Gujarati typing test
Type a Gujarati passage in Unicode, timed like the 10-minute Gujarati part of the High Court of Gujarat's typing test. No Gujarati keyboard? Type on your usual keys: this page turns each one into its Inscript letter.
Type on your usual keys: each one types its Inscript letter, and Shift types the second letter on the key. Press Space after each word. A word with a mistake turns red; Backspace fixes it while you are still in it.
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How this test counts
The test counts 5 key depressions as one word, the usual measure of typing speed. Each letter, vowel sign, virama (્) and space is one key depression, as Inscript types each with one key; Shift is not counted. Exams mark in their own way, so read your speed here as practice, not as an exam result.
Net speed counts only the words you typed exactly right, with the space after each. Gross speed counts everything you typed. A word is checked when you press Space after it, so a word you are still typing when the time ends does not count. A word you leave out or add counts as one mistake, and the words after it still count.
Typing Gujarati on an English keyboard
Inscript puts the vowels under the left hand and the consonants under the right, in the same places as for Hindi. The home row has ો ે ્ િ ુ on the left and પ ર ક ત ચ ટ on the right. Shift gives the second letter on a key: the full vowel instead of its sign (ા becomes આ) and the aspirated consonant (ક becomes ખ).
Some letters sit under Shift: ળ is Shift + N, ણ is Shift + C and શ is Shift + M. To join two consonants, type the first, then the virama ્ (the D key), then the second: સ, ્, ત gives સ્ત. Four joined letters have keys of their own: Shift + 5 types જ્ઞ, Shift + 6 ત્ર, Shift + 7 ક્ષ and Shift + 8 શ્ર. Gujarati ends a sentence with a full stop, as the passages here do.
To type Inscript everywhere, add Gujarati in Windows: Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region > Add a language. Its keyboard, Gujarati, has the same keys as this page. Hold the Windows key and press Space to switch between your keyboards.
Gujarati typing for government jobs
The High Court of Gujarat's computer-based typing test for Assistants in the District Judiciary and Assistant/Cashiers in the Industrial and Labour Courts (notice of 14 August 2024) has two 10-minute parts, Gujarati and then English, each marked out of 20 with 8 needed to qualify. Candidates may not bring their own keyboard: they type on the one provided.
The passages here are Unicode Gujarati, the text that Windows' Gujarati keyboard and phone keyboards type, and the page opens on the test's 10 minutes. Other employers set their own speeds and marking, so check the notice for your post.
For English, take the typing test; for Hindi and Marathi, the Hindi and Marathi typing tests; to learn which finger presses each key, start the typing lessons; and for the speeds other government jobs ask for, see typing speed for jobs.
Sources: High Court of Gujarat, typing test notice for Assistants, 14 August 2024; Microsoft Learn, Gujarati keyboard; Microsoft Support, language and keyboard settings in Windows. The passages are our own.