To put these personal records in perspective, the Notes column lists the official world records on the dates that Larsen skated his personal records.

To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Young skated her personal records.

To put these personal records in perspective, the column WR lists the official world records on the dates that Schenk skated his personal records, and, since the world records he broke were often his own, the column AE lists the best times skated by anyone else up to those dates.