When things are really bad my praying is not sentences, it is crying and repeating the same word over and over. Does that even count?

“Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.”

Jonah prays this from inside the fish, having deliberately run from God and been thrown overboard by sailors he had put in danger. He is in the worst place a man can be and it is largely his own doing. What he offers is a cry out of distress rather than a composed piece of devotion. The book records that God heard him there, before anything at all had been resolved.

“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;”

The writer describes Jesus, in the days of his flesh, offering up prayers with strong crying and tears. That is a description of Gethsemane, and it is strikingly undignified. If the Son of God prayed with a breaking voice and no composure at all, then wordless, tearful, repetitive prayer is not a lesser category of praying. It is the kind he himself offered when things were at their worst.