The Wilks score levels the field between light and heavy powerlifters, turning any squat, bench, and deadlift total into comparable points. Enter body weight and total for your score with official 2020 coefficients.
Wilks score
Compare lifters across body weights.
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Wilks score
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Enter body weight and total.
Wilks coefficient
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Total lifted
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Formula: Score = total x 500 / (a + b.x + c.x^2 + d.x^3 + e.x^4 + f.x^5), with official 2020 Wilks coefficients for x = body weight.
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What Wilks measures
A 500 kg total means more at 75 kg body weight than at 120 kg. Wilks multiplies your total by a coefficient derived from a fifth degree polynomial of body weight, so lifters of any size can be ranked on one scale.
Reading the score
Casual lifters land near 200 to 300, serious competitors 350 to 450, and elite totals push past 500 toward 600. The coefficient itself is also shown, so you can see how much your body weight helped or hurt.
Around 300 is solid for a recreational lifter, 400 marks advanced, and 450+ is elite territory. National level competitors often sit between 400 and 500.
Is Wilks still used in competition?
Many federations moved to IPF points (DOTS/GL) for official ranking, but Wilks remains the common language for comparing lifters and tracking personal progress.
Why do men and women have different coefficients?
Strength scales differently with body weight between sexes, so each gets its own polynomial fitted to real performance data.
Does Wilks favor light or heavy lifters?
It aims for neutrality, though debates never end. Extremely light or super heavyweight totals can look slightly generous depending on the era of data.
What totals do I enter?
Your best competition style squat + bench press + deadlift in kilograms. Gym estimates are fine for tracking, but use paused competition lifts for bragging rights.