Is 30 kg grip strength good?
30 kg grip strength lands in the 1st to 34th percentile for men and the 25th to 97th percentile for women, measured against the German norms for ages 25 to 85.
For a man, 30 kg grip strength is below average at every adult age, below the typical man in his late 80s.
For a woman, 30 kg grip strength is the average (median) at about age 57. It is above average for women older than that and below average for younger women.
These figures read off the German SOEP norms this page grades against (Steiber 2016): Smedley dynamometer, measured standing, best of four attempts, 25,285 measurements from 11,790 people. Tables from other countries use different devices and protocols, so the same value lands at a different age there. Source
Where 30 kg lands by age, shown as a percentile (higher = stronger than more people):
| Age | Men (percentile) | Women (percentile) |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1 | 25 |
| 35 | 1 | 25 |
| 45 | 1 | 31 |
| 55 | 1 | 50 |
| 65 | 2 | 67 |
| 75 | 16 | 90 |
| 85 | 34 | 97 |
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