AFT Calculator: How to Score Your Army Fitness Test (2026)
A working guide to the Army Fitness Test calculator, the five AFT events, current scoring standards by MOS, and the 2026 AFT score chart — built from the Army's own published tables.
I still remember my first record AFT. I'd trained for the old ACFT for years, felt good about my deadlift, and then found out the hand-release push-up standard had quietly gotten stricter while I wasn't paying attention. Showed up cocky, walked out humbled. That's basically why this guide exists — so you don't make the same mistake I did.
This is everything I wish someone had handed me before my first AFT: how to actually use an AFT calculator, what each of the five events is really testing, how the scoring and MOS standards work, and a full AFT score chart pulled straight from the Army's own published scoring scales so you're not guessing.
How to Use This AFT Calculator
Using an Army Fitness Test calculator isn't complicated, but it only gives you a real answer if you put real numbers in. Here's the order I tell soldiers to follow:
- Select your age group and gender. The calculator scores you against soldiers in your own age band, and most events still split by sex — the exception is the Combat MOS standard, where the deadlift, push-up, sprint-drag-carry, and plank all run on one sex-neutral scale.
- Choose your MOS category. This decides which standard applies: the 300-point General standard, or the 350-point Combat standard if you're in one of the 21 designated combat MOSs.
- Enter your raw scores for each event. Deadlift weight, push-up reps, sprint-drag-carry time, plank time, and two-mile run time. Don't round in your favor — graders won't, and neither should your scoring tool.
- View your total and promotion point contribution. A good calculator shows points per event, your 500-point total, whether you clear the minimum, and roughly how it feeds the Military Training category of your promotion point worksheet.
The 5 AFT Events Explained
MDL — Three-Rep Max Deadlift
The deadlift is the first thing you do on test day, and it sets the tone for everything after it. It measures lower-body, grip, and core strength — basically whether you can pick something heavy up off the ground without wrecking your back. You lift off a 60-pound hex bar for three continuous reps under control: no bouncing, no dropping, heels down, hips don't shoot up ahead of your shoulders. The 60-point minimum sits around 150 lbs for most male/combat age brackets and 120 lbs for the female standard. I've seen more soldiers miss this from rushing the setup than from being too weak — slow down, lock in your grip and back position, and you'll move more weight than you think.
HRP — Hand-Release Push-Up
Two minutes, as many hand-release push-ups as you can, and the form standard is stricter than the old push-up test: full elbow extension at the top, chest and thighs touching down together, then both hands come off the ground and extend out to a “T” before you reset. That hand release kills momentum and forces you to control the descent on every single rep. Common kills: sagging hips, not fully locking out, rushing the release so badly it doesn't count. The 60-point minimum runs around 10–15 reps depending on your bracket; max requires the high-50s for the youngest age groups.
SDC — Sprint-Drag-Carry
Five 50-meter shuttles back to back, no rest: sprint, 90-lb sled drag, lateral shuffle, two 40-lb kettlebell carry, sprint — 250 meters of pure unpleasantness. It tests anaerobic power and your ability to keep moving under load once you're already gassed. Soldiers who sprint the first 50m like a 40-yard dash usually blow up on the drag and crawl through the carry. Go out controlled and save something for the final sprint; that's where most lost seconds happen, because by then your forearms are cooked. The 60-point minimum lands around 3:15–3:30 for most younger age groups.
PLK — Plank Hold
The plank replaced the leg tuck — a fairer test of core endurance under a sustained, static load. Forearm plank, dead straight line from head to heels, hold until you can't or you break form. One verbal warning before the grader shuts you down. Scoring runs from 1:00 at the 60-point floor up to roughly 3:20–3:40+ for max points depending on age (it's one of the only events where the standard is identical for men and women). Biggest tip: train the hold itself, not just core strength in general. A strong core that's never held a 2+ minute plank still gives out early from positional fatigue.
2MR — Two-Mile Run
The aerobic gut-check at the end of the test. Pacing matters more than raw fitness — I've watched strong runners blow their score going out too hot on lap one. Negative-split it if you can: slightly slower first mile, push the second. The 60-point minimum lands around 19:57–23:36 depending on age group; max requires roughly 13:22–15:28. For profiled soldiers, alternate aerobic events sub in but are pass/fail, not point-scored — a fast bike split doesn't pad your total the way a fast 2MR time does.
AFT Scoring Standards & MOS Categories
There are two standards that matter, and which one applies to you depends entirely on your MOS.
Applies to the large majority of MOSs not on the combat-specialty list. Age- and sex-normed scoring across all five events.
Applies to 21 designated combat MOSs (Infantry, Combat Engineer, Field Artillery, Special Forces, Armor/Cavalry). Sex-neutral scoring on MDL, HRP, SDC, and PLK.
The 60-point minimum applies to everyone, no exceptions. Score 59 on any single event and you fail the entire AFT, regardless of what your total adds up to. I've watched soldiers max four events and still fail because they came up one point short on the fifth.
Combat-specialty soldiers with permanent profiles aren't let off the hook either; they're held to a 70-point average across whatever events they're cleared to take.
Promotion points
Your AFT score factors into the Military Training category of your promotion point worksheet under AR 600-8-19, where it's one of several capped categories feeding your total. Exactly how many points a given AFT score is worth — and where the monthly cutoff sits for your MOS — comes from Human Resources Command and your unit S1. That conversion is still normalizing as AFT scores replace ACFT scores, so verify against IPPS-A and your S1 rather than trusting any third-party calculator as gospel.
Failing an event or the test
Active-duty, Active Guard Reserve, and Reserve soldiers on orders longer than 60 days get 90 days to retest after a failure. National Guard and Reserve soldiers get 180 days. No administrative flagging happens for a General Standard failure during the transition window, but combat MOS soldiers who clear the General Standard but miss the 350 Combat Standard are subject to in-service reclassification once their component's deadline passes — January 1, 2026 for the active component, June 1, 2026 for Reserve and National Guard.
Interactive AFT Score Chart (2026)
The interactive AFT score chart above shows point values for every age group, pulled directly from the Army's published scoring scales (effective June 1, 2025). Pick an event, age band, and standard to see the full point breakdown — a quick way to sanity-check what a calculator gives you, or to see how many reps or seconds separate you from your next 10 points.