diff --git a/packages/sdk-browser/src/camera/controls/firstPerson.test.ts b/packages/sdk-browser/src/camera/controls/firstPerson.test.ts
index 91f521b466..42d22161d8 100644
--- a/packages/sdk-browser/src/camera/controls/firstPerson.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk-browser/src/camera/controls/firstPerson.test.ts
@@ -39,19 +39,24 @@ test('first person turns the head with the pointer and lets the lock go on dispo
   assert.equal(surface.listeners(), 0);
 });
 
-test('the first move after the lock is granted is dropped: the cursor jump never turns the head', () => {
+test('the first move after the lock is granted is dropped: the cursor jump never turns the head, and a turn and its reverse return the head', () => {
   const { camera, surface, controls } = steered(createFirstPersonCameraControls);
+  const looking = () => [...facing(camera)].map((v) => round(v));
   controls.lookSpeed = Math.PI / 400;
   controls.update(0);
+  const home = looking();
   surface.fire('pointerdown', { pointerId: 1, button: 0, clientX: 0, clientY: 0 });
   surface.key('pointerlockchange', {});
   surface.fire('pointermove', { pointerId: 1, movementX: -900, movementY: 700 });
   surface.fire('pointermove', { pointerId: 1, movementX: 200, movementY: 0 });
   controls.update(0);
-  assert.deepEqual(
-    [...facing(camera)].map((v) => round(v)),
-    [1, 0, 0],
-  );
+  assert.deepEqual(looking(), [1, 0, 0]);
+  // The examples proof's look (#527): every move after the dropped one counts, so the reverse,
+  // in four steps, lands on the very head the lock started from.
+  for (let step = 0; step < 4; step++)
+    surface.fire('pointermove', { pointerId: 1, movementX: -50, movementY: 0 });
+  controls.update(0);
+  assert.deepEqual(looking(), home);
 });
 
 test('first person stops a downward look at `minPitch`', () => {
diff --git a/scripts/docs-examples-draw.test.ts b/scripts/docs-examples-draw.test.ts
index e26f673939..4cbaf51813 100644
--- a/scripts/docs-examples-draw.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/docs-examples-draw.test.ts
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ test('a sparse example is declared by name and backend under the tenth; every ot
     assert.ok(share > 0 && share < 0.1, id);
   }
   // The shares declared under those measured on 2026-09-24, and the examples never declared: the
-  // three a refused WebGL2 session left blank, and save-the-scene, whose ground fills its frame
-  // (#717). They keep the tenth on both backends.
+  // three a refused WebGL2 session left blank, save-the-scene, whose ground fills its frame
+  // (#717), and click-to-pick, framed closer (#527). They keep the tenth on both backends.
   const named = [
     'a-staircase-from-one-step',
     'a-cloud-of-points',
@@ -58,13 +58,14 @@ test('a sparse example is declared by name and backend under the tenth; every ot
     'fly-over-a-model-town',
     'from-a-grain-to-a-planet',
     'snow-of-sprites',
+    'click-to-pick',
   ];
   for (const id of named) assert.ok(ids.has(id), id);
   // A new declaration is asserted here too, with its literal share.
   for (const id of Object.keys(SPARSE)) assert.ok(named.includes(id), id);
   const least = (gpu: boolean) => named.map((id) => leastDrawn(id, gpu));
-  assert.deepEqual(least(false), [0.04, 0.04, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1]);
-  assert.deepEqual(least(true), [0.04, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1]);
+  assert.deepEqual(least(false), [0.04, 0.04, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1]);
+  assert.deepEqual(least(true), [0.04, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1]);
 });
 
 test('the proof expects Jolt from the pages whose own source turns physics on, and from no other', async () => {
diff --git a/site/examples/click-to-pick.html b/site/examples/click-to-pick.html
index 5838737025..ecea6eea50 100644
--- a/site/examples/click-to-pick.html
+++ b/site/examples/click-to-pick.html
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
         mesh.name = names[i];
         world.scene.add(mesh);
       });
-      world.camera.position.set(0, 4, 6);
+      // Close enough that the ring fills the view: six shapes on a wide grid are a small target.
+      world.camera.position.set(0, 3.2, 4.8);
       world.camera.lookAt(0, 0, 0);
 
