AFT Calculator

Free AFT Calculator — Score Your Army Fitness Test Online

The Army Fitness Test, or AFT, became the U.S. Army's official physical fitness test of record on June 1, 2025, replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test. If you are getting ready for a record test, coaching soldiers through their next assessment, or just curious how your numbers stack up, this free AFT calculator scores all five events for you instantly, right here in your browser. No login, no download, no app to install.

Just enter your gender, your age, and your five raw numbers — deadlift weight, hand-release push-up reps, sprint-drag-carry time, plank hold time, and two-mile run time — and this tool instantly gives you a point score for each event out of 100, adds them together for a total out of 500, and tells you clearly whether you pass. The results update live as you type, and you can switch between the general standard used by most soldiers and the sex-neutral combat standard used by the 21 designated combat MOS/AOCs.

What Is the AFT?

The Army Fitness Test is the successor to the Army Combat Fitness Test, which had been the Army's test of record since 2022. After 18 months of analysis on nearly one million ACFT results, with review support from the RAND Corporation, Army leadership decided to drop one event and adjust how scoring works, while keeping the same functional focus on real soldier tasks like lifting, sprinting, dragging, and carrying.

The single biggest change is the removal of the Standing Power Throw, which trims the test from six events down to five. The Army also introduced a brand-new sex-neutral, age-normed scoring standard for the 21 combat military occupational specialties, on top of the sex- and age-normed general standard that still applies to everyone else. Army leadership has described the change as a normal, periodic evolution of fitness standards that happens roughly every three to five years, but the mix of one fewer event and a new combat-specific scale makes the AFT meaningfully different from its predecessor.

The 5 AFT Events, Explained Simply

The AFT keeps four of the six ACFT events completely unchanged and drops only the standing power throw, so if you already know the ACFT, four-fifths of the test will feel familiar.

• 3-Repetition Maximum Deadlift (MDL) — lift a hex bar loaded with the heaviest weight you can pull for 3 clean reps. Measures total-body strength.
• Hand-Release Push-Up (HRP) — as many strict hand-release push-ups as possible in 2 minutes, lifting both hands off the ground at the bottom of every rep. Measures upper-body muscular endurance.
• Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC) — five 50-meter shuttles combining a sprint, a sled drag, a side shuffle, and a loaded carry. Measures anaerobic capacity and full-body conditioning.
• Plank (PLK) — hold a forearm plank with a straight body line for as long as possible, up to the 100-point time cap. Measures core strength and postural endurance.
• Two-Mile Run (2MR) — run two miles as fast as possible on a flat, measured course. Measures aerobic endurance.

How AFT Scoring Actually Works

Each of the five events is scored on its own 0 to 100 point scale, and every soldier needs at least 60 points on every single event to pass. A strong score on four events cannot make up for one event that falls below the 60-point floor — the whole test is graded as a fail if even one event misses that mark. Add all five event scores together and you get a total that can range from 0 up to a maximum of 500 points.

On top of the per-event minimum, there is also a total-score floor to clear. Soldiers under the general standard need at least 300 points total, while soldiers in one of the 21 designated combat specialties need at least 350 points total on the sex-neutral scale. This calculator checks both requirements — the 60-point floor on every event and the correct total-score floor for your chosen standard — and only shows an overall pass when both conditions are met, exactly the way the real test is graded.

The Army publishes official standard tables broken down by age bracket, and by gender for the general standard, because the same raw number simply does not represent the same fitness level for an 18-year-old versus a 50-year-old. This calculator follows that same approach: it looks up the published minimum (60-point) and maximum (100-point) standard for your bracket, then scales your raw number between the two using straight-line interpolation, capping at 100 for anything above the max standard and 0 for anything below the min standard.

General Standard vs. Combat Standard

Most soldiers test under the general standard, which uses separate age- and gender-normed tables — the same structure the ACFT used — and requires a 300-point total with 60 points minimum on every event. Soldiers serving in one of the 21 combat military occupational specialties and areas of concentration instead test under the combat standard, a single sex-neutral, age-normed scale that requires a higher 350-point total, also with 60 points minimum on every event.

This calculator lets you toggle between the two. Because the Army has not published the full sex-neutral combat scale as a simple two-point lookup table the way it has for the general standard, this calculator estimates the combat scale by averaging the published male and female general standards for each age bracket and event. Treat the combat-standard numbers here as a training estimate for planning purposes, and always confirm your official combat-standard score against your unit's current AFT scoring materials.

How to Use This AFT Calculator

Using the calculator takes less than a minute. First pick whether you are testing under the general or combat standard, then select your gender and enter your age, since these change which standard table applies to every event. Then walk through the five event fields: your deadlift weight in pounds, your hand-release push-up rep count, and your times for the sprint-drag-carry, plank, and two-mile run in minutes and seconds.

