Reddit Markdown Cheat Sheet

Reddit posts and comments support a lightweight version of Markdown. Well-formatted posts are more readable, get more upvotes, and look more professional than a wall of unstructured text.

Common syntax

• **bold** → bold
• *italic* → italic
• ~~strikethrough~~ → strikethrough
• # Heading → large heading
• > quote → blockquote
• [text](url) → a link
• ^superscript → superscript text

Formatting tips that boost readability

Use a TL;DR at the top of long posts, break up walls of text with headers and bullet points, and bold the one sentence you most want people to remember. Well-structured posts consistently outperform unformatted ones on Reddit.