diff --git a/src/internal/fuzz/mutator.go b/src/internal/fuzz/mutator.go
index da7200dcbe..a3161c04ea 100644
--- a/src/internal/fuzz/mutator.go
+++ b/src/internal/fuzz/mutator.go
@@ -125,15 +125,13 @@ func (m *mutator) mutate(vals []interface{}, maxBytes int) {
 }
 
 func (m *mutator) mutateInt(v, maxValue int64) int64 {
-	numIters := 1 + m.r.exp2()
 	var max int64
-	for iter := 0; iter < numIters; iter++ {
+	for {
 		max = 100
 		switch m.rand(2) {
 		case 0:
 			// Add a random number
 			if v >= maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			if v > 0 && maxValue-v < max {
@@ -141,10 +139,10 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateInt(v, maxValue int64) int64 {
 				max = maxValue - v
 			}
 			v += int64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		case 1:
 			// Subtract a random number
 			if v <= -maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			if v < 0 && maxValue+v < max {
@@ -152,21 +150,19 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateInt(v, maxValue int64) int64 {
 				max = maxValue + v
 			}
 			v -= int64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		}
 	}
-	return v
 }
 
 func (m *mutator) mutateUInt(v, maxValue uint64) uint64 {
-	numIters := 1 + m.r.exp2()
 	var max uint64
-	for iter := 0; iter < numIters; iter++ {
+	for {
 		max = 100
 		switch m.rand(2) {
 		case 0:
 			// Add a random number
 			if v >= maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			if v > 0 && maxValue-v < max {
@@ -175,10 +171,10 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateUInt(v, maxValue uint64) uint64 {
 			}
 
 			v += uint64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		case 1:
 			// Subtract a random number
 			if v <= 0 {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			if v < max {
@@ -186,20 +182,18 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateUInt(v, maxValue uint64) uint64 {
 				max = v
 			}
 			v -= uint64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		}
 	}
-	return v
 }
 
 func (m *mutator) mutateFloat(v, maxValue float64) float64 {
-	numIters := 1 + m.r.exp2()
 	var max float64
-	for iter := 0; iter < numIters; iter++ {
+	for {
 		switch m.rand(4) {
 		case 0:
 			// Add a random number
 			if v >= maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			max = 100
@@ -208,10 +202,10 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateFloat(v, maxValue float64) float64 {
 				max = maxValue - v
 			}
 			v += float64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		case 1:
 			// Subtract a random number
 			if v <= -maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			max = 100
@@ -220,11 +214,11 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateFloat(v, maxValue float64) float64 {
 				max = maxValue + v
 			}
 			v -= float64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		case 2:
 			// Multiply by a random number
 			absV := math.Abs(v)
 			if v == 0 || absV >= maxValue {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			max = 10
@@ -233,16 +227,16 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateFloat(v, maxValue float64) float64 {
 				max = maxValue / absV
 			}
 			v *= float64(1 + m.rand(int(max)))
+			return v
 		case 3:
 			// Divide by a random number
 			if v == 0 {
-				iter--
 				continue
 			}
 			v /= float64(1 + m.rand(10))
+			return v
 		}
 	}
-	return v
 }
 
 type byteSliceMutator func(*mutator, []byte) []byte
@@ -279,15 +273,12 @@ func (m *mutator) mutateBytes(ptrB *[]byte) {
 		*ptrB = b
 	}()
 
-	numIters := 1 + m.r.exp2()
-	for iter := 0; iter < numIters; iter++ {
+	for {
 		mut := byteSliceMutators[m.rand(len(byteSliceMutators))]
-		mutated := mut(m, b)
-		if mutated == nil {
-			iter--
-			continue
+		if mutated := mut(m, b); mutated != nil {
+			b = mutated
+			return
 		}
-		b = mutated
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/internal/fuzz/worker.go b/src/internal/fuzz/worker.go
index 48a3923112..e7d824bea1 100644
--- a/src/internal/fuzz/worker.go
+++ b/src/internal/fuzz/worker.go
@@ -661,6 +661,17 @@ func (ws *workerServer) serve(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 }
 
+// chainedMutations is how many mutations are applied before the worker
+// resets the input to it's original state.
+// NOTE: this number was picked without much thought. It is low enough that
+// it seems to create a significant diversity in mutated inputs. We may want
+// to consider looking into this more closely once we have a proper performance
+// testing framework. Another option is to randomly pick the number of chained
+// mutations on each invocation of the workerServer.fuzz method (this appears to
+// be what libFuzzer does, although there seems to be no documentation which
+// explains why this choice was made.)
+const chainedMutations = 5
+
 // fuzz runs the test function on random variations of the input value in shared
 // memory for a limited duration or number of iterations.
 //
@@ -699,11 +710,13 @@ func (ws *workerServer) fuzz(ctx context.Context, args fuzzArgs) (resp fuzzRespo
 		return resp
 	}
 
-	vals, err := unmarshalCorpusFile(mem.valueCopy())
+	originalVals, err := unmarshalCorpusFile(mem.valueCopy())
 	if err != nil {
 		resp.InternalErr = err.Error()
 		return resp
 	}
+	vals := make([]interface{}, len(originalVals))
+	copy(vals, originalVals)
 
 	shouldStop := func() bool {
 		return args.Limit > 0 && mem.header().count >= args.Limit
@@ -742,9 +755,13 @@ func (ws *workerServer) fuzz(ctx context.Context, args fuzzArgs) (resp fuzzRespo
 		select {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			return resp
-
 		default:
+			if mem.header().count%chainedMutations == 0 {
+				copy(vals, originalVals)
+				ws.m.r.save(&mem.header().randState, &mem.header().randInc)
+			}
 			ws.m.mutate(vals, cap(mem.valueRef()))
+
 			entry := CorpusEntry{Values: vals}
 			dur, cov, errMsg := fuzzOnce(entry)
 			if errMsg != "" {
@@ -1094,7 +1111,7 @@ func (wc *workerClient) fuzz(ctx context.Context, entryIn CorpusEntry, args fuzz
 		wc.m.r.restore(mem.header().randState, mem.header().randInc)
 		if !args.Warmup {
 			// Only mutate the valuesOut if fuzzing actually occurred.
-			for i := int64(0); i < resp.Count; i++ {
+			for i := int64(0); i < resp.Count%chainedMutations; i++ {
 				wc.m.mutate(valuesOut, cap(mem.valueRef()))
 			}
 		}