How we get your numbers
You are not buying a picture, you are buying your numbers. So you have the right to know where they come from, what we do with them and when they can change. Hence this page.
Last updated: 2026-08-28.
By Mitchell Tjong Akiet, builder of Splitprint.
01 · The numbers are not ours
Every time on your poster comes from the official result of your race, the same one on results.hyrox.com. Your finish time, your eight run times, your eight station times and your roxzone. We measure nothing, we retrieve.
That also means: if something odd is in the official result, it is on our side too. We cannot correct your time, only Hyrox can.
02 · We invent nothing and derive nothing
This sounds obvious, but it is the most important rule we have. If a split is missing from the result, we do not fill it in with an assumption. We leave it empty, or we do not make the poster. Better no poster than a poster with an invented number, because you cannot tell the difference.
The same goes for arithmetic. Your finish time is the finish time the timing system recorded. We do not add it up from your splits ourselves, even though we could. It looks like the same thing, but it is not: all splits are rounded to whole seconds, and seventeen rounded pieces added together do not land on your real time. They drift a few seconds away from it. So we take the real one.
03 · What we do calculate ourselves
One thing: the comparison against your field. It is not on any results page, and it is the reason this poster exists.
For each station we put your time next to the median of your own category in your own race. The median is the middle time: half the field was faster, half slower. We deliberately do not use the average, because a few very slow finishers pull an average up and then you look better than you were.
Green means faster than that middle time, red means slower. If your poster says MEDIAN, it is a true median. If your category was too small and we had to merge groups, we can no longer compute a clean median. Then it says AVG and it is an approximation. The label always tells you exactly what you are looking at.
If your category is too small to say anything meaningful (fewer than five finishers), we simply leave the comparison off. A comparison against three people is not a comparison.
04 · Why your poster does not change after you order
The moment you order, we lock your numbers. A frozen copy, with a date. Your splits, your finish time and your ranking are set from that moment on, and that is your order.
One thing is sometimes still added: the comparison against your field. Right after a race, the official splits for your whole field are not complete yet. If you order in that window, you get your splits right away, and once the official field data is in we add your per-station verdict. After that your print goes out with that complete data and it does not change either. We deliberately wait for the real data instead of showing you an estimate.
Your own numbers are set right away, because they can move, for two reasons:
- Hyrox corrects something. A time penalty, a protest, a wrong bib number. Then the official result changes afterwards.
- We improve our calculation. It happens. See the next section.
Without that frozen copy, your poster could quietly drift along with the source. You approve A and receive B, and nobody can verify afterwards what you actually approved. We think that is unacceptable. In your account you can see, for every poster, the date your numbers were locked.
05 · We have made mistakes too
In July 2026 we audited our own numbers against the official results. It turned out we were doing two things wrong.
We were adding up your finish time from your splits instead of using the official time. That put a time on some posters that was a few seconds slower than your real one. And we were deriving your roxzone by subtraction instead of taking the measured value, which made it a few seconds too short.
Both have been corrected, and on every change we now automatically verify that our numbers still match the official result exactly. We are telling you this because you would never have known otherwise, and that is precisely the problem with a wrong number on paper.
06 · Curious about the field numbers themselves?
The same source feeds our data pages: field times per category, per station and for the roxzone, measured across the biggest events of the season. Start at what is a good Hyrox time. To put that comparison on paper, see Field Report or the more analytical Telemetry.
07 · What our field metrics mean
Our race pages and field analyses use a few coined terms. Each one is defined here, once, and always computed the same way: official results only, a median where the source allows one (at least five finishers), a benchmark where we weigh across events. A benchmark is a reference point, not a median.
- Roxzone Tax
- The total transition time a field loses between stations in one race: the median roxzone time of a division, straight from the official results.
- Course Speed Index
- How fast a city really is: a race's field finish set against the season benchmark of the same division, at 100.
- The Fade
- How much a field slows down as the race goes on: the difference between the field's median run 1 and median run 8.
- The Pro Gap
- The difference per station between the Open and Pro field benchmarks in the same season.
- The Doubles Discount
- The difference per station between the doubles and solo field benchmarks in the same season.
08 · Something wrong?
Then we want to know, and you get your money back. No questions, no hassle. Email hello@splitprint.store with your order number.
Frequently asked about the numbers
- Where do the numbers on a Splitprint poster come from?
- Every time comes from the official Hyrox result on results.hyrox.com: the finish time, 8 run times, 8 station times and the roxzone. We retrieve the official values; we measure nothing and invent nothing.
- Why does the sum of my Hyrox splits not match my official finish time?
- Because every split is rounded to whole seconds. Add up all seventeen rounded splits and you typically land about 8 seconds above the official finish time. We found this in our July 2026 audit, and it is why we always print the measured finish time, never a sum of splits.
- Why does Splitprint compare against the median and not the average?
- A few very slow finishers pull an average up, which flatters everyone else. The median is the middle time of your category in your race: half the field was faster, half slower. When a clean median is impossible the poster label says AVG, so you always know what you are looking at.
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