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. But 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 the players that achieved them as "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 where 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 and they're sorted alphabetically by surname:

Rank	Name	Centuries	Games played	Percentage	Notes
1	Zarte Siempre	13	14	92.9%	Five in Series 69 plus eight in Series 78
2	Jase Cullen	9	13	69.2%	One in Series 57 plus eight in Series 92
3	Brett Davids	9	12	75%	One in Series 70 plus eight in Series 92
4	Hazel Drury	9	13	69.2%	One in Series 73 plus eight in Series 94
5	Matt O'Connor	9	14	64.3%	One in Series 65 plus eight in Series 85
6	Austen Allen	8	9	88.9%
7	Craig Beevers	8	8	100%
8	Luke Boynton	8	9	88.9%
9	Edward Byrne	8	10	80%
10	Dan Byrom	8	8	100%
11	Tom Cappleman	8	9	88.9%
12	Sam Cappleman-Lynes	8	8	100%
13	Thomas Carey	8	8	100%
14	Julian Fell	8	8	100%
15	Mark Finnerty	8	8	100%
16	Adam Gillard	8	8	100%
17	Charlie Harrison	8	8	100%
18	James Haughton	8	8	100%
19	Ronan Higginson	8	8	100%
20	Andrew Hulme	8	8	100%
21	Jack Hurst	8	8	100%
22	Giles Hutchings	8	8	100%
23	Luke Johnson-Davies	8	8	100%
24	Martin May	8	15	53.3%	Two in Series 57 plus six in Series 79
25	Toby McDonald	8	8	100%
26	Robin McKay	8	8	100%
27	Cillian McMulkin	8	9	88.9%
28	Elliott Mellor	8	8	100%
29	Ahmed Mohamed	8	8	100%
30	Eoin Monaghan	8	8	100%
31	Mark Murray	8	8	100%
32	Andy Platt	8	8	100%
33	Stephen Read	8	8	100%
34	Harry Savage	8	8	100%
35	Luke Selway	8	8	100%
36	Jen Steadman	8	8	100%
37	Tom Stevenson	8	8	100%
38	Dylan Taylor	8	8	100%
39	Patrick Thompson	8	9	88.9%
40	Jonathan Wynn	8	9	88.9%
41	Kirk Bevins	7	9	77.8%
42	Innis Carson	7	8	87.5%
43	Bradley Cates	7	12	58.3%	One in Series 56 plus six in Series 69
44	Jeff Clayton	7	11	63.6%
45	Chris Davies	7	8	87.5%
46	Ann Dibben	7	8	87.5%
47	Paul Erdunast	7	8	87.5%
48	George Ford	7	8	87.5%
49	John Hardie	7	9	77.8%
50	Tom Hargreaves	7	8	87.5%
51	Stu Harkness	7	9	77.8%
52	Ben Hocking	7	9	77.8%
53	Bradley Horrocks	7	8	87.5%
54	Chris Kirby	7	11	63.6%	One in Series 60 plus six in Series 90
55	Cameron Lovatt	7	11	63.6%
56	Dan McColm	7	9	77.8%
57	Edward McCullagh	7	8	87.5%
58	Paul Nixon	7	8	87.5%
59	Arthur Page	7	8	87.5%
60	Tricia Pay	7	8	87.5%
61	Antoinette Ryan	7	8	87.5%
62	Viraj Seelam	7	8	87.5%
63	Leo Smith	7	8	87.5%
64	Glen Webb	7	8	87.5%
65	Chris Wills	7	8	87.5%
66	Jack Worsley	7	8	87.5%
67	Maggie Barlow	6	8	75%
68	Quinn Bartlett	6	8	75%
69	Stephen Briggs	6	8	75%
70	Florence Cappleman-Lynes	6	8	75%
71	Tom Chafer-Cook	6	8	75%
72	Chris Cummins	6	8	75%
73	Mark Davies	6	8	75%
74	Paul Gallen	6	8	75%
75	Marcus Hares	6	8	75%
76	Stewart Holden	6	8	75%
77	James Hurrell	6	8	75%
78	Ciaran McCarthy	6	9	66.7%	One in Series 70 plus five in Series 92
79	Tracey Mills	6	9	66.7%
80	Liam Moloney	6	7	85.7%	See trivia
81	David O'Donnell	6	8	75%
82	Grace Page	6	8	75%
83	Jessica Pratesi	6	9	66.7%
84	Jonathan Rawlinson	6	8	75%
85	Dinos Sfyris	6	12	50%
86	Martyn Simpson	6	8	75%	See trivia
87	Conor Travers	6	8	75%
88	Gerry Tynan	6	8	75%
89	Ian Volante	6	12	50%	One in Series 56 plus five in Series 82
90	Jamie Washington	6	8	75%
91	Jack Welsby	6	8	75%
92	Jamie Wing	6	8	75%	Wing's score of 100 on his debut is not counted as it included a tiebreak conundrum
93	Philip Aston	5	7	71.4%	See trivia
94	Ben Bazzard	5	8	62.5%
95	John Brackstone	5	8	62.5%
96	Steven Briers	5	8	62.5%
97	James Burley	5	8	62.5%
98	Jon Corby	5	8	62.5%
99	Mark Deeks	5	8	62.5%
100	Daniel Face	5	8	62.5%
101	George Greenhough	5	8	62.5%
102	Lee Hartley	5	8	62.5%
103	Paul Howe	5	8	62.5%
104	Chris Hunt	5	7	71.4%	See trivia
105	Martin Hurst	5	8	62.5%
106	Steve Hyde	5	11	45.5%
107	Wesley Jardine	5	8	62.5%
108	Andy Noden	5	8	62.5%
109	Paul O'Brien	5	8	62.5%
110	Jon O'Neill	5	8	62.5%
111	John Payne	5	9	55.6%
112	Samir Pilica	5	8	62.5%
113	Charlie Reams	5	8	62.5%
114	Moose Rosser	5	8	62.5%
115	Matthew Shore	5	8	62.5%
116	Kevin Steede	5	8	62.5%
117	Ryan Styles	5	8	62.5%
118	Matthew Tassier	5	8	62.5%
119	Kevin Thurlow	5	8	62.5%
120	Mark Tournoff	5	8	62.5%
121	Brendan Whitehurst	5	8	62.5%
122	Fiona Wood	5	8	62.5%
123	Alan Young	5	12	41.7%	One in Series 69 plus four in Series 86

