diff --git a/dist/commonjs/atomic.d.ts b/dist/commonjs/atomic.d.ts
index 4586faa..e88c7e6 100644
--- a/dist/commonjs/atomic.d.ts
+++ b/dist/commonjs/atomic.d.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ export interface StringComparisonOptions {
      * Useful when only the differences in content are important, but not the order of the content
      * */
     reorder?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * When `reorder` is used this determines how to split each string into the tokens that will be reordered.
+     *
+     * The value of this property is used in String.split() -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split#separator
+     *
+     * @default " "
+     * */
+    delimiter?: string | RegExp;
 }
 export interface StringSamenessResult {
     strategies: {
diff --git a/dist/commonjs/index.d.ts b/dist/commonjs/index.d.ts
index 480e7c1..7bf1740 100644
--- a/dist/commonjs/index.d.ts
+++ b/dist/commonjs/index.d.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { ComparisonStrategyResult, StringComparisonOptions, StringSamenessResult
 import { strDefaultTransforms, transforms } from "./normalization/index.js";
 declare const defaultStrategies: import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategy<import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategyResultObject>[];
 declare const stringSameness: (valA: string, valB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => StringSamenessResult;
-export declare const reorderStr: (cleanA: string, cleanB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => string;
+export declare const reorderStr: (strA: string, strB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => [string, string];
 declare const createStringSameness: (defaults: StringComparisonOptions) => (valA: string, valB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => StringSamenessResult;
 declare const strategies: {
     diceStrategy: import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategy<import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategyResultObject>;
diff --git a/dist/commonjs/index.js b/dist/commonjs/index.js
index 67ad753..3c0ba3d 100644
--- a/dist/commonjs/index.js
+++ b/dist/commonjs/index.js
@@ -17,16 +17,18 @@ const defaultStrategies = [
 ];
 exports.defaultStrategies = defaultStrategies;
 const stringSameness = (valA, valB, options) => {
-    const { transforms = index_js_2.strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, reorder = false, } = options || {};
-    const cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valA);
+    const { transforms = index_js_2.strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, reorder = false, delimiter = ' ' } = options || {};
+    let cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valA);
     let cleanB = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valB);
-    const shortest = cleanA.length > cleanB.length ? cleanB : cleanA;
     if (reorder) {
         // we want to ignore order of tokens as much as possible (user does not care about differences in word order, just absolute differences in characters overall)
-        // so we will reorder cleanB so its tokens match the order or tokens in cleanA as closely as possible
+        // so we will reorder the shorter of the two strings so its tokens match the order of tokens in the longer string as closely as possible
         // before we run strategies
-        cleanB = (0, exports.reorderStr)(cleanA, cleanB);
+        const [orderedX, orderedY] = (0, exports.reorderStr)(cleanA, cleanB);
+        cleanA = orderedX;
+        cleanB = orderedY;
     }
+    const shortest = cleanA.length > cleanB.length ? cleanB : cleanA;
     const stratResults = [];
     for (const strat of strategies) {
         if (strat.isValid !== undefined && !strat.isValid(cleanA, cleanB)) {
@@ -60,32 +62,58 @@ const stringSameness = (valA, valB, options) => {
     };
 };
 exports.stringSameness = stringSameness;
-const reorderStr = (cleanA, cleanB, options) => {
-    // to do the reordering we will use stringSameness with the provided strats to match against each token in cleanA and choose the closest token in cleanB
-    // and add the end concat any remaining tokens from cleanB to the reordered string
-    const aTokens = cleanA.split(' ');
-    const bTokens = cleanB.split(' ');
-    const orderedCandidateTokens = aTokens.reduce((acc, curr) => {
+const reorderStr = (strA, strB, options) => {
+    const { transforms = index_js_2.strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, delimiter = ' ' } = options || {};
+    const cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), strA);
+    const cleanB = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), strB);
+    // split by "token"
+    const eTokens = cleanA.split(delimiter);
+    const cTokens = cleanB.split(delimiter);
+    let longerTokens, shorterTokens;
+    if (eTokens.length > cTokens.length) {
+        longerTokens = eTokens;
+        shorterTokens = cTokens;
+    }
+    else {
+        longerTokens = cTokens;
+        shorterTokens = eTokens;
+    }
+    // we will use longest string (token list) as the reducer and order the shorter list to match it
+    // so we don't have to deal with undefined positions in the shorter list
+    const orderedCandidateTokens = longerTokens.reduce((acc, curr) => {
+        // if we've run out of tokens in the shorter list just return
+        if (acc.remaining.length === 0) {
+            return acc;
+        }
+        // on each iteration of tokens in the long list
+        // we iterate through remaining tokens from the shorter list and find the token with the most sameness
         let highScore = 0;
