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
8,678
41,134 attempts · solo practice
Objectively rated
7,648
of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 1,030 unrated
Enough data to rate
43
min 20 attempts · next best has 19
Median solve time
2.7 s
n = 39,588 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: 43 of 8,678 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 · 9,028 attemptsFamiliarsyll 1,001–2,5001,490 / 1,500served at least once · 8,367 attemptsUncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,968 / 2,000served at least once · 7,966 attemptsRaresyll 4,501–7,0002,405 / 2,500served at least once · 8,565 attemptsBrutalsyll 7,001+785 / 2,217served at least once · 6,031 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
1–1,0001,0009,0288,73996.8%3.0 s (n=8,739)
1,001–2,0009936,0005,78096.3%2.6 s (n=5,780)
2,001–3,0009914,6474,50697.0%2.6 s (n=4,506)
3,001–4,0009833,6863,54696.2%2.6 s (n=3,546)
4,001–5,0009834,0543,87695.6%2.3 s (n=3,876)
5,001–6,0009663,5393,31993.8%2.5 s (n=3,319)
6,001–7,0009472,9722,89397.3%2.5 s (n=2,893)
7,001–8,0007045,9505,86798.6%2.6 s (n=5,867)
8,001–9,00053533973.6%7.5 s (n=39)
9,001–9,21728282796.4%2.1 s (n=27)

Every prompt

1,968 matching · sorted by attempts

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Prompts with objective difficulty, attempts, solve rate and median solve time
PromptsyllAttemptsSolve rateMedian solve
bug2,715Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.4 sn = 6
ccl2,738Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.5 sn = 6
ccr3,509Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.9 sn = 6
cew3,702Uncommon6not enough datan = 610.0 sn = 4
chf3,583Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.7 sn = 6
ckh3,051Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.9 sn = 6
ckt3,164Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.8 sn = 6
cok4,471Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.7 sn = 6
cuc3,342Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.3 sn = 6
dah3,528Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.8 sn = 6
dap2,502Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.5 sn = 6
dbe3,974Uncommon6not enough datan = 63.6 sn = 5
dbi4,299Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.5 sn = 6
dik3,498Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.4 sn = 6
doe2,711Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.9 sn = 6
dsp3,874Uncommon6not enough datan = 69.8 sn = 6
dui4,195Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.9 sn = 6
dvi3,379Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
dvo4,224Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.9 sn = 6
dwo2,882Uncommon6not enough datan = 63.4 sn = 6
dyi3,180Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.1 sn = 6
eea4,057Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.8 sn = 5
egm2,604Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.7 sn = 6
eic2,529Uncommon6not enough datan = 613.9 sn = 5
eif3,120Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
eio2,990Uncommon6not enough datan = 65.8 sn = 5
eje3,029Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.7 sn = 6
eka3,633Uncommon6not enough datan = 66.2 sn = 4
elb3,339Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.6 sn = 5
eoi3,292Uncommon6not enough datan = 65.8 sn = 6
epp2,912Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.5 sn = 6
euk3,429Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
euv4,180Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.3 sn = 6
ewd4,403Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
exs3,360Uncommon6not enough datan = 65.5 sn = 6
eyl3,881Uncommon6not enough datan = 64.1 sn = 5
fab2,783Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.8 sn = 6
feo4,186Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.9 sn = 6
ffu2,632Uncommon6not enough datan = 63.0 sn = 6
fty4,255Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.8 sn = 6
fuc3,863Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.4 sn = 6
gbe4,361Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.5 sn = 6
gfu4,210Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
ggo4,049Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.9 sn = 6
gig2,751Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.1 sn = 5
giv2,859Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.0 sn = 6
gry4,221Uncommon6not enough datan = 62.2 sn = 6
gth3,398Uncommon6not enough datan = 67.4 sn = 5
gub4,468Uncommon6not enough datan = 63.6 sn = 6
gyl4,425Uncommon6not enough datan = 61.5 sn = 6

8,635 of 8,678 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 43 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.

1,030 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 1,021 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.

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