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I also like to start with a single vowel. I feel consonants are more important for getting it in 3. My goals are mainly to get it in 3 as often as I can, and to never lose.

Also nice to not have the E in position 5, where it's more likely to be green - early greens can put you into a "trap" where you can get unlucky and lose in hard mode. In standard mode you can get out of traps with a filler word, but in hard mode there can just be more possibilities than you have guesses available.

I just tried STERN on today’s Wordle. I got today’s word on the second guess. STERN is listed at 92. I don’t know how SLATE would have helped me today but it was the most popular per WordleBot.

I begin with AGILE quite often, it's an 'anti-word' (? XOR word) that works about as well as the famous starter words.