Pencil Puzzle Bench - Shikaku — leaderboard

Metric: Direct-ask Success Rate (%). Source: ppbench.com. 51 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GPT-5.2 (xHigh)80
2GPT-5.2 (High)66.7
3Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)53.3
4Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)46.7
5GPT-5.2 (Medium)33.3
6GPT-5 (Medium)20
7GPT-5.1 (Medium)20
8GPT-5.2 Pro20
9Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)13.3
10Grok 4.1 Fast13.3
11Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Thinking)13.3
12Kimi K2.56.7
13Kimi K2 (Thinking)6.7
14DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale6.7
15Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)6.7

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