Enter your deadlift — or a set, like 315 lb × 3 — and your bodyweight. You get your level among everyday lifters, from Beginner to Elite, and where your deadlift ranks among the 202,788 men and 96,948 women who have done it in raw powerlifting meets since 2020.

What do Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Elite mean?

They are Strength Level's strength standards, built from the lifts its users log — 48.7 million bench presses alone, of which 10.9 million passed its checks for implausible and duplicate entries. Each level is the weight that beats a set share of those lifters of your sex and bodyweight: Beginner 5%, Novice 20%, Intermediate 50%, Advanced 80% and Elite 95%. Strength Level describes a beginner as someone who has practised the lift for about a month, a novice as six months of regular training, an intermediate as two years and an advanced lifter as more than five; elite lifters have spent over five years becoming competitive in strength sports.

We show the five levels for your bodyweight from curves fitted to Strength Level's published tables, which match them to within 2% (retrieved September 23, 2026). People who log every lift in an app are keener than the average gym member, so read a level as a comparison with committed lifters. Competitors are a higher bar still: they trained for a one-rep max and tested it on a platform, which is why the same lift ranks lower against them. What percentage of gym-goers can bench 225? puts the two side by side.

How is the competitor percentile calculated?

From the OpenPowerlifting archive of sanctioned meet results (public domain; snapshot of September 26, 2026). We keep raw (unequipped), sanctioned, non-disqualified results from meets dated 2020 or later, take each lifter's best successful attempt on each lift, and place them in the IPF weight class of the bodyweight they weighed in at for that result. Totals come from full-power meets only. Enter your age and the lift is also ranked against competitors your age — single years from 13 to 19, then by decade — counting each lifter's best result at that age, at any bodyweight. Your percentile is interpolated between the 1st and 99th percentiles of your class. If you enter more than one rep, we estimate your one-rep max with the Epley formula — weight × (1 + reps ÷ 30) — and rank that; prediction equations are most accurate at low reps (Whisenant et al., Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2003), so the calculator takes 1 to 12.

What is a good deadlift for your weight?

Best deadlift in lb of raw competitors since 2020, by weight class. "Top 10%" is the weight that beats 90% of the class.

Men

Weight class	Median	Top 25%	Top 10%	Top 1%	Lifters
up to 130 lb	310	386	441	529	7,373
130–146 lb	397	452	502	584	11,888
146–163 lb	441	491	540	628	27,008
163–183 lb	474	529	575	672	42,851
183–205 lb	502	557	606	705	42,457
205–231 lb	529	584	639	739	35,443
231–265 lb	546	612	672	772	21,698
over 265 lb	557	629	700	816	14,070
All bodyweights	485	551	617	733	202,788

Women

Weight class	Median	Top 25%	Top 10%	Top 1%	Lifters
up to 104 lb	209	254	292	353	3,041
104–115 lb	248	287	325	386	6,514
115–126 lb	270	309	347	408	10,586
126–139 lb	281	320	358	425	15,877
139–152 lb	298	336	375	452	17,646
152–168 lb	309	353	393	474	15,577
168–185 lb	314	358	402	485	10,958
over 185 lb	320	365	413	507	16,749
All bodyweights	292	336	380	464	96,948

By age

Best deadlift in lb by age at the meet, at any bodyweight.

Age	Men: median	Men: top 10%	Women: median	Women: top 10%
13	265	364	204	276
14	320	435	226	302
15	380	485	243	320
16	419	518	265	336
17	446	551	276	353
18	470	573	287	364
19	491	601	298	375
20–29	518	639	311	397
30–39	529	661	309	402
40–49	500	623	298	380
50–59	452	573	270	358
60–69	402	518	243	320
70 and over	331	441	205	281

What is the average deadlift?

The medians by age, weight class and sex, in pounds and kilograms, with what they mean for a teenager or for a lifter past 50, are in what is the average deadlift by age and weight? The tables on this page are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0; the full dataset is on the strength percentile calculator.

Other calculators

Sources

OpenPowerlifting, bulk data (public domain) and the project site
Strength Level, deadlift strength standards, from lifts logged by its users (retrieved September 23, 2026)
International Powerlifting Federation, technical rules (weight classes)
Whisenant, M. J. et al., Validation of submaximal prediction equations for the 1 repetition maximum bench press test on a group of collegiate football players, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2003

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