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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 Mar 2013 12:08:02 GMT till Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:08:02 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 > 251)
  .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) 7862 PHP Virginia, U.S.A.
#2 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 6816 Ruby
#3 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 6520 PHP Paris, France
#4 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 6280 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#5 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 6141 PHP Arkansas
#6 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 6114 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#7 brianchandotcom (Brian Chan) 5966 Java Los Angeles, CA
#8 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 5474 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#9 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 5470 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#10 mdo (Mark Otto) 5429 CSS San Francisco, CA
#11 substack (James Halliday) 5416 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#12 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 5054 Ruby Silicon Valley
#13 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 4797 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#14 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 4794 PHP France
#15 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 4748 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#16 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 4597 Ruby Denver, Colorado
#17 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 4541 JavaScript New Zealand
#18 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 4370 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#19 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 4333 JavaScript Washington, DC
#20 hadley (Hadley Wickham) 4265 R Houston, TX
#21 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 4222 JavaScript Winthrop, WA
#22 c9s (Pedro) 4156 PHP
#23 kripken (Alon Zakai) 3979 JavaScript
#24 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3781 Ruby Berlin
#25 bergie (Henri Bergius) 3750 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#26 samdark (Alexander Makarov) 3711 PHP Russia
#27 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 3695 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#28 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3657 PHP Hutchinson, KS
#29 randx (Dmitriy Zaporozhets) 3575 Ruby Kharkiv, UA
#30 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 3539 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#31 ujihisa 3539 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#32 dcramer (David Cramer) 3512 Python San Francisco, CA
#33 josevalim (José Valim) 3431 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#34 roojs (Alan Knowles) 3361 PHP Hong Kong
#35 avelino (Thiago Avelino) 3346 Python Brazil - Sao Paulo / SP
#36 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 3298 JavaScript Shenzhen, China
#37 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 3202 JavaScript Brazil
#38 juliangruber (Julian Gruber) 3164 JavaScript Kaufbeuren
#39 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 3156 JavaScript Paris, france
#40 alex (Alex Gaynor) 3101 Python San Francisco
#41 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 3098 PHP Nashville, TN
#42 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 3056 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#43 mizzy (Gosuke Miyashita) 3045 Ruby Kanagawa, Japan
#44 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 3026 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#45 remy (Remy Sharp) 2976 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#46 creationix (Tim Caswell) 2922 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#47 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2906 Java San Jose, California
#48 lancepollard (Lance Pollard) 2832 JavaScript San Francisco
#49 audreyt (唐鳳) 2830 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#50 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 2820 Python Rio de Janeiro
#51 swannodette (David Nolen) 2797 Clojure New York
#52 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 2787 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#53 rvagg (Rod Vagg) 2774 JavaScript South Coast NSW, Australia
#54 willdurand (William Durand) 2772 PHP France
#55 Shougo (Shougo) 2771 VimL Japan
#56 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 2768 PHP Germany
#57 passy (Pascal Hartig) 2690 JavaScript London, UK
#58 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 2675 Ruby Berlin
#59 rjbs (Ricardo Signes) 2651 Perl Bethlehem, PA, USA
#60 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2641 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#61 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2593 Java San Francisco, CA
#62 mattn (mattn) 2582 VimL Osaka, Japan
#63 eduardolundgren (Eduardo Lundgren) 2518 JavaScript Brazil
#64 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2517 Emacs Chester, UK
#65 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2505 Haskell Israel
#66 radar (Ryan Bigg) 2495 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#67 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 2490 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#68 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 2482 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#69 mythz (Demis Bellot) 2475 C New York
#70 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 2473 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#71 gka 2467 JavaScript Brooklyn
#72 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 2467 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#73 ednapiranha (Jen Fong-Adwent) 2459 JavaScript Portland, Oregon
#74 mhartl (Michael Hartl) 2454 Ruby Pasadena, CA
#75 fogus (Fogus) 2453 Clojure DC
#76 ianstormtaylor (Ian Storm Taylor) 2441 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#77 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2420 R Ames, IA
#78 Raynos (Raynos (Jake Verbaten)) 2414 JavaScript San Francisco
#79 dg (David Grudl) 2413 PHP
#80 jamesward (James Ward) 2408 Java
#81 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 2408 JavaScript
