Quick SNITCH

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

Name: earlylight

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time06:55
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
80 2026-09-28
106 2026-09-21 3414 106
99 2026-09-14 3406 85 3408 81 3410 121
101 2026-09-07 3402 82 3403 118
91 2026-08-31 3394 71 3395 49 3396 94

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
86 2026-09-28
90 2026-09-21 3414 90
99 2026-09-14 3406 102 3408 90 3410 118
97 2026-09-07 3402 88 3403 108
102 2026-08-31 3394 107 3395 59 3396 116

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 57 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).