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r/PhysicsStudents

145.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.1K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
145.8Kmembers
1.1Kbest post
256most comments
300posts 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.

52% 30% 11%
Text 52% Question 30% Image 11% Gallery 4% Video 2%

The topics it labels

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

Need Advice 217 HW Help 19 Research 19 Off Topic 18 Rant/Vent 11 Meme 7 Update 4 Poll 3 Meta 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Hey physics students! I am boiling some fabric (to dye it) and for some reason when i put the spoon in the water it boils, when i take it out, it sto…

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 72 video 2026

year 2 of studying physics in uni

↑ 647 πŸ’¬ 65 image 2026

Is this too much for 1 semester?

↑ 562 πŸ’¬ 256 image 2026

Can anyone explain in layman's language what caused the power bank to catch fire?

↑ 439 πŸ’¬ 89 video 2026

Double-slit experiment be like :

↑ 366 πŸ’¬ 9 image 2026

a rookie mistake about acceleration in Physics

↑ 202 πŸ’¬ 62 image 2026

addition of significant figures

↑ 186 πŸ’¬ 47 image 2026

I think I might have hit the jackpot with my professor this semester

↑ 135 πŸ’¬ 12 image 2026

I'm in high school and I'm making an interactive simulation based physics website, here's what have so far, would love some feedback or pilot volunte…

↑ 134 πŸ’¬ 38 gallery 2026

Hi everyone, I'd like to share something. A gift.🎁

↑ 98 πŸ’¬ 48 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/PhysicsStudents, in numbers

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

How many members does r/PhysicsStudents have?
r/PhysicsStudents has about 145.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.1K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PhysicsStudents?
"Hey physics students! I am boiling some fabric (to dye it) and for some reason when i put the spoon in the water it boils, when i take it ou" reached 1.1K upvotes and 72 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PhysicsStudents.
What subreddits are similar to r/PhysicsStudents?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/PopCultureV2, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/PhysicsStudents?
Of the posts we hold, 52% are text posts and 30% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PhysicsStudents?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (362 avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (124 avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (113 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/PhysicsStudents?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PhysicsStudents has 39 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 291 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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