#82 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 2407 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#83 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 2406 JavaScript Russia
#84 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 2403 Objective-C San Francisco, CA
#85 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 2402 JavaScript London, England
#86 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 2388 Haskell Peoria, Illinois, USA
#87 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 2379 JavaScript San Francisco
#88 michalbe (Michal Budzynski) 2371 JavaScript Paris, France // Warsaw, Poland
#89 markstory (Mark Story) 2368 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#90 benbalter (Ben Balter) 2355 JavaScript Washington, DC
#91 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 2352 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#92 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 2345 Puppet Milan, Italy
#93 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 2297 Python London, UK
#94 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2295 Ruby Portland, OR
#95 ramnathv (Ramnath Vaidyanathan) 2257 JavaScript Montreal
#96 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 2245 Ruby Seattle
#97 paulcbetts (Paul Betts) 2226 C San Francisco, CA
#98 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 2205 Python Inland Empire, CA
#99 alloy (Eloy Durán) 2204 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#100 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 2172 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#101 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2164 C Israel
#102 freddix (Fryderyk Dziarmagowski) 2155 Shell
#103 SamSaffron (Sam) 2154 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#104 SamyPesse (Samy Pessé) 2138 JavaScript Paris, France / Palo Alto, CA
#105 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 2121 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#106 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 2078 Ruby Japan
#107 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 2074 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#108 FooBarWidget (Hongli Lai) 2072 Ruby Earth
#109 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 2070 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#110 Unknwon (无闻) 2069 Go Boston, MA
#111 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 2069 Ruby
#112 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 2060 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#113 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 2043 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#114 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 2038 JavaScript Oakland CA
#115 sole (sole) 2019 JavaScript London
#116 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 2008 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#117 dfm (Dan Foreman-Mackey) 2006 Python Brooklyn, NY
#118 ErisDS (Hannah Wolfe) 2000 JavaScript UK
#119 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1951 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#120 karmi (Karel Minarik) 1950 Ruby Prague, Czech Republic
#121 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 1942 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#122 necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) 1933 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#123 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 1911 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#124 azer (Azer Koçulu) 1905 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#125 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1888 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#126 mikejolley (Mike Jolley) 1886 PHP England, UK
#127 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 1875 JavaScript Belgium
#128 postmodern (Postmodern) 1854 Ruby
#129 orta (Orta) 1852 Objective-C Manchester / NYC
#130 heynemann (Bernardo Heynemann) 1843 Python Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
#131 roidrage (Mathias Meyer) 1827 Ruby Berlin, Germany
#132 jtauber (James Tauber) 1808 Python Burlington, MA
#133 miyagawa (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) 1803 Perl San Francisco, CA
#134 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1803 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#135 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1788 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#136 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 1780 Go Santa Clara, CA
#137 mmalecki (Maciej Małecki) 1774 JavaScript Amsterdam, Netherlands
#138 leafo (leaf) 1771 MoonScript San Francisco
#139 yyx990803 (Evan You) 1763 JavaScript New York
#140 stephenmcd (Stephen McDonald) 1753 Python Sydney Australia
#141 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 1737 Python Portland, Or
#142 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 1732 JavaScript Santa Clara, CA
#143 jgm (John MacFarlane) 1721 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#144 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1693 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#145 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1692 Erlang Creil, France
#146 r7kamura (Ryo Nakamura) 1670 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#147 romaonthego (Roman Efimov) 1653 Objective-C San Francisco Bay Area
#148 Contra (Eric Schoffstall) 1651 JavaScript Phoenix, AZ
#149 jlord (Jessica Lord) 1646 JavaScript Oakland, Ca
#150 kraih (Sebastian Riedel) 1637 Perl Germany
#151 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1620 Python Berlin, Germany
#152 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 1611 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#153 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1601 Shell Seattle, WA
#154 chrisdone (Chris Done) 1601 Haskell Italy
#155 solnic (Piotr Solnica) 1600 Ruby Planet Earth
#156 fool2fish (Zhouxuan Yang) 1599 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#157 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1591 PHP New York, NY
#158 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1559 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#159 gfx (Fuji, Goro) 1550 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#160 codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz) 1540 Go Sierra Madre CA
