What TypeForExam is
TypeForExam is a free, browser-based typing-practice platform for people preparing for the typing and data-entry stages of government recruitment in India: SSC CHSL and CGL, IBPS Clerk, RRB NTPC, MP's CPCT certification, court clerk and high-court typist posts, stenographer skill tests, and the LDC, UDC and junior-assistant grades run by state boards from UPSSSC to Kerala PSC.
Here is what that means in concrete numbers, counted from the site itself rather than rounded up for effect:
- 95 exam-specific typing-test pages, each with its own rule sheet, passage style and practice runner.
- Practice in 12 languages — English, Hindi in both of its competing layouts (Mangal Unicode on InScript, Kruti Dev on Remington), and ten regional languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia and Assamese.
- 8 legacy-font converters — Kruti Dev, Bamini, Bijoy, Anu, Nudi, Saral, Shusha and Anmol Lipi — each converting to and from Unicode in both directions, plus a WPM ↔ KDPH calculator.
- 3 structured typing tutors (English, Mangal InScript, Kruti Dev), ten lessons each, from home row to full exam mock.
- 20 long-form preparation guides on the blog, and typing-test pages for 12 civil-service systems outside India, from the UK Civil Service to Nepal's Lok Sewa.
Everything above is free, and nothing requires an account.
Why this site exists
In most recruitments the typing test is a qualifying stage. It doesn't add marks — it just decides whether your written-exam score survives. That makes failing it uniquely painful: candidates who beat lakhs of competitors on the Tier 1 and Tier 2 papers go out on a ten-minute skill test.
And most of those failures are avoidable. The same handful of mistakes show up again and again:
- Practising on the wrong Hindi layout. Mangal on InScript and Kruti Dev on Remington share almost no key positions. A candidate who practises for six months on the wrong one starts from zero on exam day.
- Misreading the scoring unit. SSC states cutoffs in net words per minute; RRB NTPC states them in key depressions per hour (8,000 KDPH for typist posts). "Am I fast enough?" has a different answer depending on which unit your exam uses.
- Misunderstanding error calculation. Gross speed versus net speed, full mistakes versus half mistakes — two candidates with identical raw speed can land on opposite sides of a cutoff purely on how their errors are counted.
- Practising on generic typing sites. A one-minute English sprint with backspace enabled tells you very little about a ten-minute Hindi passage typed under exam-software rules.
General-purpose typing sites can't fix this, because the conditions differ exam by exam. So we build a separate page per exam, with that exam's duration, language, layout, scoring unit and error rules.
How we check exam rules
This is the part of the site we treat as non-negotiable, because a wrong cutoff on a typing site is worse than no information at all.
- Rule sheets are cross-checked against the current year's official notification PDFs before publishing — SSC, RRB and IBPS notices for central exams, the relevant commission or board's notice for state ones. Where a notification is ambiguous, we say so on the page instead of guessing.
- Cutoffs are stated in the exam's own unit. The SSC CHSL typing test page says 35 WPM net in English and 30 WPM net in Hindi over 10 minutes, because that's how SSC scores it. The RRB NTPC page talks in KDPH, because that's how the railways score it. We don't flatten everything into one convenient number.
- Both Hindi layouts are documented wherever Hindi typing appears, because exams genuinely differ: some mandate Mangal on InScript, some still run Kruti Dev, and a few — CPCT among them — let candidates choose. Treating "Hindi typing" as one skill is exactly the mistake that fails candidates.
- Pages get updated when patterns change. Recruitment rules aren't static — durations, cutoffs and permitted fonts shift between notification cycles, and a page that was right last year can quietly become wrong.
Who runs this site
TypeForExam is written and maintained by a small editorial team publishing under one byline: the TypeForExam team. We're not a coaching institute and don't claim to be one. What we do is closer to documentation work — reading notifications, building exam-condition test software, and keeping the two in sync. Pages don't carry individual author names because every page is checked collectively; the byline that matters is the process behind it.
How the tools work
Every test, tutor and converter on this site runs entirely in your browser. When you take a typing test, the passage, the timer and the scoring all execute locally — what you type is not uploaded to or stored on our servers. The font converters work the same way: paste Kruti Dev text into the Kruti Dev ↔ Unicode converter, get Unicode back, with the conversion happening on your own device.
This matters on a 4G connection too. Pages are single files with no heavy frameworks, built to load quickly on the mid-range Android phones most aspirants actually use.
There's no signup, no trial window and no locked "premium" tier. The optional certificate after a test asks for a name to print on it; practice itself never asks for anything.
How the site is funded
TypeForExam is supported by advertising through Google AdSense. That's the entire business model. Ads are kept clearly separate from content and are never placed inside the typing area.
We don't take sponsorships from coaching institutes, we don't run paid rankings or "recommended institute" lists, and we don't sell mock-test packs, courses or PDF bundles on this site. When a coaching institute's name appears in an article, it's context, not a paid placement. Keeping the money side this simple is deliberate: the moment a typing site earns from selling you a course, its advice about what you still need to practise stops being trustworthy.
Corrections
We'd rather be corrected than be confidently wrong. If a rule, cutoff, duration or font requirement on any page contradicts the latest official notification, email contact@typeforexam.com with a link to the notification (or the PDF itself) and the page URL. Corrections of exam-rule errors are prioritised over everything else; ordinary feedback goes through the contact page.
Where to start
If you're new here, three entry points cover most visitors:
- Preparing for an SSC exam: the SSC CHSL typing test page is our most-used rule sheet and runner; CGL aspirants should start with the SSC CGL DEST page instead.
- Learning Hindi typing: the Mangal typing tutor and Kruti Dev typing tutor teach the two layouts from scratch — pick the one your exam mandates. English-medium candidates start at the English typing tutor.
- Unsure how fast you really are: the WPM ↔ KDPH calculator translates your speed into whichever unit your exam uses, and the blog covers strategy in more depth.
Questions, suggestions or corrections: the contact page, or contact@typeforexam.com. For how we handle data, see the privacy policy.
Page counts and tool inventories on this page were last verified against the live site in June 2026 by the TypeForExam team.