I think that this is more about "how good are my skills, and how sharp is my razor to other people" than an empirical "how good are you at honing, given certain conditions." I'd rather know that my current set-up is up to scratch (Norton 4k/8k and Coticule) than if my honing stroke is good enough off the 8k.

If we go that route and standardize everything, we'd also have to limit the number of laps you could do, because a "proper" honing stroke wouldn't need extraneous laps...but if we're about how good you are at knowing when to stop, when to move on, etc, the variables help and not hurt us.

Just my $0.02

Mark