Wordle Guess Distribution Explained

On the Wordle Statistics, you will find the ‘Guess Distribution’, along with Played, Win%, Current Streak and Max Streak.  These are the data that explain about the player’s Wordle statistics related to your own progress and streak in the game.

To read your Wordle statistics, you definitely need to understand each data, so you will easily know how good you are on Wordle and how great you are compared to others. In this post, we will explain the Guess Distribution and how this data influences your Wordle Statistics. Okay, let’s dive into our post to find the information about it!

What is the Guess Distribution on Your Wordle Statistics?

It is known that Guess Distribution is a representation of the number of guesses that you create to solve each challenge successfully. The chart of the guess distribution like the other elements on the scoreboard, explaining light on your whole gaming history on Wordle and not just the current game.

Checking the Guess Distribution numbers on your Wordle Statistics is also the quickest and easiest way to track how many attempts that you have been taking to solve Wordle. If your guess distribution displays more correct guesses in 3 attempts, you are above average as well.

If your guess distribution displays more numbers in 2 guesses, that means you are in the top 5 percentile among the Wordle players. Of course, it is so great and super rare. Need to know, it will be all based on the data that is accumulated on the scores shared by the Twitter demographic.

Here’s the example of Wordle Statistics that was posted by @shikibmehri on Twitter!

Wordle Guess Distribution Explained

@Shikibmehri wrote a near-optimal algorithm for Wordle that averages 3.5 guesses (3.25 over last two weeks).

Here’s what we can learn:

    • The best first word is ROATE
    • It’s suboptimal to limit yourself to valid words: if CREAM gives you

What Is the Guess Distribution on Your Wordle Statistics
your second guess shouldn’t start with C.

In addition to the Guess Distribution, you will also find other data on Statistics, here are they:

    • Played shows you a record of the total number of games that you have played.
    • Win % displays the number of games won (W) out of the total number of games played (P) multiplied by 100; [W/P*100].
    • Current Streak shows you the record of the number of games that you have been winning in a row. Current Streak is specific to the present and explains for all the games won consecutively without breaks in the ongoing scenario. It is not to be confused with Max Streak.
    • Max Streak displays the maximum number of games that you have won in a row (in an unbroken streak) in the game. Well, it is not the current streak.

On the Wordle Statistics, you will find the timer under ‘Next Wordle’ that will count down to when the game will reset to give you a new challenge. You will also see the ‘Share’ button in green to allow you to share your latest score.

Get to Know about Average Statistics in Wordle

As a Wordle player, you may already know that there are no veritable means to analyze player performance on a global scale, due to Wordle not providing an official leaderboard or community hub to track player score and statistics.

You should know that unofficial and relatively small-scale data crunching from Twitter shares of Wordle scores provide significant insight into the number of guesses that are commonly required by players to complete a Wordle challenge successfully.

You may find ‘Wordle Stats’ on Twitter, but it is an unofficial source for Wordle’s score share data. This has been sharing daily stats for Wordle scores by analyzing more than 200K tweets every day. In other words, this is somewhere to run a rudimentary breakdown.

Their analysis displays that less than 5% of all players gain the word right in 1 or 2 attempts. If you take a total of 3 or 4 guesses to complete the challenge form the largest group on Twitter’s Wordle community.

It is known that almost all wrap up the game in five moves. In fact, there are quite a few players who manage to crack it in the final attempt. About 1% of players who fail and still share are the real bravehearts who frequently share honest results without hiding or cheating behind the veil of pretense.

In fact, there is not enough data to gain the full picture of how players perform on Wordle and also the typical number of guesses required. In this case, the Twitter community will only entail a fraction of the total number of players that are scattered across the globe who don’t share their scores on public platforms.

If you see the unofficial numbers above, it will give you an inkling of your extraordinary competency, especially if you commonly solve the challenge in 3 guesses. The 2 guesses in total will translate to extraordinary in the Wordle and 1 means nothing but a thunderbolt of blind lick.

Additionally, if you belong to the category of 4 or 5 guesses, that means you are an average player, maybe not extraordinary, but you are doing very well in the game. Well, the player who solves it within 6 chances is a Winner.

Should You Be Worried About Statistics?

To be honest, you should be worried about your Wordle statistics, since it is just a simple game that provides you with a few lax moments away from your daily bustle and hustle. Of course, there is no reason to worry about the numbers in reality, while you can surely use the tips that are given above to closely analyze your score and performance to create adjustments in your future performance.

In short, the only person you need to compete with is yourself. That’s why Wordle can only show you the data related to personal performance to the players. However, it would not be too much of a shocker if they launched a community leaderboard, considering the game’s success and mass appeal.

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