Deadlift percentile calculator by age and sex

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Deadlift standards by age — men

Result needed to beat the given share of all men in each age group, for a bodyweight of 179 lb (the calculator adjusts for yours).

Age	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th	95th	99th
18-29	165 lb	200 lb	245 lb	305 lb	370 lb	415 lb	510 lb
30-39	160 lb	190 lb	235 lb	295 lb	360 lb	400 lb	495 lb
40-49	150 lb	180 lb	225 lb	275 lb	335 lb	375 lb	465 lb
50-59	135 lb	160 lb	200 lb	250 lb	300 lb	340 lb	415 lb
60-69	120 lb	145 lb	175 lb	220 lb	265 lb	300 lb	365 lb

Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled as a blend of untrained, recreationally trained and serious lifters, anchored to deadlift studies of untrained adults and cross-checked against US Army deadlift testing.

Deadlift standards by age — women

Result needed to beat the given share of all women in each age group, for a bodyweight of 153 lb (the calculator adjusts for yours).

Age	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th	95th	99th
18-29	105 lb	120 lb	150 lb	180 lb	215 lb	245 lb	305 lb
30-39	100 lb	120 lb	145 lb	175 lb	210 lb	235 lb	295 lb
40-49	95 lb	110 lb	135 lb	160 lb	195 lb	220 lb	275 lb
50-59	85 lb	100 lb	120 lb	145 lb	175 lb	195 lb	245 lb
60-69	70 lb	85 lb	100 lb	125 lb	150 lb	170 lb	210 lb

Deadlift — NCAA Division I athletes

Pooled across sports with published testing data, weighted by the number of D1 athletes in each sport.

	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th	95th	99th
Men	255 lb	315 lb	385 lb	460 lb	525 lb	560 lb	635 lb
Women	120 lb	150 lb	180 lb	210 lb	240 lb	260 lb	355 lb

Men: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled: college teams rarely test a max deadlift, so each sport's squat distribution is scaled by the deadlift-to-squat ratio seen in the few D1 samples that report both (x1.15).

Women: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled: college teams rarely test a max deadlift, so each sport's squat distribution is scaled by the deadlift-to-squat ratio seen in the few D1 samples that report both (x1.08).

Deadlift questions

What is a good deadlift for a 30-year-old man?

For a 30-year-old man of median US size (179 lb), 240 lb beats half of them, 300 lb reaches the 75th percentile, and 365 lb reaches the 90th of all men that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight.

What is a good deadlift for a 30-year-old woman?

For a 30-year-old woman of median US size (153 lb), 145 lb beats half of them, 175 lb reaches the 75th percentile, and 215 lb reaches the 90th of all women that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight.

How does that compare with D1 athletes?

Division I is a different population: our estimated median NCAA Division I man is at 385 lb, which would be the 92nd percentile among all men aged 18-29; and our estimated median NCAA Division I woman is at 180 lb, which would be the 75th percentile among all women aged 18-29. The D1 comparison is raw — no age or size adjustment — so it is you against the athletes as they are.

How accurate are these deadlift percentiles?

Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat every number here as an informed estimate, not a measurement. Modeled as a blend of untrained, recreationally trained and serious lifters, anchored to deadlift studies of untrained adults and cross-checked against US Army deadlift testing. Modeled percentiles have no validated error margin. Results past the 99th percentile are shown as 99+ because the data cannot support more precision.

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Deadlift standards by age — men

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Deadlift — NCAA Division I athletes

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