HYROX wall balls

Grouped by finish time rather than by labels like "competitive" or "intermediate". Find the row for the finish you are chasing and read across.

Doubles medians are faster because partners split the 100 reps between them. A doubles wall-ball time is a team result and cannot be read against a solo one.

Stations can be ranked several ways and they usually disagree — the sled push looks trivial by one measure and alarming by another. Wall balls is the exception. It leads all three.

The tail is the part worth sitting with. The median is 7:17, the 99th percentile is 21:36 — 3× the median — and the slowest set we hold is 88:39, roughly 12× the median. No other station has a failure mode that expensive, because no other station asks you to keep producing power after everything else is already done.

Fast athletes are fast at everything, so raw station-to-station comparison tells you nothing. Removing the finish-time trend first leaves the question you actually care about: does being good at one of these predict being good at another? For some pairs it strongly does. For wall balls it barely does at all.

The strongest link wall balls has to anything is sled push at +0.248. To see how weak that is, the SkiErg and the rowing machine predict each other at +0.603 — about 2.4× stronger. If you know someone's SkiErg time you can make a decent guess at their row. Knowing all seven of their other stations still leaves you guessing here.

Which has one clear practical consequence. You cannot infer this number, and no amount of general fitness lets you skip finding it out. The only way to know what 100 reps costs you at the end of a race is to do 100 reps at the end of something — and most athletes discover their real number on race day, which is the worst possible place to learn it.

100 reps in every division. The rep count does not change — only the ball does. That makes this the one station where the work is a fixed quantity and the load is the only variable.

Women Pro and Men Open throw the same ball. Full loads for all eight stations are in the weights, reps and distances guide.

Accepted practice rather than something we have measured. We separate the two on every page so you can weigh them differently.

Everything you spent earlier is charged here. That is not a metaphor — it is why the fast-to-slow gap on this station is 4:59, wider than anywhere else. Athletes do not usually lose a race on wall balls because they are bad at wall balls. They lose it because they arrive with nothing left and then have a hundred reps to get through.

The strategy that holds up is breaking the set before you are forced to, in small pieces, at one rhythm. The exact split matters less than choosing it in advance: a plan you picked survives fatigue, a plan your legs pick does not. Athletes who go unbroken until failure almost always spend longer recovering than the planned breaks would have cost — and a missed rep at eighty is far dearer than a ten-second pause at thirty.

And because nothing else in your race predicts this station, the number you should plan around is one you have measured yourself, fatigued, in training. Everything else is a guess.

Want to see what this station is allowed to cost inside a goal finish? The pace calculator splits a target time into per-station and per-run budgets.

Mistakes and takeaways

The short version, if you skim nothing else on this page.

Common questions

What is a good HYROX wall ball time?

Solo median is 7:17 for 100 reps, with the middle half of the field between 5:50 and 9:27 across 39,247 results. Athletes finishing in sub-60 minutes post a median of 3:53; those finishing 90+ post 8:52. That 4:59 gap is the widest of any station — more time separates fast and slow finishers here than anywhere else on the floor.

How many wall balls are in HYROX and how heavy is the ball?

100 reps, in every division — the rep count never changes. Only the ball does: 4 kg for Women Open, 6 kg for Men Open, 6 kg for Women Pro, 9 kg for Men Pro. Women Pro and Men Open throw the same 6 kg ball. That makes this the one station where the work itself is identical across divisions and only the load moves.

Why are wall balls the hardest HYROX station?

Because it is the biggest and the least forgiving. It is 7.8% of a solo race, the largest single station; the gap between the fastest and slowest finish brackets is 4:59, wider than any other; and 5.46% of athletes take more than double the median here, the highest rate on the course. The slowest recorded set is 88:39 — about 12× the median. It is also last, so every earlier decision arrives with you.

Can I predict my wall ball time from my other stations?

Barely, and that is the most useful thing on this page. Removing the finish-time trend across 39,247 solo results, the strongest relationship wall balls has with any other station is sled push at +0.248. For comparison, the SkiErg and the rowing machine predict each other at +0.603 — about 2.4× stronger. Nothing you do earlier in the race tells you how this one will go, so the only way to know your number is to do 100 reps on tired legs and look at the clock.

Should I break up the 100 reps?

Almost certainly, and before you have to. The pattern that survives contact is small planned sets with short rests, held at the same rhythm from the first rep to the hundredth. Athletes who go unbroken until failure typically spend longer recovering than the breaks would have cost, and a failed rep at eighty is far more expensive than a ten-second pause at thirty. Exactly where you break is individual — which is why practising the full 100 fatigued matters more than any prescribed scheme.