diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9e187a34a9606..aa7009af14855 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ valgrind_ctime_test
 *.exe
 *.so
 *.a
+*.csv
 !.gitignore
 
 Makefile
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 182c29d9ce5ef..7499f84d42065 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ To create a HTML report with coloured and annotated source code:
     $ mkdir -p coverage
     $ gcovr --exclude 'src/bench*' --html --html-details -o coverage/coverage.html
 
+Benchmark
+------------
+If configured with `--enable-benchmark` (which is the default), binaries for benchmarking the libsecp256k1 functions will be present in the root directory after the build.
+
+To print the benchmark result to the command line:
+
+    $ ./bench_name
+
+To create a CSV file for the benchmark result :
+
+    $ ./bench_name | sed '2d;s/ \{1,\}//g' > bench_name.csv
+
 Reporting a vulnerability
 ------------