         let highIndex = 0;
         let index = 0;
         for (const token of acc.remaining) {
-            const result = stringSameness(curr, token, { ...options, reorder: false });
-            if (result.highScore > highScore) {
-                highScore = result.highScore;
+            const result = stringSameness(curr, token, { strategies });
+            if (result.highScoreWeighted > highScore) {
+                highScore = result.highScoreWeighted;
                 highIndex = index;
             }
             index++;
         }
+        // then remove the most same token from the remaining short list tokens
         const splicedRemaining = [...acc.remaining];
-        if (highIndex <= splicedRemaining.length - 1) {
-            splicedRemaining.splice(highIndex, 1);
-        }
-        const ordered = highIndex <= acc.remaining.length - 1 ? acc.ordered.concat(acc.remaining[highIndex]) : acc.ordered;
-        return { ordered: ordered, remaining: splicedRemaining };
-    }, { ordered: [], remaining: bTokens });
-    const allOrderedCandidateTokens = orderedCandidateTokens.ordered.concat(orderedCandidateTokens.remaining);
-    return allOrderedCandidateTokens.join(' ');
+        splicedRemaining.splice(highIndex, 1);
+        return {
+            // finally add the most same token to the ordered short list
+            ordered: acc.ordered.concat(acc.remaining[highIndex]),
+            // and return the remaining short list tokens
+            remaining: splicedRemaining
+        };
+    }, {
+        // "ordered" is the result of ordering tokens in the shorter list to match longer token order
+        ordered: [],
+        // remaining is the initial shorter list
+        remaining: shorterTokens
+    });
+    return [longerTokens.join(' '), orderedCandidateTokens.ordered.join(' ')];
 };
 exports.reorderStr = reorderStr;
 const createStringSameness = (defaults) => {
diff --git a/dist/commonjs/index.js.map b/dist/commonjs/index.js.map
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diff --git a/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.d.ts b/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.d.ts
index ae891c2..09d40c3 100644
--- a/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.d.ts
+++ b/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.d.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ declare const lowercase: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const trim: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const replaceUnicode: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const removePunctuation: StringTransformFunc;
+declare const removeNonAlphanumeric: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const removeWhitespace: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const replaceMultiWhitespace: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const transforms: {
@@ -14,4 +15,4 @@ declare const transforms: {
     removePunctuation: StringTransformFunc;
 };
 declare const strDefaultTransforms: StringTransformFunc[];
-export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
+export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, removeNonAlphanumeric, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
diff --git a/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js b/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js
index cd77c4a..60d07d5 100644
--- a/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js
+++ b/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 "use strict";
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
-exports.strDefaultTransforms = exports.transforms = exports.replaceMultiWhitespace = exports.removeWhitespace = exports.removePunctuation = exports.replaceUnicode = exports.trim = exports.lowercase = void 0;
-const PUNCTUATION_REGEX = new RegExp(/[^\w\s]|_/g);
+exports.strDefaultTransforms = exports.transforms = exports.replaceMultiWhitespace = exports.removeNonAlphanumeric = exports.removeWhitespace = exports.removePunctuation = exports.replaceUnicode = exports.trim = exports.lowercase = void 0;
+const PUNCTUATION_REGEX = new RegExp(/[`=(){}<>;',.~!@#$%^&*_+|:"?\-\\\[\]\/]/g);
+const NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEX = new RegExp(/[^\w\s]|_/g);
 const WHITESPACE_REGEX = new RegExp(/\s/g);
 const MULTI_WHITESPACE_REGEX = new RegExp(/\s{2,}/g);
 const lowercase = (str) => str.toLocaleLowerCase();
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 exports.replaceUnicode = replaceUnicode;
 const removePunctuation = (str) => str.replace(PUNCTUATION_REGEX, '');
 exports.removePunctuation = removePunctuation;
+const removeNonAlphanumeric = (str) => str.replace(NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEX, '');
+exports.removeNonAlphanumeric = removeNonAlphanumeric;
 const removeWhitespace = (str) => str.replace(WHITESPACE_REGEX, '');
 exports.removeWhitespace = removeWhitespace;
 const replaceMultiWhitespace = (str) => str.replace(MULTI_WHITESPACE_REGEX, ' ');
diff --git a/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js.map b/dist/commonjs/normalization/index.js.map
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diff --git a/dist/esm/atomic.d.ts b/dist/esm/atomic.d.ts
index 4586faa..e88c7e6 100644
--- a/dist/esm/atomic.d.ts
+++ b/dist/esm/atomic.d.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ export interface StringComparisonOptions {
      * Useful when only the differences in content are important, but not the order of the content
      * */
     reorder?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * When `reorder` is used this determines how to split each string into the tokens that will be reordered.
