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r/MechanicalKeyboards for all the Click and None of the Clack!. /r/MechanicalKeyboards is about typing input devices for users of all range of budgets. We provide news / PSAs about the hobby and community hosted content. Feel free to check out our other resources and links to related communities. Founded 2012 · 1.4M members

1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 16.3K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.4Mmembers
16.3Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
1Kposts 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.

60% 22% 12%
Gallery 60% Image 22% Text 12% Video 6%

The topics it labels

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

Builds 474 Photos 205 Promotional 112 Review 69 Discussion 56 Group Buy 29 Mod 17 Interest Check 11 Meetups 6 Meme 6

What the ceiling looks like

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

I did a custom water droplet/ wet texture on a rather slippery keycaps set and I wanted to share.

↑ 16.3K 💬 1.4K gallery 2026

I finally realized the floor wasn’t level.

↑ 7.5K 💬 267 gallery 2026

Google Japan did it again, the weird keyboard is back, they are unstoppable

↑ 6.5K 💬 116 video 2026

Thanks for cutting us off :D

↑ 3.8K 💬 126 image 2026

I have sensory issues and have no regrets.

↑ 2.5K 💬 244 gallery 2026

IBM Model F I found on Facebook marketplace, Apparently Brand New?

↑ 2.2K 💬 89 gallery 2026

Just over 10 years in this hobby

↑ 2K 💬 182 image 2026

Got to visit YushaKobo Custom Keyboard Shop in Tokyo today!

↑ 1.8K 💬 49 gallery 2026

Gulf

↑ 1.7K 💬 44 gallery 2026

I decorated K.. Koi 🐟

↑ 1.4K 💬 42 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/MechanicalKeyboards, in numbers

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

What is r/MechanicalKeyboards?
r/MechanicalKeyboards ("r/MechanicalKeyboards for all the Click and None of the Clack!") describes itself this way: /r/MechanicalKeyboards is about typing input devices for users of all range of budgets. We provide news / PSAs about the hobby and community hosted content. Feel free to check out our other resources and links to related communities. It was founded in 2012 and has 1.4M members.
How many members does r/MechanicalKeyboards have?
r/MechanicalKeyboards has about 1.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1K of its posts; the biggest reached 16.3K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MechanicalKeyboards?
"I did a custom water droplet/ wet texture on a rather slippery keycaps set and I wanted to share." reached 16.3K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MechanicalKeyboards.
What subreddits are similar to r/MechanicalKeyboards?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/Indiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/MechanicalKeyboards?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are gallery posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MechanicalKeyboards?
Across 1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 01:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (973 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (761 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/MechanicalKeyboards?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MechanicalKeyboards has 863 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 564 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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