What This AFT Calculator Does Differently

Every AFT calculator on the web reads the same five numbers off the same official scale and adds them up. This one does that, and then answers the two questions the scale itself raises and almost nobody surfaces.

First, it scores your raw results against both Army standards at the same time. The combat standard needs 350 points and uses one sex-neutral column. The general standard needs 300 and is normed by sex as well as age. A single scorecard can be a comfortable GO on one and a clear NO-GO on the other, and if you hold one of the 21 combat specialties that difference is the whole point of the test.

Second, it names the exact figure that buys your next point. The published scale is discrete, not a curve, and in places it is startlingly sparse. In the male 17-21 deadlift column only 26 of the 101 point values from 100 down to 0 exist at all. So "lift a bit more" is useless advice and "lift 160 pounds instead of 155, which is worth three more points" is not.

How to Use the AFT Score Calculator

1. Pick your standard. Combat MOS if you hold one of the 21 specialties listed further down this page, General for everything else. The tool still shows you both verdicts either way.
2. Set your sex and your age on test day. Age brackets run in five-year steps and a birthday can move your score without you training a single session. If you are not sure which side of a bracket you fall on, our chronological age calculator settles it to the day.
3. Enter the deadlift in pounds and the hand release push-ups as a straight rep count.
4. Enter the sprint-drag-carry, the plank and the two-mile run as minutes and seconds.
5. If a permanent profile keeps you off an event, check it in the profile panel. The scorecard then switches to the profile rule instead of the point total.

Nothing is sent anywhere. The whole army fitness test calculator runs in your browser, which is also why it works on a phone with no signal in the back of a truck.

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The AFT Passing Score: 350 for Combat MOSs, 300 for Everyone Else

There are two AFT passing scores, and which one applies to you depends on your military occupational specialty rather than your unit or your assignment.

Spread across five events, 300 points is an average of exactly 60 per event, which is the bare gate. 350 is an average of 70. The combat standard is not the general standard plus a margin of comfort, it is 50 points, a tenth of the whole 500-point scale, above the floor.

The 60-Point Gate Nobody Can Average Around

Both standards also require a minimum of 60 points on every single event. This is the rule that catches people out, because a high total feels like insurance and it is not.

Max four events as a 30-year-old man and you have 400 points, a hundred clear of the general standard and fifty clear of the combat standard. Walk the two-mile run in 25 minutes and you score zero on it, and the whole test is a NO-GO at 400 points. The AFT calculator above flags that case specifically, because the total on its own will tell you the opposite.

What a 300-Point Scorecard Is Worth on the Combat Column

Here is the number worth knowing if you are a woman in a combat specialty, or you lead one. Take a soldier who scores exactly 60 points on all five events under the general female standard, a clean 300 and a GO. Score those identical raw results against the sex-neutral combat column instead:

Read the plank column. It is 60 in every row, because the plank is the one event whose male and female columns are already identical in all ten age brackets. The sprint-drag-carry and the two-mile run are where the sex-neutral column bites hardest: at 17-21 the combat two-mile run gate is 19:57 against 22:55, which is two minutes and 58 seconds of difference, and a general-standard 22:55 scores zero on the combat column rather than a reduced number of points.

This is not a judgment about the policy. It is the arithmetic that the January 2026 reclassification window turns on, and it is the single reason to score both standards before you decide whether to ask for a voluntary branch transfer.

AFT Scoring Chart: The 60-Point Gates by Age Group

This is the AFT scoring chart for the passing minimum, straight from the official scales. Where two figures appear, the first is the combat and male column and the second is the general female column. Where one figure appears, both columns are identical.

Two things stand out. The plank is age-graded but sex-neutral throughout, and from 37-41 onward every bracket shares the same 1:10 minimum. The deadlift barely moves with age at all: 150 pounds for the three youngest male brackets and 140 for the other seven, with the female column flat at 120 across all ten.

AFT Score Chart: The 100-Point Maximums by Age Group

The other end of the AFT score chart. These are the raw results worth a full 100 points, which is what you need five of to post a perfect 500.

The deadlift maximum peaks at 350 pounds from 22-26 through 42-46, then falls away sharply: 330 at 52-56 and 250 at 57-61, an 80-pound drop in one bracket. The plank maximum goes the other way and plateaus at 3:20 from 37-41 onward, so a 55-year-old and a 25-year-old are 15 seconds apart on that event and 120 pounds apart on the deadlift.

The Five AFT Events, and Where the Points Actually Move

The Army Fitness Test has five events, taken in order on the same day. The Army's own descriptions of what each one measures are quoted below. What follows each description is the thing the scale shows and the official text does not: how far apart the published values sit, which is what decides whether an event is worth training for points or just for the gate.

3 Repetition Maximum Deadlift (MDL)

Three consecutive deadlifts at the heaviest weight you can hold, using a 60-pound hex bar and plates. The bar counts toward the total, so the first plates do not go on until you are already at 60. The Army scores it for lower body, grip and core muscular strength.

The deadlift is the coarsest event on the scale by a wide margin. Values step in 10 and 20 pound jumps, so the male 17-21 column publishes only 26 distinct figures and the entire range from 150 to 340 pounds is covered in 26 steps. Practically, that means most added weight earns you nothing until you cross the next tenfold boundary, and then you jump two or three points at once. It is the one event where the AFT score calculator telling you "160 for three more points" changes what you put on the bar.

