# How to disable score calculation to improve performance (fuzzy queries)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-score-calculation-to-improve-performance-fuzzy-queries/317729>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 29, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-score-calculation-to-improve-performance-fuzzy-queries/317729 "2022-10-29T13:20:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giorgos\_Katiforis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/giorgos_katiforis/32/100083_2.png) [@Giorgos\_Katiforis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Giorgos_Katiforis)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-score-calculation-to-improve-performance-fuzzy-queries/317729/1 "2022-10-29T13:20:50Z")

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Hello,

I would like to know if there is a way to disable the score calculation in Elasticsearch. I am running match queries with fuzziness 2 and I have noticed (using profile )it consumes a lot of time in `build_scorer`. In my use case, I don't need the scoring information.

My query:

`{"profile": true,"query":{"bool":{"filter":[{"match":{"names":{"query":"name1 name2 name3","operator":"AND","fuzziness":"2","fuzzy_rewrite":"constant_score"}}}]}},"_source":{"includes":["id"]}}`

Profile results:

```auto
"query": [
                                    {
                                        "type": "BoostQuery",
                                        "description": "(ConstantScore(+namesCombined:name1~2 +namesCombined:name2~2 +namesCombined:name3~2))^0.0",
                                        "time_in_nanos": 1379850,
                                        "breakdown": {
                                            "set_min_competitive_score_count": 0,
                                            "match_count": 0,
                                            "shallow_advance_count": 0,
                                            "set_min_competitive_score": 0,
                                            "next_doc": 1591,
                                            "match": 0,
                                            "next_doc_count": 1,
                                            "score_count": 1,
                                            "compute_max_score_count": 0,
                                            "compute_max_score": 0,
                                            "advance": 4734,
                                            "advance_count": 1,
                                            "score": 26,
                                            "build_scorer_count": 2,
                                            "create_weight": 7418,
                                            "shallow_advance": 0,
                                            "create_weight_count": 1,
                                            "build_scorer": 1366081
                                        },

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-score-calculation-to-improve-performance-fuzzy-queries/317729/2 "2022-11-26T13:21:40Z")

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