Job descriptions, interview notes, offer letters and policy wording, timed. HR writing is formal and careful, and the test measures whether your hands can keep up with that register without dropping words.
People work is written work, and most of it is longer and more formal than the prose in a typing test. Job descriptions run to long noun phrases — a proven track record of cross-functional collaboration — that give your fingers no short words to rest on. Interview notes are the opposite: typed while someone is speaking, in fragments, with names and dates dropped in. Offer letters and policy wording sit in between, and every one of them has to be exactly right, because a slipped word changes what was promised.
The text in this test comes from the HR & Recruiting course rather than a general corpus, so it reads like the work: role summaries, requirement lines, notes from a screening call, benefits wording. Type it as written.
HR text usually comes in close to prose speed — the vocabulary is long but ordinary. What to look at is the error map. On this kind of text the misses fall on long words typed from memory, on capitals in names and titles, and on the phrases so routine that your fingers finish them before you do.
Those routine phrases are where accuracy matters most. A job post goes out to thousands of people; an offer letter is a document someone keeps. A fast run with two silent errors in the wording is worse than a slower clean one.
The HR & Recruiting course drills job posts, interview notes and formal correspondence as separate lessons before mixing them, and the coach builds fresh practice from the keys and sequences you miss most. If long words were the problem, the next set is built from them; if it was names, from capitals.
The hardest HR typing is the interview note: someone is talking at 150 words a minute and you are trying to keep the substance. Nobody types that fast, so the skill is a steady 50 to 60 words a minute with no stalls — every pause to find a key is a sentence lost. The rhythm reading on the result page tells you how even your pace was, which for note-taking matters more than the peak.
The other thing the notes need is capitals without hesitation: names, companies, titles, the odd acronym. Shift is the key HR typists use most after the space bar, and the result shows whether the shifted characters cost you more than the plain ones.