diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d9091cad..eec2922d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ test:
 	tox -e perf
 
 testnose:
-	nosetests tqdm -d -v
+	nosetests -d -v tqdm
 
 testsetup:
 	@make README.rst
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ testsetup:
 
 testcoverage:
 	@make coverclean
-	nosetests tqdm --with-coverage --cover-package=tqdm --cover-erase --cover-min-percentage=80 --ignore-files="tests_perf\.py" -d -v
+	nosetests -d -v tqdm --ignore-files="tests_perf\.py" --with-coverage --cover-package=tqdm --cover-erase --cover-min-percentage=80
 
 testperf:
 	# do not use coverage (which is extremely slow)
-	nosetests tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py -d -v
+	nosetests -d -v tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py
 
 testtimer:
-	nosetests tqdm --with-timer -d -v
+	nosetests -d -v tqdm --with-timer
 
 # another performance test, to check evolution across commits
 testasv:
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ pre-commit:
 	# quick sanity checks
 	@make testsetup
 	flake8 -j 8 --count --statistics tqdm/ examples/
-	nosetests tqdm --ignore-files="tests_(perf|keras)\.py" -e "pandas|monitoring" -d
+	nosetests -d tqdm --ignore-files="tests_(perf|keras)\.py" -e "pandas|monitoring"
+	nosetests -d tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py -m basic_overhead
 prebuildclean:
 	@+python -c "import shutil; shutil.rmtree('build', True)"
 	@+python -c "import shutil; shutil.rmtree('dist', True)"
diff --git a/tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py b/tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py
index a708e86c..8e808f7d 100644
--- a/tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py
+++ b/tqdm/tests/tests_perf.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def assert_performance(thresh, name_left, time_left, name_right, time_right):
 
 @with_setup(pretest, posttest)
 @retry_on_except()
-def test_iter_overhead():
+def test_iter_basic_overhead():
     """Test overhead of iteration based tqdm"""
 
     total = int(1e6)
@@ -191,12 +191,12 @@ def test_iter_overhead():
                 a += i
                 our_file.write(a)
 
-    assert_performance(6, 'trange', time_tqdm(), 'range', time_bench())
+    assert_performance(3, 'trange', time_tqdm(), 'range', time_bench())
 
 
 @with_setup(pretest, posttest)
 @retry_on_except()
-def test_manual_overhead():
+def test_manual_basic_overhead():
     """Test overhead of manual tqdm"""
 
     total = int(1e6)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def test_manual_overhead():
                 a += i
                 our_file.write(a)
 
-    assert_performance(6, 'tqdm', time_tqdm(), 'range', time_bench())
+    assert_performance(5, 'tqdm', time_tqdm(), 'range', time_bench())
 
 
 def worker(total, blocking=True):