diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cdbf1013..5f85b2f1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.pivovarit</groupId>
     <artifactId>parallel-collectors</artifactId>
-    <version>2.4.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/AsyncParallelCollector.java b/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/AsyncParallelCollector.java
index 64dc3178..f9361848 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/AsyncParallelCollector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/AsyncParallelCollector.java
@@ -168,11 +168,22 @@ private BatchingCollectors() {
         private static <T, R, RR> Collector<T, ?, CompletableFuture<RR>> batchingCollector(Function<T, R> mapper, Executor executor, int parallelism, Function<Stream<R>, RR> finisher) {
             return collectingAndThen(
               toList(),
-              list -> partitioned(list, parallelism)
-                .collect(new AsyncParallelCollector<>(
-                  batching(mapper),
-                  Dispatcher.of(executor, parallelism),
-                  listStream -> finisher.apply(listStream.flatMap(Collection::stream)))));
+              list -> {
+                  // no sense to repack into batches of size 1
+                  if (list.size() == parallelism) {
+                      return list.stream()
+                        .collect(new AsyncParallelCollector<>(
+                          mapper,
+                          Dispatcher.of(executor, parallelism),
+                          finisher));
+                  } else {
+                      return partitioned(list, parallelism)
+                        .collect(new AsyncParallelCollector<>(
+                          batching(mapper),
+                          Dispatcher.of(executor, parallelism),
+                          listStream -> finisher.apply(listStream.flatMap(Collection::stream))));
+                  }
+              });
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/ParallelStreamCollector.java b/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/ParallelStreamCollector.java
index 52f8e051..dce357dd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/ParallelStreamCollector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/ParallelStreamCollector.java
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
@@ -130,7 +129,7 @@ private BatchingCollectors() {
 
             return parallelism == 1
               ? syncCollector(mapper)
-              : batched(new ParallelStreamCollector<>(batching(mapper), unordered(), UNORDERED, executor, parallelism), parallelism);
+              : batchingCollector(mapper, executor, parallelism);
         }
 
         static <T, R> Collector<T, ?, Stream<R>> streamingOrdered(Function<T, R> mapper, Executor executor, int parallelism) {
@@ -140,14 +139,33 @@ private BatchingCollectors() {
 
             return parallelism == 1
               ? syncCollector(mapper)
-              : batched(new ParallelStreamCollector<>(batching(mapper), ordered(), emptySet(), executor, parallelism), parallelism);
+              : batchingCollector(mapper, executor, parallelism);
         }
 
-        private static <T, R> Collector<T, ?, Stream<R>> batched(ParallelStreamCollector<List<T>, List<R>> downstream, int parallelism) {
+        private static <T, R> Collector<T, ?, Stream<R>> batchingCollector(Function<T, R> mapper, Executor executor, int parallelism) {
             return collectingAndThen(
               toList(),
-              list -> partitioned(list, parallelism)
-                .collect(collectingAndThen(downstream, s -> s.flatMap(Collection::stream))));
+              list -> {
+                  // no sense to repack into batches of size 1
+                  if (list.size() == parallelism) {
+                      return list.stream()
+                        .collect(new ParallelStreamCollector<>(
+                          mapper,
+                          ordered(),
+                          emptySet(),
+                          executor,
+                          parallelism));
+                  } else {
+                      return partitioned(list, parallelism)
+                        .collect(collectingAndThen(new ParallelStreamCollector<>(
+                          batching(mapper),
+                          ordered(),
+                          emptySet(),
+                          executor,
+                          parallelism),
+                          s -> s.flatMap(Collection::stream)));
+                  }
+              });
         }
 
         private static <T, R> Collector<T, Stream.Builder<R>, Stream<R>> syncCollector(Function<T, R> mapper) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/FunctionalTest.java b/src/test/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/FunctionalTest.java
index 335a2d7a..fd7943cb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/FunctionalTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/pivovarit/collectors/FunctionalTest.java
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ private static <R extends Collection<Integer>> Stream<DynamicTest> tests(Collect
         Stream<DynamicTest> tests = of(
           shouldCollect(collector, name, 1),
           shouldCollect(collector, name, PARALLELISM),
+          shouldCollectNElementsWithNParallelism(collector, name, 1),
+          shouldCollectNElementsWithNParallelism(collector, name, PARALLELISM),
           shouldCollectToEmpty(collector, name),
           shouldStartConsumingImmediately(collector, name),
           shouldTerminateAfterConsumingAllElements(collector, name),
@@ -251,6 +253,18 @@ private static <R extends Collection<Integer>> DynamicTest shouldCollect(Collect
         });
     }
 
+    private static <R extends Collection<Integer>> DynamicTest shouldCollectNElementsWithNParallelism(CollectorSupplier<Function<Integer, Integer>, Executor, Integer, Collector<Integer, ?, CompletableFuture<R>>> factory, String name, int parallelism) {
+        return dynamicTest(format("%s: should collect %s elements with parallelism %s", name, parallelism, parallelism), () -> {
+
+            List<Integer> elements = IntStream.iterate(0, i -> i + 1).limit(parallelism).boxed().collect(toList());
+            Collector<Integer, ?, CompletableFuture<R>> ctor = factory.apply(i -> i, executor, parallelism);
+            Collection<Integer> result = elements.stream().collect(ctor)
+              .join();
+
+            assertThat(result).hasSameElementsAs(elements);
+        });
+    }
+
     private static <R extends Collection<Integer>> DynamicTest shouldTerminateAfterConsumingAllElements(CollectorSupplier<Function<Integer, Integer>, Executor, Integer, Collector<Integer, ?, CompletableFuture<R>>> factory, String name) {
         return dynamicTest(format("%s: should terminate after consuming all elements", name), () -> {
             List<Integer> elements = IntStream.range(0, 10).boxed().collect(toList());