Wordle: Canberra Australia is world’s best at the piuzzle

This Aussie city has topped the WORLD for most correct guesses on Wordle – and three more made the top ten

  • Canberra is the best city in the world at the popular online puzzle game Wordle 
  • Wordle players are have to solve a mystery five letter word in six guesses or less
  • Canberra has the lowest average guesses of all the cities in the world with 3.59 
  • Perth and Melbourne both averaged at 3.70 guesses placing sixth and seventh
  • Adelaide was right behind them coming in at eighth with 3.71 average guesses 


Canberra has been crowned the best city in the world at the popular puzzle, Wordle and three more Australian capitals made it into the top ten.  

Wordle players are challenged to solve a mystery five letter word in six guesses or less and according to Word Tip, Canberra has topped the list of lowest average guesses with just 3.59. 

Not far behind was Perth and Melbourne who came in at equal sixth and seventh place and both averaged 3.70 guesses, and Adelaide was right behind ranking eighth with 3.71. 

Canberra has been crowned the best city in the world at the popular online word game Wordle while Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide also made it into the top ten

Wordle players are challenged to solve a mystery five letter word in six guesses or less and according to Word Tip, Canberra has topped the list of lowest average guesses with just 3.59

Wordle players are challenged to solve a mystery five letter word in six guesses or less and according to Word Tip, Canberra has topped the list of lowest average guesses with just 3.59 

While it didn’t make it onto the top ten, Sydney has an impressive average guess rate of 3.75.

Brisbane has an average of 3.95 while the people on the Gold Coast solve their  Wordles in 4.2 guesses. 

Sweden is the best country in the world at Wordle and Australia ranked at number four globally with an average 3.80 guesses behind Denmark and Finland. 

Australia is the second country Wordle went viral in after taking off in New Zealand last December. 

Word Tip gathered the data based on 139,940 tweets with the hashtag #wordle and discovered the worldwide average is 3.919. 

Top 10 global cities that the the best at solving Wordle 

1. Canberra, Australia – 3.58

2. Jerusalem, Israel – 3.63

3.  Malmö, Sweden – 3.66

4. Durban, South Africa – 3.66

5. Paris, France – 3.69

6. Perth, Australia – 3.70

7. Melbourne, Australia – 3.70

8. Adelaide, Australia – 3.71

9. Manila, Philippines – 3.72

10. Geneva, Switzerland – 3.72

Source: Word Tips