Humanity's Last Exam, shortest of three requests
GPT 5.6 Sol on “Humanity's Last Exam item 17”
Longer
1.17× longerWorked 17% past the request, 12 s over.
- Asked for
- 1.25 minutes
- Worked
- 1 min 27 s
- Grade
- Did not pass
- Score 0 of 100. Graded during the run.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- GPT 5.6 Sol, in Codex
- Benchmark
- Humanity's Last Exam
- Asked for
- 1.25 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 1.25 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
- Worked
- 1 min 27 s (87 s)
- Ratio
- 1.17× the request
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
- Grade
- Did not pass
- It was not marked correct by the judge. The grader returned 0. Pass rule: The benchmark's own judge marks the answer correct.
- Score
- 0 of 100
- Graded during the run. The paper's value.
- Clock tool
- The agent could call a clock tool to check the requested time.
- Wording
- The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
- Run id
- b72xn4gmih
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
Related runs
| Sol on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 1.25 minutes | 1 min 27 s | 1.17× longer | |
| Middle | 5 minutes | 5 min 14 s | Within 5% | |
| Longest | 20 minutes | 20 min 18 s | Within 5% | |
| Other agents, shortest request | ||||
| GPT 6 Astra | 1.25 minutes | 1 min 29 s | 1.19× longer | |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | 1.25 minutes | 2 min 17 s | 1.83× longer | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: Phan et al., 2025