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r/thinkpad

IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptop enthusiasts! Founded 2009 · 328.5K members

331K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.3K upvotes, which works out to 28 per 1,000 members.

28peak upvotes per 1,000 members
331Kmembers
9.3Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
970posts 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.

33% 29% 17% 17%
Image 33% Text 29% Question 17% Gallery 17% Video 3% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Question / Problem 317 Thinkstagram Picture 218 Buying Advice 180 Review / Opinion 88 Discussion / Information 88 Hardware Upgrade 52 News / Blog 20 META 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

At my local mechanic

↑ 9.3K 💬 361 image 2024

I've been waiting years for this picture

↑ 6.9K 💬 164 image 2020

I asked my dad for a macbook and he bought me this

↑ 6.4K 💬 1.1K video 2025

Anxious that my stand will scratch the ThinkPad !!

↑ 6K 💬 232 image 2026

Found this thinkpad in random abandoned fridge in middle of nowhere.

↑ 5.4K 💬 432 image 2025

Bibically accurate Thinkpad user

↑ 5.4K 💬 72 image 2025

rate my setup

↑ 5.1K 💬 131 image 2026

I dropped my ThinkPad and it broke my damn floor.

↑ 4.8K 💬 135 gallery 2026

Thinkpad vs Macbook

↑ 4.8K 💬 162 video 2026

I’m worried my Thinkpad will scratch my stand

↑ 4.5K 💬 55 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/thinkpad, in numbers

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

What is r/thinkpad?
r/thinkpad describes itself this way: IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptop enthusiasts. It was founded in 2009 and has 328.5K members.
How many members does r/thinkpad have?
r/thinkpad has about 331K members. ViralHunt has tracked 970 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.3K upvotes, which is 28 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/thinkpad?
"At my local mechanic" reached 9.3K upvotes and 361 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/thinkpad.
What subreddits are similar to r/thinkpad?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/thinkpad?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are image posts and 29% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/thinkpad?
Across 970 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 11:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (1.5K 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/thinkpad?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/thinkpad has 3.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 346 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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