Powerlifting Score Calculator
Wilks, Wilks-2, DOTS and IPF GL points from one total and bodyweight.
- IPF GL
- 79.77
- Classic powerlifting curve, coefficient 0.132942.
- DOTS
- 387.96
- Wilks
- 383.04
- Wilks-2
- 460.20
Powerlifting meets put lifters in weight classes, but a best-lifter award, a team score or a question like "was my total better than hers?" needs one number that sets strength against bodyweight. Four formulas do that job. This calculator shows all four at once, because they disagree, and the one that matters is the one your federation or your friend uses.
Every score is your total multiplied by a coefficient that falls as bodyweight rises. A heavier lifter has to lift more to earn the same points. The formulas differ in the curve they fit to the best lifters of each size, and in the scale they print on.
The four scores
IPF GL (also called GOODLIFT points or GLP) is the International Powerlifting Federation's formula since May 2020. Its coefficient is 100 / (A − B·e−C·bodyweight), and the IPF fits separate constants for each sex, for classic (raw) and equipped lifting, and for the full three-lift meet and bench press alone. That makes eight curves, and choosing the right one matters: a bench-only total scored on the three-lift curve comes out far too low. The points are a percentage of an elite lifter at your bodyweight, so 100 is world-class.
DOTS was written for the German federation BVDK, whose team competitions mix men and women, after the IPF moved to a formula that does not compare across sexes. It is a fourth-order polynomial on a 500-point scale.
Wilks is the classic: a fifth-order polynomial from the 1990s, on a 500-point scale, and still the number most lifters quote. Wilks-2, from 2020, refits it to newer results on a 600-point scale, so its numbers run higher and are not interchangeable with the original's.
A worked example
A man weighing 90 kg with a 600 kg classic total, the figures this page opens with, scores 79.77 IPF GL, 387.96 DOTS, 383.04 Wilks and 460.20 Wilks-2. A woman at 60 kg with a 350 kg classic total scores 79.11 IPF GL, 387.99 DOTS, 390.21 Wilks and 461.66 Wilks-2. On IPF GL and DOTS the two lifts land within a point of each other; Wilks puts hers seven points ahead.
How the numbers are checked
The IPF GL constants are taken from the IPF's published coefficient table, and the calculation follows the IPF's own procedure: the coefficient is rounded to six decimal places before it multiplies your total. The tests reproduce every lifter on the IPF's example scoresheet to that precision, and both worked examples in the IPF's document: 112.855365 points for a 1035 kg equipped total at 92.04 kg, and 96.783453 for a 122.5 kg classic bench at 70.50 kg. The Wilks, Wilks-2 and DOTS constants and their bodyweight bounds come from the OpenPowerlifting project's implementation.
Bodyweight limits
The polynomials are only meaningful over the bodyweights they were fitted to; past that range they curve back up and would reward extra bodyweight. So, as OpenPowerlifting does, a bodyweight outside a formula's range is scored at its edge, and the calculator says so under that score. Wilks runs from 40 to 201.9 kg for men and from 26.51 to 154.53 kg for women. DOTS runs from 40 to 210 kg for men and 40 to 150 kg for women. IPF GL has no upper limit, but the IPF does not define it below 40 kg for men or 35 kg for women.
Pounds are converted at the exact international definition, 0.45359237 kg to the pound, so entering your numbers in either unit gives the same scores.
Which powerlifting score should I use?
The one your competition uses. IPF meets and their national affiliates rank by IPF GL; many other federations, and most lifters comparing totals informally, use DOTS or Wilks. For bench-only or equipped lifting, IPF GL is the only one of the four with its own curve.
Why is my Wilks-2 score so much higher than my Wilks score?
Wilks-2 is printed on a 600-point scale and the original Wilks on 500, so the same lift scores roughly a fifth higher. They are different formulas, not a correction of one number.
What is a good IPF GL score?
The scale is set so that the average elite lifter at your bodyweight scores 100. A score of 80 is 80% of that reference level.
Does the calculator round like the IPF does?
Yes. The IPF GL coefficient is rounded to six decimal places before it multiplies your total, as the IPF specifies, and the result matches the IPF’s example scoresheet to six places.