The Standings → Fable 5 (medium)
Anthropic
medium reasoning effort · via Claude CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol · not the setting shown on the standings; also run at xhigh0.80 high0.80
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 27 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 27 verdicts · 0 errors · 1,958 words on average · est. generation cost $2.44
Six dimensions, each marked 1–5, averaged over ten items and all judges.
Mean craft mark by dimension · 27 verdicts, run ‘first’
Integration is the strongest dimension (4.22); momentum the weakest (3.96). Hover or focus a bar for the per-judge means.
Each item receives one verdict from each judge; the spread of the dots is the disagreement.
Headline score per item, by judge · run ‘first’
| Item | Headline | Fable 5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Sol | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dracula item 015 · after ch. 5 · Bram Stoker | 0.86 | 0.79 | 0.96 | 0.83 | 1,972 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.83 | 2,183 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.78 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.71† | 1,504 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.77 | 0.83 | 0.75 | 0.71 | 2,230 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.75 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.79 | 2,287 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 2,494 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.60 | 2,249 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.69 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.59 | 2,356 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.56 | 2,298 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.92 against Fable 5 0.71 on The Awakening (item 016).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Nine of nine items landed inside their brief’s word range.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The chapter's most impressive prose is not the candidate's own: the opening taxi paragraph is lifted essentially verbatim from Hemingway's actual Chapter 4 (\"The taxi went up the hill, passed the lighted square ... turned onto the cobbles of the Rue Mouffetard\"), and the closing hard-boiled reflection is a close paraphrase of another published passage, so the strongest writing is transcription rather than continuation.
Several of its most convincing touches are lifted nearly verbatim from Wells's own next chapter ("Then came the night of the first falling star", the greenish streak, Albin's hissing sound, Stent and Henderson), so the pastiche leans on transcription where invention was wanted, and the borrowing even trips it into the muddled double-Henderson.
The chapter's internal clock is broken: it simultaneously treats the Elihu visit as \"this morning\" and the murder night as \"night before last,\" and the widow's eyewitness account silently shifts the ten-forty shooting to nearly eleven without the detective narrator — whose whole trade is timelines — ever noticing.
The chapter's opening leap to "the Tuesday following" breaches the brief's single-day limit, and its most brilliant passages (Lady Russell's plan, Sir Walter's "What! every comfort of life knocked off!") are lifted nearly verbatim from Austen's actual Chapter 2 rather than being the candidate's own invention.
Automated screening results across the nine outputs.