The Chase's 'best quizzer' finally revealed with impressive 79.6% success rate

One Chaser comes out on top as the "best quizzer" (Image: ITV/PA)

The Chase’s “best quizzer” has been revealed with one star winning almost 80 percent of the shows they have taken part in.

Since its launch in 2009 the Chasers have become household names thanks to the quick fire answers and formidable track records. Out of the 2145 shows aired in that time, contestants have only “beaten the Chaser” 507 times.

And, according to One Question Shootout, one Chaser is the hardest to beat. That is Anne Hegerty, who has won 370 of the 465 shows she has taken part in.

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Contestants facing The Governess walk away with an average of £4,810. Coming in at second is Jenny “The Vixen” Ryan, who has won 79.3 percent of her 246, with contestants winning an average payout of £4,305.

Meanwhile the original Chasers, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace have the lowest win percentages of the six. Mark has won 75.5 percent of his 473 appearances with criminal barrister Shaun winning 70 percent of his 447 outings.

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Anne Hegerty has won 370 episodes (Image: ITV)

The newest Chaser, Darragh Ennis has won 78.5 percent of shows while Paul Sinha has been victorious 341 times - a 78.4 percent win rate. On average, teams on The Chase walk away with £5,169.

While contestants appearing on The Chase know they are unlikely to walk away victorious, fellow television producer Richard Osman believes the thrill of possibly winning - and netting some cash - is part of the allure. He likened taking part in The Chase, or BBC hit Gladiators, to taking part in the World Cup.

On his The Rest is Entertainment podcast, Richard explained: “What the Chase and the Eggsheads both do is use quiz as a sport, in exactly the same way you have with Gladiators, which is say ‘look, you’re a great quizzer but you come along here and this is the ultimate challenge you can have in your quizzing, this is like the World Cup or something like that. So you come along and could win some money but you’ve got a brick wall in front of you’.

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“So the Chasers, all their incentive is, is to show they are the very best and right from the beginning you give them a slight sort of meanness like you might with the Gladiators as well. It’s a really interesting, neat psychological ploy which doesn’t say ‘here’s some smart arses and they’re going to stop you winning some money’ it’s saying ‘here is your opportunity to test yourself against the very, very best.

“You’re almost certainly going to lose because they are the very, very best but if you can win, oh my goodness. That show, and Gladiators, is ‘you’re probably going to lose but what if you won’. And you know, they’re brilliant quizzers, genuinely, absolutely on top of their game.”

Since the show launched, teams on The Chase have won £11,087,551 in the final chase out of a possible £38,847,607. One Question Shootout believes in order to guarantee winning in the final chase, contestants need to successfully answer 23 questions correct - with 22 being the highest figure it believes a Chaser is likely to reach in two minutes.