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Yeah i feel you fam. They are both difficult in their own right, but for the average person, wide grip is much harder because it focuses more on the back and lats. Close grip also focuses in on forearms as well.both wide grip and close grip pull ups are important for back workouts
wide grip will activate upper back muscles, lats and biceps. close grip focuses on lats and biceps mostly.
i'm sure you knew that tho, when you dismissed 'shoulder width' (close grip) pull ups. right?
edit- and if you're in halfway decent shape, 10 pull ups shouldn't be hard to do. 10-15 is decent, and 20+ is really good. dudes better not be scoffing at ppl saying they can do 10 pull ups like that's some astronomical mutant feat.
My point was people gotta differentiate between wide grip and close grip because doing 10 wide grip is a lot more impressive than close grip.