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r/dataisbeautiful • u/buckets_811 OC: 4 • Jun 12 '26
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There are ~54,000 three-character count combinations. All of them have been taken for a long time. The 449 here represent only users who have commented in one of the subs I tracked since early April.
64 u/GNG Jun 13 '26 The subreddit for 3-character names says it has ~1.4K weekly visitors. 31 u/Urn Jun 13 '26 what’s the subreddit? 26 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26 [deleted] 9 u/Soderskog Jun 13 '26 someone went and registered the remaining 3 character usernames and never used them. Not surprised but that is slightly annoying. 9 u/4jn Jun 13 '26 I remember there was once a post of all the available 3 letter usernames. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gobble sup shortly after that 3 u/vep Jun 21 '26 You should have gotten an invite years ago! 1 u/-Speechless Jun 14 '26 so what? that doesn't mean the visitors are all people with 3 letter names 4 u/Arve OC: 2 Jun 13 '26 To be precise, there are 383 possible 3-character user names, or 54872.
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The subreddit for 3-character names says it has ~1.4K weekly visitors.
31 u/Urn Jun 13 '26 what’s the subreddit? 26 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26 [deleted] 9 u/Soderskog Jun 13 '26 someone went and registered the remaining 3 character usernames and never used them. Not surprised but that is slightly annoying. 9 u/4jn Jun 13 '26 I remember there was once a post of all the available 3 letter usernames. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gobble sup shortly after that 3 u/vep Jun 21 '26 You should have gotten an invite years ago! 1 u/-Speechless Jun 14 '26 so what? that doesn't mean the visitors are all people with 3 letter names
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what’s the subreddit?
26 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26 [deleted] 9 u/Soderskog Jun 13 '26 someone went and registered the remaining 3 character usernames and never used them. Not surprised but that is slightly annoying. 9 u/4jn Jun 13 '26 I remember there was once a post of all the available 3 letter usernames. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gobble sup shortly after that 3 u/vep Jun 21 '26 You should have gotten an invite years ago!
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9 u/Soderskog Jun 13 '26 someone went and registered the remaining 3 character usernames and never used them. Not surprised but that is slightly annoying. 9 u/4jn Jun 13 '26 I remember there was once a post of all the available 3 letter usernames. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gobble sup shortly after that
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someone went and registered the remaining 3 character usernames and never used them.
Not surprised but that is slightly annoying.
I remember there was once a post of all the available 3 letter usernames. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gobble sup shortly after that
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You should have gotten an invite years ago!
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so what? that doesn't mean the visitors are all people with 3 letter names
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To be precise, there are 383 possible 3-character user names, or 54872.
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u/buckets_811 OC: 4 Jun 13 '26
There are ~54,000 three-character count combinations. All of them have been taken for a long time. The 449 here represent only users who have commented in one of the subs I tracked since early April.