How Ridiculous YouTube Stats

@howridiculous · Science & Education · Updated Nov 7, 2026

How Ridiculous channel overview

How Ridiculous (@howridiculous) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2009. It has 24M subscribers and 16B total views across 856 videos, an average of 19M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.5M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.1M views. Over the last 12 months, How Ridiculous published 36 videos (22% Shorts), and 3 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does How Ridiculous make?

Returbe estimates How Ridiculous's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $42K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.46 to $8.42, typically $4.56, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $4.6K.

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Upload schedule

How Ridiculous publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 38 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (34% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

How Ridiculous's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are How Ridiculous's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Canyon Gap Aerobie Throw11M views · Oct 15, 202632.7× typical views
• GOODBYE BALL 😂☄️3.1M views · Sep 14, 20269.5× typical views
• 7 hours of Moon Ball fun/pain @TheWabobaTeam1.1M views · Sep 9, 20263.4× typical views
• Giant Chain Whip Vs Bulletproof Glass2.7M views · Oct 8, 20262.4× typical views
• Worlds Fastest Sledgehammer Vs Bulletproof Coffin2.6M views · Oct 24, 20262.3× typical views
• Random Things Vs Mountain! Longest Throw Wins2.3M views · Sep 8, 20262.1× typical views
• Tires Vs Mountain! Closest To The Pin Wins1.8M views · Sep 8, 20261.7× typical views
• Our Giant Chain Whip Is SCARY POWERFUL1.8M views · Aug 9, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

9 of How Ridiculous's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Giant Chain Whip Vs GLASS BALL! Best Slow Mo Ever?390K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Check out our NEW VIDEO to see how we did it! 🌋14K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Worlds Fastest Sledgehammer Vs Bulletproof Coffin2.6M views · Oct 24, 20262.3× typical views
• Extreme River Racing With Random Items!691K views · Oct 17, 20260.6× typical views
• Canyon Gap Aerobie Throw11M views · Oct 15, 202632.7× typical views
• Giant Chain Whip Vs Bulletproof Glass2.7M views · Oct 8, 20262.4× typical views
• Can We Catch It On The Other Side?1.2M views · Oct 8, 20261.1× typical views
• Safety Never Takes a Holiday294K views · Sep 18, 20260.9× typical views
• GOODBYE BALL 😂☄️3.1M views · Sep 14, 20269.5× typical views
• 7 hours of Moon Ball fun/pain @TheWabobaTeam1.1M views · Sep 9, 20263.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.2K videos from 466 channels in this niche. 12.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (52K subs, best video 377.1×), ClipazoPodcast (29K subs, best video 25.5×), The Scale Room (1.4K subs, best video 351.4×), Yorp (10K subs, best video 24.4×), Past the Blue (36K subs, best video 16.3×), The Why Side (48K subs, best video 189.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with How Ridiculous or YouTube.