Rankings
How rankings work
Every public score is named on a world board. Group-only and private scores still occupy a place there as Private — score and rank only, no name. The same result is also placed by gender, age group, and country, so you can see where you stand against people like you — not only the planet. You can also join a gym, team, or company and rank inside that smaller field. We launched on lifts and timed runs. Each board publishes its rules, aligned with the official category it follows — IPF Classic for the barbell lifts, World Athletics distances for the runs. The idea is bigger: anything you can measure.
Two views of the same score
Submit a result and iRank calculates more than one rank. The world rank is everyone on that board, including public marks we publish so each board has a real standard to chase.
Age, gender, and country ranks only include athletes with a complete profile. Published notables without an account stay on the world board only. Their marks on different boards share one public profile, labelled added automatically. If that person wants the page for personal use, they can sign in and request it. Anyone can suggest a missing notable from a board page.
If you're signed in, we show both. The board hero still highlights the top world mark. The list follows the filter you pick, and your own result shows a world rank next to the filtered place.
Board rules
A board is one comparable class. The list on the board is the source of truth — not a filter chip. Deadlift, squat, and bench follow IPF Classic (raw / unequipped): belt, wrist wraps, and knee sleeves. Knee wraps and suited lifts are IPF Equipped (or a wraps division) and would be separate boards. Running follows World Athletics distances and shoe stack-height limits.
Where we split tighter than the federation — conventional deadlift only, not sumo — that is listed on the board. Submit only if the attempt matches the list.
Filter any leaderboard
Filters live on the home page and on every individual board. Age, gender, and country can be combined. On a running board you can also cut by footwear. Changing them updates the featured boards, the market cards, and the full list — ranks restart at #1 inside the slice you chose.
World clears the cuts. Your group is always on the filter bar. If you're signed out, it opens a short sign-up. Once we know your profile, it jumps to your gender and age band. Add a country on top if you want a tighter local board.
Country standings
The country rankings page ranks countries against each other on a board. A country's place is its best public mark — same direction as the athlete list. Kenya's marathon rank is its fastest published time against every other country's best.
We may suggest a country from the country on your profile, or from your connection (the IP country header on Vercel). That is a shortcut to your page. It never writes a country onto a profile. Ranked rows still use the country the athlete set.
Gyms, teams, and companies
A group is a named field on the same world boards — not a new activity. Create a gym, team, company, club, or custom group. Members keep their world rank. Inside the group we rank each person's best public score, so the gym board is a roster, not a list of attempts. Gym owners can start from iRank for gyms.
Gyms and teams usually stay unlisted and share an invite code at the desk. Companies can add a work email domain so anyone at acme.com joins without a code. Clubs can list themselves in the public directory. Private groups are members-only.
A workplace programme can also rank work the company already measures — store versus store, inside the company, never on a world board. iRank for Boots is the first of those; colleagues land on Boots on iRank.
If you belong to a group, that rank also shows on the score page — next to world, gender, age, and country.
Age groups
Age is the whole years between your date of birth and the day you performed the score — not today's age. Someone who was 34 when they ran the 5K stays in 25–34 for that entry even after they turn 35.
Under-18 is one youth class. 18–24 covers the college and early-career window. After that we use 10-year bands so you compete with people at a similar training age. 65+ is the open older-masters class.
- Under 18
- 0–17
- 18–24
- 18–24
- 25–34
- 25–34
- 35–44
- 35–44
- 45–54
- 45–54
- 55–64
- 55–64
- 65+
- 65 and over
Gender, country, and privacy
Gender ranks use the value on your profile: Men, Women, or Other. Country is the one on your profile, not where the score was performed. Combined filters — men 25–34, women in Kenya — are the same pools you see on an entry's rank cards.
Date of birth never appears publicly. Rows can show age at performance and a flag. Rank cards show the group, not the birthday. Bodyweight is optional context on the entry — kilograms, not a weight class or a rank cut.
Beginner to Elite
Strength scores also show a Beginner–Elite level. That scale comes from published Strength Level community tables — the same 5 / 20 / 50 / 80 / 95 percentile bands people already know — adjusted for gender and bodyweight when you add them.
Those tables are the starting point, not the last word. As a board fills with real iRank marks, we blend our own distribution in so the level gets more accurate. World rank stays iRank's own place on the list. The level answers a different question: how this lift sits among lifters generally.
VDOT and age grade
Running scores get the same Beginner–Elite overlay, from two published models. VDOTis Jack Daniels' oxygen-cost equation: one race time becomes a fitness number, then equivalent times on the other launch distances — mile, 5K, 10K, half, marathon. That is not a prediction of a race you have not run. It is the same aerobic fitness, expressed on another board.
When we know age and male/female, we also show an age grade— the time as a percentage of the open World Athletics mark we publish on that board, after a WMA-style age factor (peak in the mid-20s to early 30s, then the usual masters decline). 60% is local class, 70% regional, 80% national, 90% world class. It is not a certified World Masters Athletics score, and it never replaces world rank. World rank is still the raw clock.
Equipment, shoes, and tested status
Deadlift, squat, and bench are IPF Classic boards. Wraps and suited lifts would be their own boards. Running still lets you cut by footwear on the same World Athletics distance: Standard, super shoes, or spikes.
Tested status is a claim, not a lab result. There is no “verified natural” badge. A gym photo can support the attempt. It cannot prove someone is clean. Declared enhanced means the athlete said they used PEDs — we record the declaration.
Optional proof upgrades a row to “Proof attached.” An admin review of a video can mark it verified. Official imports from a named source show as Official. Unverified scores still appear on the board.
Trust marks
Icons on a score show how much we stand behind it. More than one can appear — an official import that someone has challenged keeps the official mark and adds a dispute flag.
Official
Compared against a named official source.
Verified
Attached video or result evidence was checked.
Reviewed
A registered reviewer accepted a photo of this attempt.
Proof attached
A photo or link is attached. It has not been checked yet.
Disputed
This result has been challenged as possibly fake.