Worldwide Rankings For Wordle Reveal Shockingly Low Placement For US
A recent study by Wordtips, has placed the United States at an abysmally low ranking compared to other Wordle players around the world. According to the Wordle ranking, the US isn't even among the top 10 of the list.
Ever since its release in October 2021, the word game has garnered a massive following all over the world. Wordle is so popular that «five letter words» became a Google Search trend, where many players have opted to look up hints to help with guessing the Wordle of the day. Now owned by the New York Times, the game has even spawned variants, with niche interests ranging from math and geography to Pokemon-themed word puzzles.
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A study conducted by Wordtips, a data compiler, places the US at 18th in global ranking with a score of 3.92. Within the US, North Dakota ranked the highest as a state with an average Wordle score of 3.65. Meanwhile, Saint Paul, Minnesota was the top city with a 3.51 score, which isn't surprising considering Minnesota has the most Wordle activity in the US so far. Incidentally, New York City was placed 26th out of the 116 US cities in the compiled data from Wordtips. On the global stage, Sweden earned the top spot with an average of 3.72 and Canberra, Australia emerged as the top city globally with a 3.58 Wordle score.
The virally popular word puzzle game continues to surge thanks to social media, and the game had one of its most popular moments on Twitter in January. The data was compiled by pulling 195,248 tweets from January 2022 that used "#wordle" via the Twitter API. Out of these, game scores were taken from 142,669 tweets where each tweet presented the score as a fraction and grid of colored squares. Scores with contradicting
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