#161 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1538 Shell Los Angeles
#162 audreyr (Audrey Roy) 1525 Python Inland Empire, CA
#163 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 1509 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#164 obviousjim (James George) 1490 C Brooklyn, New York
#165 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1486 JavaScript Berlin
#166 robhudson (Rob Hudson) 1485 Python Eugene, Oregon
#167 gregkh (Greg Kroah-Hartman) 1482 C
#168 stof (Christophe Coevoet) 1464 PHP Paris
#169 bitprophet (Jeff Forcier) 1460 Python Lafayette, CA
#170 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1458 Ruby Belgium
#171 MatthewMueller (Matthew Mueller) 1454 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#172 desandro (David DeSandro) 1436 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#173 ianb (Ian Bicking) 1421 JavaScript Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
#174 shama (Kyle Robinson Young) 1418 JavaScript Napa, CA
#175 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1416 Ruby London, UK
#176 svenfuchs (Sven Fuchs) 1406 Ruby Germany/Berlin
#177 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 1399 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#178 bryanveloso (Bryan Veloso) 1384 Python Los Angeles, CA
#179 jsuereth (Josh Suereth) 1381 Scala Pittsburgh, PA
#180 darkwing (David Walsh) 1380 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#181 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 1366 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#182 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1366 Java
#183 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1358 Python United Kingdom / Austria
#184 Haacked (Phil Haack) 1356 C Bellevue, WA
#185 bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick) 1344 Go San Francisco, CA
#186 xinyu198736 (芋头) 1326 JavaScript china hangzhou 西湖区
#187 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1319 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#188 toastdriven (Daniel Lindsley) 1317 Python Lawrence, KS
#189 kangax (Juriy Zaytsev) 1315 JavaScript New York
#190 PaulKinlan (Paul Kinlan) 1307 JavaScript Liverpool, London, Mountain View (CA)
#191 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1307 JavaScript Bath, UK
#192 sethladd (Seth Ladd) 1304 Dart Mountain View, CA
#193 pengwynn (Wynn Netherland) 1299 Ruby TX
#194 supermarin (Marin Usalj) 1289 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#195 karan (Karan Goel) 1285 Python Seattle, WA
#196 btford (Brian Ford) 1284 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#197 jakevdp (Jake Vanderplas) 1281 Python Seattle WA
#198 ryanseys (Ryan Seys) 1271 JavaScript Ottawa
#199 leto (Duke Leto) 1266 Perl Portland, OR
#200 tommy351 (SkyArrow) 1265 JavaScript Taipei
#201 kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz) 1262 Python Winchester, VA
#202 coolwanglu (Lu Wang) 1253 Shell
#203 drogus (Piotr Sarnacki) 1252 Ruby Warsaw
#204 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1251 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#205 gnuwilliam (William Oliveira) 1247 JavaScript Brazil
#206 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1242 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#207 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1237 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#208 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 1231 Perl Seattle
#209 ericam (Eric M. Suzanne) 1230 Ruby Denver, CO
#210 jtimberman (Joshua Timberman) 1227 Ruby Denver, CO
#211 DataTables (Allan Jardine) 1224 JavaScript
#212 klen (Kirill Klenov) 1222 Python Russia, Moscow
#213 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 1219 JavaScript New York, NY
#214 chloerei (Rei) 1218 Ruby china, beijing
#215 josh (Joshua Peek) 1216 Ruby Chicago, IL
#216 phalcon (Phalcon) 1216 PHP
#217 petehunt (Pete Hunt) 1207 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#218 amatsuda (Akira Matsuda) 1204 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#219 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1203 Python Chennai
#220 igorw (Igor Wiedler) 1191 PHP Berlin
#221 lifesinger (lifesinger) 1189 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#222 mxcl (Max Howell) 1184 Objective-C Chicago
#223 carlosantoniodasilva (Carlos Antonio da Silva) 1180 Ruby Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil
#224 davecheney (Dave Cheney) 1177 Go Sydney, Australia
#225 jcoglan (NO RECRUITERS) 1173 Ruby I will pivot you into a bin
#226 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1171 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#227 codahale (Coda Hale) 1170 Ruby Berkeley, CA
#228 levey (朱建刚) 1170 Objective-C Hangzhou, China
#229 turingou (Guo Yu) 1165 JavaScript ShenZhen, Mainland China
#230 schneems (Richard Schneeman) 1158 Ruby Austin, Tx
#231 cyanogen (Steve Kondik) 1158 C Seattle, WA
#232 tmpvar (Elijah Insua) 1131 JavaScript Roaming
#233 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 1130 JavaScript China
#234 weavejester (James Reeves) 1128 Clojure London, UK
#235 soimort (Mort Yao) 1115 Shell Skåne, Sweden
#236 joshaber (Josh Abernathy) 1106 Objective-C Yellow Springs, OH
#237 maryrosecook (Mary Rose Cook) 1105 JavaScript New York City
#238 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1102 Emacs Norway
#239 migurski 1091 Python
#240 johnmyleswhite (John Myles White) 1090 Julia San Francisco, CA
#241 arturoc (arturo) 1089 C
#242 henriquebastos (Henrique Bastos) 1081 Python Niterói, Brasil
#243 derickr (Derick Rethans) 1075 PHP London, England
#244 philsturgeon (Phil Sturgeon) 1056 PHP Brooklyn, New York
#245 soffes (Sam Soffes) 1055 Ruby San Francisco
#246 antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) 1054 C Campobello di Licata, Sicily, Italy
#247 michaelficarra (Michael Ficarra) 1054 JavaScript Chicago, IL
#248 tonymorris 1048 Haskell
#249 lilydjwg (依云) 1048 Python
#250 sorbits (Allan Odgaard) 1047 Ruby Denmark
#251 vhf (vhf / victor felder) 1046 JavaScript Fribourg (Switzerland)
#252 rwaldron (Rick Waldron) 1044 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#253 naoya (Naoya Ito) 1043 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#254 guille (Guillermo Rauch) 1043 JavaScript SF
#255 bfirsh (Ben Firshman) 1040 Python London, UK
#256 evilsocket (Simone Margaritelli) 1038 C Rome, Italy

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