# Reddit Story Finder > Find the top-performing story posts in any story subreddit, ranked for how well they narrate as a video. Shows word count and narration time. Free, no login. Canonical: https://faceless.so/tools/reddit-story-finder Free Tool The top story posts in any story subreddit, ranked by how well they work as a narrated video rather than by raw upvotes. Finding the best stories... ## Upvotes are the wrong metric The highest-voted post of the week is usually the worst candidate for a video. It is long, it has already been narrated by every channel in the niche, and its appeal often depends on comment threads that do not survive being read aloud. What works instead is a post that resolves in about ninety seconds, carries one clear conflict, and did well enough to prove the premise without being everywhere already. That is what this tool ranks for: length first, engagement second. Use it to learn the shape of what performs in your niche this week. Then write your own in that shape, because a story you own can be posted anywhere without a claim, a strike, or a hundred identical uploads competing with it. ## Frequently asked questions How the story finder ranks and where it stops ### How are these stories ranked? Not purely by upvotes. The ranking weighs narration length most heavily, because a post that reads in 60 to 180 seconds fits short-form video and a 4,000 word epic does not, then factors in upvotes and comment volume. Link posts and very short posts are filtered out entirely since there is nothing to narrate. ### Why does it only cover certain subreddits? The list is limited to subreddits that reliably produce self-contained written stories, which is a much smaller set than it first appears. Most large subreddits are images, links or discussion threads, none of which convert into a narrated video without heavy rewriting. ### Can I narrate these posts directly in my videos? You can, and thousands of channels do, but understand the trade-off. The post is the author's copyrighted writing, the same threads get narrated by dozens of channels the same week, and YouTube's reused-content rules target exactly this pattern. Use the finder for research and generate original stories for publishing. ### How fresh are the results? Results are cached for fifteen minutes, so what you see is close to live. Choosing a shorter timeframe such as Today surfaces posts still gaining traction, which is where the opportunity usually is, while All time shows the classics that have been narrated many times already. ### What do the word count and duration mean? Word count is the length of the post body. Duration is the narration time at roughly 2.5 words per second, which is the pace of most AI voices at natural speed. A 150 word post is about a minute, which fits a Short or a Reel with room for a hook. ### Do I need a Reddit account? No account and no login. 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