As soon as you fill in a field, the results panel updates instantly — no submit button, no page reload. You will see your points for each event, your running total out of 500, and a clear pass or fail badge that checks both the 60-point-per-event rule and the correct total-score floor for your chosen standard.

Advanced Feature: Full Event-by-Event Score Chart

Instead of just handing you one final number, this calculator breaks your performance down event by event with a color-coded bar chart — green bars for events that clear the 60-point minimum, red bars for events that do not. That makes it obvious at a glance which event is dragging your total down, which is far more useful than a single pass/fail line when you are planning your next training block.

The calculator also automatically flags your weakest and strongest event out of the five, so you know exactly where to put your training time this week. Most soldiers have one event that lags behind the rest — often the sprint-drag-carry or the run — and fixing that single weak link usually raises the total score faster than squeezing a few extra points out of an event you already dominate.

Advanced Feature: Step-by-Step Scoring Breakdown

Below the chart, this calculator shows a full, plain-language walkthrough of exactly how your total score was built — which standard applied to each event, how your raw number was converted into points, how the five numbers were added together, and how that total was checked against the passing floor for your chosen standard. Nothing about the number is hidden or left unexplained, which makes this a genuinely useful study tool for soldiers learning how AFT scoring works, not just a black-box result.

You can also copy your full result as plain text to paste into a note or message, or download it as a CSV file to keep a running log of your test attempts over time. That makes it easy to see whether your training plan is actually moving the needle from one test cycle to the next.

Score Tiers: What a Good AFT Total Looks Like

Beyond the strict pass line, this calculator groups your total into five performance tiers so you get a quick read on where you stand. Under the general standard, 300-349 is a comfortably satisfactory, passing score, 350-399 is good, 400-449 is excellent, and 450 or higher reflects elite, well-rounded performance across all five events. Under the tougher combat standard, the same idea applies with a higher floor: 350-389 is satisfactory, 390-429 is good, 430-469 is excellent, and 470 or higher is elite.

These tiers are this calculator's own simplified guide for motivation and progress tracking, not an official Army designation. Always check current unit or program guidance for how a score is actually used for evaluations, promotions, or school requirements.

Common AFT Mistakes That Cost Points

A surprising number of soldiers lose points not from a lack of fitness, but from small technical mistakes that a grader has to enforce strictly.

• Hand-release push-ups where the hands are not fully lifted off the ground, or a sagging hip line, which do not count as valid reps.
• A plank hold that breaks form early — hips sagging, shoulders out of alignment — instead of pacing yourself to hold longer with good form.
• Rushing the sprint-drag-carry's sled lane and losing more time to poor technique than a slower, controlled pull would have cost.
• Skipping a real warm-up before the deadlift, which lowers peak output on the event scored first while muscles are still cold.
• Treating the two-mile run as an all-out sprint from the start instead of pacing it evenly, which often produces a slower final time than a planned, even pace would.

Tips to Raise Your AFT Score

Because the AFT tests strength, muscular endurance, speed, core stability, and aerobic capacity all in one session, the soldiers who score highest almost always train more than one of these qualities every week rather than focusing on a single event.

• Deadlift and squat with real progressive overload once or twice a week to build the raw strength the MDL rewards.
• Practice the exact hand-release push-up technique that will be graded, not a standard push-up, so your body learns the correct movement pattern.
• Add short, hard interval sprints and loaded carries to your conditioning days to build the specific engine the sprint-drag-carry demands.
• Train your plank in longer sets close to your current max hold time, adding 10-15 seconds every week or two rather than jumping straight to the time cap.
• Keep at least one dedicated easy-pace run and one tempo or interval run each week, since the two-mile run rewards a real aerobic base, not just occasional hard efforts.
• Log every attempt with this calculator so you can see clearly which event is improving and which one still needs the most attention before your next record test.

AFT vs. ACFT: What Changed

The Standing Power Throw is gone, cutting the test from six events to five and lowering the maximum possible score from 600 to 500. The Army removed the event over long-running concerns about its relevance and scoring consistency compared to the other five events.

The bigger change is on the scoring side. Soldiers under the general standard still test on sex- and age-normed tables much like the ACFT, with a 300-point passing floor instead of the ACFT's 360. But soldiers in the 21 designated combat specialties now test under a brand-new sex-neutral, age-normed scale with a 350-point floor, an entirely new scoring track that did not exist under the ACFT.

Who Uses This AFT Calculator

This tool is built for active-duty soldiers, National Guard and Reserve soldiers preparing for a record AFT, ROTC cadets and future officers learning the new standards, drill sergeants and physical training leaders planning unit workouts, and soldiers in combat MOS roles who need to check their score against the tougher 350-point combat floor.

This calculator uses linear interpolation between the published minimum and maximum AFT general-standard tables for each age and gender bracket, and an averaged estimate of the sex-neutral combat scale, to give a fast planning and study estimate. It is designed as a training tool, not a replacement for your unit's official AFT scorecard or the current official Army scoring tables — always confirm your official record score through your unit's graded test.