       controls({});
diff --git a/tests/browser/renders/default-backend.browser.ts b/tests/browser/renders/default-backend.browser.ts
index 9388f32f76..cd0d3bcb49 100644
--- a/tests/browser/renders/default-backend.browser.ts
+++ b/tests/browser/renders/default-backend.browser.ts
@@ -142,8 +142,12 @@ try {
     JSON.stringify(withoutGpu.cases.default.metrics),
   );
   // The canvas is not empty: a twentieth of it at least differs from the cleared background.
+  // Each machine named in its own verdict, with the frame's counters: a blank side says which (#527).
   for (const run of [withGpu, withoutGpu])
-    assert.ok(run.drawn && run.drawn.drawn > run.drawn.totalPixels / 20, JSON.stringify(run.drawn));
+    assert.ok(
+      run.drawn && run.drawn.drawn > run.drawn.totalPixels / 20,
+      `${machineLabel(run.cases.default.webgpu)}: ${JSON.stringify({ drawn: run.drawn, metrics: run.cases.default.metrics })}`,
+    );
   assert.deepEqual(errors, []);
   const side = (name: string, run: MachineResult) => [
     name,
diff --git a/tests/browser/renders/native-camera-controls.browser.ts b/tests/browser/renders/native-camera-controls.browser.ts
index 56dea78d1e..5a1111f7ca 100644
--- a/tests/browser/renders/native-camera-controls.browser.ts
+++ b/tests/browser/renders/native-camera-controls.browser.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   endGesture,
   loadedModules,
   openProbe,
+  pointerLocked,
   stepGesture,
 } from '../support/cameraControlsPage.ts';
 import type { Page } from 'playwright';
@@ -76,9 +77,9 @@ try {
     assert.ok(result.changes > 0, `${kind} emitted no change`);
     assert.ok(result.bytes > 0, `${kind} drew nothing`);
     assert.notDeepEqual(moved, home, `${kind} did not move the camera`);
-    // The gesture and its reverse leave the very image the pose started from.
-    assert.equal(result.differences, 0, `${kind} did not come back to its pose`);
+    // The gesture and its reverse leave the pose it started from, then the very image.
     assert.deepEqual(result.pose, home, `${kind} did not come back to its pose`);
+    assert.equal(result.differences, 0, `${kind} did not come back to its image`);
   };
   await run('controls', async () => {
     await drag(page, 120, 0);
@@ -118,12 +119,16 @@ try {
   });
   // A locked pointer turns the head on every move, button or not, so the look here is one
   // press, out and back, rather than two drags that would each reposition the cursor first.
+  // Once the lock is granted the head drops the first move by design, the cursor's jump (#385):
+  // one move is spent on it, then four out and four back all count.
   await run('firstPersonControls', async () => {
     await page.mouse.move(centre.x, centre.y);
     await page.mouse.down();
-    await page.mouse.move(centre.x + 80, centre.y, { steps: 4 });
+    await page.evaluate(pointerLocked);
+    await page.mouse.move(centre.x + 1, centre.y);
+    await page.mouse.move(centre.x + 81, centre.y, { steps: 4 });
     const moved = await page.evaluate(stepGesture, 0);
-    await page.mouse.move(centre.x, centre.y, { steps: 4 });
+    await page.mouse.move(centre.x + 1, centre.y, { steps: 4 });
     await page.mouse.up();
     await page.evaluate(stepGesture, 0);
     await hold(page, 'w');
diff --git a/tests/browser/support/cameraControlsPage.ts b/tests/browser/support/cameraControlsPage.ts
index 55ad20ba2a..f7310dbd87 100644
--- a/tests/browser/support/cameraControlsPage.ts
+++ b/tests/browser/support/cameraControlsPage.ts
@@ -102,6 +102,24 @@ export async function endGesture() {
   return { differences, pose: probe.pose(), changes: probe.changes, bytes: image.length };
 }
 
+/** Resolves once the pointer lock a press asked for is granted, at once if it already is; a
+ *  refused lock rejects. Waited for as the event, never by a fixed delay. */
+export function pointerLocked() {
+  return new Promise<void>((granted, refused) => {
+    if (document.pointerLockElement) return granted();
+    // The first of the two events settles the wait and removes both listeners; a change that
+    // leaves the pointer free is a lost lock, never a granted one.
+    const settled = new AbortController();
+    const settle = () => {
+      settled.abort();
+      if (document.pointerLockElement) granted();
+      else refused(new Error('lock refused or released'));
+    };
+    document.addEventListener('pointerlockchange', settle, { signal: settled.signal });
+    document.addEventListener('pointerlockerror', settle, { signal: settled.signal });
+  });
+}
+
 /** Every module the page fetched, for the proof that no addon of the host is among them. */
 export function loadedModules() {
   return performance.getEntriesByType('resource').map((entry) => entry.name);