diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index becf1c1..2849652 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ section below):
     2.77 ± 0.08 times faster than 'bazel build --extra_toolchains=@llvm_toolchain_with_sysroot//:cc-toolchain-x86_64-linux --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories //...'
     2.85 ± 0.07 times faster than 'bazel build --platforms=@zig_sdk//libc_aware/platform:linux_amd64_gnu.2.28              --experimental_reuse_sandbox_directories //...'
 
-This demonstrates that **adding a hermetic toolchain to a project caused 177%
+This demonstrates that **adding a hermetic toolchain to a project caused 2.77x
 slowdown on this project**. Note that we are not counting `llvm_toolchain//...`
 as a real toolchain -- one needs a sysroot to compile anything meaningful
 anyway (which zig bundles with the compiler).