diff --git a/tests/models/self_supervised/test_ssl_scripts.py b/tests/models/self_supervised/test_ssl_scripts.py
index 35641d9947..baf6b30c2a 100644
--- a/tests/models/self_supervised/test_ssl_scripts.py
+++ b/tests/models/self_supervised/test_ssl_scripts.py
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ def test_cli_run_ssl_simclr(cli_args):
         cli_main()
 
 
+# todo: seems to take too long
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason='FIXME: seems to take too long')
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('cli_args', [
     _DEFAULT_ARGS + ' --online_ft'
     ' --gpus 1',