Why I Built Wordle Analytics

I play Wordle every day. I always feel a little better when I get it in two guesses, and a little bummed when it takes six — which is exactly what happened to me not long before I started writing this. I'll admit I'm more obsessive about it than most people: after I finish, I go look at the Wordle Bot data and think about which strategies actually lead to the best outcomes.

One question kept nagging at me. I'd long wanted to know: does starting with a word like ADIEU actually give you a better shot at solving in two or three guesses? There's no way to tell just by looking at which start words are most popular. All Wordle Bot gives you is a percentage — how many games ended in two, in three, in four — with no way to see which start word led to which outcome.

Does using ADIEU actually lead to a better chance of getting a two or a three? There was simply no way to find out.

I don't think I'm the only one who wonders about things like this. I also find myself wondering about something else entirely: are certain people just consistently better at this than the rest of us? So often it comes down to a guess between two or three words — I'm right sometimes, wrong other times. Wordle Bot seems to guess correctly almost every time. Are there people out there who are just... good guessers?

So often it comes down to a guess between two or three words. Are there people who are just good guessers?

It wasn't just strangers and statistics I was curious about, either. Most days, after I finished my own puzzle, I'd catch myself wondering how my friends had done — did they get it in three? Were they having a rough week, or a hot streak? Short of someone happening to post their score in a group chat, there was no real way to know. That's what led to the friend groups feature in Wordle Analytics: a way to actually see how the people you care about are doing, side by side, instead of just guessing.

And underneath all of it sat one essential question I've always wondered, bigger than any single day's puzzle: who actually has the lowest all-time average Wordle score?

I've always wondered this essential question: who has the lowest all-time average Wordle score?

Not the best single game, not the longest streak — the number that only reveals itself over hundreds of puzzles, good days and bad days both averaged together. That's exactly what the all-time leaderboard on Wordle Analytics is built to answer.

Assuming there are plenty of Wordle enthusiasts who wonder about the same things, I built Wordle Analytics — a free tool where players like us can actually try to find some answers. You upload your Wordle result each day and can see where you fall among everyone tracking their games, and — more importantly — how each start word actually performed, not just how popular it was.

Here's the kind of question this site exists to answer: nearly every day, at least a small percentage of players solve the puzzle in two guesses, no matter how obscure the target word is. What word did they start with? Wordle Analytics is built to tell you.

It only works as well as the people using it. The more players who post their results each day, the sharper the picture gets for everyone — which start words are actually paying off, who's consistently solving fast, what the community's real numbers look like. There are leaderboards and charts that slice the data a lot of different ways: start-word performance, 2-guess conversion rates, average scores, streaks, and more.

If you're the kind of Wordle player who thinks about this stuff too — who wonders whether your opener is actually good, or whether some people are just better guessers — I'd love for you to give it a try.