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Century

From Countdown

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: Mark Finnerty
  12. 8: Adam Gillard
  13. 8: James Haughton
  14. 8: Ronan Higginson
  15. 8: Andrew Hulme
  16. 8: Jack Hurst
  17. 8: Giles Hutchings
  18. 8: Luke Johnson-Davies
  19. 8: Martin May (two in Series 57 plus six in Series 79)
  20. 8: Toby McDonald
  21. 8: Robin McKay
  22. 8: Cillian McMulkin
  23. 8: Elliott Mellor
  24. 8: Ahmed Mohamed
  25. 8: Eoin Monaghan
  26. 8: Mark Murray
  27. 8: Andy Platt
  28. 8: Stephen Read
  29. 8: Harry Savage
  30. 8: Jen Steadman
  31. 8: Tom Stevenson
  32. 8: Dylan Taylor
  33. 8: Jonathan Wynn
  34. 7: Kirk Bevins
  35. 7: Innis Carson
  36. 7: Jeff Clayton
  37. 7: Chris Davies
  38. 7: Ann Dibben
  39. 7: Paul Erdunast
  40. 7: George Ford
  41. 7: John Hardie
  42. 7: Tom Hargreaves
  43. 7: Stu Harkness
  44. 7: Bradley Horrocks
  45. 7: Dan McColm
  46. 7: Edward McCullagh
  47. 7: Paul Nixon
  48. 7: Tricia Pay
  49. 7: Antoinette Ryan
  50. 7: Viraj Seelam
  51. 7: Leo Smith
  52. 7: Glen Webb
  53. 7: Chris Wills
  54. 7: Jack Worsley
  55. 6: Maggie Barlow
  56. 6: Quinn Bartlett
  57. 6: Stephen Briggs
  58. 6: Florence Cappleman-Lynes
  59. 6: Bradley Cates
  60. 6: Tom Chafer-Cook
  61. 6: Chris Cummins
  62. 6: Mark Davies
  63. 6: Paul Gallen
  64. 6: Marcus Hares
  65. 6: Stewart Holden
  66. 6: James Hurrell
  67. 6: Tracey Mills
  68. 6: Liam Moloney*
  69. 6: David O'Donnell
  70. 6: Grace Page
  71. 6: Jonathan Rawlinson
  72. 6: Dinos Sfyris
  73. 6: Martyn Simpson*
  74. 6: Conor Travers
  75. 6: Gerry Tynan
  76. 6: Ian Volante (one in Series 56 plus five in Series 82)
  77. 6: Jamie Washington
  78. 6: Jack Welsby
  79. 6: Jamie Wing**
  80. 5: Philip Aston*
  81. 5: Ben Bazzard
  82. 5: John Brackstone
  83. 5: Steven Briers
  84. 5: James Burley
  85. 5: Jon Corby
  86. 5: Mark Deeks
  87. 5: George Greenhough
  88. 5: Lee Hartley
  89. 5: Paul Howe
  90. 5: Chris Hunt*
  91. 5: Martin Hurst
  92. 5: Steve Hyde
  93. 5: Wesley Jardine
  94. 5: Andy Noden
  95. 5: Paul O'Brien
  96. 5: Jon O'Neill
  97. 5: Samir Pilica
  98. 5: Charlie Reams
  99. 5: Moose Rosser
  100. 5: Matthew Shore
  101. 5: Kevin Steede
  102. 5: Ryan Styles
  103. 5: Matthew Tassier
  104. 5: Kevin Thurlow
  105. 5: Mark Tournoff
  106. 5: Brendan Whitehurst
  107. 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.