In reply to climbingnoob:
> Cheers buddy. So if a route has multiple hard v7-ish moves, say 10ish v7 moves, would that bump the grade to a v8/9 by virtue of the problem being longer, and hence more difficult??
Certainly would. It's a lot harder to do several hard moves than just one, hence the higher grade. Something with 10 V7-ish moves (as in each move would get V7 by itself) would be absolutely nails (I don't climb at that level so wouldn't know how hard).
Doing one or two really hard moves completely zaps your strength to do any more, so there's a big increase in difficulty when you have a problem with 10 hard moves.
Edit: just seen that you've climbed font 7c, so presumably what I've said is quite obvious!
Post edited at 11:35