For women, level 15 is the highest seen, and anything above level 14 is an excellent score. Any score above 15 is considered excellent.
There are few reliable sources of men reaching level 17 on the beep test. Our protocol defines the final score as the level or total distance covered in the last complete successful shuttle, while it is clear that some protocols listed online base the score as the level that the athlete stops the test, which is sometimes after a couple of warnings and possibly a few extra shuttles. The general procedure for conducting the beep test lists the warnings for the participants and how to conclude the test. It is not always clear what test version is being used, or how strictly the protocol has been enforced. The reliability of the tests scores listed online may be questionable. This would also be 3200 meters, taking 15 minutes and 59.5 seconds. The scoring methods can be compared using the beep test table, for example, reaching the level 16 and then completing 3 x 20m runs at that level would be recorded as 16.3 or 16/3.
The score can also be presented as the time to exhaustion or the total distance covered. The results for the beep test is usaully given as the level and the number of shuttles.
