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r/BeginnerWoodWorking

775K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.9K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
775Kmembers
4.9Kbest post
264most comments
306posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 25% 18% 9%
Gallery 47% Image 25% Text 18% Question 9%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion/Question ⁉️ 131 Finished Project 50 Equipment 9 Instructional 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Probably the most crude thing I’ve ever made, yet also the most beneficial

↑ 4.9K 💬 264 gallery 2026

Got a board from an old dining table, and I restored it

↑ 1.8K 💬 52 gallery 2026

Finished two hours before our anniversary!

↑ 1.2K 💬 102 image 2026

Proud of these.

↑ 751 💬 30 gallery 2026

You guys convinced me to use the ugly boards. This is what they became.

↑ 673 💬 49 gallery 2026

Never measure, cut whenever

↑ 548 💬 71 gallery 2026

Pine tool tote for my hand tools (made exclusively using hand tools)

↑ 410 💬 9 gallery 2026

Why did I wait so long to get a tracksaw?!

↑ 394 💬 108 image 2026

Bedside Tables

↑ 319 💬 20 gallery 2026

Picked up this Delta Bandsaw this morning for $125.

↑ 282 💬 16 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BeginnerWoodWorking, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/BeginnerWoodWorking have?
r/BeginnerWoodWorking has about 775K members. ViralHunt has tracked 306 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.9K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BeginnerWoodWorking?
"Probably the most crude thing I’ve ever made, yet also the most beneficial" reached 4.9K upvotes and 264 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BeginnerWoodWorking.
What subreddits are similar to r/BeginnerWoodWorking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/whoathatsinteresting.
What kind of posts do best on r/BeginnerWoodWorking?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are gallery posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BeginnerWoodWorking?
Across 306 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (827 avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (315 avg upvotes), Monday at 16:00 UTC (268 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BeginnerWoodWorking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BeginnerWoodWorking has 159 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 306 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/BeginnerWoodWorking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.