Every fragment tea-bot has ever served, ranked by the one difficulty measure that is not circular: its position in the bot’s own prompt list. What players did with it comes second, and only once there is enough of it to mean anything.
Two rules, both of which the previous version of this page broke
syll is the objective difficultytea-bot draws prompts from prompts.txt, a file of 9,217 three-letter fragments ordered easiest to hardest. The line number is the difficulty: ing is line 1. That number is fixed by the bot before anyone plays, so it cannot be bent by who happened to draw the prompt.
Lines 9,166 and up exist in the file but sit past the bot’s selection ceiling — 52 prompts it can never choose.
An observed solve rate is printed only once a prompt has at least 20 attempts in the current scope. Below that you get the raw count and the words “not enough data” — never a percentage, and never a zero.
On this data that is a brutal filter: 140 of 10,540 prompts clear it in multiplayer. The old site applied no floor at all, then bucketed prompts by array index, and so labelled 2,729 of its 2,750 prompts “Easy”.
tea-bot writes a turn to the log only when the turn ends. Rejected and invalid guesses are never recorded at all, so this rate measures turns survived inside the timer, not first-guess accuracy.
A player who typed nine wrong words and then a right one appears here identically to one who got it first try. That is why solve rate sits in the nineties nearly everywhere, and why solve time is the measure worth reading.
Median solve time and sample size, over ten bands of the syll index
Multiplayer · prompts grouped into ten bands of the objective syll index. Hollow points are bands with fewer than 100 timed solves behind them.
Attempts behind each band
Across the 8 bands with at least 100 timed solves, median solve time runs 3.6 s to 6.2 s — a 1.7× spread, while the solve rate stays between 87.3% and 97.8% throughout. Almost every prompt eventually gets answered, so how often one was survived separates them barely at all. Ranking by that is how the old site put 2,729 of 2,750 prompts in a single “Easy” bucket.
Provisional bands (fewer than 100 timed solves): 8–9k (n=92), 9k+ (n=4).
| syll band | Prompts | Attempts | Solved | Solve rate | Median solve |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–1,000 | 1,000 | 14,507 | 14,189 | 97.8% | 3.7 s (n=14,189) |
| 1,001–2,000 | 906 | 6,127 | 5,928 | 96.8% | 3.8 s (n=5,928) |
| 2,001–3,000 | 799 | 1,627 | 1,534 | 94.3% | 3.6 s (n=1,534) |
| 3,001–4,000 | 792 | 1,567 | 1,410 | 90.0% | 3.8 s (n=1,410) |
| 4,001–5,000 | 932 | 2,725 | 2,471 | 90.7% | 3.7 s (n=2,471) |
| 5,001–6,000 | 692 | 1,120 | 993 | 88.7% | 4.0 s (n=993) |
| 6,001–7,000 | 623 | 1,081 | 979 | 90.6% | 4.6 s (n=979) |
| 7,001–8,000 | 256 | 361 | 315 | 87.3% | 6.2 s (n=315) |
| 8,001–9,000 | 105 | 117 | 92 | 78.6% | 7.0 s (n=92) |
| 9,001–9,217 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 66.7% | 6.4 s (n=4) |
1,683 matching · sorted by attempts
| Prompt | syll | Attempts | Solve rate | Median solve |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iww | 7,978Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.4 sn = 1 |
| ixd | 8,461Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.5 sn = 1 |
| ixg | 7,961Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.9 sn = 1 |
| ixl | 6,076Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | — |
| ixm | 6,987Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 18.1 sn = 1 |
| ixp | 6,917Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 14.1 sn = 1 |
| iyo | 6,260Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 10.0 sn = 1 |
| izb | 7,311Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 8.3 sn = 1 |
| izk | 8,792Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 10.8 sn = 1 |
| izn | 7,418Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 5.5 sn = 1 |
| jaj | 7,037Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.8 sn = 1 |
| jed | 6,272Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 1.6 sn = 1 |
| jem | 5,293Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.9 sn = 1 |
| jeq | 7,245Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 6.2 sn = 1 |
| jha | 7,977Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 14.6 sn = 1 |
| jik | 5,691Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.5 sn = 1 |
| jip | 7,334Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.9 sn = 1 |
| jis | 5,490Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.3 sn = 1 |
| jji | 7,981Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.3 sn = 1 |
| jng | 8,166Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 10.0 sn = 1 |
| joe | 6,023Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 3.7 sn = 1 |
| jri | 8,924Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.4 sn = 1 |
| juj | 5,589Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.4 sn = 1 |
| juk | 6,011Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.8 sn = 1 |
| jux | 5,340Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.8 sn = 1 |
| jwa | 8,782Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 9.6 sn = 1 |
| kac | 5,570Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 8.7 sn = 1 |
| kae | 5,872Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 8.2 sn = 1 |
| kaj | 6,117Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 3.1 sn = 1 |
| kau | 5,567Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 14.2 sn = 1 |
| kav | 5,568Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.7 sn = 1 |
| kaz | 5,172Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | — |
| kbp | 8,984Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.1 sn = 1 |
| kca | 5,485Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 6.8 sn = 1 |
| kcr | 5,987Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | — |
| kde | 7,290Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 11.7 sn = 1 |
| kec | 5,206Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.9 sn = 1 |
| kev | 5,391Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 1.8 sn = 1 |
| kfl | 5,584Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 3.3 sn = 1 |
| kge | 7,514Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 12.3 sn = 1 |
| khl | 6,753Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.8 sn = 1 |
| khs | 6,224Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 8.0 sn = 1 |
| kht | 6,234Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.4 sn = 1 |
| khu | 5,406Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 12.1 sn = 1 |
| khw | 6,883Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 3.7 sn = 1 |
| kih | 6,246Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 3.0 sn = 1 |
| kii | 6,517Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | — |
| kij | 6,787Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 18.1 sn = 1 |
| kiu | 5,980Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 2.9 sn = 1 |
| kiv | 5,116Very HardVery Hard | 1 | not enough datan = 1 | 4.5 sn = 1 |
10,400 of 10,540 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 140 that clear it, solve rates average 98.0% across a 85%–100% range — a narrow band, which is why the syll index and not the rate is the primary sort. Sorting by solve rate or median solve time ranks only prompts at or above the floor; below it the numbers are still printed with their n, but a one-sample median is not a ranking.
4,429 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 4,422 of them are the wrong length for the list, which only covers 3-letter fragments; custom games can set any prompt length. The other 7 are 3-letter oddities: Cyrillic homoglyph spoofs that look like Latin letters, blanks-mode prompts carrying a wildcard character, and a little junk. Show them
Three modes are missing on purpose. Red, Green and Yellow Tea score whole rounds rather than turns, so tea-bot logs them as round submissions: no response time, and — unlike turns — rejected words are kept. Their “solved” means first-guess validity, not surviving the timer. Folding two different definitions into one rate would be worse than leaving them out, so they are left out.