diff --git a/benchmark/xpath/lexer/simple.rb b/benchmark/xpath/lexer/simple.rb
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+require_relative '../../benchmark_helper'
+
+xpath = '/wikimedia/projects/project[@name="Wikipedia"]/editions/edition/text()'
+
+Benchmark.ips do |bench|
+  bench.report 'simple XPath' do
+    Oga::XPath::Lexer.new(xpath).lex
+  end
+end
diff --git a/benchmark/xpath/lexer/simple_time.rb b/benchmark/xpath/lexer/simple_time.rb
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+require_relative '../../benchmark_helper'
+
+xpath = '/wikimedia/projects/project[@name="Wikipedia"]/editions/edition/text()'
+
+Benchmark.bmbm(10) do |bench|
+  bench.report 'simple XPath' do
+    Oga::XPath::Lexer.new(xpath).lex
+  end
+end