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 If you are training against a six-event chart or a 500-point total that includes a medicine ball throw, that chart is out of date.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. It carries no adverse consequence 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 300, so a combat-standard soldier who scrapes every event still misses by 50. Averaged out, the combat standard asks for 70 points an event.

The floors work the other way. Each event has its own 60-point minimum, and dropping below it fails the whole test no matter how large the total is. A soldier scoring 100, 100, 100, 100 and 55 has 455 points and has failed.

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 every combat-standard soldier reads, whatever their sex. A dash means the published scale has no entry at that point value, which happens 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, heaviest load completed. The male pass mark drops once, from 150 pounds to 140 at age 32, then holds flat for thirty years.

Hand-release push-up

Hands leave the ground at the bottom of every repetition, so nothing can be bounced or half-completed. 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 out a soldier who trains distance running and nothing else.

Plank

The one event with identical requirements for men and women at every age. It replaced the leg tuck, which quietly tested grip strength and body weight alongside the trunk.

Two-mile run

Run 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

Take 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 the general standard is met with room to spare. Under the combat standard the question is the total, and that is a different conversation: the same five results have to add to 350. Put the numbers into the calculator above and switch the standard selector to see both answers side by side.

The practical lesson is where the 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 are cheapest, which is usually push-ups and almost never the two-mile run.

Alternate aerobic events

Soldiers with a permanent profile may be authorised an alternate aerobic event in place of the two-mile run. These are go/no-go against a time cap rather than scored, so passing records the event as met and earns no points beyond the pass mark.

That structure has a consequence worth knowing before test day. Because an alternate event cannot produce more than the pass mark, a soldier on alternates cannot reach the 350-point combat total arithmetically. How that is handled is a matter for your chain of command and the current regulation, not for a calculator.

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 been used for all promotion actions since 1 October 2025. Soldiers on a permanent profile under the combat standard need an average of 70 points across the events they are not prohibited from performing.

Where this calculator stops

It scores five events against the published scales and tells you whether the result passes. It does not know your profile, your unit’s testing schedule, or any waiver you hold, and it is not a substitute for the regulation. 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. Passing one assessment tells you nothing about the other.

Training for the test will not move your waist on its own, because waist circumference answers to energy balance rather than training volume. 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 falling below 60 on a single event fails the test regardless of the total. Under the general standard the 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. Soldiers under it are scored against the male column of the table at their own age.

When does the combat standard start counting?

There is no adverse action for failing to meet it 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, not targets. A hundred points at 17 to 21 is 340 pounds and 220 pounds.

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 rather than earning a score, so a soldier on alternate events cannot reach the 350-point combat total.