CandyBench v0.1: the first candy benchmark
AI labs rank models on benchmarks. We rank candy. Here's the state of the art on all six axes.
Every AI lab publishes benchmarks, so here is ours. CandyBench scores candy on the same six axes our scan reports: sweet, sour, bitter, crunch, melt and chaos. Below are the current leaders on each.
Method, honestly: v0.1 scores are preliminary lab-panel ratings on a written rubric. They are opinions with a number attached. v1.0 will be recomputed from real taster data once enough people have scanned and told us what they love.
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- 80 SkittlesSOTA
- 80 Starburst
- 80 Swedish Fish
- 100 Warheads Extreme SourSOTA
- 100 Toxic Waste Hazardously Sour
- 90 Sour Strips
- 100 Lindt Excellence 85% DarkSOTA
- 90 Kopiko Coffee Candy
- 80 Panda Soft Licorice
- 90 KitKatSOTA
- 90 Butterfinger
- 90 Freeze-dried candy
- 100 Lindor Milk TrufflesSOTA
- 100 Cremino Chocolates
- 90 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- 100 Pop RocksSOTA
- 100 Pulparindo
- 100 Universal Yums box
Known limitations
- Two-person panel. Enormous bias toward whatever was in our pantry.
- “Chaos” is not a recognized sensory attribute. We think it should be.
- No candy was harmed. Several were eaten.
The full leaderboard, with all six evals, categories and methodology, lives at CandyBench. Disagree? Scan your tongue and add your palate to the dataset. That’s how v1.0 gets better.