Wordle Statistics for 2022
[social_warfare]Wordle Statistics for 2022
It’s not an overstatement to say that Wordle took the world by storm in 2022.
For those in the know early on, Wordle took off like a rocket ship and spread via word of mouth and social media.
For those who didn’t, they would soon know what those green and yellow squares that their family and friends were sharing online meant.
Here are the key statistics for Wordle:
Creator: Josh Wardle
Name: Wordle was a play on his last name “Wardle”
Twitter account: https://twitter.com/powerlanguish
Twitter followers (as of August 29, 2022) – 65,100
Wikipedia profile page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Wardle
Home: Brooklyn, NY
Spouse: Palak Shah
Owner: The New York Times
Purchase price: “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.”
Jonathan Knight, general manager for The New York Times Games.
Source: https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/
Wordle Stats on Twitter – https://twitter.com/WordleStats
WordleBot – tool created by the New York Times to analyze solutions
Source: https://www.polygon.com/23016441/wordle-wordlebot-answer-scores-statistics-ny-times
Twitter followers (as of August 29, 2022) – 22,900
November 1, 2021 – 90 users
January 2, 2022 – 300,000 users
January 9, 2022 – 2 million users
May, 2022 – under 3 million users and declining
January 2022 – 1.7 million tweets mentioning “Wordle” globally
January 2022 – 228 articles published about Wordle
Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/how-wordle-went-viral-strategy
Source: https://fictionhorizon.com/how-many-people-play-wordle/
Global Statistics
Canberra, Australia is the global city with the best Wordle average: 3.58 guesses.
Sweden is the world’s best country at Wordle, with an average of 3.72.
The US is ranked #18 in the world for Wordle, with a national average of 3.92.
The American state with the best Wordle average is North Dakota (3.65).
The US city with the best Wordle scores is Saint Paul, Minnesota, with an average of 3.51.
Source: https://word.tips/wordle-wizards/
Trivia About Wordle
Total possible words – 2,315
Best probability of discovering target word within two tries is the word “TRACE”
Probability of guessing correctly in exactly one try is 1/2315 = 0.0432%
Probability of guessing correctly in two tries is 6.4785%.
Source: https://www.real-statistics.com/wordle-strategy/winning-wordle-in-two-tries/
Wordle has nearly 3 million players across the world and versions of it are appearing in other languages.
People love talking about it – the number of Wordle tweets increases 26% a day on average – even when they hate playing it (a significant number of Wordle tweets are complaints, usually about the volume or smugness of Wordle tweets).
Source: https://theconversation.com/codecracking-community-and-competition-why-the-word-puzzle-wordle-has-become-a-new-online-obsession-174878
Source: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/why-wordle-is-losing-popularity-fast
Google Trends Data for Wordle
Top 10 countries by interest in Wordle:
Source: Google Trends
Top interest in Wordle by US states:
Source: Google Trends
Interest in Wordle over time, US only.
Source: Google Trends
Interest in Wordle over time, global.
Source: Google Trends