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DOTS Calculator

Enter your total and bodyweight to get your DOTS score, plus Wilks and IPF GL. It also places that score against real competition lifters on file.

DOTS

Enter a bodyweight and total to see your score.

What DOTS measures

DOTS adjusts a lifter's total for bodyweight so lifters across weight classes can be compared on one scale. A heavier lifter and a lighter lifter with the same DOTS are judged to have lifted equally well relative to their size. It has largely replaced Wilks as the default coefficient at many federations.

How the score is computed

DOTS multiplies your total by a coefficient derived from your bodyweight and sex. The formula here matches the values OpenPowerlifting publishes, checked against the stored score on every entry in the dataset.