What This AFT Score Chart Shows

This is the whole published scoring scale for the Army Fitness Test, not a summary of it. Every other AFT score chart on the web prints a handful of threshold rows, usually 100, 90, 80, 70 and 60, and stops. The Army publishes far more than that, and the rows nobody prints are the ones that decide whether your next rep is worth anything.

The tool above holds all of it. Pick an event, an age group and a column, and you get every point row the Army publishes for that combination, from 100 down to 0, with the blanks marked as blanks. The static tables further down this page cover the full range in ten-point steps across all ten age groups, so you can scan them without touching a control.

The five scored events

How to Read the AFT Scoring Chart

Every table on this page has the same shape, because the Army's own tables do. Three things decide which number applies to you.

• Your age group. Ten brackets, five years apart, running from 17-21 up to 62 and over. It is your age on test day that counts, not your age when you started training. If you are close to a boundary, our chronological age calculator settles it.
• Your column. Each age group has two columns. The first is used by male soldiers and by every soldier in one of the 21 combat specialties, which is what makes the combat standard sex-neutral. The second is used by female soldiers outside those specialties.
• The direction. On the deadlift, the push-up and the plank, more is better. On the sprint-drag-carry and the two-mile run, less is better, so the scale climbs as the clock falls.

combat and male column general female column the 60-point pass gate

Where a table cell shows a single figure, both columns are identical. Where it shows two, the second one in blue is the general female column.

Deadlift Score Chart (MDL)

Three consecutive repetitions on a 60-pound hex bar, scored in pounds. The bar counts toward the total. This is the coarsest table in the whole AFT scoring chart: values step in tens and twenties, so most of the weight you add earns nothing until you cross a boundary and then jumps two or three points at once.

The deadlift barely moves with age. The 60-point gate is 150 pounds for the three youngest male brackets and 140 for the other seven, and the female column sits flat at 120 across all ten. The top end is where age shows: 350 pounds for 100 points from 22-26 through 42-46, then 330 at 52-56 and 250 at 57-61, an 80-pound drop in a single bracket.

Hand Release Push-Up Score Chart (HRP)

As many correct hand release push-ups as you can do in two minutes. Above the gate this is the finest-grained strength table on the test, close to one point per repetition, so every single rep counts.

Below 60 points the push-up scale stops being fine-grained. There are no rows at all between 59 and 51, or 49 and 41, and so on. Under the gate it drops straight down 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 0, which is the Army's way of saying that once you are below the minimum the exact count has stopped mattering.

Sprint-Drag-Carry Score Chart (SDC)

Five 50-meter shuttles, sprint then drag a 90-pound sled, lateral, carry two 40-pound kettlebells, sprint. Timed in minutes and seconds.

The sprint-drag-carry is the most generous event on the whole scale. All 101 point values exist in every column, with neighboring values 1 to 6 seconds apart, so every second you take off the clock is worth something. No other event gives you that.

Plank Score Chart (PLK)

A straight-line plank hold, timed. The plank is the one AFT event whose male and female columns are identical in every single age bracket, which is why it is the one event where moving onto the sex-neutral combat standard costs a female soldier nothing at all.

It is also the event where age matters least at the top. From 37-41 onward every bracket shares the same standard: 3:20 for 100 points and 1:10 for 60. A 55-year-old and a 25-year-old are 15 seconds apart on the plank maximum and 120 pounds apart on the deadlift maximum.

Two-Mile Run Score Chart (2MR)

A timed two-mile run on a measured, generally flat outdoor course. On most scorecards this is the cheapest place to find points, and it is also where the two columns are furthest apart.

The 60-point gate, by age group

The two-mile run also has the widest steps at the top of the scale, anywhere from 2 to 25 seconds between neighboring values. A few seconds can be worth several points or nothing at all, depending on exactly where you sit. If you are chasing a target time, our running pace calculator converts it into the per-mile and per-400 pace you have to hold.

Why Some Point Values Do Not Exist

This is the part of the AFT score chart that surprises people, and no other chart page mentions it. The Army's tables are printed with blanks. A blank means that point value is not attainable in that column, because the next whole rep, pound or second is worth more than one point.

Read the deadlift row. The Army publishes 47 point rows for it, and in the male 17-21 column only 26 of them carry a value. In the female column it is 17. So on that event a soldier cannot score most of the numbers between 0 and 100 at all, no matter what they lift. The sprint-drag-carry is the opposite: all 101 rows are live in every column.

The practical effect is simple. On the deadlift, adding five pounds is usually worth nothing and adding ten is worth three points. On the sprint-drag-carry, one second is almost always worth something. That is the difference between an event worth training for points and an event worth training only to clear the gate.

The 60-Point Gate Across the Ten Age Groups

Sixty points on every event is the pass gate, whichever standard applies to you. A total cannot rescue an event that falls under it. These are the figures worth exactly 60 points on the combat and male column, and how far apart the hardest and easiest brackets sit.

The spread tells you how much the Army thinks each quality declines with age. The deadlift moves ten pounds across 45 years of service. The two-mile run moves 3 minutes and 51 seconds.

Combat Column and General Column

The combat standard covers 21 designated specialties and uses one sex-neutral column, still normed by age. Everyone else is scored on the general standard, which is normed by sex as well as age. Hit Compare columns in the tool above and it puts both side by side for whichever event and bracket you are looking at, with the gap in the last column.

The gaps are not uniform. On the plank there is none. On the deadlift at the 60-point gate it is 30 pounds for the three youngest brackets and 20 for the rest. On the sprint-drag-carry it widens with age, from 47 seconds at 17-21 to 96 seconds at 57-61. On the two-mile run it runs the other way, starting near three minutes and closing to around 70 seconds in middle age.

Which specialties use the combat column, and what happens if you hold one and miss 350, is covered on the AFT calculator page.

AFT Score Chart and the Old ACFT Chart

The AFT replaced the Army Combat Fitness Test as the test of record on 1 June 2025, and the scales on this page were approved on 15 May 2025 and took effect on that date. An old ACFT score chart is not interchangeable with this one.

If a chart you are reading still has a standing power throw table in it, it is an ACFT chart wearing an AFT label, and the rest of its numbers are worth checking too.

Frequently Asked Questions About the AFT Score Chart