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r/mathematics

246.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.9K upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.

16peak upvotes per 1,000 members
246.1Kmembers
3.9Kbest post
719most comments
103posts 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.

68% 12% 8%
Image 68% Video 12% Text 8% Gallery 7% Link 3% Question 3%

The topics it labels

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

Discussion 13 Number Theory 5 Geometry 3 Algebra 3 Calculus 3 Statistics 2 Physics 2 Scientific Computing 1 Logic 1 Problem 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Wish calculus was introduced this way in schools

↑ 3.9K 💬 330 image 2026

ex-boyfriend wrote this on my wall a year ago and to this day has never explained it to me.

↑ 3.9K 💬 476 image 2023

Can someone explain me this joke

↑ 3.9K 💬 101 image 2023

Math is magic

↑ 3.8K 💬 67 video 2025

One of the shortest-known papers in a serious math journal

↑ 3.6K 💬 75 image 2025

Marketing success!

↑ 3.6K 💬 166 image 2024

What do you think about my discovery?

↑ 3.4K 💬 208 image 2025

17 Equations That Changed the World

↑ 3K 💬 180 image 2025

"truly random number generation"?

↑ 2.8K 💬 308 image 2025

“After that I was afraid of von Neumann” - George Pólya, *How to Solve It* (1957) 2nd edition

↑ 2.8K 💬 57 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/mathematics, in numbers

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

How many members does r/mathematics have?
r/mathematics has about 246.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 103 of its posts; the biggest reached 3.9K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mathematics?
"Wish calculus was introduced this way in schools" reached 3.9K upvotes and 330 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mathematics.
What subreddits are similar to r/mathematics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/mathematics?
Of the posts we hold, 68% are image posts and 12% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mathematics?
Across 103 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 15:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 09:00 UTC (967 avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (648 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/mathematics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mathematics has 1.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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