Is that right? That said, I dont play against time as Paul does. ._3oeM4kc-2-4z-A0RTQLg0I{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between} The strategy being played will influence the raw odds to some extent but I dont think it can improve on them only reduce your chances of a solution in two. By my calculations I'm averaging 2.7? My streak is only 71 because in the first month of play I didnt realize that I had to play every day to avoid breaking the streak. In hard mode, youre simply guessing, no real strategy required, and have a 1-in-4 chance of losing. And btw, Id suggest you switch trial to trail ai is more common than ia. If you take an interest in wordle its also pretty hard to avoid subtle hints theres a strong argument for doing it first thing on waking before talking to anyone else or checking your phone if you want your results to be wholly unbiassed. If, on the other hand, you're simply trying to win within the allotted six guesses, the top three words to play are "adept," "clamp" and "plaid.". The only time Ive ever tweeted my Wordle results was today, because I got it in two. Anyone who claims this is cheating. Crank, crack, cramp, crazy, NOPE! Two caveats: I always play with my 14-year old son and we work together (one of those 2-bangers he came up with both the first and second guesses). For example. the lowest average (what most do? For me, I like to keep my personal average score, like your school GPA, to accurately demonstrate where I stand on any day. That cannot be hidden or skewed in any way. Why would you have guessed crack when your choice before eliminated the K? Use the simple form below to calculate your Wordle average. I remain puzzled by the problem of 2nd guess solutions and how statistically likely they are. At the bottom of the list were Bangladesh, Kenya and Egypt with 4.24, 4.38 and 4.42 respectively.. This approach suffers from bias of exclusion. I like that proposal. It never occurred to me to abandon a game before a sixth and potentially failing guess to keep my 100%! Then divide that by total number of guesses: 1100. Another follow up: My WordHurdle (6-letter), guess distribution is virtually the same as my 5-letter disti. This is off-topic to your source code comment. Its easy to get a rough idea of how good someone is from the stats graph, but for more precision a mean score works well - what would you say is a par average score? Out of a list of 2300 though, knowing that a 100 are so are not solutions today does not lower the odds much. My guess incidentally is that even with the optimum starting word the sum score for all 2300 solutions will be > 23000 making an average performance of 10% second guess wins increasingly unlikely as the sum score gets bigger. This was my first thought as well. A clarification regarding hard mode: it is harder to win but easier to play, less strategy/thought. Its easy enough to convert those wordlestats numbers into an average score for each word though which gives us an empirical measure of how difficult each word is. Individuals who guess the word correctly are likely to post about it and even then, the likelihood of share increases with their perception of how well they did guessing. For example, todays word was trash, and it took me three guesses. Thank you Robert! But in regular mode you are searching for a word that incorporates at least three of potential remaining letters (g,k,l,v) and that in itself requires more strategy than the hard modes simply guessing. So here is a handy calculator. ._1x9diBHPBP-hL1JiwUwJ5J{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:#ff585b;padding-left:3px;padding-right:24px}._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4{height:16px;padding-right:4px;vertical-align:top}.icon._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5{height:20px;vertical-align:middle;padding-right:8px}.QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{height:18px;padding-right:8px;vertical-align:top}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 .QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)} Its blind luck. I have been beating my head against the wall to figure out why my 100% isnt in my streak and you have provided the explanation! I couldnt believe there existed no ranking tool out there to compare your Wordle stats to others, so I took some (read: way to much) time last week and built one. I have played wordle since mid January. How Does it Work? There are actually many more than 2300 which will be accepted by the puzzle as legitimate guesses but for practical purposes I think we can assume that most people do not know that vinic is a word and that phpht is only of interest to scrabble players. Eventually, your son will improve on 6-letter with repetition. .ehsOqYO6dxn_Pf9Dzwu37{margin-top:0;overflow:visible}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu{height:24px}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu{border-radius:2px}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu:focus,._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu:hover{background-color:var(--newRedditTheme-navIconFaded10);outline:none}._38GxRFSqSC-Z2VLi5Xzkjy{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._2DO72U0b_6CUw3msKGrnnT{border-top:none;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);cursor:pointer;padding:8px 16px 8px 8px;text-transform:none}._2DO72U0b_6CUw3msKGrnnT:hover{background-color:#0079d3;border:none;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-body);fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-body)} I would be curious to know what methodology the earlier poster used to build their wordle rank calculator. mywordlerank.com. