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: 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: Arthur Page
49. 7: Tricia Pay
50. 7: Antoinette Ryan
51. 7: Viraj Seelam
52. 7: Leo Smith
53. 7: Glen Webb
54. 7: Chris Wills
55. 7: Jack Worsley
56. 6: Maggie Barlow
57. 6: Quinn Bartlett
58. 6: Stephen Briggs
59. 6: Florence Cappleman-Lynes
60. 6: Bradley Cates
61. 6: Tom Chafer-Cook
62. 6: Chris Cummins
63. 6: Mark Davies
64. 6: Paul Gallen
65. 6: Marcus Hares
66. 6: Stewart Holden
67. 6: James Hurrell
68. 6: Tracey Mills
69. 6: Liam Moloney*
70. 6: David O'Donnell
71. 6: Grace Page
72. 6: Jessica Pratesi
73. 6: Jonathan Rawlinson
74. 6: Dinos Sfyris
75. 6: Martyn Simpson*
76. 6: Conor Travers
77. 6: Gerry Tynan
78. 6: Ian Volante (one in Series 56 plus five in Series 82)
79. 6: Jamie Washington
80. 6: Jack Welsby
81. 6: Jamie Wing**
82. 5: Philip Aston*
83. 5: Ben Bazzard
84. 5: John Brackstone
85. 5: Steven Briers
86. 5: James Burley
87. 5: Jon Corby
88. 5: Mark Deeks
89. 5: George Greenhough
90. 5: Lee Hartley
91. 5: Paul Howe
92. 5: Chris Hunt*
93. 5: Martin Hurst
94. 5: Steve Hyde
95. 5: Wesley Jardine
96. 5: Andy Noden
97. 5: Paul O'Brien
98. 5: Jon O'Neill
99. 5: Samir Pilica
100. 5: Charlie Reams
101. 5: Moose Rosser
102. 5: Matthew Shore
103. 5: Kevin Steede
104. 5: Ryan Styles
105. 5: Matthew Tassier
106. 5: Kevin Thurlow
107. 5: Mark Tournoff
108. 5: Brendan Whitehurst
109. 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.