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Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems. Founded 2008 · 14.6M members

14.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 54.6K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
14.6Mmembers
54.6Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
272posts 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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Text 48% Image 20% Question 17% Video 8% Gallery 6%

What the ceiling looks like

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

I was racking my brain, trying to remember if I'd taken my morning anti-biotic, when an idea occurred to me

↑ 54.6K 💬 660 image 2026

How to put string back in hole

↑ 53.7K 💬 653 video 2025

If you cut your wrapping paper to small, Try turning the gift 45 degrees!

↑ 44.8K 💬 518 gallery 2025

Fill Empty Space in Your Freezer With Jugs of Water

↑ 40K 💬 3.5K image 2026

When I hear about “life hack,” this is what I expect to see

↑ 34.8K 💬 157 video 2025

No pill-cutter? Try this

↑ 28.1K 💬 635 video 2026

Got tired of refilling the soap

↑ 21.8K 💬 599 gallery 2026

When you can't tear open plastic packaging, you can try to tear it using two coins like this.

↑ 20.8K 💬 484 video 2025

Real life example of CTRL-C + CTRL-V

↑ 18.1K 💬 99 video 2025

A demonstration of how to use your arm to easily tie a necktie

↑ 16.4K 💬 185 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/lifehacks, in numbers

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

What is r/lifehacks?
r/lifehacks describes itself this way: Lifehacks: Uncommon solutions to common problems. It was founded in 2008 and has 14.6M members.
How many members does r/lifehacks have?
r/lifehacks has about 14.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 272 of its posts; the biggest reached 54.6K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/lifehacks?
"I was racking my brain, trying to remember if I'd taken my morning anti-biotic, when an idea occurred to me" reached 54.6K upvotes and 660 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/lifehacks.
What subreddits are similar to r/lifehacks?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PrequelMemes, r/PublicFreakout, r/teenagers, r/DunderMifflin, r/SipsTea, r/comics.
What kind of posts do best on r/lifehacks?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are text posts and 20% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/lifehacks?
Across 272 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 14:00 UTC (18.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (18.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (14.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/lifehacks?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/lifehacks has 8.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 8 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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