diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
index 0b7bbd297c..0f91e62350 100644
--- a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
@@ -678,13 +678,14 @@ async function waitingQuad(page, map) {
   return quad;
 }
 
-export async function sample(ctx, gesture, point, pointerScreen) {
+/** The box as the preview shows it: the waiting marker's quad while a press waits for its replay, else the element. */
+export async function measureShown(ctx, gesture, read = measure, quadOf = contentQuad) {
   for (;;) {
     const waiting = await ctx.page.$("[data-dom-edit-press-waiting]");
     try {
-      const m = await measure(ctx);
+      const m = await read(ctx);
       if (gesture === "crop") m.outline = await cropOutline(ctx, m.map);
-      const quad = waiting && (await contentQuad(waiting)).map(m.map.toComp);
+      const quad = waiting && (await quadOf(waiting)).map(m.map.toComp);
       // Replay removes the marker before moving the element. Do not combine a pre-replay
       // element read with a post-replay marker read into a position nobody displayed.
       if (
@@ -692,14 +693,18 @@ export async function sample(ctx, gesture, point, pointerScreen) {
         !(await waiting.evaluate((e) => e.hasAttribute("data-dom-edit-press-waiting")))
       )
         continue;
-      const shown = quad ? { ...m, quad, visible: quad } : m;
-      return { m: shown, actual: m.visible, p: point(shown), c: m.map.toComp(pointerScreen) };
+      return { m: quad ? { ...m, quad, visible: quad } : m, actual: m.visible };
     } finally {
       await waiting?.dispose();
     }
   }
 }
 
+export async function sample(ctx, gesture, point, pointerScreen) {
+  const { m, actual } = await measureShown(ctx, gesture);
+  return { m, actual, p: point(m), c: m.map.toComp(pointerScreen) };
+}
+
 const TRACE_CATEGORIES = ["toplevel", "devtools.timeline", "blink.user_timing"];
 const TRACE_MARK = "edit-bench-end";
 
diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/sequences.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/sequences.mjs
index 9fa6288a17..1c266c9c71 100644
--- a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/sequences.mjs
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/sequences.mjs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   chord,
   controlDrag,
   measure,
+  measureShown,
   nextFrame,
   openStudio,
   pointerGesture,
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ async function driveStep(ctx, step, state) {
   const name = step.element ?? "A";
   const c = ctx[name];
   // In flight: pressed where the last drag let go, without reading the preview first.
-  let pre = step.inFlight ? state.last.lastMeasure : await measure(c);
+  let pre = step.inFlight ? state.last.lastMeasure : (await measureShown(c)).m;
   if (name !== state.selected) {
     await selectTarget(c, pre);
     state.selected = name;
diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/settle.test.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/settle.test.mjs
index c13b7f4ca4..ee2fa64794 100644
--- a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/settle.test.mjs
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/settle.test.mjs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   STILL_FRAMES,
   backgroundRequest,
   heldStill,
+  measureShown,
   networkBusy,
   seekBound,
   swapPending,
@@ -178,3 +179,38 @@ describe("the size auto-record keys hold", () => {
     expect(heldSize(new Map(), 1)).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
+
+describe("the box a press is measured against", () => {
+  const quad = (x) => [
+    [x, 0],
+    [x + 1, 0],
+    [x + 1, 1],
+    [x, 1],
+  ];
+  const marker = (answers) => ({
+    evaluate: async () => answers.shift() ?? false,
+    dispose: async () => {},
+  });
+  const read = async () => ({ map: { toComp: (p) => p }, visible: quad(0) });
+  const page = (markers) => ({ $: async () => markers.shift() ?? null });
+
+  it("reads the waiting marker while a press waits for its replay, not the element under it", async () => {
+    const shown = await measureShown({ page: page([marker([true])]) }, "move", read, async () =>
+      quad(260),
+    );
+    expect(shown.m.visible[0][0]).toBe(260);
+    expect(shown.actual[0][0]).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("reads the element when nothing waits", async () => {
+    const shown = await measureShown({ page: page([]) }, "move", read, async () => quad(260));
+    expect(shown.m.visible[0][0]).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("reads again when the replay took the marker away between the two reads", async () => {
+    const shown = await measureShown({ page: page([marker([false])]) }, "move", read, async () =>
+      quad(260),
+    );
+    expect(shown.m.visible[0][0]).toBe(0);
+  });
+});