I've played Wordle every morning since Jan 3 and logged solve time in a spreadsheet. 103 games, average 4:12, but Tuesdays are 5:01 and Sundays 3:28. My starter is CRANE, same as always.
I thought it was random, but the Tuesday gap is big enough that I'm wondering if it's me, the word list, or just noise. Anyone else keep weird stats on a dumb daily habit? I'll paste the monthly breakdown if people want.
Tuesdays are cursed. My Wednesday slump says hi.
The Tuesday gap could juts be your word list rotation. Did you change anything on Tuesdays?
I track NYT crossword times. Tuesdays are slower for me too, but I think it's because the puzzle is easier and I rush. Maybe same with Wordle.
Could be noise. 103 games is not that many for a day-of-week split.
Noise is possible, but I did something similar with my guitar practice: 140 days, logged minutes and mistakes per song. The pattern I swore was real vanished when I grouped by week instead of by day.
Day-of-week stuff is sneaky because you carry Monday into Tuesday, and if you play before coffee on Tuesdays that's a different condition than Sunday afternoon. Did you log time of day too? That might explain more than the weekday.
Also, your Sunday number is fast, which could just mean you have more patience on weekends.
If I were you I'd plot rolling 7-day averages and see if Tuesday still pops out.
Time of day is a good call. My Wordle times got way worse after I stopped playing before work.
The rolling average idea is solid, but I'll take the opposite bet on why: Tuesdays are slower because the words are more common and people use their second guess to confirm instead of explore.
I have a tiny 60-game log and my Tuesday average is 4.8 vs 4.1 overall, so not huge. But my worst days are always words with repeated letters. Maybe split your data by repeat-letter words before blaming Tuesday.
87 games here and my slowest day isn’t Tuesday, it’s Monday at 4:41
I did the same spreadsheet thing for about 70 games and the day-of-week pattern vanished once I added two columns: hours slept and whether I’d had coffee yet. My “slow” days were all low-sleep or pre-coffee solves—my Tuesday average was 5:14 until I realized I was doing it at 6:10am before a 7am meeting, then I moved Wordle to after breakfast and it dropped to 3:47.
CRANE isn’t the variable there; your brain is.
Out of curiosity, is your Tuesday Wordle happening at a different time than Sunday, or are you always same couch/same coffee? If it’s the same routine, then yeah, 103 games might just be noise, but if Tuesday is your early-meeting day, that 49-second gap is probably sleep debt, not the word list.
My 80-game tab says Tuesday is my fastest, so I'm blaming your coffee, not the word list.
Tuesday is leg day, my brain is toast after squats, Wordle doesn't stand a chance.
103 games = ~15 Tuesdays. With typical Wordle solve SD around 60–90s, your Tuesday mean has SE ~15–23s.
A 49s gap vs overall is maybe 2–3 SE, so not automatically noise, but fragile. Before blaming the word list, pull Tuesday-specific n and SD, plus time-of-day.
I log solve time and sleep; my slow days track short sleep more than puzzle. NYT solutions are curated, not random, but I’ve never seen a credible Tuesday-difficulty effect. What’s your Tuesday SD and median? Mean alone can hide one CRANE-hostile outlier.
Remember that old day-of-week curse thread? Mine flipped to Thursdays eventually. Spreadsheets gaslight us.
My tiny log says Tuesdays are slow too — maybe it's the word list, not your coffee. What's your usual Tuesday time?
I spreadsheet mine too; my Tuesday lag was just pre-coffee brain. Word list is fine.
Cafe owner here: Tuesday is my prep-and-pastry brain day, so Wordle gets the leftover neurons 😅
Tuesday is my airport day, so my brain is still in the security bin.
103 games is such a fun sample size to spiral over. My old 60-game tab said Wednesdays were cursed, then it just... evaporated.
Tuesdays are cursed for me too—my brain is still booting up lol.
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