Longest perfect-score streaks
Longest streak: Jennifer Grey/Derek Hough S11 with 6 straight perfects; Derek Hough has 42 perfects.
Ballroom Data · Artometrics-style report · Nov 3, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles)
Headline
Jennifer Grey & Derek Hough (S11) hold the longest consecutive perfect-dance streak at 6. On the pro side, Derek Hough leads with 42 perfect dances in-sample. Dataset total perfect dances: 353.
Couple streaks
| Season | Couple | Best streak | Perfect dances |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Jennifer Grey / Derek Hough | 6 | 6 |
| 25 | Jordan Fisher / Lindsay Arnold | 5 | 9 |
| 18 | Meryl Davis / Maksim Chmerkovskiy | 5 | 6 |
| 20 | Riker Lynch / Allison Holker | 5 | 5 |
| 20 | Rumer Willis / Valentin Chmerkovskiy | 4 | 6 |
| 30 | JoJo Siwa / Jenna Johnson | 4 | 6 |
| 25 | Lindsey Stirling / Mark Ballas | 4 | 5 |
| 27 | Juan Pablo Di Pace / Cheryl Burke | 4 | 5 |
| 29 | Kaitlyn Bristowe / Artem Chigvintsev | 4 | 5 |
| 29 | Nev Schulman / Jenna Johnson | 4 | 5 |
Methods & caveats
Perfect dance = all retained judges ≥10. Streaks are consecutive perfect performances in week order for a couple-season; non-perfect dances break the streak. Scoring-scale eras differ — compare within eras when possible.
Coverage: seasons 1–35; 3,602 performances; 11,027 individual judge marks in the cleaned Ballroom Data SQLite build (Nov 3, 2026, America/Los_Angeles).
Known gaps: Season 31 Mirrorball winner is not tagged as Winners in the performance table (Charli D’Amelio / Mark Ballas is missing from our winners extract). Seasons 33–35 largely lack Kaggle ages/hometowns. Season 35 celebrity names in the wiki scrape are often first-name-only or garbled. Dance-style strings still include some unclean variants. We never impute missing values.
Sources: howisonlab/dwts_dataset (GitHub); Kaggle brupley/dancing-with-the-stars-dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wikipedia DWTS season pages for seasons 32–35 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Scores are per-judge means on a 0–10 scale so 3-judge and 4-judge weeks are comparable. Marathons/relays/megamixes are excluded from style averages unless noted.
Disclaimer: Unofficial fan analysis. Not affiliated with BBC Worldwide, Disney, or ABC.
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