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The SHARE button in green lets you share your latest score. It was crass. 1/20. ._2cHgYGbfV9EZMSThqLt2tx{margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{width:75%;height:24px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-,._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{background:var(--newCommunityTheme-field);background-size:200%;margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-{width:100%;height:46px} How much better is much harder to quantify. Probably true, and we dont know quite how Josh compiled the solution list but you soon start to learn by experience that there are probably no plurals of 4 letter words (boots) and no rude words (penis). I, too, had concluded the Streak was the number of consecutive days of wins, and if you failed to play for a day, your streak would end. Curiously the design is almost perfectly judged every puzzle can be solved in 6 attempts with an ideal strategy in standard mode, but not in 5 attempts. Of recent ones, PROXY seems to have been the toughest and POINT the easiest. I switched strategies, no longer try for two guesses, and always start with two words that use all the vowels and the letter y. A missing guess means that the player did not manage to guess the word and therefore should receive a 0 score. Slow down Paul. ._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4{width:100%}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA{display:none}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA,._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:block}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:none} 6 guesses = too many 100% players. Moreover, would a 4-letter Wordle be easier or harder? I dont cheat and never bailed out of a game in order to avoid a loss. So, is your win streak better than average, how do you know? It does raise an interesting point what your aim is. Once you tried crank and the k was grey, the guess of crack was partially a waste since the k wasnt in the word. Assume your scores are like this: 0 1's 100 2's 300 3's 400 4's 300 5's. Get the products: 200 for the 2's (100 times 2) 900 for 3's 1600 for 4's 1500 for 5's. Now sum these: 200 + 900 + 1600 + 1500 equals 4200. The statistics include the total number of games played, Win %, Current Streak, Max Streak, and Guess Distribution. Couldnt finish. Using their definition (the record of the number of games you have been winning in a row), my streak should be 44. You could probably make it 0.03% if soeone kepta record of all teh words used to date. Most of my words are 4s. Back in April Jon referenced 2309 potential solutions and 12,972 acceptable words to seek those solutions. The world is just so dumbed down these days. The word list contains all the possible words that can be solutions to Wordle puzzles. Looks like your sort of beat yourself! Sunday Wordle should be 6 letters. NOTE: Allow Running Scripts must be ON for this shortcut to work: Settings -> Shortcuts -> Advanced -> Allow Running Scripts There isnt really much strategy involved in choosing a first word based on recent history. To use this Wordle Average Score calculator by Brian Falkner, you can just simply enter your total games and the guess distribution from Wordle. I played Word Mastermind 40- 35 years ago as a kid, but you were not told which letters were right or wrong, you had to work that our with logic. If it shows more numbers in 2 guesses, youre in the top 5 percentile among the Wordle players. Press J to jump to the feed. Eric, I agree that the lead-in to this page ambiguously references win streak when streak is merely the number of CONSECUTIVE wins. Worder.ly is available on line and is the real way to play. Of course, this is all based on the data accumulated on the scores shared by the Twitter demographic. Afterwards, this site will tell you your Wordle average score. Youre then left with stage, stake, stale, and stave as potential solutions. My scores are similar to the one you saw Ive played 27 times, solved it in 2 guesses 4 times, in 3 guesses 9 more times. Since Wordle doesnt have an official leaderboard or community hub to track player scores and statistics, there are no veritable means to analyze player performance on a global scale. Try it here: Wordle Rack U ER on second guess. The mean difficulty scores are not normally distributed and you would have to apply some non-parametric statistics to a larger data sample I think to arrive at a proper estimate. Yes, theyre not describing the stat clearly. Wordle: 5-Letter Words three or four Vowels. Im back to 100% (even though Im not technically). If you miss playing one day your current streak will start over. [I might have previously argued stave is the least common among the 4, so choose that last. Some