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Verdict

Is a 750 lb total good?

For a man at 82.5–87.5 kg it is the 4th percentile of 20,368 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, 750 lb is the 4th percentile of judged lifts — novice among people who compete.

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Percentile

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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?

750 lb is 340 kg. 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 750 lb 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 89th Elite 220.0
52.5–57.5 kg 63rd Advanced 312.5
57.5–62.5 kg 37th Intermediate 372.0
62.5–67.5 kg 16th Novice 430.0
67.5–72.5 kg 14th Novice 440.0
72.5–77.5 kg 6th Novice 485.0
77.5–82.5 kg 3rd Novice 515.0
82.5–87.5 kg 4th Novice 520.0
87.5–92.5 kg 2nd Novice 555.0
92.5–97.5 kg 3rd Novice 562.5
97.5–102.5 kg 2nd Novice 585.0
102.5–107.5 kg 1st Novice 605.0
107.5–112.5 kg 2nd Novice 605.0
112.5–117.5 kg 2nd Novice 615.0
117.5–122.5 kg 1st Novice 645.0
122.5–127.5 kg 1st Novice 630.0
127.5–132.5 kg 1st Novice 627.5
132.5–137.5 kg 1st Novice 652.5
137.5 kg and above 1st Novice 665.0

Women

BodyweightPercentileBandMedian for the class
up to 52.5 kg 95th World-class 232.5
52.5–57.5 kg 88th Elite 267.5
57.5–62.5 kg 83rd Elite 281.2
62.5–67.5 kg 75th Advanced 295.0
67.5–72.5 kg 70th Advanced 305.0
72.5–77.5 kg 62nd Advanced 320.0
77.5–82.5 kg 61st Advanced 320.0
82.5–87.5 kg 59th Advanced 323.7
87.5–92.5 kg 57th Advanced 327.5
92.5–97.5 kg 58th Advanced 325.0
97.5–102.5 kg 49th Intermediate 342.5
102.5–107.5 kg 49th Intermediate 342.5
107.5–112.5 kg 45th Intermediate 347.5
112.5–117.5 kg 45th Intermediate 350.0
117.5–122.5 kg 38th Intermediate 362.5
122.5–127.5 kg 34th Intermediate 370.0
137.5 kg and above 35th Intermediate 380.0

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·750 lb scored against every published powerlifting total class·REVIEWED JUL 2026

The road from here

LiftPercentileBand
340.24thNovice
365.26thNovice
390.210thNovice
415.214thNovice

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 750 lb total good? — the short answers

Is a 750 lb total good?

For a man weighing 82.5–87.5 kg, 750 lb (340 kg) is the 4th percentile of 20,368 judged competition totals, 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 750 lb is the 89th percentile for men at up to 52.5 kg and the 1st percentile for men at 137.5 kg and above. The table above gives every published class for both sexes.

What would take a 750 lb 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 256 kg more than 750 lb.

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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