Perfect 10 (gymnastics) of points was based on a maximum of 10, until 1976 it was considered impossible to achieve a score of greater than 9.95, particularly at the Olympic Games (although Věra Čáslavská achieved perfect 10s in the 1967 European Championships, which were displayed on a manual scoreboard). Prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Omega, the official timers, asked the International Olympic Committee how many digits it should allow on the electronic scoreboard, and were told that three digits would be sufficient, as a score of 10.00 would not be possible. On 18 July 1976, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci performed
Diving at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform in a single round of six dives. Seven judges evaluate each dive, giving the diver a score between 0 and 10 with increments of .5; scores below 7.0 or above 9.5 are rare. The two highest and two lowest scores from each judge are dropped. The remaining three scores are summed, and multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the total score for the dive. Scores from each dive in the round are summed to give the round score. Diving at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's synchronized 10 metre platform The men's synchronized 10