The margin, not just the score
Most scoring tables answer one question: did you pass. That is the least useful thing to know on the day you are training, because it tells you nothing about where the effort should go. A soldier who scores 312 and a soldier who scores 348 have both passed the General standard, and they should not spend the next eight weeks doing the same thing.
So every event here reports the distance to the line alongside the points. Not "pass" but four repetitions clear of the 60-point floor. Not "fail" but eleven seconds short. That is the number that changes what you do on Monday.
Alternate events, when you are on a profile
Soldiers on a permanent medical profile take alternate aerobic events rather than the 2-mile run — the 1,000 metre swim, the 12,000 metre stationary bike, the 5,000 metre row or the 2.5 mile walk. Those events are scored differently from everything else on the test, and it catches people out.
They are go / no-go. They do not produce points. You either finish inside the time standard for your age, sex and standard, or you do not. Because they award no points, a soldier taking one cannot reach a total in the normal way, so the requirement becomes an average across the events actually taken.
The alternate events checker gives you the verdict and the margin, and deliberately refuses to invent a point value for an event that does not have one. A calculator that quietly produced a score there would be making up a number the Army does not publish.
Your history stays on your device
Saved tests are written to your browser's local storage and go nowhere else. There is no account to create, no email field, no sync, and no server-side database holding anybody's scores. This is not a privacy promise resting on a policy document — there is no mechanism by which a score could reach us, because none was built.
That design has one real cost, and it is worth stating plainly rather than burying: if you clear your browser data, or the browser clears it for you, the history is gone and we cannot restore it. Nobody has a copy. So the tool gives you two ways to carry it yourself — a backup file you can save anywhere, and a transfer code for moving to a new phone. Both are deliberate acts you perform, not background uploads.
Safari clears storage for sites you have not visited in about seven days. Adding the site to your home screen stops that, and is the single most useful thing you can do if you intend to keep a record over months. Otherwise, export the backup file.
The QR code on the results card follows the same rule. It carries instructions for restoring your own history and nothing else — no score, no name, no date. It is the identical code on every card on every page for every reader, which means a scorecard can be printed, photographed or pinned to a board without a single number about the person leaving with it.
It works with no signal
PT tests happen in places with bad reception. Pages you have already opened on a device stay available offline, held by a service worker.
The part worth explaining is what it does not do. An offline fallback that serves a cached homepage for any address is the normal implementation, and on a site like this it is dangerous: a sailor opening the Navy PRT address offline would be handed the Army AFT calculator, wearing the right page furniture, at the right URL, with no indication that the scoring tables underneath belong to a different service. A calculator that scores the wrong test is worse than one that will not open. So the worker serves the page you asked for or tells you it has no copy, and never substitutes another.
Where every number comes from
Each page names the instruction it was built from — AR 350-1 and ATP 7-22.01, the Navy PRT Guide, MCO 6100.13A, AFMAN 36-2905, COMDTINST 16114.33F — and the date the figures were last checked against it. The per-branch standards pages are generated directly from the same tables the calculator scores against, so a reference page and the calculator beside it cannot drift apart and quietly disagree.
Where a figure is genuinely uncertain, the page says so where you would read it, rather than presenting a confident number and hoping. There is a live example on the Air Force standards page, where the points curve either side of the waist-to-height threshold is still being verified and the page states that openly.
If you find something wrong, the correction page is the route, and a report that names the instruction and paragraph will be acted on. Full sourcing methodology is on the about page.
What this site will not do
- Ask who you are. Age, sex and raw performance numbers score a test. Name, email, rank, unit, duty station and DoD ID do not, so none of them are collected.
- Invent a standard. Where the services publish a number, it is reproduced. Where they do not, the site says so. Nothing here is interpolated to fill a gap in a table.
- Claim credentials it does not have. This is a scoring instrument, not an authority. Your official score is the one your unit records, and where this site and your unit disagree, your unit is right and we want to hear about it.
- Put your score behind a sign-up. There is nothing to create an account for, and there never will be.
Common questions
Does this site store my PT test scores?
Only in your own browser, and only if you save them. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and there is no server-side database holding scores. Clearing your browser data deletes them, which is why the backup file and transfer code exist.
Does the calculator work without a signal?
Yes, for pages you have already opened on that device. A service worker keeps a copy. It will only ever serve you the page you actually asked for — if a page was never cached it says so rather than substituting a different branch.
What information do you ask for?
Age, sex, and your raw performance numbers. That is the complete list. No name, no email, no rank, no unit, no duty station and no DoD ID — none of it is needed to score a test, so none of it is collected.
How do I know the scoring tables are right?
Every page names the instruction it was built from and the date it was last checked, and there is a correction path on the contact page. Where a figure is disputed or cannot be verified from a published source, the site says so on the page rather than presenting a confident number.