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Scrabbliest Constructors
Sorted by Shortz Era daily puzzle lifetime average
Note: constructors need at least 10 qualifying published puzzles to appear in this list.
Neither Sunday nor rebus puzzles are included in this calculation. Count shows the number of puzzles considered.
Scrabble values: A:1 B:3 C:3 D:2 E:1 F:4 G:2 H:4 I:1 J:8 K:5 L:1 M:3 N:1 O:1 P:3 Q:10 R:1 S:1 T:1 U:1 V:4 W:4 X:8 Y:4 Z:10
| Rank | Author | Lifetime Average | Count | Scrabbliest grid |
| 1. | Peter Wentz | 1.8039 | 33 | Thu Nov 18, 2010 |
| 2. | Will Nediger | 1.7866 | 15 | Tue Apr 29, 2008 |
| 3. | Trenton Charlson | 1.7856 | 14 | Thu Nov 30, 2017 |
| 4. | Sam Ezersky | 1.7213 | 21 | Sat Jul 4, 2015 |
| 5. | Josh Knapp | 1.7011 | 21 | Fri Jun 22, 2012 |
| 6. | Susan Gelfand | 1.6944 | 16 | Mon Aug 27, 2018 |
| 7. | Sam Trabucco | 1.6706 | 18 | Fri Sep 8, 2017 |
| 8. | Mike Nothnagel | 1.6639 | 43 | Fri Dec 22, 2006 |
| 9. | Karen M. Tracey | 1.6605 | 32 | Sat Aug 8, 2009 |
| 10. | Kristian House | 1.6543 | 17 | Wed Feb 3, 2010 |
| 11. | Allan E. Parrish | 1.6535 | 39 | Wed Jul 11, 2012 |
| 12. | Barry C. Silk | 1.6495 | 85 | Sat Sep 6, 2008 |
| 13. | Kevin G. Der | 1.6487 | 26 | Thu Feb 19, 2009 |
| 14. | Damon J. Gulczynski | 1.6474 | 33 | Fri Sep 15, 2017 |
| 15. | Stanley Newman | 1.6437 | 21 | Wed Jan 26, 2005 |
| 16. | Frances Hansen | 1.6411 | 22 | Wed Mar 15, 1995 |
| 17. | Kevin Christian | 1.6411 | 10 | Wed May 22, 2013 |
| 18. | Shannon Burns | 1.6397 | 10 | Fri Mar 13, 1998 |
| 19. | John Farmer | 1.6396 | 30 | Wed Feb 20, 2013 |
| 20. | Edward Sessa | 1.6394 | 32 | Tue Oct 11, 2011 |
| 21. | Joel Fagliano | 1.6390 | 40 | Mon Jun 28, 2010 |
| 22. | David Steinberg | 1.6386 | 74 | Tue Feb 4, 2014 |
| 23. | Samuel A. Donaldson | 1.6378 | 24 | Wed Mar 19, 2014 |
| 24. | Brendan Emmett Quigley | 1.6362 | 123 | Tue Apr 24, 2007 |
| 25. | Julian Lim | 1.6349 | 20 | Thu Dec 27, 2012 |
| 26. | Stella Daily | 1.6337 | 11 | Wed Sep 19, 2007 |
| 27. | Dan Schoenholz | 1.6335 | 11 | Tue Dec 1, 2015 |
| 28. | Ian Livengood | 1.6330 | 45 | Fri Jun 28, 2013 |
| 29. | Doug Peterson | 1.6330 | 26 | Sat Feb 8, 2014 |
| 30. | Erik Agard | 1.6329 | 28 | Fri Mar 23, 2018 |
| 31. | Adam Cohen | 1.6315 | 19 | Wed Oct 4, 2006 |
| 32. | Michael Hawkins | 1.6311 | 12 | Mon May 19, 2014 |
| 33. | Todd McClary | 1.6309 | 11 | Thu Feb 23, 2006 |
| 34. | Jeff Chen | 1.6290 | 34 | Tue May 7, 2013 |
| 35. | Kelly Clark | 1.6287 | 14 | Tue Jan 19, 1999 |
| 36. | Patrick Jordan | 1.6285 | 16 | Tue Jul 25, 2000 |
| 37. | Timothy Polin | 1.6261 | 38 | Thu Nov 20, 2014 |
| 38. | Mel Taub | 1.6256 | 10 | Wed Aug 24, 2005 |
| 39. | John Guzzetta | 1.6242 | 22 | Mon Jan 5, 2015 |
| 40. | Andrea Carla Michaels | 1.6233 | 42 | Mon Sep 15, 2014 |
| 41. | Mark Elliot Skolsky | 1.6229 | 12 | Wed Apr 2, 1997 |
| 42. | Jim Hilger | 1.6226 | 11 | Mon Nov 19, 2018 |
| 43. | joon pahk | 1.6204 | 19 | Thu Jun 9, 2011 |
| 44. | Caleb Madison | 1.6196 | 23 | Tue Jun 23, 2009 |
| 45. | Michael Shteyman | 1.6193 | 41 | Mon Jan 14, 2002 |
