Interesting point. The %timeit functionality actually used to output the mean of the x fastest runs, they seem to have changed that at some point. The docs stil

Interesting point. The %timeit functionality actually used to output the mean of the x fastest runs, they seem to have changed that at some point. The docs still explain the old behavior [1]. I assume that they feel your concerns are addressed because they display the stddev together with the mean, so you can see if there were any extreme outliers. [1] https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/magics.html#magic-timeit https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/magics.html#...