Texting is genuinely an art form. A well-timed message can make someone’s whole day, turn a stranger into a friend, or get you a date you were not expecting. The way people communicate over text says a lot about them, and sometimes what it says is absolutely unhinged.

r/TextingTheory is a subreddit where people share funny and chaotic text exchanges and analyze them like moves in a chess game. Brilliant play? Blunder? Total endgame? The community will let you know. Scroll down to see some of their best finds.

#1 Has Anyone Else Fallen For This Trap?

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#2 Dementia Gambit

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#3 Quite Aggressive Play By White, Which Was Subject To An Amazing Move By Blue

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#4 Guys What Do I Do In This Position?

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#5 Is This Guy Grandmaster?

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#6 Seen On Ig- Need Analysis

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#7 Good Save Or Massive Blunder?

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#8 Was On 9%, Didn’t Have Time To Waste

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#9 Quick Victory

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#10 Any Theories For This Situation?

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#11 Saw This On Youtube Post Hahahah Lool

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#12 How Can I Improve My Opening?

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#13 Names Is Jack For Context

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#14 How’d This Go

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#15 Rating Check

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#16 (Opponent Is A Woman) What’s My Elo?

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#17 Knock Knock Jokes Never Fail

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#18 The Ol’ One-Two BBQ Punch

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#19 Analysis In Comments

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#20 Do You Think This Gambit Will Work?

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#21 Queen Blunder In Low Elo

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#22 Black Forgot To Check Their Opening Prep

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#23 For The Record, This Worked

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#24 They’ve Only Made One Move. I’m Terrified

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#25 What Is This Opening Called?

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#26 I Love My Mom, Best Opponent

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#27 Wife Gambit

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#28 The Fertilized Tomato Gambit

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#29 Is This A Sound Approach?

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#30 Dinosaur Gambit

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#31 Rate My Game

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#32 This Timeline Between Me And My Sister (Her Room Is Right Next To Mine)

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#33 Accidental High Elo

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#34 Atleast 1900 Elo

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#35 Any Way To Recover Here

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#36 I Need This Analysed Immediately. Checkmate??

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#37 Smurfing Or Wintrade?

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#38 I Have No Idea How To Respond

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#39 What Now?😂

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#40 How’d I Do?

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#41 How’d I Do Guys

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#42 Elo Rating? (Got Unmatched)

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#43 I Think I Played This As Best As One Can

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#44 Need Analysis

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#45 MacBook

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#46 Elo?

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#47 Is This Rizz?

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#48 Corny Opening Move, Resulted In Block

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#49 Do You Offer A Rematch In This Position?

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#50 I Mean

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#51 Still Got A Date Though

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#52 I Think I Threw

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#53 My Favorite Game To Play

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#54 The Gambit

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#55 Unfathomable Gambit

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#56 Was This Too Cringe?

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#57 Did This Actually Work Or Am I Being Bated?

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