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HireVue Digitspan practice
Watch a sequence of digits or letters appear one at a time, then type it back. Later it has to go in reverse.
One full free game, then a pass for unlimited practice. Built from recordings that candidates made of the real test (NATO, PwC and Shell, 2021 to 2025). Screens, colours and wording are ours.
How Digitspan works
- Items appear one by one; each earlier item turns into a dot as the next shows.
- When the keypad lights up, type the sequence. It checks as soon as you enter the last item.
- Rounds switch between digits and letters, and the letter keypad changes size.
- From level 31 you type the sequence backwards. Practice warns you once when that starts.
Time and scoring
3 minutes. In recordings of the real test, a right answer moves you up two levels and a miss or a timeout drops you one. Practice uses the same rule, so a run of right answers quickly reaches hard levels. The clock stops while the sequence is shown, as it appears to in recordings.
Tips
- Say the items to yourself in small groups: 4 7 2 9 becomes 47, 29.
- For backwards rounds, build the group, then read it right to left before you start typing.
- Use the delete key: one slip is fixable until the last item is in.
Questions
How long do sequences get?
Recordings show two to five items going forward. Backwards starts at three. Our practice keeps lengthening to seven at high levels.
Is the keypad like a phone?
No. In recordings digits are laid out 7 8 9 on top, like a computer number pad. Ours is the same.