Comment by pardner

Comment by pardner 7 days ago

2 replies

Nicely implemented screen layout. Curious if you've thought of reporting metrics showing how many guesses it's taking people? (I got 'volatile' in 9)

minaguib 7 days ago

I have a decade's worth of guess statistics per word.

Unfortunately, I just converted it to a frontend-only app to eliminate hosting costs, so I have no good location to keep tracking these stats.

Theoretically, "Oxford English Dictionary estimates that there are around 171,476 words currently in use in the English language", the log2() of which is around 17.38 - I have no historical data for 'volatile'

  • SamBam 7 days ago

    Hmmm, but the shortened dictionary being used is presumably less than that, so my best-so-far of 17 is probably below optimal...