Quick SNITCH

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

Name: earlylight

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time07:11
SNITCH Correlation0.79

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
2026-07-21 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
2025-06-09 Monday 3010 03:41

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
94 2026-08-03 3370 52 3371 137
131 2026-07-27 3367 159 3368 96
81 2026-07-20 3359 50 3362 114
123 2026-07-13 3352 60 3353 133 3355 124
123 2026-07-06 3350 120
103 2026-06-29 3340 61 3341 79 3342 74 3344 198

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
93 2026-08-03 3370 67 3371 120
125 2026-07-27 3367 137 3368 103
85 2026-07-20 3359 73 3362 116
114 2026-07-13 3352 77 3353 130 3355 125
116 2026-07-06 3350 123
112 2026-06-29 3340 101 3341 100 3342 71 3344 176

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).