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Mile world record progression

Order by the year each record was set. Place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Mile world record progression
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How Mile world record progression is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 30 cards you could be dealt, plus 2 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • John Paul Jones — 4:14.4 Allston, Massachusetts
  • Norman Taber — 4:12.6 Allston, Massachusetts
  • Paavo Nurmi — 4:10.4 Stockholm
  • Jules Ladoumegue — 4:09.2 Paris
  • Jack Lovelock — 4:07.6 Princeton, New Jersey
  • Glenn Cunningham — 4:06.8 Princeton, New Jersey
  • Sydney Wooderson — 4:06.4 Motspur Park, London
  • Gunder Hagg — 4:06.2 Gothenburg
  • Arne Andersson — 4:02.6 Gothenburg
  • Arne Andersson — 4:01.6 Malmo
  • Gunder Hagg — 4:01.4 Malmo
  • Roger Bannister — 3:59.4 Iffley Road, Oxford
  • John Landy — 3:58.0 Turku, Finland
  • Derek Ibbotson — 3:57.2 White City, London
  • Peter Snell — 3:54.4 Wanganui, New Zealand
  • Peter Snell — 3:54.1 Auckland
  • Michel Jazy — 3:53.6 Rennes
  • Jim Ryun — 3:51.3 Berkeley, California
  • Jim Ryun — 3:51.1 Bakersfield, California
  • Filbert Bayi — 3:51.0 Kingston, Jamaica
  • John Walker — 3:49.4 Gothenburg
  • Sebastian Coe — 3:49.0 Bislett, Oslo
  • Steve Ovett — 3:48.8 Bislett, Oslo
  • Sebastian Coe — 3:48.53 Zurich
  • Steve Ovett — 3:48.40 Koblenz
  • Sebastian Coe — 3:47.33 Brussels
  • Steve Cram — 3:46.32 Bislett, Oslo
  • Noureddine Morceli — 3:44.39 Rieti

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