Take a test
How to start one of the three tests from the Test tab, choose the hold you test on, pull on the plate, and find your results afterwards.
Checked with app version 1.0.64 Last updated
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Open the Test tab and start a test from its tile. The app asks what you pull on, shows the briefing, weighs you on the plate, then leads each pull. Start with Max strength, as the app suggests, and take the Endurance test on a day of its own, rested.
Before you start
- Put the plate on a hard floor, under the hold you will pull on.
- Warm up the same way before every test: 10 to 15 minutes of easy climbing or light hangs, then two pulls at about half and about four fifths of your effort. A cold pull reads low and is the riskiest pull you can do. See How to Test Finger Strength.
- Stop at the first pain.
- Have a connection the first time: the app loads the tests from the internet, then keeps a copy. Tests couldn’t be loaded. Try again once you’re online. means it has no copy yet.
Start a test
- Open the Test tab. Each test has a tile. A tile with no result shows a dash, and under it how long the test takes.
- Tap Start the test on a tile with no result, or Test again on a tile whose last result is more than 28 days old. Or tap the tile, then Start test at the bottom of its section.
- For the endurance test only, the app asks Which hand would you like to test? Tap Left hand or Right hand. The two other tests cover both hands.
- If the app opens Configure test, choose what you pull on (next section).
- Read Test briefing: under Overview, each hold and the rests between them. Tap Start test.
- Stand still on the plate while the app finds it and weighs you. The test then opens by itself. If it does not, see The plate does not connect.
On the briefing, the sliders icon at the top right changes the hold, and Warm up first runs a short warm-up on the timer, without the plate, then brings you back. The app does not show it if you told it that pain stops you from climbing.
A test can also be a day of your plan: start it from the Plan tab, like any session.
Choose what you pull on
Configure test opens when no setup is saved, or the saved one has no edge for this test. It has two modes.
- Hangboard. Choose your hangboard, then tap your edge on the drawing. A test with both hands needs two: the left hand’s first, then the right hand’s. Tap an edge again to remove it; the swap button puts each edge on the other hand.
- Custom. For anything that is not a hangboard of the list: a wooden rung, a lifting block, a hold of your wall. Give it a name, and use the same name next time: each test’s section can then show only that setup’s results.
Tap Confirm setup. Next time the app skips this step. With a hangboard, the board and edges you confirm also become your saved ones in Settings: see Set up your hangboard.
Test on the same hold every time. A result on a 20 mm edge and a result on a 15 mm edge are two different things. The edge is saved with each result, but the tiles of the Test tab do not separate holds: they show your latest result, whatever the hold.
During the test
The hold is on top, your force live in the middle, the timer at the bottom (the picture is from a normal workout). A pull begins when you pull: there is no time limit, and no way to skip a pull. A pull cut by a lost connection starts again. After each pull, the app shows its highest force, and the difference with your best pull on the same board, edge and fingers.
Find your results
After the last pull, the app shows the test’s results above the session’s summary. Later, find them in two places:
- The Test tab. The tile shows your latest result. Tap it for the curves and details; the date at the top opens older results, and you can filter by setup or by plan.
- Activity History, in the Profile tab.
You cannot delete a test result. To replace it, take the test again: the tile shows the latest one.
Leaving a test before the end
The app asks Do you really want to leave this test? If you answer Yes, the session is not saved: half a test would give a false result. In the max strength and finger strength tests, the pulls you had finished may still show in the Test tab; your next full test replaces them on the tile.
A test needs the plate. On the timer it measures no force: see Train without the plate.
Related
- The max strength test, the endurance test and the finger strength test: what you do in each, and its results.
- What each test measures: what your numbers say about your climbing.
- Follow a training plan: put your results to work.
Go deeper in Train
- Finger Strength Tests for Climbers Test finger strength: maximum force, critical force and rate of force development, making results repeatable, how often to retest and which device to use.
- Max Hangs: How to Do Them Right How to do max hangs: 10-second hangs at a load you could hold about 3 seconds longer, with 3 minutes of rest. The protocol, why it works and the evidence.
- Min Edge or Added Weight on a Hangboard Smaller edges or added weight? What the limited evidence says about progressing hangboard training, and when each approach makes sense.
- Finger Extensor Training for Climbers Climbers' finger flexors are about six times stronger than their extensors. What a 2023 study found when it measured the ratio, and how to train extensors.
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