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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, 28 Apr 2012 15:50:19 GMT till Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:50:19 GMT.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
  .filter((user) -> user.followers > 172)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

Made with data mining of GitHub.com (raw data, script) by @paulmillr with contribs of @lifesinger. Updated every sunday.

# Username Contributions Language Location
#1 c9s (Pedro) 8888 Perl Hello World
#2 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 7736 PHP Paris, France
#3 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 7319 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#4 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 7070 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#5 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 5232 JavaScript Washington, DC
#6 kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz) 5083 Python Winchester, VA
#7 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 5022 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#8 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 4774 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#9 substack (James Halliday) 4676 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#10 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 4640 PHP Arkansas
#11 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 4599 Ruby
#12 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 4509 JavaScript New Zealand
#13 lifesinger (lifesinger) 4268 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#14 dcramer (David Cramer) 4074 Python San Francisco, CA
#15 postmodern (Postmodern) 3961 Ruby
#16 davglass (Dav Glass) 3872 JavaScript Marion, IL
#17 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 3864 Python Hangzhou, China
#18 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3799 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#19 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 3776 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#20 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 3761 C Winthrop, WA
#21 kripken (Alon Zakai) 3660 JavaScript
#22 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 3645 JavaScript Paris, france
#23 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 3613 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#24 Raynos (Raynos) 3550 JavaScript San Francisco
#25 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 3488 JavaScript Oakland CA
#26 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 3424 JavaScript Rio de Janeiro
#27 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3187 PHP Lawrence, KS
#28 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 3169 JavaScript San Jose, CA
#29 Shougo (Shougo) 3116 VimL Japan
#30 gka 3109 Python Germany
#31 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 3101 Objective-C Seattle, WA
#32 igorw (Igor Wiedler) 3046 PHP Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
#33 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 3039 PHP South America
#34 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 3022 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#35 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 2980 Ruby Silicon Valley
#36 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 2911 JavaScript Ukraine
#37 josevalim (José Valim) 2893 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#38 svenfuchs (Sven Fuchs) 2831 Ruby Germany/Berlin
#39 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2829 R Ames, IA
#40 alex (Alex Gaynor) 2820 Python San Francisco
#41 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 2802 Java Redwood City, CA
#42 davidfowl (David Fowler) 2787 C Bellevue, WA
#43 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 2743 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#44 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2734 Haskell Israel
#45 durran (Durran Jordan) 2733 Ruby Berlin, Deutschland
#46 beberlei (Benjamin Eberlei) 2729 PHP Germany
#47 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 2707 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#48 willdurand (William Durand) 2700 PHP France
#49 radar (Ryan Bigg) 2681 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#50 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 2678 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#51 Gozala (Irakli Gozalishvili) 2639 JavaScript San Francisco, USA
#52 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 2626 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#53 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 2624 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#54 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 2616 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#55 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2581 C Israel
#56 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2542 Java San Jose, California
#57 scottgonzalez (Scott González) 2520 JavaScript York, PA
#58 mattn (mattn) 2506 VimL Osaka, Japan
#59 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 2487 JavaScript China
#60 jtimberman (Joshua Timberman) 2472 Ruby Denver, CO
#61 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 2465 Python London, UK
#62 sindresorhus (Sindre Sorhus) 2417 JavaScript Norway
#63 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 2415 Emacs Peoria, Illinois, USA
#64 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2379 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#65 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 2319 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#66 torvalds (Linus Torvalds) 2305 C Portland, OR
#67 ednapiranha (Jen Fong-Adwent) 2301 JavaScript Toronto
#68 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 2252 Go Santa Clara, CA
#69 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 2235 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#70 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 2186 Python Rio de Janeiro
#71 jeremydmiller (Jeremy D. Miller) 2172 C Austin, TX
#72 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2167 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#73 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 2137 JavaScript New York, NY
