Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a high efficiency data decoder. The high efficiency data decoder accesses an encoded data input from an input device and determines that the encoded data input does not map to any predetermined data outputs from a set of predetermined data outputs. The high efficiency data decoder selects, based on a ranking of modifications for the input device, a modification to perform on the encoded data input. The high efficiency data decoder performs the first modification on the encoded data input, yielding a modified encoded data input. If the modified encoded data input maps to a first data output from the set of predetermined data outputs, the high efficiency data decoder decodes the encoded data input into the first data output.