[dredmorbius]

I've used that strategy on 100s of standard Wordle games to good effect. It's not perfect, but it solves ~98-99% of all games attempted.

(That stat comes from one of the multi-play Wordle imitations which does in fact track success rates.)

I don't recall mean attempts, though I believe it's still between 3-4 tries.

Once most characters are tested, it's usually pretty clear what the actual word is, and some familiarity with the actual wordlist (which I picked up merely by playing the game, not by examining source), the harder cases also become pretty obvious.

Doubled letters and anagrams are the most difficult cases.