minutephysics YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ~Rutherford via Einstein? (wikiquote) Created by Henry Reich
| Subscribers | 6M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 599M |
| Videos | 318 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 599K |
| Country | - |
| Language | EN |
| Created | 2011-06-20 |
Niches: Space & Science.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passing A Portal Through Itself | 24× | 14M (not yet checked) | 2022-09-01 |
| The Portal Paradox | 11× | 6M (not yet checked) | 2019-06-28 |
| How ISPs Violate the Laws of Mathematics | 5.8× | 3.2M (not yet checked) | 2019-03-01 |
| When 2 + 2 = 3.999999999… | 4.8× | 991K (not yet checked) | 2026-02-28 |
| How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained | 4.2× | 3.4M (not yet checked) | 2019-05-01 |
| What if you try to sandwich a cube between two portals? | 4.2× | 866K (not yet checked) | 2026-10-10 |
| Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) | 4.2× | 3.7M (not yet checked) | 2018-07-20 |
| Our Ignorance About Gravity | 4× | 2.2M (not yet checked) | 2019-06-20 |
| Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it? | 3.8× | 2.5M (not yet checked) | 2022-10-14 |
| The Magnetic Shadow Effect | 3.7× | 2M (not yet checked) | 2025-06-26 |
Latest uploads
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| What if you try to sandwich a cube between two portals? | 4.2× | 866K (not yet checked) | 2026-10-10 |
| The Wavy Window Paradox | 0.6× | 413K (not yet checked) | 2026-08-19 |
| How long is a day on the sun? | 0.9× | 200K (not yet checked) | 2026-08-11 |
| Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think | 2.4× | 1.4M (not yet checked) | 2026-07-29 |
| Why some flames are blue and others are red? | 0.6× | 128K (not yet checked) | 2026-07-16 |
| This Orbit is the WORST | 0.8× | 530K (not yet checked) | 2026-06-30 |
| There Is No 4th Dimension | 1.8× | 364K (not yet checked) | 2026-06-25 |
| Two Paradoxes of Space Navigation | 0.6× | 391K (not yet checked) | 2026-06-04 |
| Why Driving Backwards Is So Hard | 2.3× | 479K (not yet checked) | 2026-05-22 |
| The Magic of Thorium Nuclear Reactors | 0.4× | 253K (not yet checked) | 2026-05-12 |
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 90 uploads of minutephysics, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 90 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts | 13 | 210K | 1× |
| Under 20 minutes | 75 | 686K | 1.1× |
| 20 to 60 minutes | 2 | 2.6M | 3.5× |
Levers to test
- The channel posted about 1.8 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.
These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does minutephysics have?
minutephysics has about 6M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does minutephysics upload?
About 1.8 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from minutephysics?
"Passing A Portal Through Itself" reached 24× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the minutephysics audience?
No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.
Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open minutephysics on YouTube.