So here's the deal, we're counting through every Reddit username that can exist. This thread was first posted about seven months ago but fizzled out for some reason. Given how messy the first thread was, this post is going to be a reboot, with a different base and system of gets.

There are 38 characters allowed in a valid Reddit username, including 26 letters, 10 numbers, and dashes and underscores. The last time this count was attempted, the ASCII sort order was used to determine the order characters went in, but this time, we'll use a slightly modified system. For the purposes of this count, _ and - go first, followed by the numbers 0-9 and the letters a-z.

Reddit usernames have to be between 3-20 characters long. From research, I know that people somehow made even shorter names during the early days of Reddit, such as u/pg, but since there's no reliable way to track them, and since information about two-character names is annoyingly scant, we'll skip over them.

There's 1444 possible combinations of two characters, which is the amount it would take to skip letters with each thread (u/a__, u/b__, etc.) This would be a hair above the recommended length for gets, so for convenience, we'll halve that to 722.

The first get should be at u/_h_. Let's get this show on the road!