Exercises last 75 and 90 seconds, with 0.05 points deducted for each second under or over the time allowed. The floor area is a 13-metre square surrounded by a safety zone. The athlete with the highest score wins. Individuals and groups are scored by judges on a base of 10 points. In artistic gymnastics, men compete on the pommel horse rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar and floor.
Women compete in the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
Whether competing individually or as a team, an athlete attempts each apparatus only once, except the women's vault which has two tries with scores averaged at the end. Two judge for difficulty with a perfect score being 10. The other six judges mark for execution. They mark off points for mistakes. The highest and lowest scores from the execution judges is discarded and the remaining four scores are averaged.