A Wordle tracker is anything that keeps a record of your games: your win rate, your streak, your average guesses or your scores against friends. The New York Times game already tracks the basics for you. For an average, a group score sheet or a history of past answers, you need one of the simple methods below, and most of them cost nothing.
Find what you want to track in this table. Each one has its own section below.
| What you want to track | Easiest way |
|---|---|
| Win rate, streak and guess spread | The stats screen in the game |
| Your average score | A two-minute sum from those stats |
| Scores against friends | A shared sheet, or a Discord or WhatsApp bot |
| Letters during today's game | The on-screen keyboard, plus a short note |
| Past answers | A dated answer list, used with care since 2026 |
| A whole year of results | A monthly grid in a notebook |
| Unlimited games, duels and tournaments | A free WordlyPlay profile |
Does Wordle keep track of your stats?
Yes. Tap the bar chart icon in the New York Times game and you get five records: games played, win percentage, current streak, longest streak and guess distribution. The guess distribution is the bar chart showing how many games you solved in one guess, two guesses and so on.
Where those records are saved matters. If you are logged in to a New York Times account, they follow that account across your devices. If you are not, they live in that one browser, so clearing your cookies or moving to a new phone can lose them.
The stats screen has one obvious gap: it doesn't show your average number of guesses. That takes a small sum.
How do I work out my average Wordle score?
Multiply each row of your guess distribution by its number of guesses, add up the results, then divide by the games you played. Count each loss as 7. Here is a worked example:
| Solved in | Games | Guesses × games |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 3 | 58 | 174 |
| 4 | 74 | 296 |
| 5 | 41 | 205 |
| 6 | 14 | 84 |
| Lost (counted as 7) | 5 | 35 |
| Total | 205 | 819 |
819 divided by 205 gives an average of 4.0.
Is that good? As a yardstick, we ran a computer solver through all 2,459 five-letter answers in our own game. It knows every answer in the list and never forgets one, and it still averaged 3.64 guesses. A person at 4.0 is close to that. The solver played our word list and not the New York Times list, so treat the number as a rough guide. The full test covers how it works.
Count it as 7. A loss means you did not solve the word in six guesses, so scoring it as 6 would rank a miss the same as a last-guess win. Some groups use 8 to make losses hurt more. Any number works as long as everyone uses the same one.
If you would rather not do the sum, the Wordle Stats Explorer Chrome extension reads your history from the WordleBot page and shows your win rate, streaks and average guesses, with filters for the last 7, 30 or 90 days. It is an independent project and has no connection to the New York Times, so read its permissions before you add it.
Why did my Wordle stats disappear?
Usually the game is looking in a different place from where your stats were saved. They sit either in your New York Times account or in your browser, so a new phone, a new browser, private browsing, cleared cookies or a different login can all show an empty stats screen.
- Check the account. On a device where your stats still appear, see which account is logged in, then log in to that same one on the other device.
- Go back to the old browser. If you never logged in, your stats are in the browser you used to play. Open the game there before you change anything.
- Look before you play. Some players report that a new result can overwrite what was there, so check first and solve afterwards.
- Ask New York Times Games support. If the numbers are missing from the right account, support is the only route back, and recovery isn't guaranteed.
Our guide to keeping a Wordle streak alive covers the habits that stop this happening again.
Track more than one word a day
The daily puzzle gives you one result a day. Play Wordle Unlimited and build a record much faster, with no wait for tomorrow.
Play Wordle UnlimitedHow do I keep score of Wordle with friends?
Use a shared spreadsheet with one row for each player and one column for each day. Enter everyone's guesses, write a miss as 7, and the lowest total wins the week.
| Player | Mon to Sun | Total | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priya | 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 | 26 | 3.71 |
| Sam | 3 4 4 6 4 5 3 | 29 | 4.14 |
| Maya | 4 3 5 4 7 3 4 | 30 | 4.29 |
In Google Sheets or Excel, give each day its own column. With the days in columns B to H, the total in column I and players starting on row 2, these three formulas do all the work:
- Total:
=SUM(B2:H2) - Average:
=AVERAGE(B2:H2) - Rank (lowest total first):
=RANK(I2,I$2:I$10,1)
Agree on two rules before the first week: what a missed day scores (most groups use 7), and if a result can be entered the day after. It saves an argument later.
Which apps and bots keep score for you?
If typing numbers into a sheet sounds like work, a few independent tools read the results people share:
- Discord: Wordle Leaderboard scores the results people post in a channel, and other community bots on the same site run monthly or seasonal tables.
- WhatsApp: Trackdle joins your group, records each shared score and keeps an all-time average plus a weekly contest.
