How your squat, bench, deadlift or total compares with lifters who competed, by sex and weight class.
Your squat is stronger than
27%
of 44,172 tested raw men who squatted at a meet in the 83 kg class
Intermediate
160 kg is 1.94× bodyweight
1105090
Percentile in your class. The lines at 1, 10, 50 and 90 start Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Elite.
Example: a man at 82.5 kg bodyweight with a 160 kg squat. Change any field to use your own numbers.
The standards by class
Each column is where a level starts in that class. Novice starts at the 1st percentile, Intermediate at the 10th, Advanced at the median, Elite at the 90th. Below Novice is Beginner. Classes are IPF classes: 83 means up to 83.0 kg. Data: 302,337 tested raw full-power lifters from OpenPowerlifting, meets from Sep 2016 to Sep 2026.
Squat standards
Men
Men’s squat, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
59
30
60
113.5
165
66
60
97.5
147.5
192.5
74
75
120
165
210
83
85
135
183.5
230
93
90
145
197.5
245
105
95
155
210
260
120
100
160
220
278
120+
92.5
162.5
231.5
300
Women
Women’s squat, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
47
25
45
75
105
52
37.5
60
90
120
57
43
67.5
100
130
63
45
72.5
105
137.5
69
50
77.5
111
145
76
50
80
115.5
152.5
84
50
82.5
120
160
84+
50
84
125
175
Bench press standards
Men
Men’s bench press, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
59
22.5
40
75
111.5
66
41
65
97.5
127.5
74
52.5
80
110
140
83
60
90
120
152.5
93
65
97.5
130
162.5
105
67.5
102.5
140
175
120
70
105
150
190
120+
70
107.5
157.5
205
Women
Women’s bench press, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
47
17.5
27
42.5
62.5
52
25
35
50
70
57
27
37.5
55
75
63
29.5
40
57.5
77.5
69
30
42.5
60
82.5
76
32
45
62.5
87.5
84
32.5
45
65
90
84+
32.5
47.5
67.5
95
Deadlift standards
Men
Men’s deadlift, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
59
50
84
143
200
66
84
125
180
227
74
102
147.5
200
242.5
83
113.5
165
215
260
93
120
175
227.5
275
105
124.5
182.5
237.5
285
120
130
185
242.5
300
120+
122.5
185
247.5
305
Women
Women’s deadlift, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
47
37.5
60
95
132.5
52
55
80
112.5
145
57
62.5
87.5
120
155
63
67.5
95
127.5
160
69
72.5
100
132.5
170
76
75
105
140
175
84
75
105
140
180
84+
79.5
110
145
185
Total standards
Men
Men’s total, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
59
107.5
187.5
330
465
66
197.5
295
425
532.5
74
240
350
472.5
580
83
270
397
515
627.5
93
290
425
550
667.5
105
300
447.5
582.5
705.5
120
313
460
607.5
745
120+
312.5
462.5
630
790
Women
Women’s total, kg, by class
Class
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
47
84
132.5
210
292.5
52
120
177.5
250
330
57
140
195
272.5
350
63
147.5
210
287.5
370
69
161
223.5
305
390
76
165
235
317.5
405
84
165.5
237.5
323.5
420
84+
172.5
245
340
442.5
Who you are compared with
Drug-tested lifters who competed raw (no squat suits, bench shirts or knee wraps) and placed at a meet between 20 September 2016 and 20 September 2026. That end date is the newest meet in the OpenPowerlifting data used here. Disqualified entries, guests and bodyweights outside 30–300 kg are dropped. Squat, deadlift and total come from full-power meets. Bench also counts bench-only meets.
Each lifter counts once per lift, at their heaviest result, in the IPF class of the bodyweight that day. That leaves 302,337 lifters with a full-power total and 353,001 with a bench.
Your percentile is the share of lifters in your sex and class whose best is at or below your number. Between the 1st and 99th percentiles it is interpolated.
Why meet results
Referees pass every meet lift. Squat depth, a paused bench, a locked-out deadlift. A gym max has none of those checks, and the price is who ends up in the data:
people who chose to compete
lifts done on the day, often after a weight cut, so bodyweight reads low and the class can be one below the lifter's usual weight
two men for every woman: 66.7% of full-power lifters and 68.2% of bench lifters
The levels
Povver sets the cut points, against lifters in your sex and class:
Beginner: under the 1st percentile
Novice: 1st to 10th
Intermediate: 10th to 50th
Advanced: 50th to 90th
Elite: 90th and above
Anyone who enters a tested meet is already past beginner, so these levels read stricter than a gym standard. Advanced means stronger than the median competitor in your class.
From a set to a percentile
With "A set", we estimate your 1RM with Epley on reps plus reps in reserve: weight × (1 + (reps + RIR) / 30). RIR above 3 counts as 3. A single with nothing left is its own 1RM.
That estimate has error. At the same share of 1RM, the reps people manage vary by about a quarter either way (Nuzzo 2024), and lifters misjudge RIR by about a rep (Halperin 2022). We turn that spread into a likely 1RM range and show the percentile at each end. Three to failure: narrow. Ten at RIR 3: wide.
Cross-check against published norms
van den Hoek and colleagues (2024) published 90th-percentile bodyweight multiples for tested raw lifters aged 18–35, from 809,986 competition entries. We built the same subset from this data (tested raw full-power entries, age 18–35, every year, each entry counted):
Lift
Men, here
Men, 2024
Women, here
Women, 2024
Squat
2.89
2.83
2.33
2.26
Bench
1.90
1.95
1.34
1.35
Deadlift
3.30
3.25
2.73
2.66
The 2024 values are as the paper reports them. Every lift agrees within 0.07 × bodyweight.
van den Hoek DJ, Beaumont PL, van den Hoek AK, Owen PJ, Garrett JM, Buhmann R, Latella C. Normative data for the squat, bench press and deadlift exercises in powerlifting: data from 809,986 competition entries. J Sci Med Sport. 2024;27(10):734–742. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2024.07.005
Nuzzo JL, Pinto MD, Nosaka K, Steele J. Maximal number of repetitions at percentages of the one repetition maximum: a meta-regression and moderator analysis of sex, age, training status, and exercise. Sports Med. 2024;54(2):303–321. doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01937-7
Halperin I, Malleron T, Har-Nir I, et al. Accuracy in predicting repetitions to task failure in resistance exercise: a scoping review and exploratory meta-analysis. Sports Med. 2022;52:377–390. doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01559-x
Epley B. Poundage chart. Boyd Epley Workout. Lincoln, NE; 1985.
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