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Verdict

Is a 110 kg squat good?

For a man at 82.5–87.5 kg it is the 4th percentile of 20,457 judged lifts — novice. At other bodyweights the answer changes, and the table below gives all of them.

The short answer

At 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight, 110 kg is the 4th percentile of judged lifts — novice among people who compete.

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Percentile

20,457 judged squats, men, 82.5–87.5 kg

No lift entered. The curve is every judged squats in this class — add yours to it.

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·20,457 judged squats, men, 82.5–87.5 kg·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Not your class?

110 kg is 243 lb. The chart is preloaded with it — change the number to check your own.

From 1.8 million judged lifts to one percentile

  1. Take only judged lifts. Every row is an attempt performed on a competition platform in front of three referees. Anything from a phone, a survey or a training log is not in the archive at all.
  2. Drop equipped lifts. Raw only — no squat suits, no bench shirts. A suit is worth tens of kilos and would silently inflate every figure on the page.
  3. Count each lifter once, at their best. Somebody who competes twenty times is one data point, not twenty, so the curve is a population of people rather than a population of meets.
  4. Split by sex and 5 kg bodyweight class, then by age band. A lift is a different achievement at 60 kg and at 120 kg, so a single national average would be an average of two different questions.
  5. Sort the class and read off the 99 cut points. Your percentile is the position of your lift in that sorted list — not a score, a rank against named people.
  6. Publish nothing thin. A slice with fewer than 500 lifters is not given a page: its tails would be noise dressed as a standard.
percentile(x)  =  100 × count(best_raw ≤ x) ÷ n

  class   =   sex  ×  5 kg bodyweight bucket  [ ×  age band ]
  n       =   lifters in that class, each counted once, at their best
  x       =   your lift, in kilograms

  band    =   01–19  novice        50–79  advanced      95–99  world class
              20–49  intermediate  80–94  elite

The full method, including what is excluded and why →

What 110 kg means at every bodyweight

The same lift is a different achievement at 60 kg and at 120 kg. This is the whole answer, not one row of it.

Men

BodyweightPercentileBandMedian for the class
up to 52.5 kg 85th Elite 72.5
52.5–57.5 kg 56th Advanced 106.6
57.5–62.5 kg 33rd Intermediate 127.5
62.5–67.5 kg 14th Novice 150.0
67.5–72.5 kg 12th Novice 152.5
72.5–77.5 kg 5th Novice 170.0
77.5–82.5 kg 3rd Novice 182.5
82.5–87.5 kg 4th Novice 185.0
87.5–92.5 kg 2nd Novice 197.5
92.5–97.5 kg 3rd Novice 200.0
97.5–102.5 kg 2nd Novice 210.0
102.5–107.5 kg 1st Novice 217.5
107.5–112.5 kg 2nd Novice 217.5
112.5–117.5 kg 2nd Novice 222.5
117.5–122.5 kg 1st Novice 235.0
122.5–127.5 kg 2nd Novice 229.1
127.5–132.5 kg 2nd Novice 230.0
132.5–137.5 kg 1st Novice 240.0
137.5 kg and above 2nd Novice 245.0

Women

BodyweightPercentileBandMedian for the class
up to 52.5 kg 87th Elite 82.5
52.5–57.5 kg 73rd Advanced 95.0
57.5–62.5 kg 66th Advanced 100.0
62.5–67.5 kg 55th Advanced 107.5
67.5–72.5 kg 49th Intermediate 111.0
72.5–77.5 kg 41st Intermediate 117.5
77.5–82.5 kg 40th Intermediate 117.5
82.5–87.5 kg 39th Intermediate 120.0
87.5–92.5 kg 38th Intermediate 120.0
92.5–97.5 kg 37th Intermediate 120.0
97.5–102.5 kg 31st Intermediate 127.5
102.5–107.5 kg 30th Intermediate 127.5
107.5–112.5 kg 28th Intermediate 130.0
112.5–117.5 kg 28th Intermediate 132.5
117.5–122.5 kg 25th Intermediate 137.5
122.5–127.5 kg 23rd Intermediate 142.0
137.5 kg and above 25th Intermediate 142.5

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·110 kg scored against every published squat class·REVIEWED JUL 2026

The road from here

LiftPercentileBand
110.04thNovice
120.06thNovice
130.09thNovice
140.014thNovice

Men at 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight. Percentile gained per 10 kg, so you can see what the next plate is actually worth.

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·20,457 judged squats, men 82.5–87.5 kg·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Is a 110 kg squat good? — the short answers

Is a 110 kg squat good?

For a man weighing 82.5–87.5 kg, 110 kg (243 lb) is the 4th percentile of 20,457 judged competition squats, which this site labels novice. Everyone in that comparison entered a powerlifting meet, so they are stronger than the general gym population.

Does bodyweight change the answer?

Substantially. The same 110 kg is the 85th percentile for men at up to 52.5 kg and the 2nd percentile for men at 137.5 kg and above. The table above gives every published class for both sexes.

What would take a 110 kg squat into the top fifth?

At 82.5–87.5 kg the 80th percentile — the cut-off this site calls elite — is 215 kg (474 lb). That is 105 kg more than 110 kg.

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.

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