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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 | 1.8023 | 35 | Thu Nov 18, 2010 |
| 2. | Will Nediger | 1.7866 | 15 | Tue Apr 29, 2008 |
| 3. | Trenton Charlson | 1.7575 | 22 | Thu Nov 30, 2017 |
| 4. | Sam Ezersky | 1.7116 | 23 | 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. | Brian Thomas | 1.6850 | 10 | Mon Dec 17, 2018 |
| 8. | Mike Nothnagel | 1.6639 | 43 | Fri Dec 22, 2006 |
| 9. | Sam Trabucco | 1.6636 | 19 | Fri Sep 8, 2017 |
| 10. | Karen M. Tracey | 1.6605 | 32 | Sat Aug 8, 2009 |
| 11. | Allan E. Parrish | 1.6535 | 39 | Wed Jul 11, 2012 |
| 12. | Kristian House | 1.6533 | 19 | Wed Feb 3, 2010 |
| 13. | Barry C. Silk | 1.6495 | 85 | Sat Sep 6, 2008 |
| 14. | Kevin G. Der | 1.6494 | 27 | Thu Feb 19, 2009 |
| 15. | Damon J. Gulczynski | 1.6469 | 35 | Fri Sep 15, 2017 |
| 16. | Matthew Sewell | 1.6420 | 10 | Wed Jan 18, 2017 |
| 17. | Frances Hansen | 1.6411 | 22 | Wed Mar 15, 1995 |
| 18. | Stanley Newman | 1.6411 | 22 | Wed Jan 26, 2005 |
| 19. | Michael Hawkins | 1.6398 | 13 | Mon May 19, 2014 |
| 20. | Shannon Burns | 1.6397 | 10 | Fri Mar 13, 1998 |
| 21. | John Farmer | 1.6396 | 30 | Wed Feb 20, 2013 |
| 22. | David Steinberg | 1.6395 | 75 | Tue Feb 4, 2014 |
| 23. | Joel Fagliano | 1.6394 | 42 | Mon Jun 28, 2010 |
| 24. | Julian Lim | 1.6381 | 21 | Thu Dec 27, 2012 |
| 25. | Samuel A. Donaldson | 1.6378 | 24 | Wed Mar 19, 2014 |
| 26. | Doug Peterson | 1.6367 | 27 | Sat Feb 8, 2014 |
| 27. | Brendan Emmett Quigley | 1.6364 | 124 | Tue Apr 24, 2007 |
| 28. | Edward Sessa | 1.6360 | 36 | Tue Oct 11, 2011 |
| 29. | Dan Schoenholz | 1.6335 | 11 | Tue Dec 1, 2015 |
| 30. | Ian Livengood | 1.6330 | 45 | Fri Jun 28, 2013 |
| 31. | Adam Cohen | 1.6315 | 19 | Wed Oct 4, 2006 |
| 32. | Todd McClary | 1.6309 | 11 | Thu Feb 23, 2006 |
| 33. | Kevin Christian | 1.6302 | 11 | Wed May 22, 2013 |
| 34. | Andrea Carla Michaels | 1.6295 | 45 | Mon Sep 15, 2014 |
| 35. | Kelly Clark | 1.6287 | 14 | Tue Jan 19, 1999 |
| 36. | Patrick Jordan | 1.6285 | 16 | Tue Jul 25, 2000 |
| 37. | Timothy Polin | 1.6258 | 41 | Thu Nov 20, 2014 |
| 38. | Mel Taub | 1.6256 | 10 | Wed Aug 24, 2005 |
| 39. | Jeff Chen | 1.6246 | 36 | Tue May 7, 2013 |
| 40. | Mark Elliot Skolsky | 1.6229 | 12 | Wed Apr 2, 1997 |
| 41. | Jim Hilger | 1.6226 | 11 | Mon Nov 19, 2018 |
| 42. | Joon Pahk | 1.6204 | 19 | Thu Jun 9, 2011 |
| 43. | Caleb Madison | 1.6196 | 23 | Tue Jun 23, 2009 |
| 44. | Michael Shteyman | 1.6193 | 41 | Mon Jan 14, 2002 |
| 45. | John Guzzetta | 1.6175 | 30 | Mon Jan 5, 2015 |
| 46. | Oliver Hill | 1.6175 | 13 | Tue Oct 2, 2007 |
| 47. | Ross Trudeau | 1.6158 | 21 | Wed Nov 6, 2019 |
| 48. | Erik Agard | 1.6156 | 38 | Fri Mar 23, 2018 |
| 49. | Tom McCoy | 1.6147 | 15 | Wed Dec 10, 2014 |
| 50. | Mary Lou Guizzo | 1.6132 | 20 | Sat Sep 30, 2017 |
