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It says that the significand of a data set from the universe is not uniformly, but logarithmically distributed. Especially, the first non-zero digit is One with an approximate probability of 0.3. There are several tests available for testing Benford, the best known are Pearson\u2019s <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\\chi ^2$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:msup>\n                    <mml:mi>\u03c7<\/mml:mi>\n                    <mml:mn>2<\/mml:mn>\n                  <\/mml:msup>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>-test, the Kolmogorov\u2013Smirnov test and a modified version of the MAD-test. In the present paper we propose some tests, three of the four invariant sum tests are new and they are motivated by the sum invariance property of the Benford law. Two distance measures are investigated, Euclidean and Mahalanobis distance of the standardized sums to the orign. We use the significands corresponding to the first significant digit as well as the second significant digit, respectively. Moreover, we suggest inproved versions of the MAD-test and obtain critical values that are independent of the sample sizes. For illustration the tests are applied to specifically selected data sets where prior knowledge is available about being or not being Benford. 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