About this data entry assessment test
This is independent practice for the kind of data-entry assessment staffing agencies send candidates to, not that assessment itself and not affiliated with it. What it gives you is the underlying skill in the same units the real report uses: records to enter accurately at pace, with speed and accuracy shown separately rather than behind one headline number.
Independent practice material. TypingNova is not affiliated with any assessment provider.
What this test helps you practise
- The alphanumeric module's material, typed at its pace
- Field accuracy, where a record counts only if every character is right
- Adjusted speed rather than a raw keystroke count
- Sitting a five-minute assessment through without restarting
How your typing result is measured
Your free result includes net WPM, raw WPM, accuracy, total mistakes, uncorrected errors, correct characters, and elapsed time. Number tests also show KPH, while data-entry tests show correctly completed records.
Scores are calculated locally in your browser. Learn the exact formulas in how typing scores work.
Tips for a more useful result
- Ask the recruiter which module you are being sent before you practise.
- Clear the accuracy floor first. Speed only ranks you once you are through it.
- Practise the skill, not the interface. You cannot rehearse somebody else's screen.
- Enter every separator exactly as shown; fields are judged whole.
First, what this page is not
TypingNova is not affiliated with Prove It!, Kenexa, IBM or SHL, and this is not the Prove It assessment. It does not reproduce that test’s interface, its material or its scoring, and no result from this site is submitted to any employer or agency.
What this page does is explain what those modules measure and give you the underlying skill to practise, using the same units the real report uses. If a recruiter has sent you a link to sit an assessment, sit it there. Practise here.
The two data entry modules
Prove It! is an assessment suite that began at Kenexa, which is now part of IBM, with the catalogue distributed through SHL. Staffing agencies use its data entry tests heavily for clerical and administrative placements. There are two, and they are scored separately:
- Data Entry Alpha Numeric — letters and numbers together, typed from records, on the full keyboard. Practise on the alphanumeric data entry test.
- Data Entry 10-Key — numbers only, on the numeric keypad. Practise on the 10-key typing test.
Ask which module you are being sent, because being quick at one says very little about the other. They use different fingers and different movements.
The five figures on the report
A data entry result from this family of tests is usually reported as:
- Elapsed time — how long you took.
- Field accuracy — the percentage of whole fields entered correctly.
- Keystrokes per hour — raw speed, every key counted.
- Keystroke accuracy — the percentage of individual keystrokes right.
- Adjusted KPH — speed after errors are accounted for.
Adjusted KPH is the figure that decides things, because raw speed with errors in it is not useful work. It is the same reasoning as net WPM here: gross speed minus what you got wrong. If you understand why your net WPM sits below your raw WPM, you already understand adjusted KPH — how typing scores work sets out the arithmetic.
Field accuracy has a close equivalent on this site too. Every data entry run here reports completed records: whole records with every character correct, which is the same all-or-nothing standard a field is held to.
What counts as a passing score
There is no universal pass mark, and anyone who tells you there is has stopped being careful. The employer or agency sets the threshold for the role. The figures most often quoted as minimums are:
- Alphanumeric — around 8,000 KPH at better than 95% accuracy.
- 10-key — around 10,000 KPH at better than 95% accuracy.
Those are different scales, not a ranking: alphanumeric entry moves your hands across the whole keyboard, so its scores are lower by design and its minimum is set lower to match. Ask the recruiter what they screen on rather than working from a published band.
How to actually prepare
- Practise the right module. Alphanumeric and 10-key are separate skills with separate scores.
- Protect accuracy first. An accuracy floor is usually a gate: clear it, and then speed ranks you. A fast run below the floor is often not read at all.
- Use a realistic length. Both pages here default to five minutes, because a one-minute run measures your opening burst rather than the pace you can hold.
- Type separators exactly. Hyphens, commas and leading zeros are part of the record, and they are where accuracy leaks without your noticing.
- Do not rehearse an interface. You cannot practise the real test’s screen. You can practise entering records accurately at speed, which is the thing it measures.
If you want a record of your practice, this site keeps progress history on your own device. A verifiable certificate is available for a result you want to show someone — it is an unproctored practice record, not an assessment credential, and it is not a substitute for an employer’s own test.