The short answer
The Army Combat Fitness Test was the Army’s test of record from 1 October 2022 until 1 June 2025. On that date the Army Fitness Test replaced it. There is no current ACFT standard, because there is no current ACFT.
That matters more than it sounds. A score computed on an ACFT table is not a number your unit will recognise, and it is not comparable to an AFT score — the tests have a different number of events and a different maximum. If a chart you are training against tops out at 600 points, it is the retired test.
Every change to the standard, with dates
Most of what circulates about ACFT standards is a snapshot of one moment in a test that changed repeatedly over six years. Below is the whole sequence. Every row is taken from an Army news release, and the release is named so you can check it rather than take this page’s word for it.
| When | What changed | Stated in |
|---|---|---|
| 2019–2022 | Three-year field evaluation with Soldier feedback. Nearly 630,000 ACFT scores recorded, later used to build the revised scales. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| 23 Mar 2022 | Revised ACFT announced, following an independent RAND review that the Army describes as required by Congress. The leg tuck is removed; the plank becomes the sole core-strength event; scoring becomes performance-normed by age and sex; the 2.5-mile walk is added as an alternate aerobic event. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| 1 Apr 2022 | The revised ACFT begins as a diagnostic test, with a deliberate six-month gap before any test counts for record. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| 1 Oct 2022 | Record testing begins for Regular Army and Active Guard Reserve Soldiers. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| by 1 Apr 2023 | Deadline for Regular Army and AGR Soldiers to have taken a first record test. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| by 1 Apr 2024 | Deadline for Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers to have taken a first record test. | Army news release, 23 March 2022 |
| 21 Apr 2025 | The Army announces the Army Fitness Test as the test of record, replacing the ACFT. The Standing Power Throw is dropped, leaving five events. Informed by RAND analysis and Army data from nearly one million test records. | Army news release, 21 April 2025 |
| 1 Jun 2025 | Phased implementation of the AFT begins. The ACFT is no longer the test of record. | Army news release, 21 April 2025 |
| 1 Jan 2026 | Combat-MOS AFT standards take effect for the active component. | Army news release, 21 April 2025 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Combat-MOS AFT standards take effect for the Reserve and National Guard. | Army news release, 21 April 2025 |
The Army’s stated reason is specific and worth reading, because it is the only event ever removed from the ACFT on evidence rather than on scheduling: RAND concluded that the leg tuck did not correctly measure core strength in all Soldiers, as it relied on Soldiers’ upper body strength as well. The plank replaced it because it gives every Soldier a comparable test of the thing being measured.
The six ACFT events and what happened to each
Five of the six are still tested, under the same names, on different scales. One is gone. A seventh event — the leg tuck — was removed three years before the test itself was.
| Event | Status | Where its standard is now |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Rep Max Deadlift (MDL) | Carried over to the AFT | AFT scoring chart |
| Standing Power Throw (SPT) | Removed 1 Jun 2025 | No current standard — not tested |
| Hand-Release Push-Up (HRP) | Carried over to the AFT | AFT scoring chart |
| Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC) | Carried over to the AFT | AFT scoring chart |
| Plank (PLK) | Carried over to the AFT | AFT scoring chart |
| 2-Mile Run (2MR) | Carried over to the AFT | AFT scoring chart |
| Leg Tuck (LTK) | Removed 1 Apr 2022 | Replaced by the plank |
Soldiers on a permanent profile that prohibits the run took, and still take, an alternate aerobic event. Under the revised ACFT those were the 5,000-metre row, the 12,000-metre stationary bike, the 1,000-metre swim and the 2.5-mile walk — the walk being the one the March 2022 revision added. The alternate events checker works the current AFT figures.
Why there is no ACFT point table on this site
This is a deliberate omission, and it is worth being direct about the reasoning rather than leaving a hole where a chart should be.
A scoring table is only useful if a number you get out of it means something to somebody else. An ACFT total does not. It cannot be entered on a current record, it cannot be compared with the AFT scores your peers are posting, and the events it scores are not the events currently tested. Publishing one would generate traffic and would help nobody, which is a trade this site does not make.
Charts labelled “ACFT standards 2026” are usually one of two things: current AFT tables under an old name, which are fine but mislabelled, or genuinely retired ACFT tables, which are not fine. The 600-point maximum is the tell. Check it before you train against anything.
What this site does carry is the current standard, scored by the same engine that is checked cell-by-cell against the published tables: the Army AFT standards page, the full AFT scoring chart, and an ACFT calculator page that scores the five surviving events on the scale actually in force.
What the current standard requires
The Army Fitness Test is five events, each scored from 0 to 100, for a maximum of 500. Sixty points is the minimum on every single event, and falling below it is a failure regardless of the total.
There are two totals, not one. The general standard is performance-normed by sex and age group and requires 300. The combat standard is sex-neutral and age-normed and requires 350; it applies to Soldiers in 21 designated combat military occupational specialties, and it took effect on 1 January 2026 for the active component and 1 June 2026 for the Reserve and National Guard.
Both figures, and the raw performance that reaches 60 points on each event for every age band, are on the Army AFT standards page.
Common questions
Is the ACFT still the Army fitness test?
No. The Army Fitness Test replaced it on 1 June 2025. The ACFT was the test of record from 1 October 2022 until that date.
Source: Army news releases dated 23 Mar 2022 and 21 Apr 2025 · Verified 22 AUG 2026
What is a passing ACFT score?
The question no longer has a current answer, because the ACFT is not tested. Under the Army Fitness Test that replaced it, the general standard is 300 out of 500 with at least 60 points on every event, and the combat standard for 21 designated military occupational specialties is 350 with the same 60-point floor per event.
Source: Army news releases dated 23 Mar 2022 and 21 Apr 2025 · Verified 22 AUG 2026
Why was the leg tuck removed from the ACFT?
The Army removed it after a RAND study concluded that the exercise did not correctly measure core strength in all Soldiers, because it relied on upper body strength as well. The plank replaced it as the sole core-strength event on 1 April 2022.
Source: Army news releases dated 23 Mar 2022 and 21 Apr 2025 · Verified 22 AUG 2026
What happened to the Standing Power Throw?
It was dropped when the Army Fitness Test replaced the ACFT on 1 June 2025. That is the only one of the six ACFT events not carried forward, and it is why the maximum score fell from 600 to 500.
Source: Army news releases dated 23 Mar 2022 and 21 Apr 2025 · Verified 22 AUG 2026
Can I convert an old ACFT score to an AFT score?
No, and no conversion published anywhere is meaningful. The tests have a different number of events and different scoring scales, so there is no arithmetic that turns one total into the other. Re-score your raw event performances on the current tables instead.
Source: Army news releases dated 23 Mar 2022 and 21 Apr 2025 · Verified 22 AUG 2026