For more information, please see our That said, I dont play against time as Paul does. My current streak is 2, what?? Same me, very different results. (All of those are fair, but of course you dont have to believe me). I agree. Four yellows on my first guess, knew which letters would likely come up. The statistics include the total number of games played, Win %, Current Streak, Max Streak, and Guess Distribution. The average (of average scores) seems to be around 3.8 (see: sounds about right). What data does Wordle Statistics provide? Yes, theyre not describing the stat clearly. Use the simple form below to calculate your Wordle average. I encourage people to check it out when they can. If she has won 100% of the 3 games she played, isnt her longest streak 3, and her current streak 3? There isnt really much strategy involved in choosing a first word based on recent history. So the reduced number of opportunities to rule out letters by getting them wrong might be counterbalanced by the smaller pool of solutions.By 5 letters we are up to about 13k words and by 6 letters something like 22-24k. Weve had 3 second guess hits out of 92 attempts. Moreover, would a 4-letter Wordle be easier or harder? It works well, but the day I chose not to start off with train, one of my favorites, was the day that train was the solution. 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. It was Shake but the problem is the same with any of the 7 common words that fit that pattern. By my calculations I'm averaging 2.7? Losses are treated as 7 points. In response to genius Jon, who I suppose solves Wordle daily in 1 or 2 tries, its not a matter of simply solving in 6 guesses, its what percentage of solves in 1,2,3,4,5,6 guesses. 4 is still excellent but people can skillfully narrow down options in first three attempts and get 4 regularly. So here is a handy calculator. Cookie Notice Is that an official rule/parameter or is that just the consensus of players never having encountered such a 5-letter solution? Couldnt finish. 3 guess is excellent and still unlikely. Ive concluded that the Wordl solution will not be a 4-letter word made plural by adding an s. My guess is the actual stats are more like 0%, 1%, 12%, 30%, 40% 12%, not discovered 4%. The wordlestats twitter tool provides lots of data but, as others have noted, suffers from serious sampling error because of the tendency for people to tweet their better scores. Once it is then I will pick a new one, and at that point I will be doing some mild cheating in that I will exclude all the solutions Ive already seen, thus increasing my chances of another 1st guess solution. But, Wordle doesnt have a leaderboard. ._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 Does it Work? Related: Wordle: 5-Letter Words three or four Vowels. If the average Wordle game takes 15 minutes to play then this amounts to about 30 years of actual play-time . Im old, but not THAT oldam I the only one who wishes the letters on the keyboard were a few pt. Say 12 Hail Marys and well let it slide. Not a chance in hell that these stats make sense. Simply ask your friends to share theirs, too. You may have missed a day. Then you played that wrong, once you had the first 3 letters, your next guesses should have been random letters to utilize as many remaining letters , stomp,drink etc. The word list contains all the possible words that can be solutions to Wordle puzzles. If your average number of tries in a streak of 30 or so attempts in wordle is less than 4.15 then you are probably better than the average twitteratus. I had this recently for the first three letters. Earlier on I had a 3.5 average but my solo sixer along with a couple fivers blew that up to a 3.85. All the rest are accepted words when trying to determine the answer. I have a half-dozen pairs of words, each pair composed of the top 6 consonants and 4 vowels. YUP. My take on calculating the average on all games played would be the weighted win average divided by your win percentage (i.e if weighted win is 3.90 and your win % is 96%, it would be 3.9 divided by .96, or 4.06). No-one, over the course of several days will get it in two repeatedly. when I think my first guess has narrowed the word down to one possible solution It is a kids game, embarrassingly easy. Their analysis shows that less than 5% of all players get the word right in 1 or 2 attempts. 7 is probably the most obvious approximation as I think most people who are not just choosing random words on every guess have probably got it narrowed down to one or two options by guess 5. 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The Great Wordle Race is on! It also ended up the game with my highest score, 6, and even then I consider myself lucky because even on the 6th guess, I had multiple viable options. ._3oeM4kc-2-4z-A0RTQLg0I{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between} I had similar. Depending how many correct letters you guessed in the first word, your second might be skill or also mostly luck. 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The Streak stat is useless, all it points out is that you forgot to play one day. You just have to text your scores to their number and then it saves it and shows some analytics on it ( your average, how you stack up against others, etc), ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} The actual chance of getting it right first time is about 1 in 2315 so it should be about 0.05%. Jeremy, note todays (Saturday, 4/23/22) word. On the return, I did both (once on each end), and only got credit for one so the streak ended again. CHUMP, GUILT, DROVE I then got it in 5 and would have been unlucky to get it in 6. 