How Do I Compare?
Enter your best lifts and see how you stack up against professional strongman athletes, world records, and competition averages.
Comparing your lifts against competition data...
Event-by-Event Breakdown
Strengths & Weaknesses
About How Do I Compare?
The How Do I Compare tool gives you a clear, data-driven picture of where your strength stands relative to the professional strongman community. Unlike generic strength calculators, this tool compares your numbers against real competition data from thousands of strongman athletes worldwide.
How It Works
Enter your best lifts for any combination of strongman events. The tool cross-references your numbers against our database of competition results to calculate your percentile ranking for each event, your overall strength percentile, and your estimated placement in an average competition field.
Understanding Your Results
- Overall Percentile: Your average ranking across all entered events. Being at the 70th percentile means you are stronger than 70% of competition athletes.
- Percentile Bars: Show exactly where you fall in the distribution of competition results for each event. The P50 marker represents the median competitor.
- Standards Levels: Beginner through Elite classifications based on established strongman strength standards, adjusted for gender.
- Estimated Placement: A rough estimate of where you would finish in an average strongman competition based on your percentile data.
- World Record Comparison: Shows what percentage of the current world record your lift represents.
Tips for Improving Your Score
The strengths and weaknesses section identifies your best and worst events relative to the field. Focusing training on your weakest event will typically yield the biggest improvement in your overall percentile. A well-rounded strongman athlete with no glaring weaknesses will always place higher than a specialist with one standout lift and several below-average events.
Frequently Asked Questions
Percentiles are computed from actual competition results stored in our database of 80,000+ event results. For each event, we sort all recorded results and determine where your lift falls in that distribution. The data includes results from local, national, and international competitions.
Some events like deadlift appear in nearly every strongman competition, so we have thousands of data points. More specialized events like tire flip or bench press may have fewer competition results to draw from, which can affect the accuracy of percentile estimates.
Enter your best numbers regardless of whether they were achieved in competition or training. The comparison data comes from competition results, so if you typically perform slightly worse under competition pressure, your actual placement might be a few positions lower than estimated.
The estimated placement is derived from your average percentile across all entered events. If your average percentile is 75%, you would place approximately 25th percentile from the top in a competition field. For a typical field of 20 athletes, that means roughly 5th place.
Yes, click the "Save Results" button to store your comparison data in your browser's local storage. The next time you visit, you can see how your numbers have changed. For long-term tracking, we recommend also noting the date alongside your saved results.