US Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test (PFT)

The Marines' annual endurance test, taken between January and June: pull-ups or push-ups, a forearm plank and a three-mile run, with a 5,000m row allowed in place of the run only in limited cases, such as for older Marines. Choosing push-ups is a real trade-off, because they are capped at 70 points however many you do, so pull-ups are the route to a top score. The scale runs to 300. Since 1 January 2026, Marines in combat arms specialties have been scored on the male, age-normed tables whatever their sex and must reach at least 210; other Marines keep sex- and age-normed tables. For anyone measuring themselves, the three-mile run is the longest single run in any test on this list.