people choose unusual objectives for wordle. And then there's win rate, which is wins divided by games played. Dumps or similar should have been your next guess. Simple shortcut to calculate and share your average Wordle score. Enjoy! Green Letters Sweden is the world's best country at Wordle, with an average score of 3.72. My average is 4.09. Mine is currently 3.92. Next, calculate the average of the three players. I did an international trip across the date line my streak ended when gong east even though I did the puzzle early in the day. ._2ik4YxCeEmPotQkDrf9tT5{width:100%}._1DR1r7cWVoK2RVj_pKKyPF,._2ik4YxCeEmPotQkDrf9tT5{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center}._1DR1r7cWVoK2RVj_pKKyPF{-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center;max-width:100%}._1CVe5UNoFFPNZQdcj1E7qb{-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0;margin-right:4px}._2UOVKq8AASb4UjcU1wrCil{height:28px;width:28px;margin-top:6px}.FB0XngPKpgt3Ui354TbYQ{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:start;align-items:flex-start;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;margin-left:8px;min-width:0}._3tIyrJzJQoNhuwDSYG5PGy{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%}.TIveY2GD5UQpMI7hBO69I{font-size:12px;font-weight:500;line-height:16px;color:var(--newRedditTheme-titleText);white-space:nowrap;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis}.e9ybGKB-qvCqbOOAHfFpF{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;max-width:100%;margin-top:2px}.y3jF8D--GYQUXbjpSOL5.y3jF8D--GYQUXbjpSOL5{font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box}._28u73JpPTG4y_Vu5Qute7n{margin-left:4px} Savemywordle.com will save it automatically for you. Calculations are made with all subjects that have a grade in your diploma/certificate. Two guess, also has to be rare. The same source tells me that the NYT deleted 30 words from the original solution list thus making it slightly easier to get a first guess right. Feeling a little dumb for having to ask this, but I read this article (https://word.tips/wordle-wizards) about who the best countries at solving the game wereand wanted to work out what my average score. I just havent got around to finding the time to write the computer code to calculate it. Youre right. Where can I find that (and other related) information? You may have missed a day. UG. This no doubt is a small fraction of players. That said, the unofficial numbers above could give you an inkling of your extraordinary competency if you typically solve the challenge in 3 guesses. ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} Anyone who solves it within 6 chances is a Winner, no matter! Cant be 1/100 correct. There is a glitch in the program. Others in my Wordle share group regularly hit 2 included or in place letters on their first word and regularly solve in 3. but overall weight OR SPUNK. Wordle is not a team sport as it is an opportunity to share a pastime with friends on a level playing field. And the idea that 1% of people get it in one is total BS. For example, if the first guess is Shape and the solution is Shake then the rules generated by the first guess are that the solution is SHA_E and the possible solutions after the first guess are Shade, Shake, Shale, Shame, Share, Shave. The 1% of players who fail and still share are the real bravehearts who share honest results without cheating or hiding behind the veil of pretense. Its not just the letters you choose in your guess; its also the order of the letters that give bang for the buck. If win % is 100 how are my streaks not equal to my games played? This calculator will help you figure out Wordle (also Dordle, Quordle, Absurdle, Hello Wordl, or Seven Wordles) puzzles. All the data you glean from Wordle statistics is related to your own progress and streak in the game (as a unit). It would have been very helpful if the writer of the article ha provided that info in the definition section. I like to do it against time. Love the challenge, enjoy the exercise. 4 tries 3 My stats have 1 recorded on the first try because I already knew the word. Cookie Notice The list can be filtered by entering information from Wordle about which letters are correct and incorrect. Well, lets take a closer look at Wordle scores and statistics to find out. All of those 2-guess solutions involve both luck (a fortuitous first guess that gave at least 1 green and 1 red), and some deductive reasoning. Add to that the fact that Twitter users are natural self-promoters and it seems fair to assume that great scores will naturally bubble onto Twitter while average score achievers will keep it to themselves. I disagree that solving in 2 is simply lucky. The wordle dictionary is said to be 2315 words so you have a roughly 1/2315 chance of a hole in one and a roughly 1/5 million chance of getting it right first time twice in a row IF you dont ,like most people, have a favourite starting word. Ive yet to exceed six guesses and if I do, it will be marked as six points that day for scoring average purposes. 