Scores from 0 to 6 were given for each figure for both (a) content (difficulty and novelty) and (b) performance.

Each judge would then arrange the skaters in order of total score by that judge; these ordinal rankings were used to provide final placement for the skaters, using a "majority rule"—if a majority of the judges ranked a pair first, the pair won.

[3] The judges were unanimous in ranking Panin first, Cumming second, and Hall-Say third.

The Official Report states that Panin "was far in advance of his opponents, both in the difficulty of his figures, and in the ease and accuracy of their execution."

Cumming is described as "skating with much facility and accuracy," while the report contends that Hall-Say was "not yet sufficiently experienced in the international style to himself full justice in a competition, his form being inferior to his execution.