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DOTS, Wilks and IPF GL calculator

Compare strength across bodyweights with the scores powerlifting federations use.

Sex
Unit
Event
Equipment
Enter squat, bench and deadlift
DOTS · man, 93 kg, 700 kg total
445.4
  • IPF GL (classic full power)91.6
  • Wilks439.7
  • Wilks 2020528.1

Higher than 93% of tested raw meet lifters (men)

OpenPowerlifting: 201,723 men, best full-power total at meets from 2016 to 2026, data of 20 Sep 2026.

Example: man, 93 kg bodyweight, 700 kg total, raw full power. Change any field to use your own numbers.

DOTS by percentile

The DOTS score that tested raw lifters at full-power meets reached, at each percentile. 201,723 men and 100,614 women, each counted once at their best total, from OpenPowerlifting data of 20 Sep 2026.

DOTS at each percentile
PercentileMenWomen
10th264.1224.6
25th310.2265.1
50th353.8310.2
75th395.0357.3
90th431.3400.7
95th453.7427.8
99th495.9481.0

Worked example

A man, 93 kg bodyweight, 700 kg raw full-power total.

Scores for the example
ScorePoints
DOTS445.4
IPF GL (classic full power)91.6
Wilks439.7
Wilks 2020528.1

The coefficients

DOTS: points = total × 500 / (A·bw⁴ + B·bw³ + C·bw² + D·bw + E). Bodyweight is clamped to 40–210 kg for men and 40–150 kg for women.

DOTS
MenWomen
A−0.000001093−0.0000010706
B0.00073912930.0005158568
C−0.1918759221−0.1126655495
D24.090075613.6175032
E−307.75076−57.96288

Wilks: points = total × 500 / (A + B·bw + C·bw² + D·bw³ + E·bw⁴ + F·bw⁵). Bodyweight is clamped to 40–201.9 kg for men and 26.51–154.53 kg for women.

Wilks (original)
MenWomen
A−216.0475144594.31747775582
B16.2606339−27.23842536447
C−0.0023886450.82112226871
D−0.00113732−0.00930733913
E0.000007018630.00004731582
F−1.291e−8−9.054e−8

Wilks 2020: the same shape with 600 on top. Bodyweight is clamped to 40–200.95 kg for men and 40–150.95 kg for women.

Wilks 2020, men
Coefficient
A47.4617885411949
B8.47206137941125
C0.073694103462609
D−0.00139583381094385
E0.00000707665973070743
F−1.20804336482315e−8
Wilks 2020, women
Coefficient
A−125.425539779509
B13.7121941940668
C−0.0330725063103405
D−0.0010504000506583
E0.00000938773881462799
F−2.3334613884954e−8

IPF GL: points = total × 100 / (A − B·e−C·bw), with a set of A, B and C for each sex, equipment and event. Raw is the IPF's classic category.

IPF GL, men
ABC
Raw
full power		1199.728391025.181620.00921
Equipped
full power		1236.251151449.218640.01644
Raw
bench		320.98041281.402580.01008
Equipped
bench		381.22073733.793780.02398
IPF GL, women
ABC
Raw
full power		610.327961045.592820.03048
Equipped
full power		758.63878949.313820.02435
Raw
bench		142.40398442.526710.04724
Equipped
bench		221.82209357.003770.02937

What each score is for

Heavier lifters lift more. Each score divides your total by a curve of what lifters at your bodyweight tend to total, which puts a 60 kg lifter and a 120 kg lifter on one list. Men and women get separate curves.

  • IPF GL points. The International Powerlifting Federation's formula, used at every IPF event since 1 May 2020 (IPF). It has separate coefficients for raw (the IPF says classic) and equipped, full power and bench only. Points = total × 100 / (A − B·e−C·bw).
  • DOTS. Tim Konertz's formula, adopted by the German federation BVDK in 2019 (as OpenPowerlifting records it). One curve per sex, whatever the equipment. Points = total × 500 / (A·bw⁴ + B·bw³ + C·bw² + D·bw + E).
  • Wilks. The original: total × 500 over a fifth-degree polynomial in bodyweight. OpenPowerlifting's Wilks column uses it.
  • Wilks 2020. A refit with 600 on top and new coefficients. Its scores run higher than the original's. Compare Wilks 2020 only with Wilks 2020.

Bodyweight limits

DOTS scores bodyweight between 40 and 210 kg for men, 40 and 150 kg for women. Outside that, it uses the nearest limit. Wilks limits are 40–201.9 kg (men) and 26.51–154.53 kg (women). Wilks 2020 uses 40–200.95 kg and 40–150.95 kg.

IPF GL has no bodyweight clamp. Below 35 kg we show no GL score, as OpenPowerlifting does.

On 3,000 OpenPowerlifting meet results, our DOTS, Wilks and IPF GL match OpenPowerlifting's own values to within 0.01 points on every row.

Scores and percentiles

A DOTS of 400 is 400 points on the DOTS curve. It does not say how many lifters you beat.

The percentile line does that. It ranks your DOTS against the best full-power DOTS of tested raw lifters in OpenPowerlifting, from meets in the ten years to the data date. Bench-only and equipped scores get no percentile.

Who is in the percentile

201,723 men and 100,614 women, so two in three are men. All chose to compete, all were drug-tested and lifted raw, and each counts once, at their best total.

Bodyweight is the weigh-in weight. Lifters often cut to make a class, and the same total at a heavier bodyweight scores lower. A total lifted at your everyday weight is ranked against lifters who were often lighter on the day.

This page uses data from the OpenPowerlifting project, https://www.openpowerlifting.org. You may download a copy of the data at https://gitlab.com/openpowerlifting/opl-data.

Sources

  1. International Powerlifting Federation. IPF GL Coefficients 2020. www.powerlifting.sport/fileadmin/ipf/data/ipf-formula/IPF_GL_Coefficients-2020.pdf
  2. International Powerlifting Federation. IPF Formula. www.powerlifting.sport/rules/codes/info/ipf-formula
  3. Konertz T. DOTS formula (BVDK, 2019), coefficients as implemented by OpenPowerlifting (crates/coefficients/src/dots.rs). gitlab.com/openpowerlifting/opl-data
  4. Wilks R. Wilks formula (original) and Wilks 2020, coefficients as implemented by OpenPowerlifting (crates/coefficients/src/wilks.rs, wilks2020.rs). gitlab.com/openpowerlifting/opl-data
  5. OpenPowerlifting, data of 2026-09-20. www.openpowerlifting.org
  6. OpenPowerlifting data download. gitlab.com/openpowerlifting/opl-data

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