| Cooling Scheme | Mean Parameters: | ||
| No. of transition states | Min value of cost function | CPU | |
| Lundry & Mees | 25 | 9.60383 | 1.976 |
| Geometric | 20 | 1.000E−05 | 1.300 |
| Linear | 10 | 2.250E−04 | 1.410 |
| Exponential | 5 | 1.330E−05 | 0.910 |
| VCF | 3 | 1.000E−05 | 0.600 |
| Arts et al. | 21 | 2.103E−03 | 1.830 |