| 46. | Oliver Hill | 1.6175 | 13 | Tue Oct 2, 2007 |
| 47. | Ross Trudeau | 1.6163 | 14 | Wed Nov 6, 2019 |
| 48. | Tom McCoy | 1.6147 | 15 | Wed Dec 10, 2014 |
| 49. | David Quarfoot | 1.6103 | 35 | Fri Jun 10, 2005 |
| 50. | Paolo Pasco | 1.6093 | 12 | Fri Dec 8, 2017 |
| 51. | Mary Lou Guizzo | 1.6078 | 18 | Sat Sep 30, 2017 |
| 52. | Andrew Zhou | 1.6078 | 13 | Thu Nov 11, 2010 |
| 53. | Tracy Gray | 1.6076 | 16 | Wed Jan 25, 2017 |
| 54. | Lynn Lempel | 1.6073 | 81 | Mon Oct 22, 2007 |
| 55. | Henry Hook | 1.6062 | 18 | Wed Jan 23, 2008 |
| 56. | Matt Gaffney | 1.6058 | 44 | Sat Nov 14, 1998 |
| 57. | Patrick Merrell | 1.6054 | 61 | Mon Dec 28, 2009 |
| 58. | Alex Vratsanos | 1.6021 | 13 | Wed Apr 22, 2015 |
| 59. | Kyle Mahowald | 1.6020 | 14 | Wed Feb 17, 2016 |
| 60. | Tyler Hinman | 1.5999 | 19 | Wed Nov 26, 2003 |
| 61. | Thomas W. Schier | 1.5998 | 17 | Mon Aug 1, 1994 |
| 62. | Roy Leban | 1.5996 | 10 | Wed Feb 4, 2004 |
| 63. | Lee Glickstein | 1.5994 | 18 | Tue Dec 27, 2005 |
| 64. | Natan Last | 1.5994 | 23 | Fri Aug 14, 2015 |
| 65. | Janet R. Bender | 1.5992 | 26 | Mon Feb 14, 2005 |
| 66. | Mike Buckley | 1.5990 | 13 | Mon Feb 28, 2011 |
| 67. | John Lieb | 1.5975 | 11 | Sat Jun 7, 2014 |
| 68. | Daniel Raymon | 1.5967 | 11 | Wed Sep 6, 2017 |
| 69. | Brad Wilber | 1.5965 | 33 | Sat Mar 26, 2011 |
| 70. | David Kwong | 1.5937 | 11 | Tue May 10, 2016 |
| 71. | James Mulhern | 1.5932 | 22 | Sat Dec 26, 2015 |
| 72. | Alan Arbesfeld | 1.5928 | 89 | Tue Aug 28, 2001 |
| 73. | Arthur S. Verdesca | 1.5928 | 13 | Tue Aug 2, 1994 |
| 74. | Patrick Blindauer | 1.5918 | 40 | Thu Apr 9, 2009 |
| 75. | Raymond Hamel | 1.5917 | 23 | Mon May 30, 1994 |
| 76. | Jacob Stulberg | 1.5909 | 21 | Wed Dec 9, 2015 |
| 77. | Norma Steinberg | 1.5907 | 16 | Mon Jun 14, 1999 |
| 78. | Frederick J. Healy | 1.5904 | 14 | Sat Nov 23, 2013 |
| 79. | Michael Vuolo | 1.5883 | 13 | Thu Dec 18, 2008 |
| 80. | Bruce Haight | 1.5875 | 46 | Mon Mar 30, 2015 |
| 81. | Joe DiPietro | 1.5874 | 98 | Fri Aug 15, 1997 |
| 82. | Nancy Salomon | 1.5863 | 97 | Tue Jan 30, 2007 |
| 83. | Jeffrey Wechsler | 1.5848 | 18 | Thu Apr 20, 2017 |
| 84. | Gareth Bain | 1.5837 | 12 | Mon Oct 29, 2012 |
| 85. | Peter Gordon | 1.5835 | 82 | Thu Dec 10, 1998 |
| 86. | Byron Walden | 1.5834 | 70 | Sat Mar 3, 2012 |
| 87. | David Levinson Wilk | 1.5834 | 17 | Tue Nov 7, 2000 |
| 88. | Ned White | 1.5823 | 24 | Sat May 5, 2012 |
| 89. | John Underwood | 1.5820 | 14 | Thu Dec 18, 2003 |
| 90. | Mark Diehl | 1.5812 | 60 | Wed Jan 1, 1997 |
| 91. | Nancy Kavanaugh | 1.5812 | 26 | Tue Jun 11, 2002 |
| 92. | Paula Gamache | 1.5811 | 76 | Mon May 2, 2016 |
| 93. | Robyn Weintraub | 1.5811 | 23 | Tue Mar 24, 2015 |
| 94. | Chuck Deodene | 1.5809 | 41 | Fri Aug 4, 1995 |
| 95. | Jules P. Markey | 1.5804 | 16 | Wed Nov 27, 2013 |
| 96. | Cathy Allis | 1.5799 | 44 | Thu Jun 22, 1995 |
| 97. | Lois Sidway | 1.5797 | 17 | Tue Oct 25, 1994 |
| 98. | Bernice Gordon | 1.5791 | 19 | Tue Jan 9, 1996 |
| 99. | Jim Hyres | 1.5766 | 20 | Tue May 29, 2007 |
| 100. | Elizabeth A. Long | 1.5765 | 11 | Mon Nov 29, 2010 |