Benchmark Prompts / P11

Spiral staircase: 7 AI models, one prompt

Every Season 1 competitor received this prompt verbatim, at default settings, with one generation and no manual cleanup. Nothing below is cherry-picked — the failures ship too, because a benchmark that hides them isn't one.

The prompt (v1.0, CC BY 4.0)

A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

What it tests: Parametric/procedural reasoning: counted repetition, rotation, and precision.

Category: Abstract

Blind vote results for P11

85 ballots · 6 “both bad”

CompetitorWinsLosses
Claude Fable 5167
Claude Opus 5156
GPT-5.6 Sol155
Claude Opus 4.81314
Grok 4.670
Claude Sonnet 5614
Claude Haiku 4.5026

Every output for this prompt

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P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

GPT-5.6 SolAbstract

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.

Grok 4.6Abstract

P11: “A spiral staircase with twelve steps winding around a central column, with a handrail.