Safai Karmchari Rajasthan Typing Test (RSMSSB)

Eligibility. Open to candidates who clear RSMSSB Safai Karmchari written exam. Typing is the skill component for office-attached Safai Karmchari cadres in Rajasthan government departments.

The Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Services Selection Board (RSMSSB) recruits Safai Karmchari for state-government office support roles. The cadre handles both physical office-maintenance work and basic data-entry tasks — hence the typing skill component for office-attached positions.

Typing is Hindi-only for this recruitment, reflecting Rajasthan state administration's Hindi-medium official policy. The cutoff is 30 WPM Net on a 10-minute test, with both Mangal Unicode and Kruti Dev fonts accepted at the candidate's preference. Most coaching centres in Sikar, Jaipur, and Kota train candidates on Krutidev for this exam — the legacy preference is strong.

A practical note for aspirants: this exam has a higher acceptance rate for typing speed than SSC because the Safai Karmchari role is not primarily clerical. RSMSSB does not aggressively filter on typing performance beyond the qualifying cutoff. Clearing 30 WPM Net comfortably is enough; chasing higher numbers is not worth the marginal preparation time.

The typing test is qualifying only. Final RSMSSB Safai Karmchari merit is decided on the written exam + caste-category-specific weightages per state policy. Typing eliminates non-qualifiers; exceeding the cutoff adds nothing to selection.

The Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Services Selection Board (RSMSSB) was reorganised in 2022 and renamed the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB). Some older Safai Karmchari notifications still use the RSMSSB name; new notifications carry RSSB. The selection process is otherwise identical: a tier-1 written exam followed by a typing skill test for office-attached posts, with reservations applied per state policy.

The cadre is governed jointly by the Department of Administrative Reforms and the Local Self-Government Department. Different notifications target different employers — some go to urban municipal corporations, some to panchayats, some to government offices at the state secretariat. Read the post-code carefully on your admit card: it tells you which workflow you have signed up for, and therefore whether typing applies to your specific post.

Final selection rosters are published on the official RSSB portal (rsmssb.rajasthan.gov.in, which redirects to the new RSSB domain). The typing test result is published only as Qualified / Not Qualified; the actual WPM scores are not shown in the official mark sheet, though you can request them under RTI if needed for any subsequent appeal.

Rajasthan government has multiple ministerial-support cadres recruited via RSSB. Aspirants frequently confuse them, especially because typing cutoffs overlap.

The 30 WPM Hindi cutoff is the most common bar across Rajasthan ministerial-support cadres. The cadres differ on duties, pay scale, and posting location, but typing prep for one cadre transfers cleanly to the others. If you are preparing for Safai Karmchari today, the same skill will clear LDC, JA, and the lower-tier RSSB clerical exams the next time they are notified.

The 30 WPM Hindi cutoff is measured as Net WPM over a 10-minute test using the standard formula: Net WPM = (total keystrokes ÷ 5 − full-mistake errors) ÷ 10. Errors are deducted as full words. The forgiving part of the math: at 30 WPM, the test demands 300 net "words" in 10 minutes — roughly 1,500 keystrokes after error deductions, or about 2.5 keystrokes per second.

Worked example. You type 360 Devanagari characters per minute (3,600 in 10 minutes) with 35 errors. Gross WPM = 36. Net WPM = 36 − 3.5 = 32.5. You qualify by 2.5 WPM. That is a healthy buffer.

The trap: aspirants who hit 32 Gross WPM with 70 errors land at 25 Net WPM and fail. Hindi typing produces more errors than English at the same Gross speed because the matra-conjunct combinations slow down precision. Train for 90-92% accuracy minimum.

Practical training target: aim for 35 Gross WPM with 94% accuracy in practice. That translates to 33 Net WPM — comfortably above the 30 floor. Use the SSC CHSL Hindi passages on this site at the medium-difficulty setting; the vocabulary and conjunct distribution match RSSB passage patterns reasonably well.

