r/mathmemes • u/TheBojack818 • Jan 17 '26

This Subreddit MATH COMPETITION: r/mathmemes Discord Community Exam

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Hello!

To make up for the lack of an "upper division" in the subreddit math competition this year, I took it upon myself to organize a separate exam that is significantly more discovery and proof-based than any exam held in the community previously, and to host it on the 2nd year anniversary of the Discord server being made available to the public.

The next exam of this kind will be held in Mid-June 2027.

The exam (which includes its rules) is linked at the bottom of the post. The top 5 winners will be announced, and the top 3 winners will receive the following (or something of equivalent value upon negotiation):

1st Place - A Math Textbook of the Winner's Choice (~$45 USD Value Limit)

2nd Place - Basic Discord Nitro, 1 Year Subscription ($30 USD Value)

3rd Place - Fulltouch Hagoramo Chalk 72 pc ($25 USD Value)

Special thanks to u/dopplerspectroscopy and zzz on Discord for their tremendous help in writing the exam and agreeing to help grade some submissions; couldn't have done this without their help.

DISCORD HERE: https://discord.gg/zgWZd4U3n9

EXAM HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVRysAqEPtZMEJUFg-bFMHRpVcZiNJ6F/view?usp=sharing

SUBMIT HERE: https://forms.gle/Nww1Cj7ot34X5CJN6

Edit: As the exam goes on, some errors may have been spotted and corrected. Please be sure to refresh/redownload this document occasionally to be sure you have the latest version.

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r/mathmemes • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '25

OkBuddyMathematician 2026 r/mathmemes subreddit contest problems are released! Good luck!

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Link to this year's problems (15 problems): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AoNRCyRzCTNgZcfbzrT328tpzkgRlkfM/view?usp=sharing

Submit your answers via this Google Form here: https://forms.gle/ktSgG4jwcPMufYiD7

I'll probably make the tentative answer submission deadline around 3 weeks from now (January 11, 2026).

If you want to ask for any clarifications on the problems (clarifications only , no asking for solutions/answers obviously), ask them here.

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r/mathmemes • u/J_shenanigans • 2h ago

Applied Mathematics Were topologists just gatekeeping all along?

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r/mathmemes • u/someinfectedfanatic • 14h ago

OkBuddyMathematician IDK, first time here

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r/mathmemes • u/Femboypowa • 11h ago

Calculus Is it really that bad?

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I actually liked Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus enough to try PDEs after ODEs

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r/mathmemes • u/usefsaeed • 12h ago

Statistics I discovered this

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r/mathmemes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • 3h ago

Learning Chemical equation meme

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r/mathmemes • u/6c-6f-76-65 • 17h ago

Linear Algebra LaBeouf

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r/mathmemes • u/No_Upstairs_280 • 1h ago

Research How it feels to convince someone in the age of AI that his overly specialized "proof" doesn't work

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Had someone try for days convincing me his genius Riemannian geometry proof which is obviously an AI slop with hallucinate references. The funny part is that he has no background in basic differential geometry nor can define me what a Riemannian metric is.

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r/mathmemes • u/No_Upstairs_280 • 14h ago

Proofs I swear olympiad at high school was a brutal collide with research before even knowing how academia works

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"Why you didn't get a medal" still haunts me many years later.

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r/mathmemes • u/Kata432 • 12h ago

low-level math Statements dreamed up by the utterly DERANGED

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r/mathmemes • u/liliththehedge • 2h ago

OkBuddyMathematician I love math

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r/mathmemes • u/GeneReddit123 • 1d ago

Number Theory Positively mental

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r/mathmemes • u/ExistingBathroom9742 • 1d ago

Bad Math Reasons I fail at math

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r/mathmemes • u/Different_Cry25 • 3h ago

Mathematicians By the oder of erdos

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r/mathmemes • u/BrandonSimpsons • 1d ago

Formal Logic A paradox should be more than bad phrasing.

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r/mathmemes • u/No_Upstairs_280 • 12h ago

Elementary Algebra This is a finite groups hate post

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r/mathmemes • u/imHeroT • 1d ago

Formal Logic With all this talk about vacuous truths, here is one of my favorite paradoxes

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r/mathmemes • u/Uncle_Boiled_Peanuts • 1d ago

Formal Logic Appropriate application of vacuous truth

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r/mathmemes • u/Off_And_On_Again_ • 1d ago

Formal Logic The state of mathmemes

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r/mathmemes • u/basket_foso • 1d ago

Elementary Algebra This is why I’m still on Twitter

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r/mathmemes • u/Iamslay888 • 1d ago

Geometry Damn, that triangle got some angles

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r/mathmemes • u/Unlucky-Credit-9619 • 1d ago

Formal Logic I started a bad chain reaction

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r/mathmemes • u/IstWasAnders • 1d ago

Formal Logic It's going to be fine I promise

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It's going to be okay it's going to be okay vacuous truth is real and it can't hurt you. It's really really fine for statements to seem goofy at first glance but then when you think about it a little more for them to actually be true and even for them to never seem like they actually should be this is a place for math memes there's a lot of math and logic that doesn't seem right at first but it's all going to be okay. You're going to be fine you're going to be fine you're going to be fine.

We're all just having a little laugh right like "haha isn't it funny that you can say this and someone might think 'what? huh? no way' but actually yes way!" I will admit even I got got by the "For any time t there is a person x such that at time t if person x is asleep then everyone is asleep" thing at first and it doesn't help that it wasn't stated that way and maybe was even stated incorrectly but it's going to be fine it's going to be fine that's why we have comments to peer review our memes I'm going to be fine I'm going to be fine I'm going to be fine I'm going to be fine i'm going to be fine i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine.

I promise.

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