The study claims that Swedes are the fastest at solving Wordle. How about Malaysians?
A study has revealed that players in Sweden are the fastest to solve Wordle puzzles with an average score of 3.72 guesses.
The study from the website Wordtips also showed that Malaysians received an average of 4.04 guesses, while neighboring Singapore came in with an average score of 3.88 guesses. Players in the United States averaged 3.92 guesses while playing Wordle in Australia barely missed the top spot and came second after the Swedes with an average of 3.80 guesses.
In terms of the 10 global cities that are best at solving Wordle, Canberra topped Australia with an average of 3.58 guesses. The only city in Southeast Asia that is on the list is Manila, Philippines in number 9 with an average of 3.72 guesses.
Wordtips, a website that provides resources on how to solve word-based games such as Scrabble and Words with friendssaid its study began by drawing 195,248 tweets with the hashtag #Wordle using the Twitter API.
Game results were then extracted from 142,669 tweets. The researchers looked for points that were presented as a fraction or grid of colored squares. They also lost 2,729 tweets with the score X / 6 because it meant that the puzzle was not solved within the game’s six guess formats.
The data, which was collected in January this year, were grouped by place of use by country, state and city. At the country level, only countries with at least 50 tweets were included; while global cities and towns in the United States needed at least 25 tweets.
Meanwhile a separate study of the website WordFinderX claimed that more players are likely to cheat Wordle based on their analysis on Google Trends.
They said that the search for “today’s Wordle” has increased from 0 in December 2021 to 100 in February this year, indicating searches for Wordle the answer has reached peak popularity.
They added that most players cheated for the word “Aroma” and “Swill” because both registered hundreds on Google’s search popularity scale. They also said the search interest for Wordle the responses had increased sharply since it was acquired by New York Times.
Wordle is a web-based puzzle game where players must guess the word of the day in five letters in six attempts. Guessings will be color coded to indicate the position of the guessed letter – green means correct, yellow means the letter is correct but in the wrong position, while gray means that the letter is not in the word. Players then use the colors as clues to guess the word.
The game has also been adapted for other languages such as Bahasa Malaysia when developer Eugene Low was released Katapat in January.