Board history

Every published edition of the L26 Operating-Alphabet ranking, newest first. The board is a living dataset — walk back from the current record to see how the leader and the field have changed.

v1.0 · rev 2 Current July 22, 2026
#1 Gemini 3.6 Flash 16.8/26 · 23 models

Added Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. Gemini 3.6 Flash takes #1 with a clean-API blind mean of 16.8 — the first clean-API model to top the blind board (the prior #1 was a consumer-surface measurement).

v1.0 · rev 1 Archived July 18, 2026
#1 Claude Fable 5 ‡ 14.7/26 · 21 models

Iteration-3 baseline board. First five-flagship July cohort (Kimi K3, Inkling, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5). Claude Fable 5 ‡ led on a consumer-surface measurement.

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