diff --git a/runner/options.go b/runner/options.go
index 6814eced..f42fd57d 100644
--- a/runner/options.go
+++ b/runner/options.go
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ type RunConfig struct {
 	name      string
 	cpus      int
 	tags      []byte
-	skipFirst uint
+	skipFirst int
 }
 
 // Option controls some aspect of run
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ func WithCPUs(c uint) Option {
 func WithSkipFirst(c uint) Option {
 	return func(o *RunConfig) error {
 		if c > 0 {
-			o.skipFirst = uint(c)
+			o.skipFirst = int(c)
 		}
 
 		return nil
diff --git a/runner/options_test.go b/runner/options_test.go
index 5ecd6028..ae73b166 100644
--- a/runner/options_test.go
+++ b/runner/options_test.go
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ func TestRunConfig_newRunConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Equal(t, 50, c.c)
 		assert.Equal(t, 0, c.qps)
 		assert.Equal(t, false, c.binary)
+		assert.Equal(t, 0, c.skipFirst)
 		assert.Equal(t, time.Duration(0), c.z)
 		assert.Equal(t, time.Duration(0), c.keepaliveTime)
 		assert.Equal(t, time.Duration(20*time.Second), c.timeout)
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ func TestRunConfig_newRunConfig(t *testing.T) {
 			WithTotalRequests(100),
 			WithConcurrency(20),
 			WithQPS(5),
+			WithSkipFirst(5),
 			WithRunDuration(time.Duration(5*time.Minute)),
 			WithKeepalive(time.Duration(60*time.Second)),
 			WithTimeout(time.Duration(10*time.Second)),
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ func TestRunConfig_newRunConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Equal(t, 100, c.n)
 		assert.Equal(t, 20, c.c)
 		assert.Equal(t, 5, c.qps)
+		assert.Equal(t, int(5), c.skipFirst)
 		assert.Equal(t, false, c.binary)
 		assert.Equal(t, time.Duration(5*time.Minute), c.z)
 		assert.Equal(t, time.Duration(60*time.Second), c.keepaliveTime)
diff --git a/runner/reporter.go b/runner/reporter.go
index 4c4a808e..cdaa76de 100644
--- a/runner/reporter.go
+++ b/runner/reporter.go
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func (r *Reporter) Run() {
 	var skipCount uint
 
 	for res := range r.results {
-		if skipCount < r.config.skipFirst {
+		if skipCount < uint(r.config.skipFirst) {
 			skipCount++
 			continue
 		}
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ func (r *Reporter) Finalize(stopReason StopReason, total time.Duration) *Report
 		Key:           r.config.key,
 		CName:         r.config.cname,
 		SkipTLS:       r.config.skipVerify,
-		SkipFirst:     r.config.skipFirst,
+		SkipFirst:     uint(r.config.skipFirst),
 		Insecure:      r.config.insecure,
 		Authority:     r.config.authority,
 		Total:         uint(r.config.n),
diff --git a/www/docs/options.md b/www/docs/options.md
index dc371b31..4da83101 100644
--- a/www/docs/options.md
+++ b/www/docs/options.md
@@ -216,4 +216,8 @@ Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
 
 ### `-e`, `--enable-compression`               
 
-Enable gzip compression on requests.
\ No newline at end of file
+Enable gzip compression on requests.
+
+### '--skipFirst'
+
+Skip the first n responses from the report. Helps remove initial warm-up requests from skewing the results. 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/docs/usage.md b/www/docs/usage.md
index dc2716f6..a5f6cd35 100644
--- a/www/docs/usage.md
+++ b/www/docs/usage.md
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Flags:
       --name=                  User specified name for the test.
       --tags=                  JSON representation of user-defined string tags.
       --cpus=12                Number of cpu cores to use.
+      --skipFirst=0            Skip the first n responses from the report. Helps remove initial warm-up requests from skewing the results.
       --debug=                 The path to debug log file.
   -e, --enable-compression     Enable Gzip compression on requests.
   -v, --version                Show application version.