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Nearly Impossible Odds. Nearly impossible feats of achievement, those with great degree of difficulty or incredible odds. Founded 2015 · 6.2M members · links only

6.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 133.3K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.2Mmembers
133.3Kbest post
4.3Kmost comments
400posts 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.

57% 35% 8%
Video 57% Image 35% Gallery 8%

The topics it labels

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

Good Post ⭐ 3 good post 1 legendary 1 User was banned for this title (Rule 2) 1 Loose Fit 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Husband and I broke same leg, same bone, within 30 seconds of eachother slipping on ice.

↑ 133.3K 💬 1.3K image 2026

What a cute couple!

↑ 114.5K 💬 1K image 2021

I wore the same shirt as my Statistics professor the first day of class

↑ 113.4K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Two drunk guys imitate Connor Mcgregor as he drives past

↑ 96.1K 💬 709 video 2020

In 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17k feet, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked …

↑ 91.5K 💬 1.8K image 2020

We were seconds away from losing our home to the California fire. Thank you to all the firefighters that saved our community!

↑ 89.5K 💬 1.3K image 2019

When your boss has been working there for ever

↑ 87.2K 💬 787 video 2019

Gens are everything

↑ 85.5K 💬 1.9K image 2020

I wouldn’t have believed it

↑ 85.3K 💬 836 video 2019

"Do something cool I'm bored."

↑ 84.9K 💬 985 video 2020

Communities its size

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

r/nevertellmetheodds, in numbers

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What is r/nevertellmetheodds?
r/nevertellmetheodds ("Nearly Impossible Odds") describes itself this way: Nearly impossible feats of achievement, those with great degree of difficulty or incredible odds. It was founded in 2015 and has 6.2M members.
How many members does r/nevertellmetheodds have?
r/nevertellmetheodds has about 6.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 400 of its posts; the biggest reached 133.3K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nevertellmetheodds?
"Husband and I broke same leg, same bone, within 30 seconds of eachother slipping on ice." reached 133.3K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nevertellmetheodds.
What subreddits are similar to r/nevertellmetheodds?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/AccidentalRenaissance, r/law.
What kind of posts do best on r/nevertellmetheodds?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are video posts and 35% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nevertellmetheodds?
Across 400 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 14:00 UTC (62.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (61.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 04:00 UTC (57.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/nevertellmetheodds?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nevertellmetheodds has 74.8K 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/nevertellmetheodds, 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.