Crossword SNITCH

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

Name: barracuda

TftT Namebarracuda
Solver Typereference
Average Time29:25
SNITCH Alignment0.75

Top Ten Results

Date Day of week Crossword Solving Time (m:ss)
2024-05-13 Monday 28915 03:55
2018-08-14 Tuesday 27116 07:04
2022-01-10 Monday 28183 07:22
2017-01-09 Monday 26617 07:38
2022-05-23 Monday 28297 07:47
2017-10-03 Tuesday 26846 08:04
2022-10-10 Monday 28417 08:11
2020-07-13 Monday 27715 08:13
2018-03-13 Tuesday 26984 08:42
2021-02-22 Monday 27907 08:48

Recent Results

Personal NITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
138 2025-11-03 29377 138
136 2025-10-27 29374 153 29375 119
163 2025-10-20 29366 118 29369 208
119 2025-10-13 29360 91 29361 158 29363 108
107 2025-10-06 29353 74 29355 98 29357 149
161 2025-09-29 29350 153 29351 169

WITCH results

Week beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
135 2025-11-03 29377 135
124 2025-10-27 29374 121 29375 127
114 2025-10-20 29366 128 29369 100
112 2025-10-13 29360 101 29361 127 29363 110
104 2025-10-06 29353 89 29355 120 29357 104
130 2025-09-29 29350 144 29351 116

Alignment to SNITCH

Plotting alignment results for the last 89 correct entries

Monthly average times

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