diff --git a/benches/README.md b/benches/README.md
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--- a/benches/README.md
+++ b/benches/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ These are some files to determine performance of rustpython.
 Running `cargo bench` from the root of the repository will start the benchmarks. Once done there will be a graphical 
 report under `target/criterion/report/index.html` that you can use use to view the results.
 
-To view Python tracebacks during benchmarks, run `RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo bench`. You can also bench against a 
+`cargo bench` supports name matching to run a subset of the benchmarks. To
+run only the sort microbenchmark, you can run:
+
+```shell
+cargo bench sort
+```
+
+To view Python tracebacks during benchmarks, run `RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo bench`. You can also bench against a
 specific installed Python version by running:
 
 ```shell
diff --git a/benches/microbenchmarks/sort.py b/benches/microbenchmarks/sort.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6f8ee03a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benches/microbenchmarks/sort.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from random import random, seed
+seed(0)
+
+unsorted_list = [random() for _ in range(5 * ITERATIONS)]
+
+# ---
+
+unsorted_list.sort()