Quick SNITCH

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

Name: earlylight

TftT Name
Solver Typereference
Average Time07:04
SNITCH Correlation0.8

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
56 2026-11-02 3448 56
109 2026-10-26 3442 73 3445 104 3446 156
121 2026-10-19 3437 121
115 2026-10-12 3430 123 3431 112 3433 132 3434 95
87 2026-10-05 3424 63 3427 96
80 2026-09-28

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
77 2026-11-02 3448 77
113 2026-10-26 3442 98 3445 122 3446 131
124 2026-10-19 3437 124
119 2026-10-12 3430 138 3431 120 3433 109 3434 111
95 2026-10-05 3424 81 3427 106
86 2026-09-28

Correlation to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 64 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).