Practise a Harver-style typing test: copy 8 sentences exactly, with paste and arrow keys blocked, and see your net WPM against Harver’s published average.
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The Harver typing test checks how fast and how accurately you can copy text, a core skill for contact-centre, chat and data-entry roles. Harver’s help centre describes a page of sentences, each with its own text box. You copy every sentence exactly, and a green check or a red cross appears beside it. A red cross means the sentence has a mistake, and you have to fix it before you can move on.
Harver scores the test as net words per minute (net WPM): the words you typed minus the words you mistyped, divided by the time taken. Shift and Backspace are not counted as typed characters, so time spent correcting lowers your speed without adding to it. Harver turns net WPM into a percentage against a norm group and publishes an average of 38 net WPM with a standard deviation of 17. Employers can change the text, so the sentences you see may differ from one company to the next.
Candidate Falcon’s practice copies those rules with original workplace sentences: the clock starts when you click into a box, paste and caret jumps are blocked, and Backspace is the only way to fix a mistake. Your result shows gross and net WPM, accuracy and corrections, plus an estimated percentile worked out from Harver’s published average and spread on a normal curve. That estimate is ours, not Harver’s norm table.
It is a Harver assessment module in which you copy sentences exactly into text boxes, one box per sentence. Each sentence shows a green check or a red cross, and the score is your net words per minute. Employers use it mainly for customer-service, chat and admin roles.
Harver’s help centre gives net WPM as typed words minus mistyped words, divided by the time taken; Shift and Backspace are not counted. The result is reported as a percentage against a norm group, with a published average of 38 net WPM and a standard deviation of 17.
No. Harver blocks arrow keys, mouse clicks and copy and paste. Backspace still works, so you can fix a mistake by deleting back to it and retyping. The practice blocks the same keys.
Harver does not publish the length, and employers can change the text and its difficulty. The clock starts on your first click into the first box. Candidate Falcon’s practice uses 8 sentences with a count-up clock and a 5-minute cap.
Harver’s published average is 38 net WPM, with a standard deviation of 17, so around 55 net WPM is about one standard deviation above it. Each employer sets its own bar. The percentile in our practice is an estimate from that average and spread, not Harver’s norm table.
Harver asks for a computer with a physical keyboard for the typing test. You can open this practice on a phone, but the result will not reflect your keyboard speed.
Independent practice by Candidate Falcon, based on Harver’s public product pages and help centre. Not affiliated with Harver, and not its scoring. The questions and scenarios are original, and practice results are not Harver scores. For how each Harver module works, timing and results, read the free Harver assessment guide.