The Will Smith Spaghetti Challenge
Vote“Will Smith eating spaghetti” has become the unofficial benchmark of generative video for one simple reason: it is deceptively simple yet brutally revealing.
This single prompt exposes weaknesses that flashy action scenes or beautiful landscapes often hide. A model can generate stunning visuals yet still fail spectacularly when asked to make a human being convincingly eat.
Voters judged on
Will Smith being Will Smith
Spaghetti physics
Prompt
“A medium shot of Will Smith sitting at a cozy, dimly lit Italian restaurant, twirling a forkful of spaghetti with a playful grin on his face. The camera slowly dollies in as he takes a bite, capturing the rich, steaming sauce. Warm candlelight, cinematic lighting, hyperrealistic, 4K. Smooth motion, consistent face, detailed hands, natural spaghetti physics.”
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The leaderboard
Challenge rankings
5 models · ranked by blind vote
Through time: how it evolved
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score 17.8
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score -1.8
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The archive
Through time
How The Will Smith Spaghetti Challenge has evolved, release by release.
2025 to 2026·
2 reigns·
5 models
The Reign Chain
2 reigns
How the crown changed hands
Every model that has held #1 on this challenge, in order. Click any era to travel through time.
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R01Inception
Sora 2 Pro Sep 2025 → Dec 2025reigned 3 mo -
R02Current
Kling V3 Dec 2025 → todayreigned 11 mo · overtook Sora 2 Pro
Generation history
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Grok Imagine Video 1 take
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P-Video 1 take
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Wan 2.6 1 take
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Kling V3 1 take
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Sora 2 Pro 1 take