ACFT Calculator: Army Fitness Test Score Calculator

The ACFT is now the AFT

Army Directive 2025-06 replaced the Army Combat Fitness Test with the Army Fitness Test on 1 June 2025. Two things changed. The standing power throw was cut, leaving five events instead of six, and a second, harder standard was added for combat specialties, scored sex-neutrally.

Everything on this page comes from the AFT score tables approved 15 May 2025. If you are training against a six-event chart or a 500-point total that includes a medicine ball throw, that chart is out of date.

General standard and combat standard

Every soldier is scored on the same five events. Which column of the table you are read against, and what total you need, depends on your specialty.

The combat standard covers 11A, 11B, 11C, 11Z, 12A, 12B, 13A, 13F, 18A, 180A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E, 18F, 18Z, 19A, 19C, 19D, 19K and 19Z. Infantry, combat engineers, field artillery, Special Forces and armor. If you hold one of those, the standard carries no adverse consequence for you before 1 January 2026 for the active component, or 1 June 2026 for the Army Reserve and the National Guard.

The 350 is the part people underestimate. Five events at the 60-point floor gives you 300, so scraping every event leaves you 50 short. Averaged out, you need 70 points an event.

The floors work the other way. Each event carries its own 60-point minimum, and dropping below it fails your whole test however large your total. Score 100, 100, 100, 100 and 55 and you have 455 points and a failure.

AFT scoring tables by age

The “M | C” column is the Army’s own heading. It is the male requirement under the general standard, and the column you read under the combat standard whatever your sex. A dash means the published scale has no entry at that point value, because the scales were fitted as curves and then rounded to whole reps and whole seconds.

Three-repetition maximum deadlift

A hex bar, three repetitions, the heaviest load you complete. The male pass mark drops once, from 150 pounds to 140 at age 32, and then holds flat for thirty years.

Hand-release push-up

Your hands leave the ground at the bottom of every repetition, which rules out bouncing and half-repetitions. The gap between the floor and the ceiling is proportionally the widest on the test, which makes this the cheapest event to buy points in.

Sprint-drag-carry

Five 50-metre shuttles: sprint, sled drag, lateral, carry, sprint. Anaerobic, and the event most likely to catch you out if distance running is all you train.

Plank

The one event with identical requirements for men and women at every age, so your age band is the only thing that moves it. It replaced the leg tuck, which quietly tested grip strength and body weight alongside the trunk.

Two-mile run

You run it last, on legs the other four events have already used. This is where the standard eases most with age: nearly four minutes between 17-21 and 62 and over, against a single 10-pound step on the deadlift.

Worked example: a 29-year-old on the combat standard

Say you post 245 pounds on the deadlift, 42 push-ups, 1:52 on the sprint-drag-carry, a 2:20 plank and a 15:40 two-mile run, scored against the 27-31 “M | C” column.

Every event clears 60 comfortably, so you pass the general standard with room to spare. Under the combat standard your total is the question, and those same five results have to add to 350. Put your numbers into the calculator above and switch the standard selector to see both answers side by side.

The practical lesson is where your next hour of training goes. Under the general standard it goes to your weakest event, because the floors are what fail people. Under the combat standard it goes wherever points come cheapest, which is usually push-ups and rarely the two-mile run.

Alternate aerobic events

If you hold a permanent profile you may be authorised an alternate aerobic event in place of the two-mile run. These are judged go/no-go against a time cap, so passing records the event as met and leaves you sitting on the pass mark.

That structure has a consequence worth knowing before test day. An alternate event caps you at the pass mark, which puts the 350-point combat total beyond reach. Your chain of command and the current regulation decide how that gets handled, and a calculator has no say in it.

How often the test is taken

Active component soldiers take two record tests per calendar year, at least four months apart. Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers take one, and if a second is ordered it comes at least eight months after the first. A failed record test is retaken within 90 days for the active component and 180 days for the reserve component.

The AFT has counted for all promotion actions since 1 October 2025. If you hold a permanent profile under the combat standard, you need an average of 70 points across the events your profile still allows.

Where this calculator stops

It scores five events against the published scales and tells you whether the result passes. Your profile, your unit’s testing schedule and any waiver you hold all sit outside it, and the regulation remains the authority. Standards move, and the scoring scales here carry a date for exactly that reason.

The fitness test and the body composition assessment are separate processes with separate standards. Since July 2026 body composition is a single waist-to-height ratio with the line at 0.55, which the Army body composition calculator covers. The tables it replaced went at the same time: Army height and weight standards explains what changed on 7 July 2026, and the tape test that ended with them covers the body fat method soldiers were scored on for decades. Pass one in the morning and you can still fail the other in the afternoon.

Training for the test leaves your waist roughly where it was, because energy balance moves your waist and training volume does not. The calorie calculator sizes a deficit, and losing fat without losing performance is the harder problem when a record test is already on the calendar.

Common questions

Is the ACFT still the Army fitness test?

No. Army Directive 2025-06 replaced the ACFT with the Army Fitness Test on 1 June 2025. Most people still search for it as the ACFT, and the scoring tables this calculator uses are the AFT tables approved on 15 May 2025.

How many events are in the AFT?

Five. Three-repetition maximum deadlift, hand-release push-up, sprint-drag-carry, plank and two-mile run. The standing power throw was the sixth event under the ACFT and it was removed.

What is a passing AFT score?

Sixty points on every one of the five events. Each event has its own floor, so dropping below 60 on a single event fails you regardless of your total. Under the general standard your requirements are normed by age and sex.

What is the AFT combat standard?

A sex-neutral, age-normed standard requiring 60 points on every event and 350 points overall. It applies to 21 specialties: 11A, 11B, 11C, 11Z, 12A, 12B, 13A, 13F, 18A, 180A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E, 18F, 18Z, 19A, 19C, 19D, 19K and 19Z. Under it you are scored against the male column of the table at your own age.

When does the combat standard start counting?

Missing it carries no adverse action before 1 January 2026 for the active component, or 1 June 2026 for the Army Reserve and the National Guard.

What do I need to deadlift to pass?

A male soldier aged 17 to 21 needs 150 pounds and a female soldier 120 pounds. The male requirement drops to 140 pounds from age 32 and stays there; the female requirement is 120 pounds at every age. Those are pass marks. Your target wants to sit well above them, and a hundred points at 17 to 21 is 340 pounds for a man and 220 pounds for a woman.

How often do soldiers take the AFT?

Active component soldiers take two record tests per calendar year, at least four months apart. Reserve and Guard soldiers take one, and a second, if ordered, comes at least eight months later. A failed test is retaken within 90 days for the active component and 180 days for the reserve component.

Do alternate aerobic events score points?

No. The 2.5-mile walk, 12 km bike, 1 km swim and 5 km row are go/no-go against a time cap, for soldiers on a permanent profile. Passing one records the aerobic event as met without earning a score, which leaves the 350-point combat total out of reach if you are on alternates.