diff --git a/test/null/test_tensor_uop_mixin.py b/test/null/test_tensor_uop_mixin.py
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+import math, unittest
+from tinygrad import Tensor
+
+# TODO: make all the expectedFailure cases pass — i.e. UOp.__getitem__ should produce the same UOp graph as
+# Tensor.__getitem__ for every view-returning index pattern.
+
+def _t(*shape):
+  return Tensor.arange(math.prod(shape)).reshape(*shape)
+
+class TestTensorUOpGetitem(unittest.TestCase):
+  """For each pattern, check that `Tensor(x)[idx].uop` equals `x.uop[idx]`."""
+
+  def _check(self, t: Tensor, idx):
+    via_tensor = t[idx].uop
+    via_uop = t.uop[idx]
+    self.assertIs(via_tensor, via_uop, f"\nidx={idx!r}\ntensor.uop = {via_tensor}\nuop[idx] = {via_uop}")
+
+  # ---- pure slice patterns ----
+  def test_slice_full(self):       self._check(_t(4), slice(None))
+  def test_slice_positive(self):   self._check(_t(8), slice(1, 5))
+  def test_slice_open_start(self): self._check(_t(8), slice(None, 5))
+  def test_slice_open_stop(self):  self._check(_t(8), slice(3, None))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_negative_start(self): self._check(_t(8), slice(-3, None))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_negative_stop(self):  self._check(_t(8), slice(None, -2))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_both_negative(self):  self._check(_t(8), slice(-5, -1))
+
+  # ---- slice with stride ----
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_stride(self):              self._check(_t(6), slice(None, None, 2))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_start_stop_stride(self):   self._check(_t(6), slice(1, 5, 2))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_reverse(self):             self._check(_t(6), slice(None, None, -1))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_singleton_negative_step(self): self._check(_t(8), slice(3, 2, -1))
+
+  # ---- empty / out-of-bounds slice ----
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_empty(self):    self._check(_t(6), slice(3, 1))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_slice_oob_stop(self): self._check(_t(6), slice(0, 100))
+
+  # ---- single int (reduces a dim) ----
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_int_positive(self): self._check(_t(8), 3)
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_int_negative(self): self._check(_t(8), -1)
+
+  # ---- ellipsis ----
+  def test_ellipsis_only(self):       self._check(_t(2, 3, 4), (Ellipsis,))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_ellipsis_then_int(self):   self._check(_t(2, 3, 4), (Ellipsis, -1))
+  def test_ellipsis_then_slice(self): self._check(_t(2, 3, 4), (Ellipsis, slice(1, 3)))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_ellipsis_then_none(self):  self._check(_t(2, 3), (Ellipsis, None))
+
+  # ---- None (unsqueeze) ----
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_none_front(self):    self._check(_t(4), (None,))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_none_back(self):     self._check(_t(4), (slice(None), None))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_none_middle(self):   self._check(_t(2, 3), (slice(None), None, slice(None)))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_multiple_none(self): self._check(_t(2, 3), (None, slice(None), None))
+
+  # ---- mixed multi-dim ----
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_int_then_slice(self):    self._check(_t(2, 3), (1, slice(None)))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_multi_int(self):         self._check(_t(2, 3, 4), (1, 2))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_mixed_slice_int(self):   self._check(_t(2, 3, 4), (slice(0, 2), -1, slice(1, 3)))
+  def test_mixed_slice_slice(self): self._check(_t(3, 4, 5), (slice(1, 3), slice(None), slice(0, 2)))
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_high_rank_combo(self):   self._check(_t(4, 5, 6), (slice(1, 3), slice(None), -1, None))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  unittest.main()