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Curling is an international Olympic sport in which 42lb granite stones are slid along an icy surface to come to rest atop a painted target. In some ways similar to bocce ball or shuffleboard, curling has been described as 'Chess on Ice'. /r/Curling is your source for curling news, locations for learn-to-curl events, and other curling-related topics. Founded 2010 · 33.8K members

33.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 27.4K upvotes, which works out to 810 per 1,000 members.

810peak upvotes per 1,000 members
33.8Kmembers
27.4Kbest post
2.3Kmost comments
199posts 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.

31% 25% 19% 11% 9%
Image 31% Text 25% Video 19% Link 11% Gallery 9% Question 6%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Hands Down the best curling shot I’ve ever witnessed.

↑ 27.4K 💬 541 video 2026

How the world of curling sees my country right now

↑ 22.9K 💬 798 image 2026

Hand of god

↑ 18.7K 💬 2.3K image 2026

USA making fun of Canada with an air-poke? 😅

↑ 18.7K 💬 1K video 2026

Canada touches GOLD!!!

↑ 11.4K 💬 623 image 2026

Norway with an epic final throw to end the match.

↑ 7.3K 💬 260 video 2026

The Creation of Marc

↑ 6.9K 💬 165 image 2026

Meme of the year

↑ 4.7K 💬 155 video 2026

Just a normal Thursday in Sweden

↑ 4.4K 💬 150 video 2026

Cheating?

↑ 4.3K 💬 1.7K video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Curling, in numbers

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

What is r/Curling?
r/Curling describes itself this way: Curling is an international Olympic sport in which 42lb granite stones are slid along an icy surface to come to rest atop a painted target. In some ways similar to bocce ball or shuffleboard, curling has been described as 'Chess on Ice'. /r/Curling is your source for curling news, locations for learn-to-curl events, and other curling-related topics. It was founded in 2010 and has 33.8K members.
How many members does r/Curling have?
r/Curling has about 33.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 199 of its posts; the biggest reached 27.4K upvotes, which is 810 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Curling?
"Hands Down the best curling shot I’ve ever witnessed." reached 27.4K upvotes and 541 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Curling.
What subreddits are similar to r/Curling?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Curling?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Curling?
Across 199 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 20:00 UTC (10.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 10:00 UTC (7.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (2.9K 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/Curling?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Curling has 1.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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