Quick SNITCH

A quantitative guide to the degree of difficulty of the Times Quick Cryptic Crossword

Name: earlylight

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time07:10
SNITCH Correlation0.77

Top Ten Results

Date Day of week Crossword Solving Time (m:ss)
2025-07-16 Wednesday 3042 01:43
2023-10-09 Monday 2500 03:08
2024-10-07 Monday 2800 03:09
2024-10-24 Thursday 2815 03:11
2022-11-24 Thursday 2273 03:21
2026-09-01 Tuesday 3395 03:32
2026-07-21 Tuesday 3359 03:34
2024-05-06 Monday 2668 03:36
2025-06-02 Monday 3004 03:36
2026-05-18 Monday 3304 03:40

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
101 2026-09-07 3402 82 3403 118
91 2026-08-31 3394 71 3395 49 3396 94
78 2026-08-24 3388 58 3391 98
98 2026-08-17 3382 100 3383 89 3384 89 3385 116
103 2026-08-10 3378 103
94 2026-08-03 3370 52 3371 137

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
97 2026-09-07 3402 88 3403 108
102 2026-08-31 3394 107 3395 59 3396 116
98 2026-08-24 3388 69 3391 127
103 2026-08-17 3382 100 3383 83 3384 104 3385 128
114 2026-08-10 3378 114
94 2026-08-03 3370 67 3371 122

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 63 correct entries. Only Monday to Friday data is included.

Monthly average times

The plot below shows the monthly solving times for earlylight. These are six-month rolling averages (i.e. the result for each month averages the solving times for the past six months).