Funny that you mention that--because CORER may have just survived an attempt at the throne. ROWER (01/19/25) was within inches, according to WordleBot. On the chart, it doesn't look that close because, for some reason, the summary.json that contains the NYT average didn't match up with the average shown on WordleBot that day. Regardless, it seems like CORER seems to take the edge.
Thanks! And yeah, the data only goes back to the first (as far as I can tell) average that’s available—BESET.
There’s a couple of more quirks here and there that I’ve found-the NYT also tracks (for users that are logged in) the Unix time of completion for your Wordle each day.
I was originally planning on making a heatmap to show people’s completion time patterns, but since I was tracking my own times, I found that the NYT’s data on my completion times was erratic and occasionally incorrect (within the same day but off by hours) up until like 3 months ago? So it’s kind of funny to think that we can track bug fixes through simple data comparisons.
I couldn't find a great source on the 85% number--it looks like the site seems to cite a Boston Consulting Group study that's recapped in this Harvard Business Review article: https://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy. Looking at the consumer spending chart ~50% through the article, it says women account for 4.3/5.9 trillion $ of spending in the US, which is 73%--still high!
I was originally worried that my coding job would suck the passion out of me, but weirdly, it’s cut the other way. The banality of the work that I do for my job makes me appreciate my personal projects more, and makes me more galvanized to do coding that does bring fulfillment. I suppose this isn’t necessary desirable however, since it relies on your job being a chore.
