TryHackMe Reviews 867

It's very practical and understanding and very easy afer getting ai for guiding and it's path is very logical to build career in cyber security

I've been using TryHackMe for a while now and the platform is genuinely great. What makes it worth the money for me:
Structured learning paths that actually build on each other — you can start as a beginner and work your way up without having to piece together your own curriculum. The Vulnerability Research module, the AI security rooms, and the crypto challenges I've worked through recently have all been pedagogically well-written with clear learning objectives.
Hands-on from day one. You don't just read about vulnerabilities, you exploit them against real (if sandboxed) machines. That's the difference between knowing what SQL injection is and actually having done it.
Breadth of content. Everything from AI command injection to classic web exploitation, RSA crypto, DNS recon, Active Directory. Hard to find another platform that covers this much at the same price point.
The in-browser VMs can be a bit sluggish at times, but connecting via VPN from your own Kali works smoothly, so it's a non-issue once you've set it up.
As a software developer by day, the platform gives me the offensive knowledge I need to write more secure code. Highly recommended for developers, aspiring pentesters, or just the curious.

Tryhackme is really good for the beginner's to develop fundamentals and it has helped me a lot. But can you make a proper different path such as Web Pentesting, Network Pentesting, Api Pentesting,Mobile Pentesting. Then different path for blue team like Soc L1 and L2, Incident Response, Digital Forensics,Threat Hunting etc this would really help us choose to learn different path easily and lastly also the AI part would be helpful

I think it’s the best way to learn cybersecurity when you are a beginner in it

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." You have to work your way up to the top, and the path is not always paved with roses.
Tryhackme is perfect to start your cybersecurity career.

The importance of Try Hack Me and it helps in developing and creating a real-life understanding of Cyber Issues in important and vital in this day and age.

It's refreshing that they also offer free learning and rooms for you to improve your overall skills in this area.

This is better than a lot of providers that want to charge you unnecessarily to gain this quality information you can use in the workplace.

You have to respect such an organisation as Try Hack Me, which offers in this day and age, where others choose to charge for such vital learning 😊

TryHackMe has been a great experience for me. They teach in a way that I actually understand. The hands on labs are so helpful. I am so thankful I found them.

Great way to learn any aspect of cybersecurity that you're interested in!

TryHackMe is a fascinating and interesting journey into the world of cyber security. You gain truly valuable knowledge and practical experience in the field of cyber security.

When an aspirant starts his/her learning curve in cybersecurity, sometimes it feels like an abyss. TryHackMe makes a good effort in making one's learning curve engaging with good tools to learn. Not to mention, all you really need is a laptop/desktop with internet.
I highly recommend this to all aspiring cybersecurity/ information security professionals.

Great Hand-on and interesting content just like I am working for real. This is amazing and I cannot stop completing rooms. This is the best place to learn from real situation.

This has been an amazing experience! It has built upon what I have learned in my classes and actually, TryHackMe has provided even greater detail! I highly recommend!

Really great website to learn cybersecurity,it breaks down everything easy to understand. Except the file inclusion room. Beware of the file inclusion room...

I'm not a 12 year old boy nor am I looking to have a dysfunctional relationship with a website. With that in mind, I don't recommend this site to anyone who doesn't fall into one of the above categories.

Beginner rooms that expect more advanced level knowledge, inconsistent teaching paths, a general lack of respect for new learners, rude unhelpful comments from assistant, and a general atmosphere of, hehe I tricked you, doesn't provide a valid learning experience. It's one thing to create a challenging room, it's another to put those rooms in a beginner learning path. They are meant to frustrate and discourage new users.

I feel it was a waste of my time. Gatekeeping through frustration, poor learning path designs that don't flow between concepts, lack of visual learning (This isn't y2k you have more options than boring black and white text poured onto an overloaded page), and lack of conceptual level explanations that would allow users to actually understand the content makes this more of a ego boost via badge game than a true learning environment. I need real learning.

The bells and whistles are great, excellent UI, but they needs to focus on the actual learning in a way that's not hostile to beginners

very helpful for beginner lots of hands on pratice so we dont only learn from theory but also how it works in real-scenarios

Incremental, affordable, detailed and easy to use Cybersecurtiy training platform. Designed for the most novice to the most advanced.

Phenomenal - thank you.

I have a love-hate relationship with TryHackMe — and right now, it leans heavily toward hate.

I am writing this because THM asked me to, so here we go.

