Top-row reach — adding 10 more consonants

The InScript top row hosts 10 more consonants. Together with the home-row consonants from Lesson 1, this gives you 16 consonants on the right hand — enough to type most Hindi words.

The key skill in Lesson 3 is the upward reach. Your fingers leave home row to hit the top row, then return. The classic typing-tutor instruction applies: pinky moves first, then ring, then middle, then index. Never let the whole hand drift up; only the active finger.

Combine Lesson 3 drills with Lesson 2 matras. Most of the words you can now type use exactly the keys you have learnt.

After Lesson 3 you can read a Hindi headline and probably type 80 per cent of it. The remaining 20 per cent — special characters, conjuncts, rare letters — comes in Lessons 5 onwards.

The InScript layout was designed for fluency, and the design shows up exactly here. Common letters cluster together, hand alternation is built in, and the top-row reach is intuitive once your muscle memory has the home row.