diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
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--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ Optimizations
 Faster CPython
 ==============
 
-CPython 3.11 is on average `1.25x faster <https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/main-vs-310.rst>`_
+CPython 3.11 is on average `25% faster <https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/main-vs-310.rst>`_
 than CPython 3.10 when measured with the
 `pyperformance <https://github.com/python/pyperformance>`_ benchmark suite,
 and compiled with GCC on Ubuntu Linux. Depending on your workload, the speedup