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r/step1

155K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.8K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
155Kmembers
1.8Kbest post
236most comments
101posts 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.

71% 27%
Image 71% Text 27% 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.

πŸ“– Study methods 4 πŸ₯‚ PASSED: Write-up! 3 Discussion 1 sticky in 24 hours 1 Study methods 1 Am I ready? 1 support 1 Science question 1 Recommendations 1 typical ortho residents 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

100 Questions that appear on every NBME

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 236 text 2020

This one

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 38 image 2020

HIV associated infections (EXTREMELY HY)

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 27 image 2025

Got COVID. Girlfriend broke up with me. Test got moved. Friends/family died. But we got this fam.

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 131 text 2020

Me enjoying the hotel I got next to the testing site the night before the exam.

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 33 image 2021

free 120 link and new free 120 link

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 216 text 2022

The Ultimate Step 1 Guide

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 197 text 2024

Virgin USMD vs Chad IMG

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 160 image 2020

half of NBME ethics questions are like [shitpost]

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 29 image 2020

Never thought that kawasaki could look so different on darker skin...

↑ 911 πŸ’¬ 37 image 2020

Communities its size

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

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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/step1, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.