Prompts

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.

Prompts served
8,661
40,730 attempts · solo practice
Objectively rated
7,632
of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 1,029 unrated
Enough data to rate
42
min 20 attempts · next best has 19
Median solve time
2.7 s
n = 39,191 solved turns

How difficulty is decided here

Two rules, both of which the previous version of this page broke

syll is the objective difficulty

tea-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.

A rate needs a denominator

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: 42 of 8,661 prompts clear it in solo practice. 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”.

“Solved” means survived, not correct

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.

Commonsyll 1–1,0001,000 / 1,000served at least once · 9,015 attemptsFamiliarsyll 1,001–2,5001,490 / 1,500served at least once · 8,300 attemptsUncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,963 / 2,000served at least once · 7,842 attemptsRaresyll 4,501–7,0002,396 / 2,500served at least once · 8,413 attemptsBrutalsyll 7,001+783 / 2,217served at least once · 5,989 attempts

Difficulty against the clock

Median solve time and sample size, over ten bands of the syll index

Median solve time by prompt difficulty

Solo practice · 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 2.3 s to 3.0 s — a 1.3× spread, while the solve rate stays between 93.8% and 98.6% 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=39), 9k+ (n=27).

View as table
Attempts, solve rate and median solve time by syll difficulty band
syll bandPromptsAttemptsSolvedSolve rateMedian solve
1–1,0001,0009,0158,72796.8%3.0 s (n=8,727)
1,001–2,0009935,9675,74896.3%2.6 s (n=5,748)
2,001–3,0009904,5844,44396.9%2.6 s (n=4,443)
3,001–4,0009813,6243,48696.2%2.5 s (n=3,486)
4,001–5,0009813,9953,81795.5%2.3 s (n=3,817)
5,001–6,0009623,4823,26593.8%2.5 s (n=3,265)
6,001–7,0009422,9032,82497.3%2.5 s (n=2,824)
7,001–8,0007025,9085,82598.6%2.6 s (n=5,825)
8,001–9,00053533973.6%7.5 s (n=39)
9,001–9,21728282796.4%2.1 s (n=27)

Every prompt

1,000 matching · sorted by attempts

Clear
Prompts with objective difficulty, attempts, solve rate and median solve time
PromptsyllAttemptsSolve rateMedian solve
ule873Common12not enough datan = 123.2 sn = 12
unt232Common12not enough datan = 124.0 sn = 12
ute637Common12not enough datan = 123.6 sn = 12
wee981Common12not enough datan = 123.0 sn = 12
abi295Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 10
acr754Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
act183Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 10
adi361Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 9
air838Common11not enough datan = 112.2 sn = 11
anc153Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 10
aph143Common11not enough datan = 112.8 sn = 9
ari48Common11not enough datan = 113.9 sn = 11
bat736Common11not enough datan = 112.5 sn = 11
bri563Common11not enough datan = 113.4 sn = 11
cap646Common11not enough datan = 111.9 sn = 11
che109Common11not enough datan = 113.4 sn = 11
cie975Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 8
cur550Common11not enough datan = 112.4 sn = 11
dae412Common11not enough datan = 112.4 sn = 10
dia222Common11not enough datan = 112.4 sn = 11
dra577Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 10
ear312Common11not enough datan = 111.8 sn = 11
elo596Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
erg643Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
exp771Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
gat564Common11not enough datan = 111.9 sn = 11
han279Common11not enough datan = 114.1 sn = 11
har243Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 11
hoo762Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 11
ian72Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
ict788Common11not enough datan = 113.7 sn = 10
ida174Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 11
ink928Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
iou280Common11not enough datan = 112.4 sn = 9
ita203Common11not enough datan = 112.4 sn = 10
lab595Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 11
lac358Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
lat46Common11not enough datan = 113.5 sn = 11
les60Common11not enough datan = 112.5 sn = 11
lit52Common11not enough datan = 112.0 sn = 11
lla187Common11not enough datan = 114.5 sn = 10
lop676Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 10
men44Common11not enough datan = 113.7 sn = 11
mot824Common11not enough datan = 112.5 sn = 11
nap996Common11not enough datan = 112.8 sn = 11
nda562Common11not enough datan = 112.8 sn = 11
nst481Common11not enough datan = 112.6 sn = 10
ode485Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
ola391Common11not enough datan = 112.5 sn = 11
ond299Common11not enough datan = 113.4 sn = 11

8,619 of 8,661 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 42 that clear it, solve rates average 97.1% 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.

1,029 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 1,020 of them are the wrong length for the list, which only covers 3-letter fragments; custom games can set any prompt length. The other 9 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.

Prompts · BlackTea Stats