hale) 1117 Ruby Berkeley, CA
#232 loopj (James Smith) 1114 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#233 matz (Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto) 1102 Matsue, Japan
#234 darkwing (David Walsh) 1101 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#235 phuslu (Phus Lu) 1099 Python China
#236 yinwang0 (Yin Wang) 1096 JavaScript San Francisco
#237 jesusabdullah (Joshua Holbrook) 1089 JavaScript Utah
#238 dennisreimann (Dennis Reimann) 1085 Ruby Bremen, Germany
#239 pgte (Pedro Teixeira) 1081 JavaScript Portugal
#240 rmcc (Ricardo Cerqueira) 1065 C
#241 astaxie (astaxie) 1064 Go shanghai china
#242 lilydjwg (依云) 1058 Python
#243 darwin (Antonin Hildebrand) 1050 JavaScript Prague, Czech Republic
#244 bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick) 1049 Go San Francisco, CA
#245 josh (Joshua Peek) 1049 Ruby Chicago, IL
#246 samdark (Alexander Makarov) 1044 PHP Russia
#247 lestrrat (lestrrat) 1034 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#248 Constellation (Yusuke Suzuki) 1034 JavaScript Yokohama, Japan
#249 aphyr (Kyle Kingsbury) 1030 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#250 schneems (Richard Schneeman) 1029 Ruby Austin, Tx
#251 wycats (Yehuda Katz) 1028 Ruby San Francisco
#252 maryrosecook (Mary Rose Cook) 1025 JavaScript New York City
#253 metajack (Jack Moffitt) 1019 Rust Albuquerque, NM USA
#254 blakewatters (Blake Watters) 1019 Ruby New York City, NY
#255 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 1017 Perl Seattle
#256 jzaefferer (Jörn Zaefferer) 1016 JavaScript Cologne, Germany

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