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Pick a leveling curve or write your own formula, then read the level-versus-XP graph and a full table of XP per level and total XP. See how grindy your progression feels before you commit it to a chapter. Everything runs in your browser.
XP scales with the square of the level. Early levels fly by and later ones stretch out. This is the classic progression-fantasy grind.
xp = level^2 * 100
| Level | XP |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100 |
| 2 | 400 |
| 3 | 900 |
| 4 | 1.6k |
| 5 | 2.5k |
| 6 | 3.6k |
| 7 | 4.9k |
| 8 | 6.4k |
| 9 | 8.1k |
| 10 | 10k |
| 11 | 12k |
| 12 | 14k |
| 13 | 17k |
| 14 | 20k |
| 15 | 23k |
| 16 | 26k |
| 17 | 29k |
| 18 | 32k |
| 19 | 36k |
| 20 | 40k |
| 21 | 44k |
| 22 | 48k |
| 23 | 53k |
| 24 | 58k |
| 25 | 63k |
| 26 | 68k |
| 27 | 73k |
| 28 | 78k |
| 29 | 84k |
| 30 | 90k |
| 31 | 96k |
| 32 | 102k |
| 33 | 109k |
| 34 | 116k |
| 35 | 123k |
| 36 | 130k |
| 37 | 137k |
| 38 | 144k |
| 39 | 152k |
| 40 | 160k |
| 41 | 168k |
| 42 | 176k |
| 43 | 185k |
| 44 | 194k |
| 45 | 203k |
| 46 | 212k |
| 47 | 221k |
| 48 | 230k |
| 49 | 240k |
| 50 | 250k |
| Level | XP for level | Cumulative XP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 |
| 2 | 400 | 500 |
| 3 | 900 | 1,400 |
| 4 | 1,600 | 3,000 |
| 5 | 2,500 | 5,500 |
| 6 | 3,600 | 9,100 |
| 7 | 4,900 | 14,000 |
| 8 | 6,400 | 20,400 |
| 9 | 8,100 | 28,500 |
| 10 | 10,000 | 38,500 |
| 11 | 12,100 | 50,600 |
| 12 | 14,400 | 65,000 |
| 13 | 16,900 | 81,900 |
| 14 | 19,600 | 101,500 |
| 15 | 22,500 | 124,000 |
| 16 | 25,600 | 149,600 |
| 17 | 28,900 | 178,500 |
| 18 | 32,400 | 210,900 |
| 19 | 36,100 | 247,000 |
| 20 | 40,000 | 287,000 |
Downloads a crisp 2× image of the curve you can post to Reddit, Discord, or X. The image bakes in the writeide.com mark.
A leveling curve is a promise to the reader about pace. A linear curve keeps every level the same weight, so the hundredth level reads like the first. An exponential curve front-loads the wins and back-loads the wall, which is why so much progression fantasy uses it. The point of this page is to see that shape as a line and a table before you commit a number to a chapter, so a level-30 wall is a choice and not an accident.
New to curve design? Read Designing linear versus exponential growth, our post on how the two shapes feel to a reader over a whole book.
The four preset curves are the same equations WriteIDE uses to track a character's level and XP at every scene of a book, ported out so the tool needs no account and no network. The custom field runs the app's real formula engine, so a curve you prove here reads the same way inside the app. Copy the table straight into a spreadsheet, or download the chart to share. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
This tool handles one at a time. WriteIDE is the desktop studio that tracks LitRPG stats, items, skills, and quests across a whole novel, and keeps them correct at every scene.