nyt-crossword-stats reviews and mentions

• Hi all - I’m convinced my wife is an expert NYT solver but she’s very modest. She completed 3/5 in 18 minutes. Sunday best was 13:40. Monday best was 3:07. How does she compare?
  1 project | /r/crossword | 6 Mar 2023

  XWStats is a great resource for advanced tracking of your own stats as well as comparisons to others. Go to a given puzzle's individual page to see the median solve time for that day - for example, the median solve time for Sunday 3/5 was 20:57. (Note that the site can only track times among those who have created XWStats accounts, which I imagine is a pretty dedicated group of crossword nerds, so the median solve time among the general population is likely much higher.)

• Anyone know much about how/if NYT (or other outlets) uses data to model puzzle difficulty or predict completion rate?
  1 project | /r/crossword | 17 Sep 2022

  I kind of doubt it, but XW stats does try to track this through user input. I suppose someone could try to train a model to compare new puzzles to ones in the database for an estimate of difficulty.

• How do I solve NYT without… being an American.
  1 project | /r/crossword | 2 Mar 2022

  Yeah, I do notice my solve times going down in https://xwstats.com, and I do recognize more names and brands as I go (way slower than I'd want to, but still). Maybe someday I won't have to look much up, but that's pretty unlikely. I'll stop looking stuff up if it starts to feel like it would be more fun like that.

• Assessing a crossword puzzle's difficulty using data
  1 project | /r/crossword | 10 Jan 2022

  Hey r/crossword, this is Matt from XW Stats!

• The Hardest and Easiest New York Times Crossword Puzzles of 2021
  1 project | /r/crossword | 2 Jan 2022

  Using the solve times of hundreds of XW Stats users, I was able to produce a list of the hardest and easiest puzzles of the year. This blog post describes more about the method if you're curious, but here are the lists.

• Statistics Export
  1 project | /r/crossword | 4 May 2021

  I used https://github.com/mattdodge/nyt-crossword-stats to download my stats.

• Solve time progression for NYT Monday crosswords (info in comments — hopefully some inspiration for some of you)
  1 project | /r/crossword | 20 Apr 2021

  There are nyt xword APIs online that should do the trick, here’s one: https://github.com/mattdodge/nyt-crossword-stats

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