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r/HowTo. Welcome to r/HowTo! Where you can learn how to do anything and everything yourself! Need advice on how to start a podcast or how to fix your rocket ship? Ask away! Founded 2008 · 3.5M members

3.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 49.4K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.

14peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.5Mmembers
49.4Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
2.2Kposts 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.

43% 33% 16%
Image 43% Gallery 33% Video 16% Question 4% Text 4%

The topics it labels

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

Serious Answers Only 52 DIY 31 [Solved] 29 [Serious Answers Only] 2 Spam 1 Armadillos 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

How to ruin the internet

↑ 49.4K 💬 467 image 2017

How to correctly reverse park

↑ 25.2K 💬 856 video 2017

How do I remove sunscreen from my UV reactive duck

↑ 17.4K 💬 428 image 2025

This is how my wife protects her yarn from the cats

↑ 17.3K 💬 173 image 2020

How to get this plug out of the bottle?

↑ 15.5K 💬 1.7K image 2026

How to self rescue in the event you fall through frozen ice

↑ 12K 💬 173 video 2018

I hate crooked doors!! This will def help if you have a couple simple tools handy. I found this useful so I’m sharing it.

↑ 11.2K 💬 125 video 2020

Hope this is a "how-to" helpful resource!

↑ 11.2K 💬 219 image 2020

How to get out of a conical hole

↑ 10.5K 💬 133 video 2017

How to fix refrigerator water pressure?

↑ 10.3K 💬 1.5K video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/howto, in numbers

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

What is r/howto?
r/howto ("r/HowTo") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/HowTo! Where you can learn how to do anything and everything yourself! Need advice on how to start a podcast or how to fix your rocket ship? Ask away. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.5M members.
How many members does r/howto have?
r/howto has about 3.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 49.4K upvotes, which is 14 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/howto?
"How to ruin the internet" reached 49.4K upvotes and 467 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/howto.
What subreddits are similar to r/howto?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/howto?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 33% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/howto?
Across 2.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/howto?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/howto has 7.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 192 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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