Hand Release Push-Up, Arm Extension (HRP)

As many correctly performed hand release push-ups as you can do in two minutes. The Army scores it for upper body muscular endurance.

Above 60 points the push-up scale is fine-grained, mostly one rep per point, so every single repetition counts. Below 60 it is not: there are no rows between 59 and 51, or 49 and 41, and so on. Under the gate the scale 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 number has stopped mattering.

Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC)

Five 50-meter shuttles: sprint, drag a 90-pound sled, lateral, carry two 40-pound kettlebells, sprint. The Army scores it for muscular endurance, muscular strength, anaerobic power and anaerobic endurance.

The sprint-drag-carry is the most generous event on the scale: all 101 point values exist in the male 17-21 column, and neighboring values sit 1 to 6 seconds apart. Every second you take off the clock is worth something. It is also the event where the sex-neutral combat column widens most with age, from 47 seconds of difference at 17-21 to 96 seconds at 57-61.

Plank (PLK)

Hold a straight-line plank position for as long as you can. The Army scores it for core strength and endurance, with balance as a secondary component.

The plank is the one event where the official table makes no distinction between men and women in any age bracket, which is why a woman moving onto the combat standard loses nothing here. The 100-point hold is 3:40 at 17-21 and 3:20 for everyone 37 and over. The 60-point gate is 1:30 at 17-21 and 1:10 from 37-41 onward. Note that 600 of its 2,020 cells are blank, so many point values simply do not exist and a few seconds of extra hold can be worth nothing at all.

Two-Mile Run (2MR)

A timed two-mile run on a measured course. The Army scores it for aerobic endurance.

The two-mile run has the widest steps at the top of the scale, 2 to 25 seconds between neighboring values, which means a few seconds can be worth several points or nothing depending on exactly where you sit. It is also, on most scorecards, the cheapest place to find the points that get you from 300 to 350. If that is your gap, our running pace calculator converts a target two-mile time into the per-mile and per-400 pace you have to hold, and the running pace guide covers how to build it.

Which 21 MOSs Use the Combat AFT Standard

The Army designates 21 specialties as combat for AFT standards purposes. The combat standard follows the MOS, not the assignment, so it applies whether or not you are serving in a combat unit.

Commanders may set the combat standard as a goal for a whole unit in their training guidance, but they cannot enforce it as pass or fail criteria for soldiers outside these specialties.

Alternate Aerobic Events and the Permanent Profile Rule

If a profile keeps you off the two-mile run, an alternate aerobic event takes its place. There are four, and all four are go or no-go. They earn no points, so they cannot be used to lift a total.

The swim and the row carry identical times in every column of the official table, and the bike is the tightest of the four. Five age brackets are shown above out of ten. The AFT calculator on this page holds all ten and checks your time against the right one.

For a permanent profile the pass condition changes shape entirely. Instead of a point total, the Army asks for an average of 70 points across the events you are able to take, plus a pass on an alternate aerobic event where the two-mile run is one you cannot. Four events at exactly 60 points each average 60, so they clear every individual gate and still fail the profile route. Check the affected events in the profile panel and the tool switches to that rule rather than the total.

AFT vs ACFT: What Changed on 1 June 2025

The Army Fitness Test replaced the Army Combat Fitness Test as the test of record on 1 June 2025. The scales used by this AFT calculator were approved on 15 May 2025 and took effect on that date.

The Army removed the standing power throw citing its technical nature and injury risk, supported by RAND analysis, and drew on performance data from close to a million ACFT records. That is why an ACFT calculator and an AFT calculator are not interchangeable: the event list, the maximum and the passing totals all moved.

What Happens If You Fail the AFT

Timelines matter as much as the score here, and they differ by component.

• Retest windows. Active duty, Active Guard Reserve and Reserve soldiers on orders of more than 60 days retest within 90 days of a first record failure. National Guard and other Reserve soldiers have 180 days.
• Transition period. Soldiers who miss the AFT general standard during the transition period are not flagged, under HQDA G-1 and G-3 exceptions to policy that supersede AR 350-1 and AR 600-8-2.
• Combat standard dates. No administrative action was taken on the combat standard before 1 January 2026 for the Regular Army, Active Guard Reserve and Reserve component soldiers on active duty orders over 60 days. Other Army Reserve component soldiers have until 1 June 2026.
• Reclassification. A soldier in a combat MOS who clears 300 but not 350 is subject to in-service reclassification. During the voluntary window of September to December 2025, soldiers from PVT to SSG with under 18 years of total active federal service could request voluntary reclassification, and BOLC-qualified officers from 2LT to CPT could request a voluntary branch transfer.
• Promotion points. 120 points remains the maximum the test can contribute to semi-centralized promotions, on a revised points table. Centralized promotions are unaffected.

Other Calculators Worth Having Open

Scoring the test is one job. Getting the number up is another, and these are the tools on this site that bear on it directly.

• Running pace calculator, for turning a target two-mile time into the pace you have to hold.
• Heart rate zone calculator, for keeping easy aerobic work actually easy between hard sessions.
• BMI calculator, as a rough first look before the Army's own body composition screening, which is not conducted on the same day as the AFT.
• Protein intake calculator, for the deadlift and push-up end of the scorecard.
• Chronological age calculator, for settling which five-year bracket you are in on test day.
• More in health and fitness.

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Frequently Asked AFT Calculator Questions