#74 markstory (Mark Story) 2071 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#75 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 2070 Perl Mountain View, CA
#76 bergie (Henri Bergius) 2069 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#77 nddrylliog (Amos Wenger) 2053 ooc Helvetia
#78 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2037 Java San Francisco, CA
#79 mythz (Demis Bellot) 2013 JavaScript New York
#80 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 2006 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#81 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 1995 JavaScript Russia
#82 derickbailey (Derick Bailey) 1977 JavaScript Waco, TX
#83 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 1940 Python Los Angeles, CA
#84 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1922 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#85 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 1898 JavaScript London, England
#86 purcell (Steve Purcell) 1897 Emacs Chester, UK
#87 jrburke (James Burke) 1896 JavaScript
#88 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 1885 JavaScript
#89 everzet (Konstantin Kudryashov) 1881 PHP London, UK
#90 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1875 JavaScript Berlin
#91 adamv (Adam Vandenberg) 1856 Python Issaquah, WA
#92 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 1847 JavaScript San Francisco
#93 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 1833 Ruby Santa Monica, CA
#94 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 1832 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#95 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 1824 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#96 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 1795 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#97 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1787 Java
#98 lloyd (Lloyd Hilaiel) 1786 JavaScript Denver, Colorado
#99 indexzero (Charlie Robbins) 1781 JavaScript NYC
#100 jcasimir (Jeff Casimir) 1780 Ruby Washington, DC
#101 jgm (John MacFarlane) 1763 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#102 Constellation (Yusuke Suzuki) 1744 JavaScript Yokohama, Japan
#103 jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas) 1714 Ruby On the Road
#104 ericam (Eric Meyer) 1710 Ruby Denver, CO
#105 bitprophet (Jeff Forcier) 1706 Python Lafayette, CA
#106 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 1691 Puppet Milan, Italy
#107 sorbits (Allan Odgaard) 1683 Ruby Denmark
#108 ujihisa 1673 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#109 matz (Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto) 1665 Matsue, Japan
#110 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1654 Shell Los Angeles
#111 technomancy (Phil Hagelberg) 1651 Clojure Seattle, WA, USA
#112 dg (David Grudl) 1647 PHP
#113 ProLoser (Dean Sofer) 1646 PHP San Francisco
#114 drogus (Piotr Sarnacki) 1639 Ruby Warsaw
#115 yrashk (Yurii Rashkovskii) 1634 Erlang Vancouver, BC, Canada
#116 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1629 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#117 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1620 Python Creil, France
#118 fogus (Fogus) 1618 Clojure DC
#119 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 1605 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#120 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1602 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#121 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1570 Emacs Norway
#122 hadley (hadley wickham) 1568 R Houston, TX
#123 wesm (Wes McKinney) 1564 Python San Francisco, CA
#124 felixge (Felix Geisendörfer) 1564 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#125 JacksonTian (Jackson Tian) 1540 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#126 rjbs (Ricardo Signes) 1539 Perl Bethlehem, PA, USA
#127 josh (Joshua Peek) 1539 Ruby Chicago, IL
#128 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1535 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#129 rwldrn (Rick Waldron) 1534 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#130 remy (Remy Sharp) 1514 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#131 miyagawa (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) 1504 Perl San Francisco, CA
#132 tarcieri (Tony Arcieri) 1500 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#133 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 1499 Ruby Berlin
#134 xpaulbettsx (Paul Betts) 1497 C San Francisco, CA
#135 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 1494 Ruby Denver, Colorado
#136 ddollar (David Dollar) 1487 Ruby Atlanta, GA
#137 jnunemaker (John Nunemaker) 1479 Ruby South Bend, IN, USA
#138 Raynes (Anthony Grimes) 1476 Clojure Los Angeles, CA
#139 jcoglan (James Coglan) 1475 Ruby London, UK
#140 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 1473 PHP Nashville, TN
#141 geemus (Wesley Beary) 1472 Ruby Iowa City, IA
#142 bos (Bryan O'Sullivan) 1464 Haskell
#143 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 1452 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#144 jzaefferer (Jörn Zaefferer) 1452 JavaScript Cologne, Germany
#145 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1452 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#146 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1451 Ruby Bath, UK
#147 viatropos (Lance Pollard) 1450 Ruby San Francisco
#148 rdegges (Randall Degges) 1449 Python Bakersfield
#149 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 1448 PHP Germany
#150 daleharvey (Dale Harvey) 1434 JavaScript Edinburgh, Scotland
#151 sjl (Steve Losh) 1423 Python Rochester, NY
#152 jmathai (Jaisen Mathai) 1411 PHP San Francisco / Sunnyvale, CA USA
#153 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1408 Shell Seattle, WA
#154 pquerna (Paul Querna) 1405 Python San Francisco, CA
#155 huangz1990 (huangz) 1375 Python
#156 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1372 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#157 antimatter15 (Kevin Kwok) 1368 JavaScript
#158 tpope (Tim Pope) 1365 VimL Jacksonville Beach, FL
#159 straup (Aaron Straup Cope) 1365 Python New York City
