Vickers microhardness for polished Cu specimen has been measured by conventional and new methods. The conventional microhardness was measured by observing the diagonal of inderitation after the load was removed. Whereas, the new method for microhardness was obtained by measuring the þenetration depth of indenter into the specimen under the load. As the applied load was increased, the microhardnessiobtained by new method was increased. When the applied load was in the range of 5 mN to 80 mN, the rate of elastic to total depth of indenter was about 6 % and the calculated deþth of rounded indenter was 0.07 μm. The diffurence in microhardness measured by two different methods such as conventional and new methods can be explained in terms of the elastic deformation of specimen, the shape of practical indenter and pile up of material.