As is life, as is Wordcels — some people like to keep score. Wordcels scoring is based on the number of moves you make to get to the solution. The fewer the moves, the better the score.

The score panel can be opened by tapping it. If you prefer not to know, tap again and you can just enjoy the solve with no pressure.

When any word already on the game board changes cells, one move is counted.

When a word in the wordbank moves, no move is counted, even if the word is moved to the gameboard. Hard mode has no word bank.

If each word dragged from the word bank to the game board lands in the correct position on first try, you can obtain a perfect score of zero.

Many people organize words in the wordbank first before moving them to the gameboard. In standard mode, the "Go All In" feature ↑↑↑ makes the final step easy.

In hard mode, the score is handicapped as the minimum number of swaps required to solve the puzzle. By clever use of the sliders, it is sometimes possible to achieve a negative score.

If one word on the game board is placed on top of another word on the game board, the two words swap places, and one move is counted. Swapping game board words with word bank words costs one move.

If three words tied together in a group is moved or swapped with other words on the game board, it counts as one move.

Using the slider bars on the right-side of each row, you can slide an entire row, containing zero to five words, up (or down), pushing one or both other rows down (or up) at cost of one move.