#160 Marak 1355 JavaScript San Francisco, California
#161 laruence (Xinchen Hui) 1337 PHP China
#162 soffes (Sam Soffes) 1337 Ruby Louisville
#163 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 1335 Perl Seattle
#164 ogrisel (Olivier Grisel) 1327 Python Paris, France
#165 graemerocher 1320 Java
#166 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 1320 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#167 derickr (Derick Rethans) 1320 PHP London, England
#168 bnoordhuis (Ben Noordhuis) 1289 C Gouda, the Netherlands
#169 desandro (David DeSandro) 1287 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#170 vrana (Jakub Vrána) 1285 PHP
#171 jmettraux (John Mettraux) 1282 Ruby Hiroshima
#172 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 1274 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#173 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1273 PHP New York, NY
#174 joshaber (Josh Abernathy) 1272 Objective-C Yellow Springs, OH
#175 seancribbs (Sean Cribbs) 1269 Ruby DeKalb, IL
#176 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1264 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#177 pengwynn (Wynn Netherland) 1258 Ruby TX
#178 stof (Christophe Coevoet) 1257 PHP Paris
#179 flyerhzm (Richard Huang) 1250 Ruby Shanghai, China
#180 mmcgrana (Mark McGranaghan) 1249 Clojure San Francisco, CA
#181 jaspervdj (Jasper Van der Jeugt) 1247 Haskell Lokeren & Ghent, Belgium
#182 cjohansen (Christian Johansen) 1243 Ruby Oslo
#183 tomas (Tomás Pollak) 1237 JavaScript Santiago, Chile
#184 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 1236 Ruby Japan
#185 schmittjoh (Johannes) 1230 PHP
#186 cpw 1215 Java
#187 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 1206 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#188 loopj (James Smith) 1202 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#189 mdo (Mark Otto) 1195 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#190 creationix (Tim Caswell) 1193 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#191 wagenet (Peter Wagenet) 1189 Ruby Orange County, CA
#192 robashton (Rob "Hurricane" Ashton) 1181 JavaScript London
#193 ai (Andrey “A.I” Sitnik) 1181 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#194 jamesward (James Ward) 1179 Java
#195 christkv (Christian Amor Kvalheim) 1173 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#196 happypeter (Peter Wang) 1170 JavaScript Beijing China
#197 sartak (Shawn M Moore) 1170 Perl Somerville, MA
#198 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1170 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#199 lestrrat (lestrrat) 1169 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#200 harrah (Mark Harrah) 1164 Scala Boston, MA
#201 jtauber (James Tauber) 1164 Python Burlington, MA
#202 jeremyckahn (Jeremy Kahn) 1163 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#203 guille (Guillermo Rauch) 1161 JavaScript SF
#204 tyru (tyru) 1156 VimL
#205 stevan (Stevan Little) 1153 Perl
#206 sergeche (Sergey Chikuyonok) 1148 JavaScript Moscow, Russia
#207 dae (Damien Elmes) 1146 Python Japan
#208 darwin (Antonin Hildebrand) 1146 JavaScript Prague, Czech Republic
#209 saberma (Saber) 1143 Ruby ShenZhen China
#210 tdreyno (Thomas Reynolds) 1143 JavaScript Portland, OR
#211 obviousjim (James George) 1142 C Brooklyn, New York
#212 kaepora (Nadim Kobeissi) 1141 JavaScript Montréal, QC
#213 dennisreimann (Dennis Reimann) 1134 Ruby Bremen, Germany
#214 btford (Brian Ford) 1130 JavaScript Ann Arbor, MI
#215 jimweirich (Jim Weirich) 1130 Ruby Cincinnati
#216 darkwing (David Walsh) 1128 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#217 kriskowal (Kris Kowal) 1122 JavaScript Pasadena, CA, USA
#218 bobtfish (Tomas Doran) 1121 Perl London
#219 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1120 Ruby London, UK
#220 michaelficarra (Michael Ficarra) 1120 JavaScript Chicago, IL
#221 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 1112 Ruby
#222 chrisbanes (Chris Banes) 1109 Java London, UK
#223 johnmyleswhite (John Myles White) 1096 R Brooklyn, NY
#224 EvanDotPro (Evan Coury) 1094 PHP Gilbert, Arizona
#225 ariya (Ariya Hidayat) 1093 JavaScript
#226 kimchy (Shay Banon) 1090 Shell
#227 parndt (Philip Arndt) 1084 Ruby Christchurch, New Zealand
#228 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 1082 JavaScript The Netherlands
#229 audreyt (唐鳳) 1082 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#230 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1076 Python Berlin, Germany
#231 maxwell (Maxwell Salzberg) 1074 Ruby 94110
#232 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1063 Ruby Belgium
#233 turicas (Álvaro Justen) 1063 Python Niterói, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
#234 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1061 Python Chennai
#235 daaku (Naitik Shah) 1054 Go
#236 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1048 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#237 rmcc (Ricardo Cerqueira) 1046 C
#238 indirect (André Arko) 1045 Ruby San Francisco
#239 zenspider (Ryan Davis) 1045 Ruby Seattle, WA
#240 bobthecow (Justin Hileman) 1043 JavaScript
#241 freexperia (jerpelea) 1038 C
#242 carlosantoniodasilva (Carlos Antonio da Silva) 1035 Ruby Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil
#243 csswizardry (Harry Roberts) 1031 PHP Leeds, UK
#244 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 1029 Ruby Seattle
#245 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 1025 Python Portland, Or
#246 cowboy (Ben Alman) 1008 JavaScript Boston, MA
#247 astro (Astro) 1006 JavaScript Dresden, Germany
#248 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1005 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#249 marcuswestin (Marcus Westin) 1003 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#250 clayallsopp (Clay Allsopp) 1002 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#251 kylemcdonald (Kyle McDonald) 999 C Brooklyn, New York
#252 philsturgeon (Phil Sturgeon) 998 PHP Williamsburg, New York
#253 paulrouget (Paul Rouget) 991 JavaScript
#254 chrisdone (Chris Done) 986 Haskell Italy
#255 heynemann (Bernardo Heynemann) 983 Python Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
#256 nathanmarz (Nathan Marz) 981 Clojure San Francisco

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