Learn typing for government exams
Structured lesson tracks that take you from never-typed-before to clearing the SSC CHSL / CGL / Stenographer cutoff. Pick your language and follow the 10-lesson curriculum at your own pace. Free, no signup, no ads inside the lessons.
Pick your typing tutor
Three curricula, each built around the keyboard layout that aspirants actually face in their exam. Same 10-lesson progression: home row, top row, bottom row, numbers, punctuation, conjuncts, common errors, paragraph practice, exam-style passages, full timed mock.
Kruti Dev Typing Tutor
The legacy Remington layout used by SSC Stenographer, Court Clerk, and most Hindi-belt clerical exams. 10 lessons covering home row to full exam passages.
- Pre-base i-matra rule mastered in lesson 2
- Common confusion pairs (ष vs श) drilled separately
- Conjunct practice (क्ष, ज्ञ, श्र) by lesson 6
- Full 10-min mock by lesson 10
Mangal / InScript Tutor
The Unicode InScript layout — what every modern central exam uses (SSC CHSL 2023+, DSSSB, KVS, IBPS Hindi). 10 lessons from finger placement to full timed mock.
- Post-base matra rule (intuitive sequence)
- Conjunct typing via halant (्) key
- Bilingual switching with Ctrl+Space drills
- Real SSC CHSL Mangal mock by lesson 10
English Typing Tutor
QWERTY-layout progression aimed at the SSC CHSL English cutoff (35 WPM Net) and beyond. Exam-style passages from lesson 5 onwards — not random word lists.
- Home row mastery in lesson 1-2
- Accuracy-first drilling (95%+ target)
- Stamina drills for the 8-minute fatigue zone
- Backspace strategy by lesson 7
Where you are, where you want to be
Most aspirants underestimate how much practice it takes to clear the cutoff. Find your stage below and plan realistically.
0–15 WPM
Two-finger typing, looking at the keyboard. Plan 8–12 weeks of daily practice to reach the SSC CHSL Hindi cutoff (30 WPM Net). Start with home-row drills in lessons 1–2 of any tutor.
15–25 WPM
Touch typing emerging, occasional keyboard glances. The 25 WPM plateau is real — read our blog on breaking it. Move through lessons 3–6 of your tutor, focus on accuracy not speed.
25–40 WPM
You can clear SSC CHSL (English 35 or Hindi 30). Polish stamina with 10-minute daily mocks. Lessons 7–10 cover exam-style passages and backspace strategy.
40–65+ WPM
Stenographer Grade D (50 WPM) and Grade C (65 WPM) territory. Backspace-disabled practice mandatory. After tutor completion, run repeated full mocks daily until exam.
Reference resources
Keyboard charts, speed calculators, and the decision guides that aspirants ask us about most often.
WPM ↔ KDPH Converter
Bidirectional speed calculator with cutoffs for SSC, RRB, India Post, Stenographer, and 10+ other exams.
CalculatorKruti Dev → Unicode Converter
Convert Kruti Dev typed text to Unicode Devanagari for Word, Gmail, government forms.
ToolMangal vs Kruti Dev
Decision guide: which Hindi layout to learn first, and how the choice depends on your target exam.
Decision guideSSC CHSL Strategy 2026
The full 4-week prep plan for SSC CHSL Tier 2, including pacing, accuracy drills, and exam-day routines.
StrategyBreaking the 25 WPM Plateau
Why your speed stops at 25 WPM and the three drills that get you unstuck.
StrategyCourt Clerk Preparation
End-to-end preparation playbook for court clerk recruitment — typing + interview strategy.
StrategyKruti Dev keyboard chart
Visual reference for every Kruti Dev key + the Devanagari character it produces. Printable PDF.
Coming soonMangal InScript chart
Visual reference for the Mangal Unicode InScript layout. Pairs with the Mangal tutor lessons.
Coming soonHindi alphabet + counting
Devanagari varnamala (alphabet) and numbers 1-100 in Hindi reference. For beginning aspirants.
Coming soonHow the lessons work
Each curriculum has 10 lessons built on the same progressive structure. Lesson 1 starts at home-row position — your fingers learn where to rest without looking. Lesson 10 ends with a full 10-minute mock test in the exam pattern of your target recruitment.
In between, the lessons cover the keys you actually need in priority order. Lesson 2 adds the row above home. Lesson 3 adds the row below. Lesson 4 introduces numbers and special characters. Lesson 5 stitches everything into short sentences. Lessons 6 and 7 target language-specific traps (the i-matra rule in Kruti Dev, conjunct consonants in Mangal, double-letters in English). Lesson 8 introduces real exam-style passages. Lesson 9 adds the timer and accuracy band. Lesson 10 is the full-length exam mock.
Pacing
The 10 lessons are designed for one lesson every 3–5 days, putting the full course at 4–7 weeks. Faster than that risks under-practising; slower than that risks losing momentum. If you can give 30 minutes a day, you will finish a curriculum in about 5 weeks.
How lessons differ from random typing practice
Most online typing tutors throw a random word list at you and ask you to type it. We do not. Each lesson introduces specific keys, drills them in short patterns, then expands into phrases that use only those keys plus the keys from earlier lessons. By lesson 5 you are typing real words and short sentences. By lesson 8 you are typing the exact passage style your exam will use.
The reason this matters: typing speed is muscle memory, and muscle memory is laid down through specific repetition. Random typing practice gives you generalised speed but does not target the keys that exam passages over-index on. Our drills are weighted by the actual letter frequency in SSC, banking, and stenographer passages.
What you will not find in these lessons
No gamification (no scores, no levels, no streaks). No social leaderboards. No paid tier. The lessons are pure typing instruction in the tradition of typewriter manuals from the 1950s, updated for modern exam patterns. We optimised for learning, not engagement metrics.
Status of the lessons today
The tutor parent pages and full course structures are live. Individual lesson pages roll out across May-July 2026 as we record and quality-check each one. If you reach a "coming soon" lesson, follow the email signup on the parent page and we will let you know when the lesson goes live. In the meantime, use the dedicated exam pages and the typing tests to practise on real exam passages.