Wordle's Statistics panel tracks five things: Games Played, Win %, Current Streak, Max Streak, and a Guess Distribution histogram showing how many wins landed on each guess count from 1 to 6. Win % is wins divided by games played; streaks count consecutive win-days; the distribution ignores losses entirely.
Where do I find my Wordle stats?
On both the New York Times website and the NYT Games app, look for the small bar-chart icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the settings gear. Tapping it opens the Statistics panel as an overlay without leaving your current puzzle, so checking your numbers mid-game never costs you your progress.
What does each Wordle stat actually measure?
Five numbers make up the panel, and each answers a slightly different question about how you play:
| Stat | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Games Played | Total puzzles you've started and completed (won or lost), since your stats began tracking. |
| Win % | Games won divided by games played, as a percentage — your overall success rate. |
| Current Streak | Consecutive days won in a row, ending today — resets to zero the moment you lose or miss a day. |
| Max Streak | Your longest-ever Current Streak, frozen as a personal best once that run ends. |
| Guess Distribution | A six-bar histogram of how many wins you closed out in exactly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 guesses. |
Current Streak and Max Streak are easy to mix up because they usually show the same number — right up until you lose a game or skip a day, at which point Current Streak drops to zero while Max Streak keeps your record intact.
How is my average guess count calculated?
The Guess Distribution bars aren't just decorative — they're the raw data behind your average. To get the average yourself: multiply each guess-count bucket (1 through 6) by the number of wins in that bucket, add the six results together, then divide by your total wins. A loss never enters this calculation at all, since it doesn't land in any of the six win buckets.
That last detail matters for comparing scores with friends. Someone who wins every game in exactly 4 guesses has a clean 4.0 average. Someone who wins most games in 3 but occasionally fails outright can still show a lower, better-looking average, because failed games are invisible to this specific number even though they hurt Win %.
What does the average calculation look like with real numbers?
Say you've played 50 games and won 45 of them (Win % = 90), with a Guess Distribution of: 2 wins in 2 guesses, 10 wins in 3 guesses, 18 wins in 4 guesses, 11 wins in 5 guesses, and 4 wins in 6 guesses. Multiply each bucket by its guess count, add them up, then divide by total wins:
That 4.11 average sits close to the average most players report, which independent trackers and the Times' own Wordle Bot commentary have repeatedly placed around 4 guesses per win for the broad player base. A player consistently finishing below 4.0 is meaningfully sharper than typical; consistently above 4.5 usually points at either risky guess choices or a habit of holding onto too many exploratory words before committing.
Why do Wordle stats and streaks sometimes reset unexpectedly?
The most common cause is technical, not a missed puzzle. Wordle's statistics were originally stored entirely in your browser's local storage rather than on a New York Times server, so anything that clears that local data — an incognito/private window, a cleared cache, a cleaner or antivirus extension, or simply opening the game on a new device or browser — wipes the stats with it, even if you genuinely won every game.
Players have also reported streaks vanishing during the transition period when Wordle moved from its original domain to nytimes.com, apparently because some browsers didn't carry local storage across the redirect cleanly. That was a one-time migration issue rather than an ongoing bug, but it's the reason some long-time players lost multi-hundred-day streaks through no fault of their own.
How do I protect my Wordle stats and streak going forward?
- Sign in to a New York Times account. This ties your stats to your account instead of one browser's local storage, so they survive a cleared cache or a new device as long as you stay logged in.
- Avoid private/incognito windows for daily play. Private browsing sessions typically discard all site data, including your stats, the moment you close the window.
- Play from the same app or the same browser profile. Switching between the NYT Games app and the website, or between browser profiles, can fragment your history if you're not signed in consistently.
- Don't rely on stats alone to track your own progress. If you want a permanent personal record beyond what the panel shows, note your result day to day — the built-in panel has no per-day history, only running totals.
None of this guarantees a streak survives forever, but it closes off the most common, entirely avoidable ways players lose stats that had nothing to do with actually missing a puzzle.