Lifting Strength

Introduction

Lifting Strength is defined as the mass that an individual can lift on Earth. In other words, it measures the amount of upward force a character can produce. As such, pushing and pulling feats are also considered part of this statistic as long as they have proper calculations to account for the difference from lifting. The weight of something pulled across a horizontal surface often needs to account for the appropriate friction coefficient after finding the mass of the object. Telekinesis or other similar abilities must be separated from physical strength when used in a lifting feat. Tearing also falls within this category, but it is unreliable for calculating overall lifting ability most of the time, as the force used in a tearing motion is much lower than a lift, as a tearing motion uses much fewer muscle groups and is an awkward application of force compared to other movements. Likewise, throwing an object a certain height upwards can be used as a lifting feat, as doing so would require greater strength than merely lifting the object.

While Striking Strength measures the energy of a character's physical attacks, Lifting Strength measures the amount of mass they can lift, which derives from the amount of force a character can produce. As such, they measure two different physical quantities. Furthermore, fiction commonly features characters capable of striking with vastly greater energy than needed to lift weights they struggle with. As such, to accommodate for fictional portrayals, our indexes don't assume that a character that can physically produce the amount of energy used in lifting an object by a certain height can also lift it if said character didn't explicitly display such lifting feats. Thus, Lifting Strength and Striking Strength are generally not comparable and should be evaluated separately.

Lifting Strength Levels

	Kilogram (force)	Metric tons (force)	Newton	Explanation
Insubstantial	-	-	-	Lifting objects wholly inferior to 3-dimensional space and thus below standard measurements of weight. Those to whom this rating applies might range from lower-dimensional characters existing on less than three spatial axes in the absence of further context to characters who inhabit qualitatively inferior levels of existence.
Below Average Human	0-50	0-0.05	0-490.5	The weight of a preadolescent child.
Average Human	50-80	0.05-0.08	490.5-784.8	The weight of a teenager, adult human, or large dog.
Above Average Human	80-120	0.08-0.12	784.8-1177.2	The weight of a washing machine or tumble dryer.
Athletic Human	120-227	0.12-0.227	1177.2-2226.87	The weight of a mature lion.
Peak Human	227-545.2	0.227-0.5452	2226.87-5348.412	Olympic weight-lifters, professional strongmen, and powerlifters.
Superhuman	?	?	?	Any level clearly above peak human that does not have an exact value. All profiles should preferably have calculations for more precise values based on feats; this rating serves as a placeholder in the absence of such calculations.
Class 1	545.2-1000	0.5452-1	5348.412-9810	The world record for deadlifting feats in real life.
Class 5	1000-5000	1-5	9810-4.905x10^4	Capable of lifting most cars, SUVs, vans, pickup trucks, and trucks within the light-duty to medium-duty weight range, etc.
Class 10	5000-10^4	5-10	4.905x10^4-9.81x10^4	The weight of an adult elephant.
Class 25	10^4-2.5x10^4	10-25	9.81x10^4-2.4525x10^5	The weight of Big Ben (the bell), a truck, or a large motorboat.
Class 50	2.5x10^4-5x10^4	25-50	2.4525x10^5-4.905x10^5	The weight of a semi-trailer truck.
Class 100	5x10^4-10^5	50-100	4.905x10^5-9.81x10^5	The weight of a tank.
Class K	10^5-10^6	100-1000	9.81x10^5-9.81x10^6	The weight of the largest animal: blue whale, the heaviest of air-crafts.
Class M	10^6-10^9	1000-10^6	9.81x10^6-9.81x10^9	The weight of the largest ship.
Class G	10^9-10^12	10^6-10^9	9.81x10^9-9.81x10^12	The weight of the human world population or the largest artificial structures.
Class T	10^12-10^15	10^9-10^12	9.81x10^12-9.81x10^15	The weight of the heaviest mountains.
Class P	10^15-10^18	10^12-10^15	9.81x10^15-9.81x10^18	The weight of small moons or small asteroids.
Class E	10^18-10^21	10^15-10^18	9.81x10^18-9.81x10^21	The weight of the atmosphere of the Earth.
Class Z	10^21-10^24	10^18-10^21	9.81x10^21-9.81x10^24	The weight of large moons or small planets.
Class Y	10^24-10^27	10^21-10^24	9.81x10^24-9.81x10^27	The weight of larger planets.
Pre-Stellar	10^27-2x10^29	10^24-2x10^26	9.81x10^27-1.962x10^30	The weight a solid object can reach before the gravitational collapse to a star, a category broadly defined by the largest planets and brown dwarfs.
Stellar	2x10^29-3.977x10^32	2x10^26-3.977x10^29	1.962x10^30-3.9x10^33	The weight of a smaller star up to the weight of stars at the theoretical accretion limit.
Multi-Stellar	3.977x10^32-1.6x10^42	3.977x10^29-1.6x10^39	3.9x10^33-1.569x10^43	The weight of stars at the theoretical accretion limit to the mass of the Milky Way.
Galactic	1.6x10^42-6x10^43	1.6x10^39-6x10^40	1.569x10^43-5.886x10^44	The weight of the Milky Way to the mass of the most massive galaxy.
Multi-Galactic	6x10^43-1.5x10^53	6x10^40-1.5x10^50	5.886x10^44-1.4715x10^54	The weight of the most massive galaxy up to the weight of the observable universe.
Universal	1.5x10^53+	1.5x10^50+	1.4715x10^54+	The weight of the observable universe up to any higher finite value.
Infinite	-	-	-	Infinite weight by 3-dimensional standards, provided that it's not hyperbole or referring to a continuously increasing weight (A limited weight that will grow forever in that aspect).
Immeasurable	-	-	-	Lifting objects wholly superior to 3-dimensional space and thus exceeding basic infinite mass. Those to whom this rating applies might range from characters who can somehow lift entire spacetime continuums to characters who inhabit qualitatively superior levels of existence and thus surpass all dimensioned objects. Characters who exist as living spacetime continuums or similar do not automatically qualify for this, as spacetime is not a material object and thus does not have mass being met by an opposing force (unless otherwise stated). Thus, simply existing as one is unquantifiable for rating purposes.
Inapplicable	-	-	-	Characters existing beyond quantitative and qualitative distinction alike.

Other statistics

• Attack Potency
• Speed
• Striking Strength
• Durability
• Range
• Intelligence
• Stamina

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