Carlos Yulo wants nothing but to test his mettle against the best gymnasts in the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta.

Yulo, 25, said he wanted to always be going up against more skilled opponents as he also wants to enhance his skills as well.

The double Olympic gold medalist qualified for the final of the men’s floor exercise, scoring 14.566 points, and in vault after tallying 14.750 to enter the Top 8 last Monday at the Indonesia Arena.

“Of course, I want to win. But there are a lot of good competitors as well, the same guys that I competed with (at the Olympics and world championships),” Yulo said in an interview by the International Gymnastics Association (FIG).

“They're also at a high level. I'm just here to also check what I can do.”

The floor final will be on Friday while the vault final is set on Saturday.

More than medals, Yulo said he is excited to improve his craft while making sure he will be able to pull off a clean routine.

“Obviously, everyone wants to win, and I just hope that we're safe and that we perform our very best in the competition. Who knows? I don't know (the possibility of getting a gold medal),” Yulo said.

“I want to win a gold medal on floor (exercise) and vault but, let's see first. We are here to have fun and see what we can improve.”

He also said he wanted to choose which tournaments he will join as a way to better take care of himself, starting with not competing in the 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Thailand from 9 to 20 December.

Initially gunning to compete in all six apparatuses, Yulo chose to focus on his pet events, the floor and vault, after suffering a wrist injury days before the world championships started.

“Right now, I’m really picking which competitions I should join, especially (considering) for my physical and mental health. I’m really taking care of it,” Yulo said.

“Right now I’m doing good. It's just (that) I’m not gonna do six apparatus in this competition, but I’m really grateful to be here.”

While 2023 floor exercise champion and Paris Olympics silver medalist Artem Dolgopyat of Israel didn’t participate after he was refused to be granted a visa by the Indonesian government, Yulo will still have some familiar rivals to face-off.

For one, Filipino-British and Paris Summer Games bronze medalist Jake Jarman entered the final of the floor exercise with 14.700 points along with Kazuki Minami of Japan, who won a silver medal in the same apparatus in the 2023 World Championships in Belgium, with 14.100.