Standards from lifts that counted.
Every number here comes from a barbell lift performed on a competition platform and passed by referees — 1,818,459 of them, from 443 federations. Find out exactly where yours sits.
Percentile
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29,914 judged bench presses, men, 82.5–87.5 kg
No lift entered. The curve is every judged bench presses in this class — add yours to it.
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Showing men at 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight — the most common class in the dataset. Pick your own lift, sex and bodyweight →
The data
Judged results
1,818,459
Lifters
580,559
Federations
443
Years covered
1964–2026
Every one of them a lift performed on a competition platform and passed by referees. Snapshot 2026-07-25.
Standards, by lift
Squat standards
Median for men across all classes: 188 kg. Percentiles by bodyweight, sex and age.
See the curve →Bench press standards
Median for men across all classes: 128 kg. Percentiles by bodyweight, sex and age.
See the curve →Deadlift standards
Median for men across all classes: 218 kg. Percentiles by bodyweight, sex and age.
See the curve →Powerlifting total standards
Median for men across all classes: 530 kg. Percentiles by bodyweight, sex and age.
See the curve →The instrument panel
One-rep max
Five formulas, and the honest spread between them.
DOTS & Wilks score
Compare totals across bodyweights, three ways.
Plate loading
What goes on the bar, per side, in kg or lb.
Warm-up ramp
A sensible ladder to a working single.
RPE chart
Reps at RPE to a percentage of your max.
FFMI
Fat-free mass index, height-normalised.
Body fat (Navy)
The circumference method, with its real error bars.
Protein target
A range, because the evidence is a range.
Why these numbers are different
Ask the internet what an average bench press is and you will get an answer built from numbers people typed into a training app. Nobody checked them. Nobody watched the lift. There is no depth requirement in a phone.
Every figure on this site comes from the OpenPowerlifting archive: 1,818,459 results from 443 federations, each one a lift that three referees watched and passed. The database is contributed to the public domain, so you can download it and check our arithmetic.
We count each lifter once, at their best, so somebody who competes twenty times does not count twenty times. We use raw lifts only, because a squat suit is worth 50 kg and would silently inflate every number on the page. Who these numbers describe. Everyone in this dataset entered a powerlifting competition. They are stronger than the general gym population, so a 50th percentile here is well above an average gym-goer — we would rather tell you that than quietly flatter you. Nobody has ever published a trustworthy random sample of what people lift in commercial gyms; what exists instead is app data that people type in themselves.