SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

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What it tests: Spatial reasoning without seeing the output: the model must place a recognisable pelican on a bicycle with plausible contact points (seat, pedals, handlebars) in raw SVG coordinates.

Prompt length: 45 characters, roughly 10 tokens (estimate). · Community gallery of model drawings ↗

Prompt

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

How to grade it

Render the SVG. Good: a recognisable pelican (long beak, throat pouch), a bicycle with two similar wheels, a frame joining them and handlebars, and the bird actually sitting on it with its feet near the pedals. It's an informal visual check, so compare runs side by side.

Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/4

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Gives the expected answer
Reasoning is correct, not just the final answer
Avoids the failure modes listed below
Follows the requested format

0/4

Where models usually fail

Invalid SVG; a frame that doesn't connect the wheels; the pelican floating next to the bike; a generic bird. Simon Willison notes that frontier models now saturate it, so it's most useful for small local models.

Source

Author: Simon Willison
From: Pelican on a bicycle
Exact file or post: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/
Licence: No explicit license; one-sentence prompt quoted as a citation
How we use it: Short quote with attribution

Testing a local model? Check first whether it fits your hardware with Can I run this LLM?

SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

How to grade it

Where models usually fail

Source

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