diff --git a/perf/benchmarks/normalize-document-twice/index.js b/perf/benchmarks/normalize-document-twice/index.js
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+
+module.exports = {
+  run(state) {
+    const selection = state.selection.merge({
+      anchorKey: '_cursor_',
+      anchorOffset: 0,
+      focusKey: '_cursor_',
+      focusOffset: 0
+    })
+
+    return state
+      .transform({ normalized: false }).normalize().apply()
+      .transform()
+      // Make a fast, dummy change
+      .moveTo(selection).insertText('inserted text')
+      // We want to compare the speed of that second normalize (optimized through memoization, or other means)
+      .normalize().apply()
+  }
+}
diff --git a/perf/benchmarks/normalize-document-twice/input.yaml b/perf/benchmarks/normalize-document-twice/input.yaml
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+++ b/perf/benchmarks/normalize-document-twice/input.yaml
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+nodes:
+  # Same than normalize-document-normal, but concatened 3 times
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'This is editable '
+    - text: 'rich'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ' text, '
+    - text: 'much'
+      marks:
+      - type: italic
+    - text: ' better than a '
+    - text: '<textarea>'
+      marks:
+      - type: code
+    - text: '!'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    key: '_cursor_'
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'Since it''s rich text, you can do things like turn a selection of text '
+    - text: 'bold'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ', or add a semantically rendered block quote in the middle of the page,
+        like this:'
+- kind: block
+  type: block-quote
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'A wise quote.'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'Try it out for yourself!'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'This is editable '
+    - text: 'rich'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ' text, '
+    - text: 'much'
+      marks:
+      - type: italic
+    - text: ' better than a '
+    - text: '<textarea>'
+      marks:
+      - type: code
+    - text: '!'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'Since it''s rich text, you can do things like turn a selection of text '
+    - text: 'bold'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ', or add a semantically rendered block quote in the middle of the page,
+        like this:'
+- kind: block
+  type: block-quote
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'A wise quote.'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'Try it out for yourself!'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'This is editable '
+    - text: 'rich'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ' text, '
+    - text: 'much'
+      marks:
+      - type: italic
+    - text: ' better than a '
+    - text: '<textarea>'
+      marks:
+      - type: code
+    - text: '!'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    ranges:
+    - text: 'Since it''s rich text, you can do things like turn a selection of text '
+    - text: 'bold'
+      marks:
+      - type: bold
+    - text: ', or add a semantically rendered block quote in the middle of the page,
+        like this:'
+- kind: block
+  type: block-quote
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'A wise quote.'
+- kind: block
+  type: paragraph
+  nodes:
+  - kind: text
+    text: 'Try it out for yourself!'