Both Mangal Unicode and Krutidev are accepted at the RSSB application stage. In Rajasthan specifically, coaching-centre culture historically leans toward Krutidev because the Remington-layout typewriter generation of teachers built their curricula on it through the 1990s. Sikar, Jaipur, and Kota coaching hubs still default to Krutidev for new students unless asked otherwise.

That said, the practical recommendation depends on your starting point.

If you have already invested 4+ weeks of Krutidev practice — stay with Krutidev for this exam. The skill transfer to switch fonts now is not worth the disruption.

If you are starting fresh — pick Mangal Inscript. Three reasons: (1) Mangal is the C-DAC government standard for all newer central exams (SSC CHSL, SSC CGL DEST, RRB NTPC, IBPS, court-clerk cadres) so the skill compounds across your career; (2) Mangal's post-base matra placement matches how you mentally pronounce words, making it easier to learn from zero than Krutidev's pre-base i-matra rule; (3) the Mangal layout's symmetry across both hands distributes finger fatigue evenly, which matters on a 10-minute test.

Reference materials on this site: Mangal Inscript keyboard chart, Krutidev keyboard chart. Both pages cover the layout, shift layer, and common conjuncts.

This plan assumes a 12-20 WPM Hindi baseline. If you have never typed in Devanagari before, add a foundation week of consonant-row drills (the home row in Mangal: ँ्ुि‌ोेमनवलस) before starting Week 1.

Week 1 : Layout fluency. 30 minutes daily on a single layout (Mangal or Krutidev , do not switch). Practise individual consonants without matras until finger placement is automatic. Accuracy target: 97%. Speed will sit at 12-16 WPM and that is fine.

Week 2 : Matra integration. Add the five most common vowel matras (ा ि ी े ो) into drills. Practise short Devanagari words (3-5 letter words) on full passages. Accuracy target: 95%. Speed reaches 18-22 WPM naturally.

Week 3 : Conjuncts and full passages. Move to full 10-minute Hindi CHSL passages on this site. Conjuncts like क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र, और श्व appear repeatedly , drill them. Accuracy 94%, speed target 26-30 WPM.

Week 4 : Exam simulation. Three full 10-minute mocks per day. Net WPM target: 33+ on at least 8 of 12 sessions. Practise with backspace disabled for the final 48 hours. Use the early-morning slot if your exam is morning; afternoon if afternoon.

Most aspirants following this plan reach a stable 30-33 Net WPM Hindi by Week 4. That is the comfort zone. Pushing for 35+ Net WPM is unnecessary for Safai Karmchari and reduces accuracy stability under exam-hall stress.

1. Practising in Krutidev, declaring Mangal on the form. The application form's font declaration locks the centre software to that font. Practise in the same font you declared. Read your admit card carefully a week before the exam — if the font shown does not match what you have been practising, raise it with RSSB immediately.

2. Ignoring the pre-base i-matra rule in Krutidev. If you chose Krutidev: the short-i matra (ि) is typed before the consonant on screen even though it appears after the consonant when pronounced. Untrained typists hit the i-matra in pronunciation order and get a string of errors. Drill the rule until it is reflexive.

3. Skipping nukta consonants. Words containing क़ ख़ ग़ ज़ फ़ appear in RSSB Hindi passages occasionally. The nukta dot is a separate keystroke — Mangal uses Shift+] on the consonant. Practise these characters specifically; an untrained typist often skips or mistypes them.

4. Using Devanagari danda (।) inconsistently. Hindi sentences end with danda (U+0964), not a Latin full stop. Some keyboards swap between them mid-passage. The scoring engine treats period-in-place-of-danda as an error. Drill the danda keystroke until it is automatic.

5. Treating Safai Karmchari typing as easier than it is. The cutoff is 30 WPM, lower than SSC CHSL, but Hindi typing is genuinely harder than English typing per WPM. Adjust your prep time accordingly — six weeks for Safai Karmchari Hindi is realistic; four weeks may not be enough for many aspirants.