| 51. | Stella Zawistowski | 1.6107 | 15 | Wed Sep 19, 2007 |
| 52. | Neville Fogarty | 1.6105 | 10 | Tue Dec 8, 2015 |
| 53. | David Quarfoot | 1.6103 | 35 | Fri Jun 10, 2005 |
| 54. | Daniel Raymon | 1.6080 | 12 | Wed Sep 6, 2017 |
| 55. | Andrew Zhou | 1.6078 | 13 | Thu Nov 11, 2010 |
| 56. | Tracy Gray | 1.6070 | 18 | Wed Jan 25, 2017 |
| 57. | Lynn Lempel | 1.6067 | 87 | Mon Oct 22, 2007 |
| 58. | Henry Hook | 1.6062 | 18 | Wed Jan 23, 2008 |
| 59. | Matt Gaffney | 1.6058 | 44 | Sat Nov 14, 1998 |
| 60. | Evan Kalish | 1.6055 | 12 | Mon Nov 11, 2019 |
| 61. | Patrick Merrell | 1.6054 | 61 | Mon Dec 28, 2009 |
| 62. | Paolo Pasco | 1.6046 | 13 | Fri Dec 8, 2017 |
| 63. | Alex Vratsanos | 1.6021 | 13 | Wed Apr 22, 2015 |
| 64. | Kyle Mahowald | 1.6020 | 14 | Wed Feb 17, 2016 |
| 65. | Tyler Hinman | 1.5999 | 19 | Wed Nov 26, 2003 |
| 66. | Thomas W. Schier | 1.5998 | 17 | Mon Aug 1, 1994 |
| 67. | Roy Leban | 1.5996 | 10 | Wed Feb 4, 2004 |
| 68. | Natan Last | 1.5994 | 24 | Fri Aug 14, 2015 |
| 69. | Lee Glickstein | 1.5994 | 18 | Tue Dec 27, 2005 |
| 70. | Janet R. Bender | 1.5992 | 26 | Mon Feb 14, 2005 |
| 71. | Mike Buckley | 1.5990 | 13 | Mon Feb 28, 2011 |
| 72. | Amanda Chung | 1.5960 | 10 | Tue Nov 3, 2020 |
| 73. | Brad Wilber | 1.5948 | 34 | Sat Mar 26, 2011 |
| 74. | David Kwong | 1.5937 | 11 | Tue May 10, 2016 |
| 75. | James Mulhern | 1.5932 | 22 | Sat Dec 26, 2015 |
| 76. | Arthur S. Verdesca | 1.5928 | 13 | Tue Aug 2, 1994 |
| 77. | Alan Arbesfeld | 1.5926 | 93 | Tue Aug 28, 2001 |
| 78. | Patrick Blindauer | 1.5918 | 40 | Thu Apr 9, 2009 |
| 79. | Raymond Hamel | 1.5917 | 23 | Mon May 30, 1994 |
| 80. | Jacob Stulberg | 1.5916 | 23 | Wed Dec 9, 2015 |
| 81. | Norma Steinberg | 1.5907 | 16 | Mon Jun 14, 1999 |
| 82. | John Lieb | 1.5907 | 12 | Sat Jun 7, 2014 |
| 83. | Frederick J. Healy | 1.5904 | 14 | Sat Nov 23, 2013 |
| 84. | Bruce Haight | 1.5903 | 49 | Mon Mar 30, 2015 |
| 85. | David Levinson Wilk | 1.5889 | 18 | Tue Nov 7, 2000 |
| 86. | Ryan McCarty | 1.5885 | 17 | Sat Jul 7, 2018 |
| 87. | Michael Vuolo | 1.5883 | 13 | Thu Dec 18, 2008 |
| 88. | Joe DiPietro | 1.5883 | 100 | Fri Aug 15, 1997 |
| 89. | Nancy Salomon | 1.5863 | 97 | Tue Jan 30, 2007 |
| 90. | Robyn Weintraub | 1.5857 | 31 | Tue Mar 24, 2015 |
| 91. | Jeffrey Wechsler | 1.5848 | 18 | Thu Apr 20, 2017 |
| 92. | Byron Walden | 1.5842 | 72 | Sat Mar 3, 2012 |
| 93. | Peter Gordon | 1.5836 | 85 | Thu Dec 10, 1998 |
| 94. | Ned White | 1.5823 | 24 | Sat May 5, 2012 |
| 95. | John Underwood | 1.5820 | 14 | Thu Dec 18, 2003 |
| 96. | Gareth Bain | 1.5820 | 13 | Mon Oct 29, 2012 |
| 97. | Nancy Kavanaugh | 1.5812 | 26 | Tue Jun 11, 2002 |
| 98. | Paula Gamache | 1.5811 | 76 | Mon May 2, 2016 |
| 99. | Chuck Deodene | 1.5809 | 41 | Fri Aug 4, 1995 |
| 100. | Mark Diehl | 1.5806 | 61 | Wed Jan 1, 1997 |