Platform Comparison
EditingTests.com vs HackerRank
HackerRank is the industry standard for assessing software developers, data engineers, and technical candidates. EditingTests.com is the industry standard for assessing editors, proofreaders, writers, and content professionals. These are different tools for fundamentally different roles.
If you are hiring engineers and developers, use HackerRank. If you are hiring editors, proofreaders, or writers, use EditingTests.com. Most editorial teams encountering HackerRank have done so because a technical HR platform was adopted organisation-wide — but a coding platform cannot reliably screen editorial talent.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | EditingTests.com | HackerRank |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | ✓ Editorial, content & publishing roles | Software developers, data engineers, coders |
| Editorial specialisation | ✓ Seven purpose-built editorial tests | English communication tests (general, not editorial) |
| Track-changes editing | ✓ Yes — core product feature | No |
| Proofreading assessment | ✓ Yes — accuracy tested against embedded errors | No |
| Grammar test | ✓ Yes — 25-question specialist assessment | Basic English grammar only |
| Industry vocabulary testing | ✓ 4,400+ editorial specialisms | No |
| MS Word assessment | ✓ Yes — knowledge and practical tasks | No |
| Benchmark pool | ✓ 130,000+ editorial candidates, 28 years of data | Technical candidates, not comparable for editorial |
| Founded | ✓ 1998 | 2012 |
| Pricing | ✓ $50 per credit, pay-as-you-go | Subscription-based, enterprise pricing |
The technical hiring platform problem
Many editorial teams find themselves evaluating HackerRank because their organisation adopted it for engineering hiring and HR extended it across all roles. This is a category mismatch with real consequences.
A general English communication test — the kind found in HackerRank's library — cannot assess the specialist skills that distinguish a capable editor from a great one: the ability to restructure a paragraph without changing the author's voice, to catch a consistency error 40 pages into a manuscript, or to correctly apply track changes in a Word document under time pressure.
These skills require purpose-built instruments written for editorial work and benchmarked against editorial professionals — not software engineers or business communicators.
Frequently asked questions
Does HackerRank have editorial or proofreading tests?
Can I use HackerRank and EditingTests.com in the same hiring process?
Our company already uses HackerRank. Is it difficult to add EditingTests.com?
How does EditingTests.com validate its editorial assessments?
The right tool for editorial hiring.
Seven specialist assessments, 130,000+ candidate benchmark, in use since 1998. Try any test free — no account required.