# 3Blue1Brown: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-05, 3Blue1Brown has 8,740,000 subscribers, 791,816,235 total views, and 247 videos. It ranks #3,761 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [3Blue1Brown](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for 3Blue1Brown is “The Sphere Intersection Puzzle”, a Short published Oct 25, 2026.
- These are 3Blue1Brown’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Feb 23, 2025 and Oct 25, 2026 (19 long-form videos and 29 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 837,483. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why colliding blocks compute pi” (6,648,885 views, Mar 13, 2025). Least viewed: “How AI connects text and images” (127,876 views, Aug 21, 2025).
- Median length: 33:51 for 19 long-form videos; 1:12 for 29 Shorts.
- In this sample, 3Blue1Brown’s consecutive uploads were a median of 9 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 82 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 5, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Sphere Intersection Puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/V_uq3v6xK-4/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 289,815 | 0:46 | - |
| [There's never been a better time to go into math](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/LKrwhjOI8Nc/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 2,717,081 | 40:44 | 1.42x |
| [The Phone Number puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/ausLKMojXaY/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 744,277 | 0:44 | 1.34x |
| [The last IMO problem AI could not solve](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/bRQEWPA832A/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 735,834 | 1:40 | 1.4x |
| [The last IMO problem AI could not solve](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/Nbwv5wHQoj0/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 3,076,994 | 51:56 | 1.86x |
| [The jumping pegs puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/rYyJm1tD3d0/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 571,066 | 0:53 | 1.09x |
| [The 64 sugar cubes puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/6XPlmCDNLNc/) | 2026-07-24 | Short | 349,843 | 0:56 | - |
| [But what is cross-entropy? \| Compression is Intelligence Part 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/GlYgs6v2YfU/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 913,664 | 33:51 | 0.63x |
| [100 random chords, how many intersections?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/wGffBCfrAsE/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 617,125 | 1:10 | 1.07x |
| [Measuring the entropy of English](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/-7etvZSBxlk/) | 2026-06-12 | Short | 509,029 | 2:25 | - |
| [What's the perfect encoding? How do you know?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/7L_eTem1SQ4/) | 2026-06-10 | Short | 250,826 | 1:02 | - |
| [Reinventing Entropy \| Compression is Intelligence Part 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/l6DKRf-fAAM/) | 2026-06-07 | Long-form | 1,700,424 | 32:20 | 1.18x |
| [Tie random ends: How many loops?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/ZHXt0-_gSj4/) | 2026-05-21 | Short | 538,056 | 1:22 | - |
| [Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/QLu_ZsRc_G0/) | 2026-04-16 | Short | 836,163 | 0:39 | 1.05x |
| [Escher's most mind-bending piece](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/Y7ImxZ_YhJk/) | 2026-03-27 | Short | 357,733 | 1:43 | - |
| [The subset sum puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/4h5BEALuh44/) | 2026-03-25 | Short | 433,762 | 0:49 | - |
| [How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/ldxFjLJ3rVY/) | 2026-03-22 | Long-form | 2,347,054 | 44:52 | 2.2x |
| [Bacteria Grid Puzzle Solution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/Qoes9bTJtn0/) | 2026-03-21 | Short | 1,192,556 | 3:00 | 1.49x |
| [The most beautiful formula not enough people understand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/fsLh-NYhOoU/) | 2026-02-27 | Long-form | 1,616,110 | 1:00:24 | 1.51x |
| [The lattice bacteria puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/d0ai33oqqDE/) | 2026-02-18 | Short | 838,803 | 1:02 | 1.05x |
| [Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/7gG91SZwBoE/) | 2026-02-16 | Short | 1,069,793 | 2:34 | 1.82x |
