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Verdict

Is a 210 kg squat good?

For a man at 82.5–87.5 kg it is the 77th percentile of 20,457 judged lifts — advanced. At other bodyweights the answer changes, and the table below gives all of them.

The short answer

At 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight, 210 kg is the 77th percentile — advanced.

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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?

210 kg is 463 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 210 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 99+ World-class 72.5
52.5–57.5 kg 99+ World-class 106.6
57.5–62.5 kg 99+ World-class 127.5
62.5–67.5 kg 96th World-class 150.0
67.5–72.5 kg 96th World-class 152.5
72.5–77.5 kg 88th Elite 170.0
77.5–82.5 kg 80th Elite 182.5
82.5–87.5 kg 77th Advanced 185.0
87.5–92.5 kg 65th Advanced 197.5
92.5–97.5 kg 61st Advanced 200.0
97.5–102.5 kg 53rd Advanced 210.0
102.5–107.5 kg 44th Intermediate 217.5
107.5–112.5 kg 44th Intermediate 217.5
112.5–117.5 kg 40th Intermediate 222.5
117.5–122.5 kg 32nd Intermediate 235.0
122.5–127.5 kg 37th Intermediate 229.1
127.5–132.5 kg 37th Intermediate 230.0
132.5–137.5 kg 29th Intermediate 240.0
137.5 kg and above 27th Intermediate 245.0

Women

BodyweightPercentileBandMedian for the class
up to 52.5 kg 99+ World-class 82.5
52.5–57.5 kg 99+ World-class 95.0
57.5–62.5 kg 99+ World-class 100.0
62.5–67.5 kg 99+ World-class 107.5
67.5–72.5 kg 99+ World-class 111.0
72.5–77.5 kg 99+ World-class 117.5
77.5–82.5 kg 99+ World-class 117.5
82.5–87.5 kg 99+ World-class 120.0
87.5–92.5 kg 99+ World-class 120.0
92.5–97.5 kg 99+ World-class 120.0
97.5–102.5 kg 99+ World-class 127.5
102.5–107.5 kg 99th World-class 127.5
107.5–112.5 kg 98th World-class 130.0
112.5–117.5 kg 98th World-class 132.5
117.5–122.5 kg 96th World-class 137.5
122.5–127.5 kg 96th World-class 142.0
137.5 kg and above 89th Elite 142.5

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·210 kg scored against every published squat class·REVIEWED JUL 2026

The road from here

LiftPercentileBand
210.077thAdvanced
220.084thElite
230.090thElite
240.093rdElite

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 210 kg squat good? — the short answers

Is a 210 kg squat good?

For a man weighing 82.5–87.5 kg, 210 kg (463 lb) is the 77th percentile of 20,457 judged competition squats, which this site labels advanced. 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 210 kg is above the 99th percentile for men at up to 52.5 kg and the 27th percentile for men at 137.5 kg and above. The table above gives every published class for both sexes.

What would take a 210 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 5 kg more than 210 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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