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Professional Writing race

Writing, literature and language tasks, judged by blind votes.

Warming up the track…

Distance on the track = score gap. Ticks on the inside edge mark 10 Elo steps behind the leader.

Oct 20, 2026Opus 5.5 leads

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Score history

Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week

#1 frontierOpus 5.5Gemini 4 ArgonFable 5.13.8 FlashMuse WonderQwen3.8-Max

Longest: 3.1 Pro, 14 weeks (from Feb 2026).

Sibling races

Covers the everyday writing people use assistants for: drafts, rewrites and analysis of text.

LMArena Text leaderboard, Writing, Literature & Language category: ratings from blind pairwise votes.

Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 5 EloDominant over 30 Elo

LMArena Text · Writing, Literature & Language ↗
Blind pairwise votes, reported as Bradley-Terry ratings on an Elo scale. Data: lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, CC BY 4.0.

LMArena Text · Writing, Literature & Language · LMArena

Weekly history from the source's published leaderboards.

69 tracked models with a result (415 entries on the source board) · newest data October 15, 2026.