Home row consonants — building speed on six keys

Lesson 1 introduced the home-row position and the pre-base i-matra rule. Lesson 2 stays on the same six keys plus the र key (right pinky on the semicolon) and drills your fingers until they can find these letters without looking. The goal at the end of this lesson: type the first real Hindi words by reflex.

These six keys — क-त-न-य-व-र — appear in roughly 35 per cent of any Hindi passage. If you can type them at 30 WPM without looking, you have the foundation for everything else. The rest of the curriculum just adds more keys to the same touch-typing baseline.

Pace yourself. The goal is not speed yet, it is finger memory. Spend more time looking at the screen and less at the keyboard. If you find yourself peeking, slow down.

By the end of Lesson 2 you should be able to type six Krutidev letters at roughly 15 WPM without looking. This is the floor — every subsequent lesson assumes this. If you cannot, repeat Lesson 2 for another week before moving on. Skipping the foundation costs you four times as much later.

The other quiet win of this lesson: you start to feel the rhythm of touch typing. Your hands stop bouncing between keys and start gliding. That is the skill we are training, not the WPM number.