| [Why you can't comb a hairy ball, and why we care](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/BHdbsHFs2P0/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 3,647,851 | 29:40 | 4.32x |
| [The ladybug clock puzzle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/t3jZ2xGOvYg/) | 2026-01-16 | Short | 757,222 | 1:01 | 1.29x |
| [Why Laplace transforms are so useful](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/FE-hM1kRK4Y/) | 2025-11-05 | Long-form | 867,902 | 23:05 | 1.03x |
| [The dynamics of e^(πi)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/bnjKwiUg-kw/) | 2025-10-12 | Short | 1,343,825 | 1:46 | 1.52x |
| [But what is a Laplace Transform?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/j0wJBEZdwLs/) | 2025-10-12 | Long-form | 2,124,466 | 34:41 | 2.04x |
| [The Physics of Euler's Formula \| Laplace Transform Prelude](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/-j8PzkZ70Lg/) | 2025-10-05 | Long-form | 1,265,235 | 27:49 | 1.21x |
| [What was Euclid really doing? \| Guest video by Ben Syversen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/M-MgQC6z3VU/) | 2025-09-18 | Long-form | 820,180 | 33:29 | 0.64x |
| [Incomplete open cubes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/1lZpowy21Gc/) | 2025-09-07 | Short | 251,450 | 1:12 | - |
| [Exploration & Epiphany \| Guest video by Paul Dancstep](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/_BrFKp-U8GI/) | 2025-09-07 | Long-form | 518,464 | 52:12 | - |
| [Simulating and understanding phase change \| Guest video by Vilas Winstein](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/itRV2jEtV8Q/) | 2025-08-28 | Long-form | 478,140 | 41:03 | - |
| [How AI connects text and images](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/j5h9dBtWZXM/) | 2025-08-21 | Short | 127,876 | 1:43 | - |
| [The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems \| Guest video by @Aleph0](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/4NlrfOl0l8U/) | 2025-08-17 | Long-form | 414,378 | 13:31 | - |
| [But how do AI images and videos actually work? \| Guest video by Welch Labs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/iv-5mZ_9CPY/) | 2025-07-25 | Long-form | 2,221,454 | 37:20 | 0.75x |
| [Where my explanation of Grover’s algorithm failed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/Dlsa9EBKDGI/) | 2025-05-04 | Long-form | 706,260 | 16:23 | - |
| [But what is quantum computing? (Grover's Algorithm)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/RQWpF2Gb-gU/) | 2025-04-30 | Long-form | 4,218,927 | 36:54 | 1.12x |
| [Testing your intuition for quantum computing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/XX8mjBXBqz8/) | 2025-04-30 | Short | 1,433,868 | 1:41 | 1.05x |
| [How to measure nearby galaxies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/aQwEJKWATlE/) | 2025-04-20 | Short | 188,520 | 1:03 | - |
| [Measuring the distance to Venus without radar](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/aw-8BhCilj0/) | 2025-04-08 | Short | 420,118 | 2:21 | - |
| [Measuring the speed of light using Jupiter's moons](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/M6LUPYsjods/) | 2025-04-07 | Short | 2,318,503 | 1:45 | 1.69x |
| [The tragic tale of Guillaume Le Gentil](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/mHya9J9pkq4/) | 2025-03-27 | Short | 296,497 | 0:56 | - |
| [Zooming out by powers of 10](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/C8baNzpnZ7o/) | 2025-03-26 | Short | 2,698,878 | 1:38 | 1.97x |
| [Why colliding blocks compute pi](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/6dTyOl1fmDo/) | 2025-03-13 | Long-form | 6,648,885 | 26:07 | 2.23x |
| [When being beautifully wrong leads to discovery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/TZAC0WFemvE/) | 2025-02-28 | Short | 2,382,825 | 1:01 | 2.08x |
| [Why the ancient Greeks rejected heliocentrism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/YP1mMXRCnaI/) | 2025-02-27 | Short | 1,325,509 | 1:46 | 1.16x |
| [How to estimate the distance to the sun](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/gzbFNnTCkqQ/) | 2025-02-26 | Short | 1,412,265 | 1:32 | 1.36x |
| [How Aristarchus deduced the distance to the moon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/drmphB3rdHY/) | 2025-02-25 | Short | 142,972 | 0:53 | - |
| [Terence Tao continuing history’s cleverest cosmological measurements](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@3blue1brown/videos/hFMaT9oRbs4/) | 2025-02-23 | Long-form | 1,724,309 | 25:35 | 0.58x |

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