3Blue1Brown's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
Solving Wordle using information theory
Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 55.2×3
Large Language Models explained briefly3.8×4
How are holograms possible?3.2×5
Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…3.0×6
Why colliding blocks compute pi3.0×7
Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladderWhat's working for 3Blue1Brown right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 2.2M views. “Solving Wordle using information theory” reached 11.8M, roughly 5.3 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (2). When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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