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265.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.4K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
265.4Kmembers
1.4Kbest post
830most comments
301posts 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.

28% 24% 17% 17% 14%
Image 28% Gallery 24% Question 17% Text 17% Video 14% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Help 123 Look at this! 61 NGD! 41 Playing 26 What is this? 26 Repairs 10 Sound Check 9 Mod Post 4 NPD! 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

He tried his best to build an accessible guitar for his sight impaired friend

↑ 1.4K 💬 90 image 2026

What is your least favorite guitar body

↑ 513 💬 830 image 2026

Had a heated debate on our Facebook page about whether 11 is actually louder than 10

↑ 359 💬 305 gallery 2026

Is the LTD EC-1000 basically the perfect modern Les Paul?

↑ 353 💬 136 gallery 2026

Neighbour cleaning out attic, gifted me this bass guitar.

↑ 352 💬 38 gallery 2026

Finished up this build.

↑ 258 💬 55 video 2026

NGD: My dad just brought me the guitar I had as a teenager, 30 years later.

↑ 256 💬 23 gallery 2026

If you were wondering where that particularly amazing McCarty 594 SE double cut on Sweetwater went, It was me.

↑ 223 💬 67 gallery 2026

Help with authentication. real or fake?

↑ 206 💬 119 gallery 2026

New guitar day

↑ 203 💬 13 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/guitars, in numbers

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

How many members does r/guitars have?
r/guitars has about 265.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.4K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/guitars?
"He tried his best to build an accessible guitar for his sight impaired friend" reached 1.4K upvotes and 90 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/guitars.
What subreddits are similar to r/guitars?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/guitars?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are image posts and 24% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/guitars?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (492 avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (131 avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (121 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/guitars?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/guitars has 125 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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