Foundations
The benchmark samples the papers, ideas, and inflection points that shaped the field.
Sutskever’s List Quiz & Benchmark
How well do you actually understand modern AI?
Test yourself against Sutskever’s List.
18 questions · Sampled from a larger question bank · About 6 minutes to complete
Why This Benchmark Exists
A benchmark for Sutskever's List.
Sutskever’s List is a map of the ideas that shaped modern AI. The benchmark evaluates whether those ideas have become usable knowledge.
Engineering Lens
Questions reward understanding of architectures, optimization, scaling, and the system constraints behind real capability gains.
A Coherent Story
Sutskever’s List is familiar to most but this benchmark separates recognition from understanding.
Take The Benchmark
A benchmark built to be taken more than once.
Each run is assembled server-side from the larger question bank, so you can revisit it, compare attempts, and let the gaps get more precise over time.
Start Here
The benchmark starts immediately.
No email gate. No waiting room. You get your score as soon as you finish, then decide whether you want the deeper chapter-by-chapter breakdown.
18 sampled questions
Pulled from a larger bank so repeat attempts stay interesting.
Weighted scoring
Easy, medium, and hard questions do not all count the same.
Immediate result
Score, tier, and share tools appear the moment you finish.
Max score: 36. Benchmark shape: 6 easy, 6 medium, 6 hard.
Rich Heimann is the author of Sutskever’s List, a book tracing the papers, conceptual turns, and engineering patterns that shaped modern AI. The benchmark is designed as a front door into that same material: concise, demanding, and oriented around understanding that compounds.