Given the mind-wracking pressures of competition and the small margin of error when it comes to jumping, clean programs tend to be the exception rather than the rule when it comes to figure skating. Indeed, a skater failing to go clean for the entire run of a program is not exactly an uncommon scenario, but it is an unfortunate one when the programs being skated to are as of superlative artistic quality as the ones listed below. Yes, a program can still be of high quality and even be utterly beguiling with mistakes on the technical elements, but the allure of a pristine performance is undeniable.
The following is a nowhere-near-exhaustive list of seven programs the neurotic, perfectionist side of me has always wanted to see clean. Perfectionism may be a good servant but a bad master, but I'd always wished that perfectionism cracked its whip just a bit harder for these programs: