Your total,in history.
Powerlifting by the numbers. Enter your lifts and see where you rank among 4,059,940 meet results, which championship your total would have won, and what four studies of the data found.
- 48%of third bench attempts get white lights.
- 56%of third deadlifts go up after a 2% jump. After 5%: more.
- 35%of benches repeated after a miss are made.
- 13×as many men weigh in just under 83 kg as just over.
- 31is when men followed over their careers lift their best.
- +13%Dots in the first year for lifters who start before 18.
- 42%of debutants never enter a second meet.
- ×3.6as many active lifters in 2025 as in 2010.
Where does your total stand?
Enter your category, bodyweight and best lifts. You're compared with every raw lifter since 2016 in your weight class.
Calculator · Your total in history
How it's calculatedRaw, full power, valid results only, without school federations. Each lifter counts once, with their best meet. A rank of 80% means four out of five lifters in your group totalled less.
- Squat60%
- Bench50%
- Deadlift60%
Compared with men up to 83 kg, all ages.
Your total in history
Enter your bodyweight and all three lifts to see your total in history.
What the data says
Four studies, each a full analysis written up like a short paper. Pick a finding to see its chart.
The third attempt
Which third attempts get white lights, and why the data can't tell you to jump bigger. Published study, 3 findings.
48%of third bench attempts are good
Only 48% of third bench attempts are good. A 3% jump succeeds 53% of the time, a 10% jump only 42%. In the study
56%of third deadlifts made after a 2% jump
Add only 2% for the third deadlift and you make it less often (56%) than with 5% (67%). The small jump gives away a heavy second attempt. In the study
35%of repeated bench attempts are made
After a missed second attempt, repeating the weight works only 35% of the time on the bench and 52% on the squat. In the study
When are lifters strongest?
Peak age from whole careers instead of snapshots, and the one assumption the answer hangs on. Published study, 2 findings.
27–31men's peak age, depending on one assumption
All ages at once put the peak at 24 for women and 27 for men. The same lifters followed over time peak at 35 and 31, but part of that is the sport getting stronger every year. In the study
+13%Dots in the first year when starting under 18
Start before 18 and you add 13% Dots in your first year. Men aged 25 to 34 add 5%, women 9%.
Making weight
Do lifters pile up under the class limits, and does cutting pay? Published study, 2 findings.
13×as many men just under the 83 kg limit as just over it
Bodyweights pile up just under the IPF class limits, 13 to 1 at 83 kg. The same lifters, about 2 kg lighter, total almost exactly as much, and rank higher in the lighter class. In the study
-13%Glossbrenner score for women over 85 kg
From about 85 kg, women score below average in every points formula, with Glossbrenner up to 13% low. Goodlift balances best.
Who keeps competing?
What predicts who comes back after a meet, and how long careers last. Published study, 1 finding.
42%of debutants never compete again
42% of all debutants never enter a second meet. The share has been falling since the nineties. In the study
More from the data
Facts without a study of their own yet. No study yet, 2 findings.
+70Dots for the best 1% of women since 2010
The best 1% of women score 70 Dots more than in 2010; for men it's 30.
×3.6active lifters compared with 2010
147,303 active lifters in 2025, 3.6 times as many as in 2010. The share of women rose from 11% to 36%.
Four million lifts, one archive
What this site analyses, in three steps: a sport that writes every attempt down, an open archive that collects the results, and the dataset built from it.
1 · The sport
Three lifts, three lights
Every lifter gets three attempts each at the squat, the bench press and the deadlift. The best good attempt of each adds up to the total. Three referees judge every attempt, two white lights make it count, and every decision is written down.
2 · The archive
OpenPowerlifting
OpenPowerlifting collects meet results from federations around the world into one public-domain archive: 64,063 meets from 477 federations in 133 countries, the oldest from 1964. openpowerlifting.org
4.06Mmeet entries
3 · The dataset
Every result, counted
I load the whole archive with each update and compute every number and chart on this site from it: 4,059,940 meet entries by 1,018,414 lifters, 14.1M single attempts. Nothing is sampled.
A lifter does the math.
I'm Daniel Vahl, a powerlifter with an M.Sc. in mathematics.
I kept wondering what four million meet results could tell us, so I started asking one question at a time and answering it properly. This site is where the answers land.
I'm also building OOTE, an app that takes the busywork out of training plans.