- iPhone: Scordle saves your games and ranks you against friends.
None of these come from the New York Times, and their features can change, so check what each one asks to access before you add it to a group.
The share grid shows only colored squares, so it never spells out the word. It can still hint: a grid with four greens on guess two tells a friend the word is easy to narrow down. If your group cares, agree to post scores only after everyone has played.
Comparing scores later is one way to compete. The other is to play the same word at the same moment, which a group Wordle room does while keeping a running score for you.
What is a Wordle letter tracker?
A letter tracker shows which letters you have tried and what you learned about each one. The keyboard in the game is already a basic one: gray letters are out, yellow letters are in the word somewhere, and green letters are placed.
The keyboard has one blind spot. It doesn't remember which spots a yellow letter has already failed in, and that is where a lot of wasted guesses come from. Say you open with CRANE, then try REBUT, and the answer is OTHER. This short note tells you what the keyboard can't:
| Yellow letter | Already failed in spot | Can only be in spot |
|---|---|---|
| R | 1, 2 | 3, 4 or 5 |
| E | 2, 5 | 1, 3 or 4 |
| T | 5 | 1, 2, 3 or 4 |
Keep it on paper or in your phone's notes. It takes a few seconds and it stops you from putting a letter back where it has already failed.
One trap to watch for: if you guess a word with two Es and one turns gray, E is not out. The gray only tells you the answer has fewer Es than your guess. Our list of double-letter words helps when you suspect a repeat.
Is there a Wordle answer tracker?
Yes, fan sites keep dated lists of every past answer. They are handy for settling an argument about a word, but be careful, because today's answer is often at the top of the page.
These lists used to be a solving tool as well, because Wordle never reused an answer. That changed in 2026: the New York Times began repeating past answers in early February, starting with CIGAR on February 2. "It's been used already" no longer rules a word out. We keep track of this in every Wordle repeat so far.
If you missed a daily puzzle on our own game, the daily archive lets you play past WordlyPlay words. Archive games are for fun and don't change your streak.
How do I track Wordle in a journal?
Draw a calendar grid for the month in any planner, then fill in each day's box with your number of guesses or a color. People who keep a Hobonichi or a bullet journal like it because it takes a few seconds a day, and a full page shows your good and bad runs at a glance.
A simple color key works well:
- Dark green: solved in 1 or 2
- Green: solved in 3
- Yellow: solved in 4
- Orange: solved in 5
- Red: solved in 6
- Black: missed
At the end of the month, count each color and use the sum above to get your average. Twelve of those pages make a nice record of your Wordle year.
How do I track Wordle Unlimited, duels and tournaments?
The New York Times stats cover only its one daily puzzle. If you play more than that, a free WordlyPlay account keeps the record on your profile:
- All games: games played, wins, losses, win rate, average guesses and best time.
- Streaks: your current and best win streak, plus your duel streak.
- Daily Challenge: your daily streak and your best daily streak.
- Battle Royale: Royales played, titles, finals reached and best finish.
- Grand Slam: events played, titles, times in the top 64 and best finish.
The leaderboard tracks you against everyone else, by today, this week or the whole season, and you can switch it to show only your friends. If you are protecting a long run, a Streak Shield keeps your win streak alive after a loss.
See where you rank
Every win earns trophies and moves you up the season leaderboard. The top 10 players win gems when the season ends.
Open the leaderboardFrequently asked questions
For your own numbers, the stats screen built into the game is enough, and a two-minute sum gives you your average. For a group, a shared spreadsheet is free and needs nothing installed. If you want it automatic, community bots for Discord and WhatsApp read the results people share.
Open Wordle and tap the bar chart icon. You will see games played, win percentage, current streak, longest streak and your guess distribution. Log in to a New York Times account if you want the same numbers on every device.
Under 4 guesses is strong. As a yardstick, a computer solver that knows every answer in our 2,459-word list averages 3.64, so there isn't much room below that. Work out your own average by multiplying each row of your guess distribution by its guess count, adding them up and dividing by games played.
Yes, but the record stays in that one browser. Clearing your cookies, using private browsing or changing device can lose it. Logging in keeps your stats with your account.
Yes. Community bots such as Wordle Leaderboard score the results people post in a channel and build a table. They are independent projects, so check what each one asks to access before adding it to your server.
It records the letters you have tried and where they failed. The game's keyboard shows which letters are out or in, but it doesn't remember which spots a yellow letter has already failed in, so a short note on paper fills that gap.
Yes. A free account records your games, wins, losses, win rate, average guesses, best time and streaks on your profile, along with your Battle Royale and Grand Slam results. The leaderboard shows how you compare by day, week and season.
