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Have lost 3 job prospects now because of failing typing tests. I do data entry for my current job and have no problems typing when it is coming out of my own head. However when I do a test and have to copy something, I get scatter brained. I miss many words all together. Anyone else have this issue and if so how did you fix it. Seems like practice hasn't made perfect. Do all jobs now days require this crap?
I'm good with typing tests, it's just 10-key that bothers me. Fastest I could manage was 3900 kph. It would've been faster had the test I took didn't require spaces!
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What kind of jobs are these? I haven't seen a typing test requirement at anywhere I have worked since the 1980s and that's been in big office settings. For those doing entry to a database management system speed kills, accuracy is required and other than names most fields are short or have a pick list so typing speed doesn't matter.
Have lost 3 job prospects now because of failing typing tests. I do data entry for my current job and have no problems typing when it is coming out of my own head. However when I do a test and have to copy something, I get scatter brained. I miss many words all together. Anyone else have this issue and if so how did you fix it. Seems like practice hasn't made perfect. Do all jobs now days require this crap?
I thought typing tests were a thing of the past, but apparently not.
I went to a secretarial school many years ago and you had to type 75 wpm with no errors to finish the program. We had a class where we just typed for a solid hour every day.
I type over 90wpm generally and with 99% and sometimes 100% accuracy. I was also not fast enough for the two data entry jobs I applied for. You need to be pretty darn fast for data entry.
Lots of people don't do well on speed tests. When we're hiring, we generally give a candidate 15 minutes to write a 7-sentence email and send it. Most of them can do it in about half that time.
Lots of people don't do well on speed tests. When we're hiring, we generally give a candidate 15 minutes to write a 7-sentence email and send it. Most of them can do it in about half that time.
This is true. Also, medical transcriptionists really have to be able to speed-type AND have the ability to decipher what they're hearing at the same time. It's an acquired skill, but it's a very good one to have. These people are specialists, like medical coders.
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