Hindi typing test
Type a Hindi passage in Unicode, the Mangal text SSC's Hindi typing test asks for. No Hindi 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
Like SSC, the test counts 5 key depressions as one word, so 30 words a minute is 9,000 key depressions an hour. Each letter, vowel sign, virama (्) and space is one key depression, as Inscript types each with one key; Shift is not counted.
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 Hindi on an English keyboard
Inscript puts the vowels under the left hand and the consonants under the right. The home row has ो े ् ि ु on the left and प र क त च ट on the right. Shift gives the second letter on a key: the full vowel instead of its sign (ा becomes आ) and the aspirated consonant (क becomes ख).
To join two consonants, type the first, then the virama ् (the D key), then the second: क, ्, ष gives क्ष. Four joined letters also have keys of their own: Shift + 5 types ज्ञ, Shift + 6 त्र, Shift + 7 क्ष and Shift + 8 श्र. The danda । is Shift + full stop.
To type Inscript everywhere, add Hindi in Windows: Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region > Add a language. Its keyboard, Hindi Traditional, has the same keys as this page. Hold the Windows key and press Space to switch between your keyboards.
Mangal, Unicode and Krutidev
SSC's notice for the 2026 Combined Higher Secondary Level exam says that candidates who take the typing test in Hindi must type in the Mangal font only, and that using any other font means failing the test. Mangal shows Unicode Hindi, the text that Inscript, Remington (GAIL) keyboards for Mangal and phone keyboards type. Krutidev and DevLys are older fonts that draw Hindi letters over English letter codes, so text typed for them is not Unicode and does not match the passages here.
Practise on these passages at the length of your test: 10 minutes for SSC. For English, take the typing test; 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.
Typing in Marathi? Take the Marathi typing test: the same Inscript keys, with Marathi passages.
Sources: Staff Selection Commission, notice of the Combined Higher Secondary Level Examination 2026 (paragraph 13.9.13.7) and final result of the 2024 examination (mistake cut-offs); Microsoft Learn, Hindi Traditional keyboard; Microsoft Support, language and keyboard settings in Windows. The passages are our own.