Key Depressions per Hour, Explained

Data entry skill tests count key depressions, not words. Every press counts: letters, digits, punctuation and the space bar. KDPH is simply depressions scaled to an hour, whatever the actual test duration.

The conversion to words per minute uses the standard 5 strokes per word: divide KDPH by 300. So 8,000 KDPH is about 26.7 WPM, 10,500 KDPH equals 35 WPM, and 9,000 KDPH equals 30 WPM. A requirement of 2,000 depressions in 15 minutes and a requirement of 8,000 KDPH are the same requirement stated two ways.

Some recruitments state a flat minimum keystroke count for the test duration instead. The arithmetic is the same; only the packaging differs.

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