I'm on the team at Exploro, which runs a THC detection calculator. Between October 2025 and September 2026, about 60,000 people filled it out, and we pooled the anonymous answers. A lot of the questions on this sub come from the same situations, so I figured the patterns might be useful here. No links, and nothing below is advice on passing anything. But, hopefully, it would provide some perspective in a time of need.

How much time people had

40% of people who entered a test date were testing within 3 days. About 1 in 6 were checking on the same day as their test. Half had 6 days or less.

Why they were testing

49% said it was for a new job. Random workplace tests and legal requirements trailed well behind.

Home tests

41% owned a home test. Of those, 28% came to the calculator right after getting a positive result, and 12% couldn't read their result or weren't sure what it showed. Given how many faint line posts show up here, that last number didn't surprise me.

Worry

31% said they were very or extremely worried. That jumped to 55% after a positive home test, compared with 25% for people who owned a home test but hadn't used it yet. When the main concern was a job, it was 45%.

What people use

59% use daily or more. Flower was the most common at 41%, then vapes at 32%, edibles at 18%, and dabs at 9%. Age changes the picture a lot: among 21 to 24 year olds, 37% mainly vape and 15% mainly use edibles. By 45 to 54, vaping drops to 22% and edibles rise to 32%.

Smaller patterns that stood out

• Women were about 25% of users. 23% of women mainly use edibles vs 16% of men, but daily use was almost the same (61% vs 58%).
• Women reported more worry: 38% very or extremely worried vs 29% of men.
• 54% also use nicotine. Among dab users it's 64%, among edible users 33%.
• Sunday was the most common last-use day.

Caveats

Everything is self-reported, and the results are anonymized.

The people in this data were looking up detection times, so they skew toward people preparing for or worried about a test, and they aren't representative of THC users in general. The questions about test dates, reasons, home tests, and worry were added later, so those numbers come from a smaller group. Duplicates and impossible entries (like ages outside 16 to 80) were removed.

Happy to answer any questions about the data. I'm also curious whether the "1 in 6 on test day" number matches what people here see.

Hi guys! I have a job interview next week to become a teacher. I’m more than likely going to get the job since I’ve been subbing at this particular school since the beginning of the year, and the principals have taken a liking to me. With that being said, I’ve preemptively stopped eating edibles, tinctures, and hitting my thc vape on October 4th. I have bought some at-home drug tests to test myself. I’ve taken two tests, and both came out negative. The first line is a little faint, I will say.

I’ve been using edibles for about 3–3ish years at this point and started vaping about 1–1.5 months ago. I’m about 5’3–5’4 in height, 110ish lbs. I’m pretty lean, and I have a fast metabolism. I know no one can tell me if I’m gonna pass or not; there are multiple factors that go into it, and it’s different for everyone.

My edibles are 10mg, my tincture usage would be around 5-10mg if I’m layering them with my edibles, and my hits from my cart would be around 1-3mg.

If anything, I want to see if anyone is similar to me and has had luck passing a drug test after just 2–4 weeks. Fake pee is my backup plan, but it would be nice to not have to worry about that so I can just use my own. I’ve bought my at-home drug test from Walmart, but if anyone has any suggestions on what test I should buy from Amazon that has better accuracy, that would be awesome.

I’m an anxious worrywart. I’m coming on here to ease some of my thoughts if I can.

Thank you, guys.