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How ranks work in Symmetry
Ranks gamify your training: you compete with yourself and with everyone else, and working out gets a lot more fun. You see how strong you are in every muscle group and every exercise for your bodyweight, and you uncover your blind spots. Training with ranks, motivation is infinite.
Iron I
What does your rank mean?
Every rank is a slice of the community. Being Gold isn’t about moving some specific weight: it’s about where your performance sits compared to people of your sex on that exercise, with a score adjusted for your bodyweight. Move the marker and see it:
Illustrative chart: it explains how percentiles work, but it does not reproduce the real cutoffs used by the app. The real distribution is measured exercise by exercise from community data, removing odd entries and requiring a minimum sample before ranks are published.
Same cohort, different bodies
A 96 kg athlete benching 100 kg and a 58 kg athlete benching 62 kg can be in the same cohort when sex and exercise match. The difference is in the score: every performance is adjusted for bodyweight before it lands on the distribution, so the comparison stays fair.
The 9 ranks
From Iron to Champion, every rank has three divisions: I, II, and III. You start at I and climb to III. Symmetric is the highest rank, reserved for the top 1%, with no divisions.
I
II
IIIIron
I
II
IIIBronze
I
II
IIISilver
I
II
IIIGold
I
II
IIIRuby
I
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IIIEmerald
I
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IIIDiamond
I
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IIIChampion
SymmetricTop 1%IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWithin each rank, you move from I to II and then III before reaching the next one.
Down the road we’d like to take Symmetric further: world rankings (Top 500, Top 100) with the best in each exercise. They don’t exist in the app yet.
From one exercise to your whole physique
Your progress is measured in four layers, each one built on top of the previous: exercise, muscle, muscle group, and global.
Exercise rank
The foundation. Every exercise with enough data in its cohort gets its own rank, built from your actual performance on that movement. When you finish a workout, you see which ones went up.
Bench press
Pull-up
Back squat
Romanian deadlift
Muscle rank
The ranks of the exercises that train a muscle combine into that muscle’s rank, giving more weight to the exercises with more sets. In the app, tap a muscle and you’ll see which exercises it comes from.
Abs
Diamond III
Exercise ranks
Hanging leg raise
Diamond III
Dead bug
Diamond III
Muscle group rank
Muscles are grouped into zones: arms, legs, chest, back, shoulders, and core. Each zone has its rank, so at a glance you know what’s ahead and what you’ve been neglecting.
Muscle rankings
Arms
Silver II
Legs
Emerald III
Global rank
One rank that sums up your whole physique. It doesn’t come from your favorite exercise, it comes from the full picture: a complete physique weighs more than one strong point. It unlocks with at least 10 ranked exercises.
Symmetry rank
Diamond II
You’re part of the top 9% strongest
Fair across different bodies
Underneath every rank there’s a strength score. It isn’t the weight you move: it’s what that weight means for your body. Moving 100 kg at 60 kg of bodyweight is not the same as moving it at 100.
How is it adjusted?
With allometric scaling, the same principle powerlifting uses to compare weight classes: your performance is weighted by your bodyweight so a light body and a heavy one compete as equals. And you never need to test your max: your normal sets, with their weight and reps, are enough.
Try it: the same load isn’t worth the same
Two people, two bodies. Move the controls and you’ll see why bodyweight and reps change what a performance is worth.
Conceptual demo: this index does not use Symmetry’s formula or reproduce real ranks.
No barbell? Still scored
Not every exercise is measured the same way. Each family scores in its own way:
External load
Bench press · Squat · Barbell row
What counts is the weight you move and the reps you do with it.
Your own bodyweight
Pull-ups · Dips · Muscle-ups
Your body is the load: added weight counts up, machine assistance counts down.
High-rep bodyweight
Push-ups · Sit-ups · Leg raises
Here volume rules: what scores is how many reps you can do.
Time-based
Plank · Isometric holds
What scores is how long you can hold it.
Built to reward consistency
The new system aims to reflect your sustained performance: recent sessions count more than a single spike. Pick a scenario and see the idea:
Conceptual example: the curve shows the smoothing idea, not the real formula.
Three things to know about the new system
You can have a rank from your first session if your profile is complete and the exercise has enough data.
After a promotion, you have protection against a bad session. Your score for each exercise also stays at or above 85% of your highest historical score.
Protected minimum
85
Highest score
100
Example with a highest score of 100. This protection applies to your score, not to a specific badge. And your most requested change: if you take a break, time off training won’t lower your rank.
Yes, there’s a lot more math
Per-cohort percentiles, outlier filters, minimum samples, bodyweight adjustment, per-muscle aggregation… and the new design adds averages that reward consistency and safeguards. Rank thresholds are recalibrated manually when needed, using real community data.
The exact recipe? We don’t publish it. It took a lot of work to get right, and we’d rather our competitors figure it out themselves. If the math itch is real, write to us and let’s talk.
Write to usCommon questions
Why don’t some exercises have a rank?
We only publish ranks when there’s enough data: we require a minimum sample per cohort and filter out odd entries before computing anything. We’d rather give you no rank than an invented one. If an exercise you train doesn’t have one yet, it’ll come as the community grows.
Why do two people lifting the same weight get different ranks?
Because ranks don’t measure kilos alone. The score adjusts for bodyweight, and the comparison happens per sex and per exercise. A lighter person moving the same weight is showing more relative strength, and their rank reflects it.
Why did my rank go down?
Your rank can drop if your new sessions lower your sustained performance or if Symmetry recalibrates rank thresholds. It doesn’t drop because you take time off training.
Can I improve my numbers and still drop?
Yes, this can happen when Symmetry recalibrates rank thresholds. Even if your performance has improved, a new threshold can place you in a lower rank. Your improvement is still recorded in your history.
I lift heavier now but do fewer reps. Does that count as progress?
Yes. The score understands the trade-off between weight and reps: moving more load for fewer reps can score the same or better. That’s progressive overload, and the system recognizes it.
I updated my bodyweight and my scores changed. Is that normal?
Yes. Your bodyweight is part of the calculation, so updating it recalculates your score with the new value. That’s what keeps the measure honest: your relative strength depends on your real body.
Why don’t I see my global rank yet?
It unlocks once you have at least 10 exercises with a rank. In the meantime you can already see your exercise, muscle, and muscle group ranks. Train with variety and the global one shows up on its own.
I reached Symmetric. Now what?
You’re in the top 1% of your cohort, and the game becomes staying there: the community never stops improving. Down the road we’d like to add world rankings (Top 500, Top 100) where Symmetrics compete with each other; they’re not in the app yet.
Is the system the same for men and women?
The rules are the same: same ranks, same divisions, same way of scoring. What changes is who you’re compared with: men’s and women’s cohorts are computed separately, exercise by exercise, and bodyweight goes into the score. That way your rank measures your position among comparable bodies.
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