Tying shoelaces
The prompt “Close-up of adult hands tying the laces of a brown leather boot, natural window light, shallow depth of field”
Fingers crossing over each other is the single hardest thing for video models. Count the digits frame by frame.
- Models tested
- 16
- Top score
- 5.00 7 models tied
- Average
- 4.64
- Lowest
- 3.38 Runway Gen-4.5
Every model, same prompt
The clips on screen play together from the first frame, muted. Open one for sound, controls and our notes.
PixVerse v5.5
PixVerse
Kling 3.0 Turbo
Kuaishou
MiniMax H3
MiniMaxNatural lace contact and knot-tying, all 5 fingers stable throughout.
Google Veo 3.1
GoogleNatural pinch/lace contact, all 5 fingers stable, no fusion or clipping.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDanceTen normal digits across both hands, natural contact with laces and leather.
Seedance 2.0
ByteDanceTen normal digits across both hands, no clipping or melting into laces or leather.
OpenAI Sora 2
OpenAIReal-footage-quality contact with laces; no artifacts.
Kling 4.0
KuaishouFive fingers on both hands and a finished bow at the end, but the clip cuts to a closer angle at about 5 seconds. Checked frame by frame.
Wan 3.0
AlibabaBoth hands keep five fingers while the laces cross, and the bow is finished by the end of one continuous take.
Vivix W1
VivixEnds with a finished bow, which few models reach, and finger counts hold during the crossings. The clip cuts to a close-up at about 3.7 seconds, a second shot that was not requested.
Google Gemini Omni
GoogleKnot shape morphs slightly as it tightens, otherwise clean.
MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMaxHands stay on-screen and tie correctly throughout; the only real artifact is one lace segment held stiff and straight rather than draping naturally near the end.
Grok Video
xAICorrect anatomy, but the knot morphs together unnaturally rather than being threaded.
Kling 3.0
KuaishouGood finger anatomy, but the lace ties by morphing/fusing into a finished bow rather than real topological pulling.
FLUX 3
Black Forest LabsPlausible two-handed lacing with correct finger counts, but there is no finished bow by the end of the 8 seconds and the lace motion goes soft during the crossings.
Runway Gen-4.5
RunwayHands blend/clip into laces then vanish entirely around 00:05 as the knot finishes tying itself. Verified via frame extraction: last frame shows a complete finished bow with no hands in shot at all -- confirmed, not a judge hallucination.
Ranked by our blind vision-model judge; models with the same score share a position. Read how we test.