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> I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them.

That's something misleading about this visualisation... It makes it look like you got it more wrong because you have a letter wrong early in the word, even if every letter after it is right.

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I get what you're saying, but the cool path thing is unique paths not correctness of spelling.

Yes, and it’s a very cool way to show that, but they turned it into a game where you want to get the spelling right.

Play it again and try to guess the most common erroneous spelling.

Agreed, I would have loved to see it more like a detour along the correct spelling. Almost like a character based diff.

Personally I loved seeing the veering path for M. Night Shyamalan: https://imgur.com/a/Es5Q0nQ. Everybody said "There's a Y here somewhere," and veered off at a different point.

But a detour-based viz would have also looked cool: just a bunch of Y's stacked above the name, each one a different attempted insertion point.