Why do capped and finished workouts score differently?
A time-capped WOD asks two different questions: how much work a capped athlete completed, and how fast a finisher completed all of it.
A 12:00 finish and a score of 166 reps at a 12-minute cap describe different outcomes.
The first athlete completed the workout. The second athlete did not, so the clock alone cannot tell us how far they got. Treat both as 12:00 and every capped athlete ties, whether they stopped at the first difficult movement or missed the finish by one rep.
PRzilla handles these workouts with one benchmark ladder split into two scoring units: completed work for capped athletes and finish time for athletes who complete the workout.
Open 25.2 makes the split concrete
Open 25.2 has 216 total reps and a 12-minute cap. Its PRzilla benchmark ladder is:
| Level | Result needed |
|---|---|
| L2 | 70 reps at the cap |
| L3 | 110 reps at the cap |
| L4 | 144 reps at the cap |
| L5 | 166 reps at the cap |
| L6 | Finish in 12:00 or faster |
| L7 | Finish in 10:15 or faster |
| L8 | Finish in 8:45 or faster |
| L9 | Finish in 7:30 or faster |
| L10 | Finish in 6:30 or faster |
The first four thresholds use reps. The middle value marks the cap and the start of the finisher range. The remaining four thresholds use seconds.
That guarantees an important ordering rule. Any finisher ranks above any capped athlete on that workout. A person who completes all 216 reps has cleared a boundary that a person with 215 reps has not, even if both clocks show the cap.
Within the capped group, more completed work earns the better level. Within the finisher group, a faster time earns the better level.
A cap time needs a progress score
When you log one of these workouts in PRzilla, the time-cap (TC) control decides which side of the ladder applies:
- Leave
TCoff when you finish and enter your completion time. - Turn
TCon when the cap stops you and enter the amount of work you completed.
Most split-score workouts use reps for capped progress, but the scoring code also supports rounds, distance, and load.
The workout owns that progress unit. PRzilla does not try to infer it from arbitrary workout prose when you log the score.
Why a plain For Time workout may not grade a capped result
Not every workout with a cap has a reviewed progress ladder. If a WOD only has finish-time standards, PRzilla cannot fairly turn partial work into a benchmark level. The cap time says when the attempt ended; it does not say whether the athlete completed 20% or 99% of the work.
In that case, the capped result can remain part of the workout history without receiving a performance level. That is more honest than treating the cap as a slow finish or inventing progress thresholds from incomplete information.
The same distinction carries into Fitness Level
Dual scoring also feeds your PRzilla Fitness Level. The service uses completed work for a capped effort and time for a finished effort before assigning an eligible Rx result its L1-L10 level.
Capped athletes separate by actual progress instead of collapsing into a giant tie at the cap. Finishers remain above partial completions.
For an accurate level, set TC correctly first. Then enter your finish time or the completed work in the unit the workout asks for. That gives PRzilla the information it needs to use the correct side of the ladder.