A direct comparison between Fig. and Fig. shows that there is a systematic improvement for the tested methods regardless of choosing the TD-or TDA-DFT scheme. The average MAD over all tested TD-and TDA-DFT approaches is 0.22 eV for the complete set and reduced to 0.20 eV after excluding the four difficult states. MADs now range from 0.12 eV to 0.35 eV (a 0.04 eV improvement at both ends of the spectrum). Most importantly, the best methods are now closer to the chemical accuracy threshold of 0.1 eV.