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by justinator 3495 days ago
Actually, I don't consider it like adding weight, since climbing grade difficulty isn't calculated in a way that would be so simple.

There's no objective way climbs are organized in difficulty except by subjective feeling. Holds may be (say) smaller, and/or farther apart, but the difficulty can only be sussed out in a general sense - there's far too many things to take into consideration.

Compounding all this is that a climb could be more/less difficult because of a climber's body type (tall/short climbers excel at different climbs)

So you're left with a consensus, which is living and breathing, not a calculation.