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Make your cards, cross your X's, increase your willpower.

People here are on a 50-day journey to create/break one or more habits by simply making a 7x7 grid on a card and crossing off each day with a fat-ass felt marker, because your willpower is like a muscle, and it gets stronger and stronger as you exercise it.

65k subscribers44 posts / mo in Sep 202642 authors / mosince 2014

r/theXeffect has 65k members (+1.8% over the last 12 months). It gets about 44 posts a month from 42 people. Top topics: Habit Tracking Apps, Custom Cards and Card Pulls.

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How r/theXeffect has grown

r/theXeffect

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.8%in 12 months · +0.3% in 3 months
Oct 202665k
Growing65k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/theXeffect

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+389%vs Sep 2025 · +0.0% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202644
BusierPeaked at 53 in Jun 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/theXeffect

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Habit Tracking Apps1.3%
  2. Custom Cards0.8%
  3. Card Pulls0.6%
  4. Pushup Challenge0.6%
  5. Daily Studying Logs0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Apple

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research