diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 6a6033491..f50805540 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -2547,7 +2547,12 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		playliststart = self._downloader.params.get('playliststart', 1) - 1
 		playlistend = self._downloader.params.get('playlistend', -1)
+		reverseorder = self._downloader.params.get('reverseorder', True)
+
 		video_ids = video_ids[playliststart:playlistend]
+		
+		if reverseorder:
+			video_ids.reverse()
 
 		for id in video_ids:
 			self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id)
@@ -2629,6 +2634,7 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 		all_ids_count = len(video_ids)
 		playliststart = self._downloader.params.get('playliststart', 1) - 1
 		playlistend = self._downloader.params.get('playlistend', -1)
+		reverseorder = self._downloader.params.get('reverseorder', True)
 
 		if playlistend == -1:
 			video_ids = video_ids[playliststart:]
@@ -2637,6 +2643,9 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		self._downloader.to_screen("[youtube] user %s: Collected %d video ids (downloading %d of them)" %
 				(username, all_ids_count, len(video_ids)))
+		
+		if reverseorder:
+			video_ids.reverse()
 
 		for video_id in video_ids:
 			self._youtube_ie.extract('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % video_id)
@@ -4161,7 +4170,8 @@ def parseOpts():
 			dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to start at (default is 1)', default=1)
 	selection.add_option('--playlist-end',
 			dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
-	selection.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
+	selection.add_option('--reverse-order', action='store_true', dest='reverseorder', help='reverse download order for user pages/playlists', default=False)
+	selection.add_option('--match-title', action='store_true', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX', help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
 	selection.add_option('--reject-title', dest='rejecttitle', metavar='REGEX',help='skip download for matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
 	selection.add_option('--max-downloads', metavar='NUMBER', dest='max_downloads', help='Abort after downloading NUMBER files', default=None)