Typing Skill Test: Hire Faster with Accurate Typing Speed & Accuracy Assessment

Streamline your hiring process with comprehensive typing assessments that measure real-world performance beyond basic WPM metrics.

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What is the Typing skill test?

  • Comprehensive typing assessment measuring speed (WPM), accuracy percentage, and real-world document formatting skills
  • Real-time performance tracking with instant candidate ranking and automated scoring for faster hiring decisions
  • Proctored assessments with anti-cheating measures ensuring reliable, bias-free candidate evaluation
  • Customizable difficulty levels from 30-80+ WPM requirements based on specific job role needs
  • Industry-specific content including business correspondence, technical documents, and legal terminology

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Skills & Competencies Assessed for the Typing skill test

Who is The Typing skill test For?

Customize the Typing skill test

Role-Specific Benchmarking

Set custom WPM requirements (30-80+) and accuracy thresholds (90-99%) based on the criticality of the role. For example, you may require faster typing speeds for administrative roles or higher accuracy standards for legal and medical transcription.

Industry Content Libraries

Access specialized text passages for healthcare, legal, finance, and technical sectors, ensuring candidates are tested with relevant terminology and document formatting challenges for the role they are applying for.

Advanced Analytics Dashboard

Generate customized reports that align with your hiring criteria, including detailed performance metrics, candidate comparison tools, and industry-specific benchmarks. This helps you make more informed, data-driven hiring decisions.

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Advanced Hiring Features

Why choose HackerEarth’s assessment platform?

HackerEarth’s online coding platform simplifies developer skill assessment with customizable tests, a vast question library, and
automated evaluations, ensuring efficient and objective hiring.

25,000+ questions across 1000+ skills at your disposal

Thanks to a rich library of questions, including emerging AI skills, HackerEarth Assessments enable you to create highly accurate coding assessments for all roles. You can also create custom questions, or we can create it for you, to handle any kind of assessment that you may need.

Project type questions to simulate on- the-job problems

When hiring developers for your projects, you need more than just conceptual knowledge—you need problem solvers. Can they tackle real-world challenges? With HackerEarth, you can create project-based questions with custom datasets and test cases to assess their true capabilities.

Industry's best proctoring solution with automated invigilation

HackerEarth Assessments offer the industry's best proctoring capabilities with SmartBrowser technology, eliminating impersonation with advanced image processing. Our coding assessments detect tab switching, prevent copy-pasting, and let you customize proctoring stringency—ensuring a fair, secure, and cheat-proof evaluation process.

An experience that hiring managers like and developers love

With the ability to code in 40+ programming languages, a real-time code editor and integration with Jupyter Notebooks, HackerEarth Assessments is highly dev-friendly.

Detailed reports on each candidate’s performance

With insight-rich reports on a developer’s performance and the code replay feature, HackerEarth lets you get a deeper insight into a candidate’s capabilities.

Data-driven insights to help finetune the hiring funnel

The HackerEarth Assessments dashboard gives you a deeper analysis of your hiring funnel, enabling you to constantly improve your coding tests and create an industry-leading hiring process.
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A coding assessment platform that is built for enterprises and loved by everyone

HackerEarth offers industry-leading compliance, security and scalability, so you can build a tech team with no
worries, regardless of the size of your organization.
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FAQs about Typing skill test

What exactly does the typing skill test measure beyond basic speed?

Our comprehensive assessment evaluates typing speed (WPM), accuracy percentage, punctuation proficiency, capitalization accuracy, document formatting skills, error correction rate, and sustained performance over time. This multi-dimensional approach provides a complete picture of real-world typing capabilities that directly correlate with job performance.

How long does the typing assessment take and will candidates complete it?

Our standard assessment takes 10-15 minutes with a 95% completion rate. The test is engaging and mirrors real work scenarios, making it relevant for candidates. We offer flexible duration options (5-20 minutes) based on role requirements, and our user-friendly interface ensures a positive candidate experience.

What are typical performance benchmarks for different roles?

Entry-level positions typically require 30-40 WPM, professional roles expect 50-60 WPM, and specialized high-volume positions need 70+ WPM. Accuracy standards are 95%+ for most roles, with 98%+ required for legal/medical fields. Our platform provides industry-specific benchmarks and allows custom threshold setting.

Is the test suitable for remote candidates and how do you prevent cheating?

Yes, our proctored assessments are perfect for remote hiring. We use advanced anti-cheating measures including keystroke dynamics analysis, browser lockdown, webcam monitoring, and AI-powered behavior detection. These features ensure test integrity while maintaining a smooth candidate experience.

How do you prevent cheating and ensure fair assessment?

Our platform employs multiple security layers: keystroke dynamics analysis detects unusual typing patterns, browser lockdown prevents external assistance, webcam proctoring monitors candidate behavior, and AI algorithms flag suspicious activities. These measures ensure reliable, bias-free assessment while maintaining candidate privacy.

Can the test be customized for specific roles and industries?

Absolutely. Our platform offers extensive customization including adjustable WPM requirements (30-80+), accuracy thresholds (90-99%), industry-specific content libraries, custom text passages, flexible scoring criteria, and white-label branding. Enterprise clients get dedicated support for advanced customization needs.

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