If you ever wondered about which country produces the best programmers, wonder no more.

A new report from California-based HackerRank, a service that administers tests to developers around the world, says it's China.

Second place goes to Russia, and Poland takes bronze. Traditional programming powerhouses like the US and India came in at 28th and 31st, respectively.

HackerRank offers its community of programmers, apparently 1.5 million strong, with challenges to hone their skills. It examined data from these challenges from the last few years to come up with the rankings, scoring developers from different countries and finding national averages.


"According to our data, China and Russia score as the most talented developers. Chinese programmers outscore all other countries in mathematics, functional programming, and data structures challenges, while Russians dominate in algorithms, the most popular and most competitive arena," according to HackerRank.

The US's position at No. 28, behind countries like Japan, Greece and Chile, might seem odd, especially for the country that basically birthed the internet and created so many of the coding tools used today. This could potentially correlate to a lower emphasis on maths and science in American schools, as this Pew Research report details.

This is also not the first time that America has been humbled by the likes of China and Russia in the programming arena. At the collegiate level during the recent ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, schools from China and Russia beat out the likes of Harvard and MIT.

We restricted the data to the 50 countries with the most developers on HackerRank. Here’s what we found:



http://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics/

Thank God Nigeria make the list.

China is taking over the world in almost every aspect of life. I'm even surprised to see Nigeria in top 3 in Africa. Kudos to our boys and girls at Computer Village & Aba.

thesicilian:
China is taking over the world in almost every aspect of life. I'm even surprised to see Nigeria in top 3 in Africa. Kudos to our boys and girls at Computer Village & Aba.

lol,after kenya and Ghana will now want to be holding ground with us

the thunder dah will strike them ehn

n who said yahoo boys can never make us proud??

The shameless Kenyans boiz forming IT guru, please see the ratings for yourself that your country is far cry in terms of technology.

Prof lalasticlala, it will be good to showcase this on FP that we are still champion in IT world.

We will soon get there!

Meanwhile, If you want to change the world, do it when you are a bachelor. After marriage, you can't even change a TV channel.

don't worry, we are getting dere soon, shaybe mark Zukerman (na my keyboard autocorrect) done meet with buhari and co. and he empowered some upcoming developers, d next time you see dis list you'll see naija as first. buy wait Mark Zukerman gave andela 20million $$ , Jesus her next 10generation go live for island .u know how much?change am with dis present exchange rate.mehn

smh

Great credit,
Nigeria without doubt is blessed with great intellectuals and wealth of talents, As Achebe said, leadership is the major challenge...

                                       





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where is Kenya on The list

this is really encouraging


where are those yeye kenyans?

No ooo we are not there yet cos by the time this economy hardship hold everyone we would surely think outside the box and let see if we will not be in the top 10 in the world.

I know we are talented and smart people our oyel is what is keeping us lazy but now that oyel is not that marketable hardship will make us discover our individual talents.

N B: please Nigerian just leave Kenyan and Ghanian alone we can't be like them and they can never be like us,see combine the populations and economies of the two nations they can't take one third of ours, they are just envy us. Peace

It's good to hear that. It's a gradual process, Nigeria will surely there.

Psiphon users

Thank God they are not behind Benin Republic, Togo, etc

Yoruba programmers, trust me.

Nigeria's CCHub - code camp is one of the many companies owned by Yorubas.

Ok

daamazing:
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Nigeria without doubt is blessed with great intellectuals and wealth of talents, As Achebe, leadership is the major challenge,

Is orait.

will it reduce d price of rice in d market?

Kenyans should hide their bad news faces

thesicilian:
China is taking over the world in almost every aspect of life. I'm even surprised to see Nigeria in top 3 in Africa. Kudos to our boys and girls at Computer Village & Aba.

Lol. For your mind. Computer village and Aba Ibo boys mainly deal in SALES of computer HardWare. Without sentiments, the SWersterners play the dominant role in Software where programming falls under.

Good

.

Na only suit Kenyans sabi wear


No be by suit jare!

thesicilian:
China is taking over the world in almost every aspect of life. I'm even surprised to see Nigeria in top 3 in Africa. Kudos to our boys and girls at Computer Village & Aba.

Asin eh, it's scary what china could become with their innovative spirit and population.

This kinda news gladdens my heart and makes me proudly Nigeria... we should promote positive news about our dear country and we won't be receiving insults from countries that aren't up to Lagos state by population..

Op,you are on point ..

God bless Nigeria and those who believe in the Nigerian dream..

SONofYORUBA:
Yoruba programmers, trust me.

Nigeria's CCHub - code camp is one of the many companies owned by Yorubas.

see enough of your nonsense tribalist post. Can't you comment as a nigerian or abi iwo nikan ni yoruba ni ?

tammie24:
Na only suit Kenyans sabi wear


No be by suit jare!

guy u they make me vex,why u go talk say na suit kenya they wear,na coat them they wear .only thier president they try wear suit.