+     *
+     * The value of this property is used in String.split() -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split#separator
+     *
+     * @default " "
+     * */
+    delimiter?: string | RegExp;
 }
 export interface StringSamenessResult {
     strategies: {
diff --git a/dist/esm/index.d.ts b/dist/esm/index.d.ts
index 480e7c1..7bf1740 100644
--- a/dist/esm/index.d.ts
+++ b/dist/esm/index.d.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { ComparisonStrategyResult, StringComparisonOptions, StringSamenessResult
 import { strDefaultTransforms, transforms } from "./normalization/index.js";
 declare const defaultStrategies: import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategy<import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategyResultObject>[];
 declare const stringSameness: (valA: string, valB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => StringSamenessResult;
-export declare const reorderStr: (cleanA: string, cleanB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => string;
+export declare const reorderStr: (strA: string, strB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => [string, string];
 declare const createStringSameness: (defaults: StringComparisonOptions) => (valA: string, valB: string, options?: StringComparisonOptions) => StringSamenessResult;
 declare const strategies: {
     diceStrategy: import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategy<import("./atomic.js").ComparisonStrategyResultObject>;
diff --git a/dist/esm/index.js b/dist/esm/index.js
index 65ee2e7..9a862b4 100644
--- a/dist/esm/index.js
+++ b/dist/esm/index.js
@@ -11,16 +11,18 @@ const defaultStrategies = [
     cosineStrategy
 ];
 const stringSameness = (valA, valB, options) => {
-    const { transforms = strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, reorder = false, } = options || {};
-    const cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valA);
+    const { transforms = strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, reorder = false, delimiter = ' ' } = options || {};
+    let cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valA);
     let cleanB = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), valB);
-    const shortest = cleanA.length > cleanB.length ? cleanB : cleanA;
     if (reorder) {
         // we want to ignore order of tokens as much as possible (user does not care about differences in word order, just absolute differences in characters overall)
-        // so we will reorder cleanB so its tokens match the order or tokens in cleanA as closely as possible
+        // so we will reorder the shorter of the two strings so its tokens match the order of tokens in the longer string as closely as possible
         // before we run strategies
-        cleanB = reorderStr(cleanA, cleanB);
+        const [orderedX, orderedY] = reorderStr(cleanA, cleanB);
+        cleanA = orderedX;
+        cleanB = orderedY;
     }
+    const shortest = cleanA.length > cleanB.length ? cleanB : cleanA;
     const stratResults = [];
     for (const strat of strategies) {
         if (strat.isValid !== undefined && !strat.isValid(cleanA, cleanB)) {
@@ -53,32 +55,58 @@ const stringSameness = (valA, valB, options) => {
         highScoreWeighted,
     };
 };
-export const reorderStr = (cleanA, cleanB, options) => {
-    // to do the reordering we will use stringSameness with the provided strats to match against each token in cleanA and choose the closest token in cleanB
-    // and add the end concat any remaining tokens from cleanB to the reordered string
-    const aTokens = cleanA.split(' ');
-    const bTokens = cleanB.split(' ');
-    const orderedCandidateTokens = aTokens.reduce((acc, curr) => {
+export const reorderStr = (strA, strB, options) => {
+    const { transforms = strDefaultTransforms, strategies = defaultStrategies, delimiter = ' ' } = options || {};
+    const cleanA = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), strA);
+    const cleanB = transforms.reduce((acc, curr) => curr(acc), strB);
+    // split by "token"
+    const eTokens = cleanA.split(delimiter);
+    const cTokens = cleanB.split(delimiter);
+    let longerTokens, shorterTokens;
+    if (eTokens.length > cTokens.length) {
+        longerTokens = eTokens;
+        shorterTokens = cTokens;
+    }
+    else {
+        longerTokens = cTokens;
+        shorterTokens = eTokens;
+    }
+    // we will use longest string (token list) as the reducer and order the shorter list to match it
+    // so we don't have to deal with undefined positions in the shorter list
+    const orderedCandidateTokens = longerTokens.reduce((acc, curr) => {
+        // if we've run out of tokens in the shorter list just return
+        if (acc.remaining.length === 0) {
+            return acc;
+        }
+        // on each iteration of tokens in the long list
