0.19.13-alpha

Skill ranking no longer hands the name bonus to filler words.

Skill names are kebab-case, so every word in one counted as a full match — including a filler word. In a 218-skill library with sat in 19 names, api in 25, for in 14. Each was worth ten points, while a genuinely relevant hit in the description scored one, so a question containing "with" ranked nineteen unrelated skills above the one that answered it.

A word shared by more than five percent of all skill names no longer earns the bonus. The share calibrates itself against the library at hand rather than against a hand-kept list of stop words, which would be wrong again in the next language. A name hit is never worth less than a description hit, so a skill that merely mentions a word in passing cannot overtake the ones that carry it in their name.

Measured on a real 218-skill library, 30 questions across two languages: 26/30 → 29/30, with nothing that worked before getting worse.

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