Before 2006, every routine was assigned a start value based on difficulty, and judges deducted from that value for execution errors. Before 2006, the highest possible score in gymnastics was a perfect 10, and the newer scoring system removed the perfect 10. Today the maximum E score is 10, but there is no cap on the D score, so in theory a score could be infinite. The difficulty score of a routine starts at zero and goes up as harder skills are added. In major competitions, the average marks for routines have generally been in the low to mid-teens. The vault is scored by difficulty values from 2.0 (easiest) to 6.4 (most difficult), and skill difficulty in the Code of Points is ranked in letters from A, worth .10, up to J, worth 1.0.

At the 2023 U.S. Championships, Simone Biles won her eighth national all-around title, and in doing so she broke the 90-year-old record held by Al Jochim, who had won seven national titles. She also became the oldest woman to win the national all-around title, at 26 years and 166 days old. At the 2023 World Championships, she earned her sixth world all-around gold medal with an overall score of 58.399, won the balance beam with a score of 14.800 and helped the U.S. win a seventh consecutive team gold medal. As of November 2026, she has won a record nine U.S. national all-around championships.

At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Simone helped the U.S. team win the team gold medal, and she won three gold medals and one silver medal in all. She won the vault gold medal with a Biles II, a Yurchenko double pike, and a Cheng. As of November 2026, the Biles II is the only element in artistic gymnastics to receive the J rating. She lost the floor exercise gold by 0.033 points, which ended her streak of 10 consecutive international gold medals on floor exercise. At age 27, she became the second-oldest woman to win the Olympic all-around gold medal, and she also became the third woman to win two Olympic all-around titles. At the closing ceremony, she took part in the ceremonial passing of the Olympic flag.

Simone Biles surpassed Vitaly Scherbo as the most successful gymnast of all time at the Olympics and World Championships. As of April 2025, she has won the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year four times, and she has been awarded five Laureus World Sports Awards. In December 2023, she was named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for the third time. Earlier honors include the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year in 2014, the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete in July 2017 and, in 2022, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she received as the youngest person ever to do so.

Words to know

• deducted: taken off
• consecutive: in a row
• ceremonial: for a ceremony
• element: one skill