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r/Machinists

281.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.9K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.

14peak upvotes per 1,000 members
281.2Kmembers
3.9Kbest post
265most comments
304posts 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% 26% 22% 15% 9%
Text 28% Image 26% Gallery 22% Question 15% Video 9%

The topics it labels

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

QUESTION 85 PARTS / SHOWOFF 32 Shitpost 10 OFFERING WORK 6 CRASH 5 MEME 4 Race to the Bottom 2 PARTS / quoting 1 WEEKLY 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

"Just Give Me The Print Office Boy"

↑ 3.9K 💬 265 image 2026

The original (91y) owner of my machine sent me this picture from way back

↑ 3.9K 💬 82 image 2026

I could never throw them away

↑ 2K 💬 41 image 2026

Yesterday my boss wanted me to machine a square‑corner keyway. Everyone’s first reaction was that this job couldn’t be done on a CNC. I made a bet wi…

↑ 1.7K 💬 260 video 2026

Boss hired his future son in law

↑ 1.5K 💬 101 image 2026

The extra deep 65mm sockets I finished up today.

↑ 1.3K 💬 68 video 2026

Do you ever feel like…

↑ 1K 💬 131 image 2026

I machined three little micrometer trinkets. I’ll keep one for myself, give one to the apprentice who broke the micrometer, and give the third one to…

↑ 968 💬 81 video 2026

Holy crap bro😭

↑ 732 💬 70 gallery 2026

I used to make parts, now I make pasta

↑ 626 💬 42 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Machinists, in numbers

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

How many members does r/Machinists have?
r/Machinists has about 281.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 304 of its posts; the biggest reached 3.9K upvotes, which is 14 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Machinists?
""Just Give Me The Print Office Boy"" reached 3.9K upvotes and 265 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Machinists.
What subreddits are similar to r/Machinists?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/Machinists?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are text posts and 26% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Machinists?
Across 304 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 10:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (740 avg upvotes), Sunday at 19:00 UTC (455 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/Machinists?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Machinists has 403 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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