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Verdict

Is a 450 kg total good?

For a man at 82.5–87.5 kg it is the 23rd percentile of 20,368 judged lifts — intermediate. At other bodyweights the answer changes, and the table below gives all of them.

The short answer

At 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight, 450 kg is the 23rd percentile of judged lifts — intermediate among people who compete.

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Percentile

20,368 judged totals, men, 82.5–87.5 kg

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

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·20,368 judged totals, men, 82.5–87.5 kg·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Not your class?

450 kg is 992 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 450 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 220.0
52.5–57.5 kg 95th Elite 312.5
57.5–62.5 kg 81st Elite 372.0
62.5–67.5 kg 59th Advanced 430.0
67.5–72.5 kg 55th Advanced 440.0
72.5–77.5 kg 34th Intermediate 485.0
77.5–82.5 kg 22nd Intermediate 515.0
82.5–87.5 kg 23rd Intermediate 520.0
87.5–92.5 kg 13th Novice 555.0
92.5–97.5 kg 14th Novice 562.5
97.5–102.5 kg 10th Novice 585.0
102.5–107.5 kg 7th Novice 605.0
107.5–112.5 kg 9th Novice 605.0
112.5–117.5 kg 8th Novice 615.0
117.5–122.5 kg 6th Novice 645.0
122.5–127.5 kg 8th Novice 630.0
127.5–132.5 kg 8th Novice 627.5
132.5–137.5 kg 6th Novice 652.5
137.5 kg and above 7th Novice 665.0

Women

BodyweightPercentileBandMedian for the class
up to 52.5 kg 99+ World-class 232.5
52.5–57.5 kg 99+ World-class 267.5
57.5–62.5 kg 99+ World-class 281.2
62.5–67.5 kg 99th World-class 295.0
67.5–72.5 kg 98th World-class 305.0
72.5–77.5 kg 95th World-class 320.0
77.5–82.5 kg 96th World-class 320.0
82.5–87.5 kg 94th Elite 323.7
87.5–92.5 kg 94th Elite 327.5
92.5–97.5 kg 94th Elite 325.0
97.5–102.5 kg 92nd Elite 342.5
102.5–107.5 kg 92nd Elite 342.5
107.5–112.5 kg 89th Elite 347.5
112.5–117.5 kg 88th Elite 350.0
117.5–122.5 kg 85th Elite 362.5
122.5–127.5 kg 82nd Elite 370.0
137.5 kg and above 74th Advanced 380.0

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·450 kg scored against every published powerlifting total class·REVIEWED JUL 2026

The road from here

LiftPercentileBand
450.023rdIntermediate
475.031stIntermediate
500.042ndIntermediate
525.053rdAdvanced

Men at 82.5–87.5 kg bodyweight. Percentile gained per 25 kg, so you can see what the next plate is actually worth.

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·20,368 judged totals, men 82.5–87.5 kg·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Is a 450 kg total good? — the short answers

Is a 450 kg total good?

For a man weighing 82.5–87.5 kg, 450 kg (992 lb) is the 23rd percentile of 20,368 judged competition totals, which this site labels intermediate. 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 450 kg is above the 99th percentile for men at up to 52.5 kg and the 7th percentile for men at 137.5 kg and above. The table above gives every published class for both sexes.

What would take a 450 kg total into the top fifth?

At 82.5–87.5 kg the 80th percentile — the cut-off this site calls elite — is 597 kg (1,315 lb). That is 147 kg more than 450 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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