4/27 is probably quite a bit more likely than 6/35 to be honest. Play the Daily Puzzle provided by NYTimes.com: (A really nice interface if you can get it to load. The formula used in the form: ((1 x a) + (2 x b) + (3 x c) + (4 x d) + (5 x e) + (6 x f)) /n. I was ignorant as to what was happening and how the game stats worked. Isnt a streak a series of consecutive wins? All the rest are accepted words when trying to determine the answer. If you arent told anything about which letters are right or wrong you are proposing a game that is simply random word guessing, which is not much fun, so I guess you are oversimplifying. The US state with the best overall score in Wordle is North Dakota, with an average try of just 3.65 tries. I have five sets of three words, using the u/y in the third word, but rarely needing to use the third word at all. I encourage people to check it out when they can. Since there are 2,315 possible target words in Wordle, the probability that you will guess the target in exactly one try is 1/2315 = 0.000432. Unless a fail is weighted heavier than a win. Canada and the US were 17th and 18th, with average scores of 3.91 and 3.92 respectively. Looking at the spread of scores for a single word allows you to see whether you did better than average on that word, but of course there is such an element of luck in this that you cant judge your performance from any single attempt. I suspect the posters for any particular puzzle have 2-3x better score than average. A further thought I dont think Wordle repeats words, at least not for now, so if you have a good memory for the words you have already solved the pool of possibilities will be decreasing every day and thus improving your chance of getting quick solutions somewhat. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If you repeat this exercise for every possible starter/solution pair you will arrive at three things: a) it will be apparent which is the best starting word if you want to solve in two it is the starting word where the sum of the scores for all 2300 solution words is the least. My long run average is at 3.90 but I know my regular starting word is not the best possible choice Im just waiting for it to come up as the word of the day. How to Enable Hard Mode in Wordle to Increase Difficulty. I aver that Wordle 4-Letter would be MORE DIFFICULT than 5-Letter. For those people, unless they're not really trying very hard, 4 isn't easy so much as normal, because they must be getting quite a few 5's as well. Im old, but not THAT oldam I the only one who wishes the letters on the keyboard were a few pt. The only person you should compete with is yourself. If Im forced to follow my strategy through two words, Ive covered the top 6 consonants and top 4 vowels in the English language. It turned out trying to find the remaining 2 letters while keeping the correct 3 was the wrong strategy, because there are hundreds of words that fitted the missing 2 letters. Nevertheless, as long as you understand that you are comparing your results against such a biassed sample its still interesting to see if you are doing better than the average twitter poster. This was only my second time playing Wordle. And Wordle success stat would be more meaningful if only 5 guesses were allowed. So if your goal is winning and/or exercising your mind, why would you ever play hard mode? Pooling all the data available on twitter @wordlestats shows that people overall are claiming just about 6% second guess solutions but given the presumed severe bias in favour of people posting their best results Im pretty sure that the chances of a second guess solution with varied starter words are a good deal less than 6%, and 10%, over a long run, is looking distinctly like an outlier. 6-letter is easier. I have played about 160 games ( hard mode actually smarter mode to use) and Ive only solved it on second try 6 times and thats only because of the luck of the draw ( first word choice LUCKY). Losses are treated as 7 points. Youve exchanged the two least-used vowels (u,y) to two commonly used consonants (s,c). My guess is the actual stats are more like 0%, 1%, 12%, 30%, 40% 12%, not discovered 4%. I might try to calculate the odds later. I played this game for years as Jotto: Achieved with three guesses is excellent but not uncommon. Bear in mind that Shape/Shake, though infuriating for anyone in hard mode, is actually quite a low score. the maximum chance of doing it in 2 words (in which case you would try to optimise the first word you choose rather than do what I do get the optimal two opening words) What are the Average Number of Guesses in Wordle? Wordle has a list of 2315 solutions but there is also a much longer list of 5 letter words which it will accept as legitimate but which are never going to be a solution. Wordle doesnt have an official leaderboard at the moment. Wordle Average Score Calculator For those people unless theyre not.. For example given the 5 numbers 2 7 19 24 and. 4 is still excellent but people can skillfully narrow down options in first three attempts and get 4 regularly. I can see doing todays that 6-letters can require slightly different strategy than the 5-letter. Posted results are skewed. Ive seen one starting guess with 4 letters in the right place which still left 6 more alternatives that person must have been really annoyed when the right one turned out to be their 6th guess.
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