Top 16 Benchmarks from V4 to V11

In this video, Moon Climbing team athletes Kai Whaley and Sierra Blair-Coyle climb sixteen benchmark boulder problems spanning grades V4 through V11. The selection highlights benchmark difficulty in a clear, standardized way—problems that define what each grade feels like when movement is precise and execution matters.

The MoonBoard itself was born from this same philosophy. Developed from the training walls at Sheffield’s legendary School Room and commercialized in 2005 by Ben Moon, the MoonBoard was designed as a standardized, repeatable training tool that could be built anywhere in the world and climbed against identical problems. This consistency allowed climbers to compare performance across locations long before interactive boards and apps were widely available.

For MoonBoard users, benchmarks play a central role in how progress is measured. Within the MoonBoard app and community, benchmark problems are curated and ranked to serve as reference standards for each grade. They help climbers track performance, understand difficulty, and connect globally through shared challenges.

The video is structured sequentially from V4 to V11, with two problems shown for each grade. This allows a direct view of how difficulty scales across the spectrum—early climbs establish a baseline of clear movement and measurable challenge, while higher-grade benchmarks become increasingly exact and uncompromising. The progression mirrors the experience of MoonBoard users, where small differences in movement and precision separate one grade from the next.

Both Kai and Sierra approach each benchmark problem with the controlled movement and focus that MoonBoard climbing emphasizes. Their climbing reinforces the role of benchmarks as consistent standards: problems that hold their meaning across sessions, gyms, and training cycles. The video does not over-explain; the climbing speaks for itself, showing what benchmark difficulty looks like when movement is honest and standardized.

Top 16 Benchmarks from V4 to V11 offers MoonBoard users a concise visual reference for how benchmark difficulty evolves across grades, grounded in a history and system built around consistency, community, and a shared language of movement.