🏆 Hexdle Leaderboard
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🎲 Roll todayHow the Hexdle leaderboard works
One thing decides your place on the Hexdle leaderboard: the number of guesses it took you to name the day's hex code. There is no luck to launder, because everybody is handed the same colour at midnight UTC. A Hexdle leaderboard full of two- and three-guess solves is a board of people who bisected the digits well, and finishing earlier in the day wins any tie.
Boards in progress stay invisible. Your row is published the moment you solve the colour or spend your fifth guess, which means nobody can watch you close in, and a board you walk away from unfinished never reaches the Hexdle leaderboard at all.
What it takes to place on today's Hexdle leaderboard
Most Hexdle solvers land on four guesses, so three is usually enough for the upper half of the Hexdle leaderboard and two will normally put you near the top. Here is the whole scale that every Hexdle result is converted through:
| Solved in | Typically | EP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 guess | a screenshot | 6,000 |
| 2 guesses | top of the board | 5,000 |
| 3 guesses | upper half | 4,000 |
| 4 guesses | the usual result | 3,000 |
| 5 guesses | a narrow escape | 2,000 |
| not solved | scored on your closest colour | 0 – 1,000 |
The gap between rows is flat — every guess you save is worth exactly 1,000 EP — so there is no point agonising over whether a near-certain fourth guess is worth the risk of a fifth. Play the guess that halves the remaining range and take the Hexdle leaderboard row you get. Hexdle does not reward hesitation and it does not punish a brave guess that misses.
Reading a row on the Hexdle leaderboard
Each row on the Hexdle leaderboard carries four things. The swatch and hex code show the colour that player was chasing, which is the day's answer and therefore identical down the whole board. The guess count is the Hexdle result. The EP is that count converted to points. The name is whatever the player set, or an anonymous label if they never set one.
Rows can be liked, and a liked row is how a genuinely improbable solve gets noticed — a player who opened with a lucky guess and finished in one will usually collect more likes in a day than the rest of the Hexdle leaderboard combined. Your own row is highlighted wherever it lands, so you never have to search the list for yourself.
How to climb the Hexdle leaderboard
The skill ceiling in Hexdle is lower than it looks, which is good news: almost all of the difference between a two-guess Hexdle solve and a five-guess scramble comes from three habits, and none of them take practice to adopt.
Open with a middle guess, every time
888888 sits in the centre of all six ranges at once. Whatever the arrows say, you have halved every digit. Hexdle players who open with a colour they like instead — a favourite blue, say — throw away most of the information the first guess could have bought them, and it shows in where they finish on the Hexdle leaderboard.
Do the bisection arithmetic, not the vibe
After two Hexdle guesses each digit usually has four candidates left. Pick the value in the middle of that range rather than the one that makes the swatch look closer to what you imagine the answer to be. The percentage beside each row is a real distance measurement; your sense of what a colour ought to look like is not.
Play near the reset if you can
Ties break on time, so among the many Hexdle players who will solve today's colour in three guesses, the ones who played in the first hours rank above the ones who played at teatime. It is the only part of your Hexdle leaderboard position that costs nothing but timing.
What today's Hexdle leaderboard tells you about the puzzle
The distribution of guess counts is a better description of a Hexdle puzzle than any adjective. When the Hexdle leaderboard is stacked with three-guess solves, the colour was one with digits near the ends of their ranges — lots of 0s, 1s, E and F — because those resolve quickly once the first arrow points outward. When the board is full of fives, the answer was middling in several channels at once and every guess bought less.
That is also why comparing your Hexdle result against yesterday's is close to meaningless, and comparing it against today's board is not. Everyone on the Hexdle leaderboard fought the same colour with the same five guesses, which makes the daily board the only honest measure of how you played.
The week, all-time and badge boards
Today is one of four Hexdle leaderboard views. This week adds up seven days of EP, so a single brilliant board matters less than never missing one — the surest route onto it is simply finishing every puzzle, since even a five-guess win banks 2,000. All-time does the same over your whole history and rewards nothing but longevity. Badges steps outside this game entirely and ranks collectors across the site, so a Hexdle regular who never touches RNGdle will find that board harder to move.
Finishing a Hexdle board also keeps the streak you carry across every game here, and the streak is the statistic most players end up caring about. New to the puzzle? The how to play guide explains what the arrows mean and why the opening guess matters so much.
Other daily leaderboards
Every game here has its own board, all resetting together at midnight UTC, and one streak runs across all of them.
Hexdle leaderboard FAQ
How does the Hexdle ranking work?
Purely by how few guesses you needed. A one-guess solve is worth 6,000 EP and each extra guess costs 1,000, so solving in two beats solving in three no matter who played first. An unsolved board still scores, based on how near your closest colour got.
Two players both solved it in three — who goes higher?
Whoever finished earlier in the day. Both boards are worth the same EP, so the clock is the only tie-break, which quietly rewards playing soon after the reset.
Is it the same colour for everyone on the board?
Yes, and that is the point. The colour comes from the date, so nobody gets an easier target and a three-guess solve means the same thing for every player listed.
Does an unfinished board show up?
No. A board only joins the ranking once you have solved it or used your last guess, so leaving the tab open mid-puzzle never leaks your progress to other players.
What do the week, all-time and badge views show here?
This week totals the EP you earned over the past seven days, all-time totals it over every day you have played, and the badge view ranks collectors across the whole site rather than this game alone.
Why does the Hexdle leaderboard show a colour next to each row?
Because it is the one detail that makes the day's board readable at a glance: every row shows the answer's colour, so you can tell instantly whether the puzzle everyone struggled with was a muddy brown or a saturated primary.
Can I appear on the Hexdle leaderboard without signing in?
Yes. Finishing a board is the only requirement, and the name you set is kept in this browser. An account matters only if you want the same row to follow you to a phone or a second computer.
Is there a way to practise before the day's board?
Not for Hexdle — there is one colour a day and no archive, deliberately. What does transfer is the method: bisecting sixteen values per digit is the same skill every day, so a week of play is worth more than any warm-up.