Contestants with eight consecutive prelim centuries

Contestants are sorted chronologically.

Rank	Name	Points total	Average	Highest score	Lowest score
1	Julian Fell	924	115.5	138	104
2	Craig Beevers	907	113.38	128	103
3	Andrew Hulme	930	116.25	133	101
4	Eoin Monaghan	898	112.25	121	100
5	Jack Hurst	946	118.25	133	110
6	Adam Gillard	903	112.88	126	102
7	Andy Platt	889	111.13	120	100
8	Giles Hutchings	965	120.63	130	111
9	Dylan Taylor	974	121.75	129	113
10	Jen Steadman	952	119	130	104
11	Mark Murray	902	112.75	122	100
12	Tom Cappleman	927	115.88	135	105
13	Jonathan Wynn	922	115.25	131	100
14	Thomas Carey	923	115.38	122	109
15	Robin McKay	888	111	129	102
16	Stephen Read	915	114.38	131	104
17	Zarte Siempre	967	120.88	130	111
18	Toby McDonald	882	110.25	121	104
19	Elliott Mellor	1,061	132.63	152	118
20	James Haughton	958	119.75	134	103
21	Luke Johnson-Davies	1,024	128	143	113
22	Sam Cappleman-Lynes	939	117.38	124	110
23	Luke Boynton	1,032	129	147	106
24	Ahmed Mohamed	927	115.88	138	106
25	Dan Byrom	967	120.88	140	104
26	Matt O'Connor	949	118.63	139	102
27	Edward Byrne	969	121.13	143	104
28	Tom Stevenson	1,000	125	154	117
29	Cillian McMulkin	944	118	154	101
30	Ronan Higginson	1,041	130.13	143	110
31	Harry Savage	939	117.38	130	105
32	Mark Finnerty	876	109.5	128	102
33	Brett Davids	916	114.5	138	104
34	Jase Cullen	926	115.75	146	108
35	Luke Selway	913	114.125	132	101
36	Patrick Thompson	977	122.125	142	105
37	Charlie Harrison	953	119.125	138	106
38	Austen Allen	865	108.125	125	101
39	Hazel Drury	1,001	125.125	143	104

Contestants who have scored only centuries

Contestants are sorted chronologically.

Rank	Name	Games played	Points total	Average	Highest score	Lowest score
1	Julian Fell	14	1,634	116.71	146	100
2	Craig Beevers	11	1,236	112.36	128	103
3	Lesley Hines	2	209	104.5	105	104
4	Jack Hurst	18	2,109	117.17	143	108
5	Dylan Taylor	15	1,805	120.33	129	108
6	Jen Steadman	12	1,407	117.25	130	104
7	Adam Curran	1	100	100	100	100
8	Robin McKay	10	1,107	110.7	129	102
9	Luke Johnson-Davies	13	1,601	123.15	143	100
10	David Wevill	1	101	101	101	101
11	Ronan Higginson	11	1,435	130.45	150	110
12	Harry Savage	11	1,266	115.09	130	104
13	Niall Cusack	1	100	100	100	100
14	Charlie Harrison	11	1,328	120.72	138	106

Trivia

Chris Hunt, Liam Moloney, Philip Aston and Martyn Simpson are the only players that achieved five or more centuries but they all didn't go on to become octochamps. Simpson especially didn't go on to become a finalist.