Title: Testing Benson's regularity conjecture Author: David J. Green, University of Jena, Germany Date: 13 August 2008 Status: Submitted for publication MSC 2000: Primary 20J06; Secondary 13D45, 20-04 arXiv:0710.2311v2 [math.GR] Abstract: D. J. Benson conjectures that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the cohomology ring of a finite group is always zero. More generally he conjectures that there is always a "very strongly quasi-regular" system of parameters. Computer calculations show that the second conjecture holds for all groups of order less than 256.