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Reddit Chemistry - Read the sidebar. A community for chemists and those who love chemistry Founded 2008 · 3.9M members

3.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 35.4K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.9Mmembers
35.4Kbest post
4.4Kmost comments
2.4Kposts 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.

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Image 32% Text 22% Question 15% Video 12% Gallery 12% Link 8%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

A pair of scissors sitting on my table (formica top) suddenly burst into flames. No heat source, electricity, or battery nearby. No contact with anyt…

↑ 35.4K 💬 4.4K gallery 2025

I made this benzene stamp so I never have to fail at drawing a benzene ring in a lecture ever again

↑ 23.7K 💬 391 image 2018

I accidentally grew a giant chunk of copper sulfate crystal

↑ 13.8K 💬 305 image 2026

Found this in the metallography lab at work - how worried should I be?

↑ 13.2K 💬 1.4K image 2025

I raise all of you the 500L volumetric flask

↑ 12.5K 💬 287 image 2021

Organic salt

↑ 10.9K 💬 384 image 2016

Almost had a heart attack when my friend sent me this photo

↑ 10.9K 💬 326 gallery 2025

If your organic chemistry test starts with a joke, that will be the last time you smile all day.

↑ 10.4K 💬 214 image 2020

I see your 50L round bottom flask and raise you to a 72L. Your move.

↑ 10.2K 💬 281 image 2021

Caption this

↑ 9.8K 💬 111 image 2018

Communities its size

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

r/chemistry, in numbers

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

What is r/chemistry?
r/chemistry ("Reddit Chemistry - Read the sidebar") describes itself this way: A community for chemists and those who love chemistry. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.9M members.
How many members does r/chemistry have?
r/chemistry has about 3.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 35.4K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/chemistry?
"A pair of scissors sitting on my table (formica top) suddenly burst into flames. No heat source, electricity, or battery nearby. No contact " reached 35.4K upvotes and 4.4K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/chemistry.
What subreddits are similar to r/chemistry?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/chemistry?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are image posts and 22% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/chemistry?
Across 2.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 19:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/chemistry?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/chemistry has 7.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 279 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/chemistry, 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.