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Why Hemingway-bench? Traditional writing benchmarks often rely on autograders or vibe checks that mistake flowery, complex, highly-formatted prose for high quality. If a model stuffs every sentence with metaphors and by-the-book transitions, it usually climbs the charts. But that isn't good writing. We took a different approach: - Expert human judges: We asked professional writers across various industries to evaluate real-world writing tasks. Not autograders and users performing two-second vibe checks. - Nuance over nonsense: We looked for genuine voice and clarity, not how many SAT words ("prognosticative"!) a model could cram into a paragraph. What we found: many popular leaderboards are easily gamed and often reward the exact traits that real readers hate.