Hindi · Typing test
Hindi typing test: pick your layout
Kruti Dev, Remington GAIL or Mangal InScript. Type a Hindi passage for 1 to 15 minutes; your keys become Unicode and are scored by word, with full and half mistakes.
Settings Remington GAIL · 5 min · Practice
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Passage text is original to this site.
Use a hardware keyboard with the English (US) layout selected. Keys follow Remington GAIL: for example Hkkjr = भारत. Press Esc to restart.
01 · The three layouts
Same passage, three ways to type it.
Kruti Dev
The Hindi typewriter arrangement, taught by most coaching books. Ordinary keys on a US keyboard; ि is typed before the letter and reph after it. Needs Alt codes for a few glyphs, so passages here avoid them.
Take the Kruti Dev test →Remington GAIL
A typewriter layout that gives Unicode directly. Named in the SSC CHSL 2023 Tier II instructions. Single keys for त्र, द्ध, श्र, ज्ञ; reph goes before the letter.
Take the Remington GAIL test →Mangal InScript
The standard government layout: every Indian script on the same keys, no reordering. Consonants on the right hand, vowel signs on the left. Typed in Unicode and shown in Mangal in most exams.
Take the Mangal InScript test →02 · Keystrokes side by side
What you would press for the same words.
Generated from each layout’s own code, with ि typed in typewriter order. Two typists on different layouts produce identical Unicode.
| Word | Kruti Dev | Remington GAIL | InScript |
|---|---|---|---|
| भारत | Hkkjr | Hkkjr | Yejl |
| हिन्दी | fgUnh | fgUnh | ufvdor |
| कार्य | dk;Z | dkZ; | kejd/ |
| शिक्षा | f'k{kk | f'k{kk | Mfkd<e |
| विद्यालय | fo|ky; | fo~ky; | bfod/en/ |
| ज्ञान | Kku | Kku | pd}ev |
| प्रधानमंत्री | iz/kkuea=h | iz/kkuearzh | hdjOevcxldjr |
03 · Hindi-specific scoring
No capital letters, but the danda matters.
SSC’s evaluation guidelines say the capitalisation rule “does not apply in respect of Hindi Typewriting scripts”, so Hindi tests ignore case. A missing, extra or replaced punctuation mark, including the danda (।), is a half mistake. Spacing errors are half mistakes; a wrong or missing word, or a spelling slip such as a wrong matra, is a full mistake.
Because several Hindi spellings are acceptable in daily use (for example ं against ँ), the passage text is what you must match. Copy it letter for letter, as in an exam.
See also how to type in Kruti Dev for typing exams and the Remington GAIL keyboard.
04 · Scoring
Every number, and where it comes from.
Speed
- Word
- Five key depressions. This ratio is how exam speeds are quoted: 35 w.p.m. is 10,500 key depressions an hour and 30 w.p.m. is 9,000.
- Gross WPM
- Key depressions ÷ 5 ÷ minutes typed. Backspace presses are not counted as typing. Generic definition.
- Net WPM
- Gross WPM minus weighted mistakes per minute (a full mistake counts 1, a half mistake ½). A common generic definition; none of the exam notices we read publishes a net-speed formula, so treat it as an estimate.
Accuracy
- Error percentage
- (full mistakes + half mistakes ÷ 2) × 100 ÷ words of the passage you reached. This is the formula SSC publishes for stenography evaluation; the typing notices we read give the mistake classes but no formula, so we apply the same one.
- Word accuracy
- 100 minus the error percentage. This is the headline accuracy.
- Character accuracy
- Letters you typed correctly out of letters typed, as an edit distance on grapheme clusters, so a conjunct or a letter with its matra counts as one unit and a half-typed conjunct is not flagged while you are still building it.
Full mistakes (1 each)
- Omitting a word or figure
- Replacing a word with a wrong one
- Adding a word that is not in the passage
- A spelling error (a letter repeated, added, left out or swapped)
- Repeating a word
- An incomplete word
Half mistakes (½ each)
- Spacing errors: two words run together, or a space inside a word
- Punctuation omitted, added or changed
- Two words swapped (transposition)
The mistake classes follow SSC Eastern Region’s Revised Guidelines for Evaluation of Typing Test/DEST Scripts. The SSC CHSL 2023 candidate instructions and some coaching summaries list a repeated letter in a spelling as a half mistake; the evaluation guidelines call it a full mistake, and we follow the guidelines. Other recruiters count differently. We do not score paragraph-indent mistakes, because the test box has no Tab-indent rule.
04 · FAQ
Questions about this page
Which Hindi layout should I learn?
The one your exam names in its notification. The SSC CHSL 2023 Tier II typing instructions listed InScript, Kruti Dev, Remington GAIL and Remington CBI layouts. If you are choosing for yourself: Kruti Dev and Remington GAIL suit people who learned on a typewriter; InScript is built into Windows, macOS and Linux and works the same way across Indian scripts.
Is the comparison done in Unicode?
Yes, for every layout. Your keys become Unicode text, which is compared with a Unicode passage. Kruti Dev keystrokes go through the converter engine, so what you type is exactly what the Kruti Dev converter would produce.
Why do matras and conjuncts count as one character?
Letters are compared as grapheme clusters, the units a reader sees. A consonant with its matra, or a full conjunct, is one unit, so one wrong matra is one mistake rather than several.
Do I need a Hindi keyboard installed?
No. You use your normal English (US) keyboard. The test reads key positions, so even if your computer is set to another language the keys still map correctly.
Why is my score lower than on other sites?
Different sites count different things: characters instead of words, no penalty for half mistakes, or no penalty at all. Here a wrong word costs a full mistake and a missing danda a half mistake, which is stricter than a plain character count.
Are the passages real exam passages?
No. They are original, written for this site, so you can practise without memorising an exam text.