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Useless Yet Interesting Calculations. And they said math has no real world applications Founded 2013 · 2.4M members

2.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 93.2K upvotes, which works out to 38 per 1,000 members.

38peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.4Mmembers
93.2Kbest post
4Kmost comments
1.4Kposts 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.

37% 21% 19% 12%
Image 37% Question 21% Video 19% Text 12% Link 6% Gallery 4%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

[RDTM] Toilet paper you need for 14 days in quarantine

↑ 93.2K 💬 2.2K video 2020

[Request] Is this true?

↑ 85.6K 💬 1.3K image 2025

One 9 inch pizza vs two 5 inch pizzas

↑ 83.1K 💬 3K gallery 2022

[Request] Jeff Bezos wealth. Seems very true but would like to know the math behind it

↑ 71.8K 💬 2.1K image 2020

[Request] Is this true?

↑ 71K 💬 1.2K image 2025

[Request] How long could a candle of this size last?

↑ 70.2K 💬 279 image 2025

[Request] Approximately speaking, is this correct?

↑ 65.8K 💬 1.8K image 2019

[Request] Is that true?

↑ 65.4K 💬 865 image 2024

[Request] How much are they actually scamming her?

↑ 64.1K 💬 1.6K image 2026

[Request] How did they get to $700mil

↑ 62.3K 💬 751 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/theydidthemath, in numbers

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

What is r/theydidthemath?
r/theydidthemath ("Useless Yet Interesting Calculations") describes itself this way: And they said math has no real world applications. It was founded in 2013 and has 2.4M members.
How many members does r/theydidthemath have?
r/theydidthemath has about 2.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 93.2K upvotes, which is 38 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/theydidthemath?
"[RDTM] Toilet paper you need for 14 days in quarantine" reached 93.2K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/theydidthemath.
What subreddits are similar to r/theydidthemath?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles, r/Scotland, r/AmongUs.
What kind of posts do best on r/theydidthemath?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 21% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/theydidthemath?
Across 1.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 10:00 UTC (18.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (16.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (15K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/theydidthemath?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/theydidthemath has 47.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 548 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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