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Hey #wordle fans, Big update on FirstWord (the Wordle training tool). 1) It now lives at dharme.sh/3o1jIgG 2) Algorithm is smarter now (and fixes some bugs) 3) App gives you an idea of how common your word guess is (more on that later) Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy!

5:07 PM · Jan 26, 2022

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David Kressel (parody?)

@kressel

Jan 26, 2022

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@dharmesh

What’s the worst word??

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New game: let’s see who can come up with the highest ranked word on FirstWord

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If we would rather “stare” (#5) to get it right. If not “share” (#15) works as a good start to play.

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I was using “arise.” Great to know there are better starting words out there. Thanks for this!

@tanv_c

Jan 27, 2022

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@dharmesh

Or just type in your console: new wordle.bundle.GameApp().solution

@tanv_c

Jan 27, 2022

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@dharmesh

Assuming you've scraped Wordle's word list from the Javascript. I see 2 years worth of solutions there :D

@tanv_c

Jan 27, 2022

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This tool could've been better than Peter Norvig's letter ranking based on overall 5 letter word freq, but the opaqueness/ lack of methodology documentation makes it seem more like a gimmick

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Hi Dharmesh! Love this app! qq — ranking these, are you using a MinMax score, or something like a mean or median of the number of eligible words across all wordle words? Anything about your approach really :)

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