Century

A century is an occurrence of a contestant scoring at least 100 points. This was never achieved in the 9-round format as it required the players to find at least three nine-letter words in the six letters rounds available. However, before the 15-round era, centuries were possible in 14-round games, as well as in the Countdown Masters series, where Richard Whiteley often called players that achieved them centurions.

Centuries have become relatively common in 15-round games. The first ever century was by Clive Spate in the grand final of Series 8. He scored 107 points in the 14-round game. The first ever century in a 15-round game was by Ian McMenzie in the fourth game of Series 46.

Most centuries

Since the start of the 15-round era in Series 46, the following players have achieved at least five centuries in heat games, sorted alphabetically by surname:

1. 13: Zarte Siempre (five in Series 69 plus eight in Series 78)
2. 9: Matt O'Connor (one in Series 65 plus eight in Series 85)
3. 8: Craig Beevers
4. 8: Luke Boynton
5. 8: Edward Byrne
6. 8: Dan Byrom
7. 8: Tom Cappleman
8. 8: Sam Cappleman-Lynes
9. 8: Thomas Carey
10. 8: Julian Fell
11. 8: Adam Gillard
12. 8: James Haughton
13. 8: Ronan Higginson
14. 8: Andrew Hulme
15. 8: Jack Hurst
16. 8: Giles Hutchings
17. 8: Luke Johnson-Davies
18. 8: Martin May (two in Series 57 plus six in Series 79)
19. 8: Toby McDonald
20. 8: Robin McKay
21. 8: Cillian McMulkin
22. 8: Elliott Mellor
23. 8: Ahmed Mohamed
24. 8: Eoin Monaghan
25. 8: Mark Murray
26. 8: Andy Platt
27. 8: Stephen Read
28. 8: Harry Savage
29. 8: Jen Steadman
30. 8: Tom Stevenson
31. 8: Dylan Taylor
32. 8: Jonathan Wynn
33. 7: Kirk Bevins
34. 7: Innis Carson
35. 7: Jeff Clayton
36. 7: Chris Davies
37. 7: Ann Dibben
38. 7: Paul Erdunast
39. 7: George Ford
40. 7: John Hardie
41. 7: Tom Hargreaves
42. 7: Stu Harkness
43. 7: Bradley Horrocks
44. 7: Dan McColm
45. 7: Edward McCullagh
46. 7: Paul Nixon
47. 7: Tricia Pay
48. 7: Antoinette Ryan
49. 7: Viraj Seelam
50. 7: Leo Smith
51. 7: Glen Webb
52. 7: Chris Wills
53. 7: Jack Worsley
54. 6: Maggie Barlow
55. 6: Quinn Bartlett
56. 6: Stephen Briggs
57. 6: Florence Cappleman-Lynes
58. 6: Bradley Cates
59. 6: Tom Chafer-Cook
60. 6: Chris Cummins
61. 6: Mark Davies
62. 6: Paul Gallen
63. 6: Marcus Hares
64. 6: Stewart Holden
65. 6: James Hurrell
66. 6: Tracey Mills
67. 6: Liam Moloney*
68. 6: David O'Donnell
69. 6: Grace Page
70. 6: Jonathan Rawlinson
71. 6: Dinos Sfyris
72. 6: Martyn Simpson*
73. 6: Conor Travers
74. 6: Gerry Tynan
75. 6: Ian Volante (one in Series 56 plus five in Series 82)
76. 6: Jamie Washington
77. 6: Jack Welsby
78. 6: Jamie Wing**
79. 5: Philip Aston*
80. 5: Ben Bazzard
81. 5: John Brackstone
82. 5: Steven Briers
83. 5: James Burley
84. 5: Jon Corby
85. 5: Mark Deeks
86. 5: George Greenhough
87. 5: Lee Hartley
88. 5: Paul Howe
89. 5: Chris Hunt*
90. 5: Martin Hurst
91. 5: Steve Hyde
92. 5: Wesley Jardine
93. 5: Andy Noden
94. 5: Paul O'Brien
95. 5: Jon O'Neill
96. 5: Samir Pilica
97. 5: Charlie Reams
98. 5: Moose Rosser
99. 5: Matthew Shore
100. 5: Kevin Steede
101. 5: Ryan Styles
102. 5: Matthew Tassier
103. 5: Kevin Thurlow
104. 5: Mark Tournoff
105. 5: Brendan Whitehurst
106. 5: Alan Young (one in Series 69 plus four in Series 86)

*Chris Hunt, Liam Moloney, Philip Aston, and Martyn Simpson are the only players to have achieved five or more centuries, and not gone on to become octochamps.

**Jamie Wing scored 100 on his debut against Paul Anderson including a tiebreak conundrum – this is not included as a century on this page.