Grant Sanderson's AI essay makes the case for teaching, theory building and getting other people to understand.
On YouTube, 3Blue1Brown has 8,750,000 subscribers and 793,238,483 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 10,000 subscribers and 1,812,011 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "There's never been a better time to go into math", with 2,772,369 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 302 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 8 of 96 in category "Explainers, history and education".
YouTube: The numbers today
▲ 60,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 10,723,607 in the last 30 days
a new short video usually gets 538,485 views
YouTube: What happened lately
October 19, 2026 2.4x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 1,012,768 views a day, 2.4 times a normal day (417,244).
Grant Sanderson's new essay moves from student angst to the possibilities of proof, conjecture and theory machines.
Two days old and near half a million views, the week's only upload is gathering views more than twice as fast as a nine-day-old look at the…
The video drawing the most views now
There's never been a better time to go into math
- Video published
- October 16, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,772,369
- Video views, pace per day
- 7,953
- Views on its first day
- 1,319,074
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Explainers, history and education | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 302 of 5,393 | 8 of 96 |
| By views gained this week | 2,041 of 5,274 | 24 of 96 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 1,704 of 5,043 | 19 of 91 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 1.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.1% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education
Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 8,690,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 8,750,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 782,631,585 views → November 11, 2026: 793,238,483 views · average: 365,755 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Sphere Intersection Puzzle | October 25, 2026 | 0:46 short | 296,011 | 827 | 124,706 | 8,716 | 379 |
There's never been a better time to go into math | October 16, 2026 | 40:44 | 2,772,369 | 7,953 | 1,319,074 | 43,622 | 5,425 |
The Phone Number puzzle | September 25, 2026 | 0:44 short | 749,190 | 881 | - | 18,825 | 362 |
The last IMO problem AI could not solve | September 18, 2026 | 1:40 short | 745,115 | 3,438 | - | 25,001 | 269 |
The last IMO problem AI could not solve | September 18, 2026 | 51:56 | 3,092,501 | 2,744 | - | 32,796 | 1,746 |
The jumping pegs puzzle | August 18, 2026 | 0:53 short | 573,312 | 410 | - | 13,137 | 500 |
The 64 sugar cubes puzzle | July 24, 2026 | 0:56 short | 350,886 | 152 | - | 9,251 | 398 |
But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Pa… | July 16, 2026 | 33:51 | 923,670 | 1,856 | - | 22,716 | 987 |
100 random chords, how many intersections? | June 16, 2026 | 1:10 short | 618,230 | 131 | - | 15,101 | 442 |
Measuring the entropy of English | June 12, 2026 | 2:25 short | 509,731 | 105 | - | 22,812 | 179 |
What's the perfect encoding? How do you know? | June 10, 2026 | 1:02 short | 251,185 | 54 | - | 7,131 | 160 |
Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1 | June 7, 2026 | 32:20 | 1,712,045 | 2,107 | - | 55,852 | 2,378 |
Tie random ends: How many loops? | May 21, 2026 | 1:22 short | 538,485 | 60 | - | 18,387 | 928 |
Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle. | April 16, 2026 | 0:39 short | 836,720 | 89 | - | 19,598 | 1,840 |
Escher's most mind-bending piece | March 27, 2026 | 1:43 short | 358,204 | 69 | - | 10,984 | 79 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 22.6 in the category: 19.7
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.1 in the category: 1.2
- short vs long
- 11 short (up to 3 minutes), 4 long
average views per short video: 529,733
average views per long video: 2,125,146
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
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The hardest problem on the hardest test | December 8, 2017 | 11:15 | 16,482,747 |
The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle | January 13, 2019 | 5:13 | 14,347,352 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
I'm still astounded this is true | December 7, 2023 | 1:00 | 63,422,594 |
Don't let it fool you! | December 7, 2023 | 1:00 | 17,450,202 |
Order from chaos | December 15, 2023 | 0:50 | 13,802,374 |
The medical test paradox (well "paradox") | January 15, 2024 | 0:57 | 11,015,286 |
The Newton art puzzle | December 29, 2023 | 1:00 | 10,107,559 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 1,012,768 views a day, 2.4 times a normal day (417,244).
- MilestoneThere's never been a better time to go into math The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 1,160,257 views a day, 3.5 times a normal day (334,687).
Stories
Grant Sanderson's AI essay makes the case for teaching, theory building and getting other people to understand.
Grant Sanderson's new essay moves from student angst to the possibilities of proof, conjecture and theory machines.
Two days old and near half a million views, the week's only upload is gathering views more than twice as fast as a nine-day-old look at the…
























