Beep test
Beep test calculator: level to MAS and VO₂max
Enter the level where you stopped and how many shuttles you completed in that level. The calculator applies the scoring rule: MAS is the speed of the last level you completed in full. It also gives the speed you were holding, distance and time run, pace per kilometre and an estimated VO₂max from the Léger (1988) equation, computed on the level you enter, with your age if you give it (18 by default).
A shuttle counts if your foot was behind the line on the beep. Use the maximum if you finished the level.
Age: leave blank for an adult, and the equation uses 18. From 8 to 17 it changes the estimated VO₂max; under 8 the equation does not apply. The VO₂max calculator shows the working.
Your result
How the result is computed
The speed of each level comes from the official test table, reproduced below. The calculator never averages: if the level is unfinished it credits the previous one, exactly as an examiner would. Distance adds up the shuttles actually run. VO₂max comes from the equation Léger and colleagues published with the test in 1988: 31.025 + 3.238 × S − 3.248 × age + 0.1536 × age × S, where S = 8 + 0.5 × level, the level being the last one announced, the one during which you stopped, not the last one you completed. Age is capped at 18: adults are entered as 18. An adult who stops during level 8 therefore gets 44.6 ml/min/kg. At level 1 the equation counts 8.5 km/h, as in the 1988 protocol, while the chart below starts at 8 km/h; from level 2 onwards the speeds are the same.
What the calculator does not know
It knows neither your sex nor the test conditions. A level run on a slippery floor, with 19 m between the lines or after a training session, is not worth the same figure. The VO₂max shown is a statistical estimate from the Léger (1988) equation, not a measurement: it tracks measured VO₂max with a correlation of 0.71 in children and 0.90 in adults, and a real person can sit several ml/min/kg away from it. Without an age, it treats you as an adult. For an entry test only the level counts, and the examiner reads it.
The Beep test table
| Level | Speed | Shuttles | s / shuttle | Level duration | Cumulative time | Cumulative distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 1 min 03 s | 1 min 03 s | 140 |
| 2 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 1 min 04 s | 2 min 07 s | 300 |
| 3 | 9.5 | 8 | 7.58 | 1 min 01 s | 3 min 08 s | 460 |
| 4 | 10 | 9 | 7.20 | 1 min 05 s | 4 min 12 s | 640 |
| 5 | 10.5 | 9 | 6.86 | 1 min 02 s | 5 min 14 s | 820 |
| 6 | 11 | 10 | 6.55 | 1 min 06 s | 6 min 20 s | 1 020 |
| 7 | 11.5 | 10 | 6.26 | 1 min 03 s | 7 min 22 s | 1 220 |
| 8 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 1 min 06 s | 8 min 28 s | 1 440 |
| 9 | 12.5 | 11 | 5.76 | 1 min 03 s | 9 min 32 s | 1 660 |
| 10 | 13 | 11 | 5.54 | 1 min 01 s | 10 min 33 s | 1 880 |
| 11 | 13.5 | 12 | 5.33 | 1 min 04 s | 11 min 37 s | 2 120 |
| 12 | 14 | 12 | 5.14 | 1 min 02 s | 12 min 38 s | 2 360 |
| 13 | 14.5 | 13 | 4.97 | 1 min 05 s | 13 min 43 s | 2 620 |
| 14 | 15 | 13 | 4.80 | 1 min 02 s | 14 min 45 s | 2 880 |
| 15 | 15.5 | 13 | 4.65 | 1 min | 15 min 46 s | 3 140 |
| 16 | 16 | 14 | 4.50 | 1 min 03 s | 16 min 49 s | 3 420 |
| 17 | 16.5 | 14 | 4.36 | 1 min 01 s | 17 min 50 s | 3 700 |
| 18 | 17 | 15 | 4.24 | 1 min 04 s | 18 min 53 s | 4 000 |
| 19 | 17.5 | 15 | 4.11 | 1 min 02 s | 19 min 55 s | 4 300 |
| 20 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 1 min 04 s | 20 min 59 s | 4 620 |
| 21 | 18.5 | 16 | 3.89 | 1 min 02 s | 22 min 01 s | 4 940 |