diff --git a/contrib/benchmark/conf/compound-penalty.alg b/contrib/benchmark/conf/compound-penalty.alg
index c2c8153fc23..5788ab64c7b 100644
--- a/contrib/benchmark/conf/compound-penalty.alg
+++ b/contrib/benchmark/conf/compound-penalty.alg
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------
 # Compound: what is the cost of compound format in indexing?
-# It does twice as much IO, is iyt twice slower? (no)
+# It does twice as much IO, is it twice slower? (no)
 # --------------------------------------------------------
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/contrib/benchmark/conf/micro-standard-config.xml b/contrib/benchmark/conf/micro-standard-config.xml
index 44f67f4187c..f3bd4001186 100644
--- a/contrib/benchmark/conf/micro-standard-config.xml
+++ b/contrib/benchmark/conf/micro-standard-config.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!--
-Configuration file for use with Driver(InputSource) constructor.  Uses Digester to load.  Set
+Configuration file for use with Driver(InputSource) constructor.  Uses Digester to load.
 
 Class is the fully qualified name of the Benchmarker to load.  It must have a no argument constructor.  All attributes invoke the appropriate bean accessor on the Benchmarker -->
 <benchmark >
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ Class is the fully qualified name of the Benchmarker to load.  It must have a no
      maximumDocumentsToIndex - The number of documents to index at a time (multiply by the scaleUp factor for the total number of documents indexed).  Default is Integer.MAX_VALUE
      -->
     <options class="org.apache.lucene.benchmark.standard.StandardOptions" runCount="1" logStep="500" scaleUp="1" maximumDocumentsToIndex="2000"/>
-</benchmark>
\ No newline at end of file
+</benchmark>
diff --git a/contrib/benchmark/conf/standard-config.xml b/contrib/benchmark/conf/standard-config.xml
index 7f77d856877..aa064692661 100644
--- a/contrib/benchmark/conf/standard-config.xml
+++ b/contrib/benchmark/conf/standard-config.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!--
-Configuration file for use with Driver(InputSource) constructor.  Uses Digester to load.  Set
+Configuration file for use with Driver(InputSource) constructor.  Uses Digester to load.
 
 Class is the fully qualified name of the Benchmarker to load.  It must have a no argument constructor.  All attributes invoke the appropriate bean accessor on the Benchmarker -->
 <benchmark >
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ Class is the fully qualified name of the Benchmarker to load.  It must have a no
      maximumDocumentsToIndex - The number of documents to index at a time (multiply by the scaleUp factor for the total number of documents indexed).  Default is Integer.MAX_VALUE
      -->
     <options class="org.apache.lucene.benchmark.standard.StandardOptions" runCount="5" logStep="1000" scaleUp="5"/>
-</benchmark>
\ No newline at end of file
+</benchmark>