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 OR MORE SIMPLY Use this Simple Form to Calculate Your Wordle Average Simple shortcut to calculate and share your average Wordle score. Back in April Jon referenced 2309 potential solutions and 12,972 acceptable words to seek those solutions. So the Twitter analysis is going to heavily bias towards the low end. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} Solving in 1 is virtually blind luck, thereafter luck plays less and less a role with each attempt. For example. On average, Canadians need 3.90 guesses to get the correct answer, compared to 3.92 guesses for Americans. That is super good and super rare! 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. I dont get the stats in the first example in this article: They say this player has won 100% of her 3 games, but her current streak is 1 and her longest streak is 2. I think tactics can influence your distribution of 3s 4s and 5s though. Here's what you should provide on Brian Falkner's Wordle Average Score Calculator! First, you have to know the total number of people who start the game, then the %who solve it in 1-6 guesse, and, thus, wha % who dont get the word. Out of a list of 2300 though, knowing that a 100 are so are not solutions today does not lower the odds much. However, what the 1% is useful for is giving you an idea of the weighting that needs to be applied to the self-reported scores. never losing Im not sure whether 4/6 letter wordle would be harder or easier the statistics of it is surprisingly complicated. but could result in people abandoning any game where it would tale 4 or more to complete) There are 12972 words in their dictionary, but only 2309 are listed as answers. Smaller sample size, but Im confident the ratio will stay about constant. ), WordleUnlimited.org: Another unlimited version that is otherwise identical to the NYTimes daily game interface, Play the Daily Puzzle provided by NYTimes.com, Learn more about how your score compares to the rest of the Wordle community on, Check out this tool to help you improve your Wordle score on. and our when I think my first guess has narrowed the word down to two possible solutions, and I get a bit lucky with a 50/50 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 might have previously argued stave is the least common among the 4, so choose that last. The only advantage given by recent history is that we know that wordle does not repeat solutions so you can mentally eliminate as many words as you can remember as a first guess, and also as a second guess solution. If its only based on the data submitted by users then it suffers from the same sampling bias as the twitter stats. It is a relatively simple statistical concept that is widely used in many areas. Its only/mostly when you get to the 3rd try that skill plays a significant role. Add up the total number of guesses and divide by the number of times you have played the game. Its possible that some optimal starter words might push the figure higher than that if used repeatedly again an interesting calculation. Unless I get lucky and hit three or more letters on the first guess. Mine is currently 3.92. Now that quite a few people have posted 100 streaks you can see that a few people are posting what looks like unlikely numbers of second guess hits (10/100 for example). Youve exchanged the two least-used vowels (u,y) to two commonly used consonants (s,c). Its a bit harder than that to calculate the odds of getting it in two. Other than these scenarios, Ill probably play a letter-reducing word to reduce the possible letter combinations. This equates to your total attempts A, divided by the total games played N : Average = A/N. Youve been playing Wordle for weeks now, and you want to know how good you are compared to other players. Total: Your GPA in four subjects is 2.84. In my 25 games, I have totaled 93 total points for a 3.72 average. Both the original word lists and the amended NYT times versions are available (after they took out Fetus for example.) My stats are 0 1 10 17 5 4. 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. 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If it shows more numbers in 2 guesses, youre in the top 5 percentile among the Wordle players. I disagree that solving in 2 is simply lucky. Most people only post their very best (and sometimes surprising) results (at least the ones who would like to keep their friends). when I think my first guess has narrowed the word down to three (or more) possible solutions, but by guessing one of the solutions, I can reduce the remaining solution set to one Getting it on the second attempt is much harder to calculate the odds for but on average people with a vocabulary of words similar to the wordle dictionary are going to get it more often than 1/2314 (having eliminated one word with the first guess) because in many cases their first guess will have markedly reduced the list of possibles. But this past week I was on a plane throughout the day, did not cross the Date Line, and did not play Wordle. Ive come to the conclusion that one and two guess solutions are about 100% and 90% pure luck. 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