apterous history: December 2025

Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of December 2025.

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Pro Ranks

The top three players at the end of the month:-

  1. Unchanged 1st. Dylan Taylor
    Pro Rank: 1727 (-70)

  2. Unchanged 2nd. Tom Cappleman
    Pro Rank: 1690 (-60)

  3. Unchanged 3rd. Matthew Brockwell
    Pro Rank: 1655 (-70)

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Monthly Top Scores

FormatTop scorePopularity
15 Rounder158 by Charlie Harrison11,241 games with 232 players
Conundrum Attack200 by Chas Maxwell ×11
200 by Nick W ×5
200 by Dylan Taylor ×4
200 by Hazel Drury ×4
200 by Gabriel Thallon ×3
200 by Chris Hare ×2
200 by Florence C-L ×2
200 by Matt OC ×2
200 by Ross K ×2
200 by Elwin Carlos
200 by Neil Collins
200 by Zohaib Rehan
1,677 games with 84 players
Goat Attack233 by Charlie Harrison195 games with 51 players
Omeletters Attack182 by David Holmes153 games with 49 players
9 Rounder93 by Gabriel Thallon ×2346 games with 48 players
Hypertouch Letters Attack162 by Owen Carroll73 games with 47 players
Lockdown Jnr Conundrum Attack200 by Chris Hare60 games with 46 players
Unlimited Jnr Numbers Attack200 by Chris Hare ×255 games with 45 players
Numbers Attack200 by Tal Lessner ×6
200 by Ay Oh Ess
704 games with 42 players
Aegilops Numbers Attack200 by Adam Nicholas Jones69 games with 41 players

Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.

Facts and Figures

This month, apterous gained 82 new users, taking us to 15,577 in total. A total of 361,919 rounds were played over 22,902 games.

The Duel was won by Tom Cappleman with 2920 points from 31 games. Second was Matt Hamer with 2912 points from 31 games, and third Matthew Brockwell with 2845 points from 31 games.

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