I am not new to IT. I studied it for over two years — more than 15 years ago — but have done very little with it since. I started THM over a year and a half ago with a premium membership, working through the beginner paths. Some rooms were genuinely well made: the right amount of guidance, the right difficulty curve, enough space to figure things out on your own. Those rooms reminded me why I started this in the first place.

But then there are the other rooms.

I first quit THM at the Metasploit rooms. I was supposed to use a flag I had never heard of and that was never mentioned anywhere in the room. I spent hours stuck, and eventually had to look it up in a writeup. That experience broke something for me. THM markets itself as beginner-friendly — so why am I, as a beginner, forced to look at someone else's solution just to move forward? I wrote about this to a team member during a customer survey. She was understanding, and I have no hard feelings toward the people behind THM. But after a month, nothing had changed. So I quit.

I came back after over a year, following an email saying the paths had been reworked. I was hopeful.

They were not reworked. Not really.

A new AI assistant was added, the website got a fresh coat of paint — and that was about it. I pushed through, using writeups, and eventually hit the same wall again, this time in the "What the Shell" room. I completed it by clicking the finish button, having learned almost nothing. The room jumps between Linux and Windows without applying the learned thins first, references commands it explicitly says it will not explain, and then expects you to use those very commands in the tasks. I spent days on it. I looked at writeups. Some of the solutions from the writeups did not even work — not because the writeups were wrong, but because something in the room environment simply did not function. I copied commands directly from the room, configured them correctly, and they still failed. That room has been live for over 1,600 days.

This is the core problem with THM: inconsistency. The quality between rooms varies enormously. Some are excellent. Too many are not — especially within the structured Paths, where consistency matters most. The Paths are supposed to guide a beginner from zero to something. Instead, they feel chaotic. The difficulty spikes without warning. Concepts are introduced and then seemingly abandoned. There is no sense of building on what you have learned.

After over a 60 days streak and more than 120 completed rooms, I still regularly have no idea where to start a task without looking at a writeup first. That is not a student problem. That is a structure problem.

I understand why this happens. Many of the people creating content on THM are genuinely skilled — but being skilled and being able to teach are two very different things. There is a well-known cognitive bias called the *curse of knowledge*: once you know something deeply, it becomes almost impossible to imagine not knowing it. For an expert, a missing flag or an unexplained command is obvious. For a beginner, it is a wall.

What I would recommend to THM: the Rooms on the Paths need to be fully reworked, not cosmetically updated. Difficulty must scale consistently. Every concept used in a task must be taught before that task and maybe applied right after it is tought. And there should be dedicated practice rooms between topics — small labs where you can apply what you have learned so far, with optional step-by-step guidance available if you get stuck, with explanations. Not writeups. Not Discord. Built into the room itself.

A few practical tips for anyone already using THM:

- **Use an AI assistant alongside the rooms.** A good AI can explain concepts in far more depth than most rooms do, and can sometimes help you get unstuck without spoiling the challenge entirely.
- **Use writeups when you are truly stuck** — and do not feel guilty about it. That feeling is a reflection of the room design, not your ability.
- **THM's own AI assistant ("Echo") has, in my experience, caused more confusion than it has resolved.** Your mileage may vary.

Would I recommend THM for beginners? No — not as it currently stands. The tragedy is that on Reddit, you will find people saying "go somewhere else if you are a beginner" right next to people saying "it is still the best starting point out there." Both are partially right, and that contradiction is the most honest summary of THM I can give.

The potential is there. The execution, especially for beginners, still is not.

TryHackMe is an excellent platform for aspiring cybersecurity professionals. The content is well-refined, and the instructional materials are incredibly easy to follow and learn from. My only minor issue was a technical one: switching manually between two active machines sometimes results in freezing or session disconnections. Aside from that specific constraint, it remains the best platform for hands-on cybersecurity training.

Every walk-through I did was awesome, covered all necessary points and provided references for further information. Challenges are great. Community is supportive, active and helpful. Great place to learn :)

I’ve had a great experience using TryHackMe. The platform makes cybersecurity learning hands-on and engaging, with well-structured rooms that guide you from the basics to more advanced topics. I especially like how practical the labs are—they really help reinforce concepts instead of just reading theory. It’s a great place for both beginners and anyone looking to sharpen their skills in a fun, interactive way. Its suitability for all skill levels can make you feel welcomed and motivated to learn at your own pace.