diff --git a/tests/tools/soft_sort_test.py b/tests/tools/soft_sort_test.py
index 52c7076b7..e452edfba 100644
--- a/tests/tools/soft_sort_test.py
+++ b/tests/tools/soft_sort_test.py
@@ -90,11 +90,16 @@ def test_sort_batch(self, rng: jax.random.PRNGKeyArray, topk: int):
   def test_ranks(self, axis, rng: jax.random.PRNGKeyArray):
     rng1, rng2 = jax.random.split(rng, 2)
     num_targets = 13
-    x = jax.random.uniform(rng1, (8, 1, 1))
+    x = jax.random.uniform(rng1, (8, 5, 2))
 
-    # Define a custom version of ranks suited to recover closely true ranks
+    # Define a custom version of ranks suited to recover ranks that are
+    # close to true ranks. This requires notably small epsilon and large # iter.
     my_ranks = functools.partial(
-        soft_sort.ranks, squashing_fun=lambda x: x, epsilon=1e-4, axis=axis
+        soft_sort.ranks,
+        squashing_fun=lambda x: x,
+        epsilon=1e-4,
+        axis=axis,
+        max_iterations=10000
     )
     expected_ranks = jnp.argsort(
         jnp.argsort(x, axis=axis), axis=axis