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Compare strength across bodyweights with DOTS and Wilks scores.
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Short answer: DOTS and Wilks adjust a squat, bench and deadlift total for bodyweight so lifters of different sizes can be compared on one scale.
DOTS (IPF, 2019) and the original Wilks formula adjust a powerlifting total for bodyweight so lifters of different sizes can be compared. Your body figures stay on this device so the Hub's other calculators can fill them in for you, and are never sent anywhere.
Both formulas take your powerlifting total in kg (best squat + bench press + deadlift), multiply it by 500 and divide by a curve based on your bodyweight. Men and women use different coefficients.
The result is a single number that lets a lighter and a heavier lifter be compared on the same scale.
Wilks is the older formula and was the standard for decades. DOTS was introduced later as a newer fit to bodyweight. The two use different coefficient sets, so the same total gives different numbers and the scores cannot be swapped for each other.
Federations choose their own scoring. The IPF now uses its own IPF GL points, which have a separate calculator.
There is no official grading of DOTS or Wilks scores, so this calculator does not label yours. The most useful comparisons are with your own past scores, or with lifters in the same federation, division and equipment category.
Competing in the IPF? Score your total with IPF GL points, or see each lift as a multiple of your bodyweight.
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Each score is your total in kg × 500, divided by a bodyweight polynomial with the selected male or female coefficients. DOTS and original Wilks use different coefficient sets, so their scores are not interchangeable. The total is the sum of squat, bench press and deadlift.
For the male option, bodyweight 80 kg and a 400 kg total, the implemented formulas return 275.82 DOTS and 273.08 original Wilks points. The same total can produce different scores at a different bodyweight.
Neither score grades technique or establishes a strength standard. The DOTS bodyweight input is capped at the formula's implemented range: 40–210 kg for the male coefficients and 40–150 kg for the female coefficients. Wilks uses the entered bodyweight. IPF GL is a separate scoring system; check your federation's rules for the score it uses.
No. They are different formulas. Use the separate IPF GL points calculator when that is the scoring system you need.
No. Compare like with like: the same formula and comparable competition conditions.
This page has no equipment-division input. A score alone does not make classic and equipped results directly comparable.
Your total in kg is multiplied by 500 and divided by a bodyweight curve with separate coefficients for men and women.
DOTS is a newer fit to bodyweight than the original Wilks formula. Each federation chooses its own scoring, so check its rules.
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