The Standings → Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
high reasoning effort · via Claude CLI · judged by Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol · the setting shown on the standings; also run at medium0.77
Results from run ‘first’: ten items, 30 verdicts.
The record: 10 items · 30 verdicts · 0 errors · 2,430 words on average · est. generation cost $2.02
Six dimensions, each marked 1–5, averaged over ten items and all judges.
Mean craft mark by dimension · 30 verdicts, run ‘first’
Voice is the strongest dimension (4.33); momentum the weakest (4.00). 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 | 0.87 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 2,330 |
| The War of the Worlds item 006 · after ch. 1 · H. G. Wells | 0.85 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.87 | 2,339 |
| The Awakening item 016 · after ch. 7 · Kate Chopin | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.96 | 0.75 | 1,757 |
| Red Harvest item 023 · after ch. 2 · Dashiell Hammett | 0.79 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 2,497 |
| Persuasion item 001 · after ch. 1 · Jane Austen | 0.78 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.71 | 2,613 |
| The Secret Garden item 013 · after ch. 2 · Frances Hodgson Burnett | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.92 | 0.57† | 2,312 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles item 017 · after ch. 3 · Agatha Christie | 0.74 | 0.71 | 0.83 | 0.68 | 2,475 |
| Leave It to Psmith item 022 · after ch. 3 · P. G. Wodehouse | 0.74 | 0.79 | 0.71 | 0.71 | 3,190 |
| The Sun Also Rises item 021 · after ch. 3 · Ernest Hemingway | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.71 | 2,004 |
| The Moonstone item 011 · after ch. 8 · Wilkie Collins | 0.70 | 0.68 | 0.79 | 0.63 | 2,787 |
† The widest judge split in the run: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.92 against GPT-5.6 Sol 0.57 on The Secret Garden (item 013).
Words written per item, against each brief’s maximum.
Word count per item vs. brief maximum · run ‘first’
Eight of ten items landed inside their brief’s word range. Persuasion and Leave It to Psmith ran over by 13 and 390 words respectively.
Each verdict names the chapter’s single worst flaw, with evidence. Quoted verbatim from run ‘first’.
The chapter leans on near-verbatim sentences lifted from Burnett (\"Mary found out afterward that this was Yorkshire,\" \"It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life\"), so some of its most convincing voice is borrowed rather than earned.
By having the narrator argue on the spot that the cylinder came from Mars, the chapter gives him a prescience that deflates the dramatic irony of the retrospective voice and has to be patched with the defensive authorial aside \"I would not have the reader think me wiser afterwards than I was at the time.\"
Mina's 3 June letter spends its first half re-summarizing the Vollmer letter the reader has just read in full — the chapter's one patch of redundancy — and compounds it with the small date slip of placing Jonathan's hurried lines at 'the twelfth of May' when her 9 May letter had already reported them.
The final third leans on stacked, unmotivated coincidences — Psmith just happening to be in the one bookshop Eve visits, then Mike unprompted serving up her name and destination at dinner — so the brief's machinery becomes visible exactly where the chapter needs to feel inevitable.
Automated screening results across the ten outputs.