Tools
Bench press DOTS calculator
Enter your bodyweight and your best bench press. The calculator scores that one lift with the DOTS and Wilks formulas, the same sums used for a full total. A bench-only score is smaller than a total score and compares only with other bench press scores. In a 1999 study, the Wilks formula showed no bodyweight bias on the bench press.
What a kilogram is worth
Both formulas give a lighter lifter more points for each kilogram. The lines show how many, from 40 to 210 kg bodyweight. The mark is you.
At 75 kg bodyweight, each kilogram lifted is worth 0.7174 DOTS points and 0.7126 Wilks points.
Bench press scores
A bench-only score uses the same formula as a total score, with your best bench press as the weight lifted. It lands on a smaller scale: compare it with other bench press scores, never with a total.
A 1999 study tested the Wilks formula on world record holders and the top two lifters in each class at two world championships. On the bench press it found no bodyweight bias for men or for women, and the authors judged the formula a valid way to adjust the bench press and the total.
How the scores are worked out
Both scores work the same way. Your bodyweight goes into a polynomial, 500 is divided by the answer, and the result is multiplied by the weight you lifted in kilograms. The polynomial is what differs: DOTS uses a fourth-degree one, Wilks a fifth-degree one, and each has one set of coefficients for men and one for women.
Weights typed in pounds are turned into kilograms first, at 0.45359237 kg to the pound. Scores are printed to two decimals, the way results lists print them.
DOTS = lifted × 500 ÷ (A·x⁴ + B·x³ + C·x² + D·x + E)
Wilks = lifted × 500 ÷ (a + b·x + c·x² + d·x³ + e·x⁴ + f·x⁵)
In both, x is bodyweight in kilograms and lifted is the total, or the single lift, in kilograms.
| Coefficient | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| A | −0.0000010930 | −0.0000010706 |
| B | 0.0007391293 | 0.0005158568 |
| C | −0.1918759221 | −0.1126655495 |
| D | 24.0900756 | 13.6175032 |
| E | −307.75076 | −57.96288 |
| Range, kg | 40 to 210 | 40 to 150 |
| Coefficient | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| a | −216.0475144 | 594.31747775582 |
| b | 16.2606339 | −27.23842536447 |
| c | −0.002388645 | 0.82112226871 |
| d | −0.00113732 | −0.00930733913 |
| e | 0.00000701863 | 0.00004731582 |
| f | −0.00000001291 | −0.00000009054 |
| Range, kg | 40 to 201.9 | 26.51 to 154.53 |
Bodyweights outside the range
Each formula covers a range of bodyweights. DOTS scores a bodyweight under 40 kg as 40 kg, and one over 210 kg for men or 150 kg for women as that limit. For Wilks the limits here are 40 and 201.9 kg for men and 26.51 and 154.53 kg for women: the guards the OpenPowerlifting code sets to keep the formula away from the point where it breaks down.
When your bodyweight is outside a range, the result says so under the scores.
Checked against published results
Each row is a meet result as OpenPowerlifting lists it, with the bodyweight and the total from the meet, in kilograms. The DOTS and Wilks columns are worked out by this page. They match the published figures to the last decimal.
| Formula | Body kg | Total kg | DOTS | Wilks | Meet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | 87.7 | 1010.5 | 662.12 | 653.87 | PLU Power Surge Pro/Am IX, 2025-09-13 |
| Men | 99.1 | 1044 | 645.14 | 637.69 | PLU American Pro Invitational, 2026-08-08 |
| Men | 190.4 | 1154 | 583.76 | 615.98 | AMP Avancus Houston, 2026-10-04 |
| Men | 200 | 1025 | 512.78 | 544.88 | NAPF North American Powerlifting Championships, 2024-08-04 |
| Women | 46.74 | 435 | 572.44 | 587.37 | IPF Sheffield Powerlifting Championships, 2026-01-31 |
| Women | 82.72 | 560 | 519.09 | 503.29 | CANPL Western Canadian Championship, 2026-10-01 |
| Women | 83 | 577.5 | 534.44 | 518.11 | IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships, 2026-06-13 |
| Women | 149.2 | 647.5 | 499.19 | 498.52 | IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships, 2026-06-13 |
| Women | 152.1 | 662.5 | 510.63 | 509.19 | AMP Open Nationals, 2026-03-05 |
| Women | 153.4 | 650 | 500.99 | 499.38 | AMP Power Express, 2025-12-20 |
The same DOTS as the app
Masheen works out DOTS with these coefficients, from your best estimated squat, bench press and deadlift and your latest weigh-in. If your profile has no sex set, the app scores you with the men's formula and says so.
The app does not print Wilks. It is on this page because results from before 2019 were scored in it.
One lift at a time
The formulas do not care what the weight is. Type one lift in place of the total and the score is for that lift alone.
- Squat DOTS calculator. Your best squat in place of the total.
- Bench press. A bench-only score, for bench press meets and for friends who compare one lift.
- Deadlift DOTS calculator. Your best deadlift in place of the total.
- DOTS calculator.
Sources
Every outside fact on this page comes from one of these, opened on 12 November 2026.
- OpenPowerlifting project, coefficients source code: dots.rs. DOTS coefficients, bodyweight bounds, author, origin and what the letters stand for.
- OpenPowerlifting project, coefficients source code: wilks.rs. Wilks coefficients, bodyweight bounds and test values.
- OpenPowerlifting project, coefficients source code: wilks2020.rs. The 2020 revision of Wilks and its 600-point scale.
- Wikipedia: Wilks coefficient. The author of Wilks, the published coefficients, its use by the International Powerlifting Federation until the end of 2018, and separate age coefficients.
- Vanderburgh PM, Batterham AM. Validation of the Wilks powerlifting formula. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 1999; 31(12): 1869 to 1875. Abstract read: who was studied and the findings for each lift.
- OpenPowerlifting: published meet results. The ten results in the check table.
Questions
What is a DOTS score?
DOTS is a points score for powerlifting. The weight you lifted is multiplied by 500 and divided by a fourth-degree polynomial of your bodyweight, with one set of coefficients for men and one for women. It lets lifters of different bodyweights be ranked on one list. Tim Konertz wrote it for the German federation BVDK.
What does DOTS stand for?
Dynamic Objective Team Scoring. The reference code of the OpenPowerlifting project records that its author, Tim Konertz, chose the acronym first and the words after.
What is the difference between DOTS and Wilks?
Both divide 500 by a polynomial of bodyweight and multiply by the weight lifted. Wilks is the older formula, by Robert Wilks, with a fifth-degree polynomial; the International Powerlifting Federation used it until the end of 2018. DOTS is newer and uses a fourth-degree polynomial. They give different numbers, so compare DOTS with DOTS and Wilks with Wilks.
Can I work out DOTS for one lift, such as the bench press?
Yes. The formula does not care what the weight is: put a bench press in place of the total and you get a bench-only score. It sits on a smaller scale than a total score, so compare it only with other scores for the same lift.
Does DOTS take age into account?
No. DOTS and Wilks use bodyweight, sex and the weight lifted, and nothing else. Age adjustments are separate coefficients that some federations multiply in afterwards. This page does not apply one.
Which Wilks formula does this page use?
The original one, on a 500-point scale. It is the Wilks figure OpenPowerlifting prints beside its results. A revised formula from 2020 uses a 600-point scale and gives different numbers; it is not shown here.