+        // we iterate through remaining tokens from the shorter list and find the token with the most sameness
         let highScore = 0;
         let highIndex = 0;
         let index = 0;
         for (const token of acc.remaining) {
-            const result = stringSameness(curr, token, { ...options, reorder: false });
-            if (result.highScore > highScore) {
-                highScore = result.highScore;
+            const result = stringSameness(curr, token, { strategies });
+            if (result.highScoreWeighted > highScore) {
+                highScore = result.highScoreWeighted;
                 highIndex = index;
             }
             index++;
         }
+        // then remove the most same token from the remaining short list tokens
         const splicedRemaining = [...acc.remaining];
-        if (highIndex <= splicedRemaining.length - 1) {
-            splicedRemaining.splice(highIndex, 1);
-        }
-        const ordered = highIndex <= acc.remaining.length - 1 ? acc.ordered.concat(acc.remaining[highIndex]) : acc.ordered;
-        return { ordered: ordered, remaining: splicedRemaining };
-    }, { ordered: [], remaining: bTokens });
-    const allOrderedCandidateTokens = orderedCandidateTokens.ordered.concat(orderedCandidateTokens.remaining);
-    return allOrderedCandidateTokens.join(' ');
+        splicedRemaining.splice(highIndex, 1);
+        return {
+            // finally add the most same token to the ordered short list
+            ordered: acc.ordered.concat(acc.remaining[highIndex]),
+            // and return the remaining short list tokens
+            remaining: splicedRemaining
+        };
+    }, {
+        // "ordered" is the result of ordering tokens in the shorter list to match longer token order
+        ordered: [],
+        // remaining is the initial shorter list
+        remaining: shorterTokens
+    });
+    return [longerTokens.join(' '), orderedCandidateTokens.ordered.join(' ')];
 };
 const createStringSameness = (defaults) => {
     return (valA, valB, options = {}) => stringSameness(valA, valB, { ...defaults, ...options });
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diff --git a/dist/esm/normalization/index.d.ts b/dist/esm/normalization/index.d.ts
index ae891c2..09d40c3 100644
--- a/dist/esm/normalization/index.d.ts
+++ b/dist/esm/normalization/index.d.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ declare const lowercase: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const trim: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const replaceUnicode: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const removePunctuation: StringTransformFunc;
+declare const removeNonAlphanumeric: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const removeWhitespace: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const replaceMultiWhitespace: StringTransformFunc;
 declare const transforms: {
@@ -14,4 +15,4 @@ declare const transforms: {
     removePunctuation: StringTransformFunc;
 };
 declare const strDefaultTransforms: StringTransformFunc[];
-export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
+export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, removeNonAlphanumeric, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
diff --git a/dist/esm/normalization/index.js b/dist/esm/normalization/index.js
index 1d95387..bc7ae0b 100644
--- a/dist/esm/normalization/index.js
+++ b/dist/esm/normalization/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-const PUNCTUATION_REGEX = new RegExp(/[^\w\s]|_/g);
+const PUNCTUATION_REGEX = new RegExp(/[`=(){}<>;',.~!@#$%^&*_+|:"?\-\\\[\]\/]/g);
+const NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEX = new RegExp(/[^\w\s]|_/g);
 const WHITESPACE_REGEX = new RegExp(/\s/g);
 const MULTI_WHITESPACE_REGEX = new RegExp(/\s{2,}/g);
 const lowercase = (str) => str.toLocaleLowerCase();
 const trim = (str) => str.trim();
 const replaceUnicode = (str) => str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "");
 const removePunctuation = (str) => str.replace(PUNCTUATION_REGEX, '');
+const removeNonAlphanumeric = (str) => str.replace(NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEX, '');
 const removeWhitespace = (str) => str.replace(WHITESPACE_REGEX, '');
 const replaceMultiWhitespace = (str) => str.replace(MULTI_WHITESPACE_REGEX, ' ');
 const transforms = {
@@ -22,5 +24,5 @@ const strDefaultTransforms = [
     replaceMultiWhitespace,
     lowercase
 ];
-export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
+export { lowercase, trim, replaceUnicode, removePunctuation, removeWhitespace, removeNonAlphanumeric, replaceMultiWhitespace, transforms, strDefaultTransforms };
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diff --git a/dist/esm/normalization/index.js.map b/dist/esm/normalization/index.js.map
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