Use this practice module to test your Hindi typing speed and accuracy using the same logic as the main typing test. The on-screen keyboard above can help you learn key positions while you type the prompt below.
When you press Start, the text area above will be filled with Hindi words. Type the same text in the main typing box on the keyboard card. Your performance will be measured and saved like a normal typing test.
Online Hindi Keyboard is a free online software that enables you to type efficiently and accurately with or without the help of your physical keyboard. It provides you additional facility of virtual on-screen keyboard using which you can type with the help of mouse only. By using this free site you do not need to install Hindi fonts on your computer. You can press appropriate key combinations to type your desired Hindi content on this website and later you can copy and paste your typed Hindi content anywhere else you want.
Other than practicing Hindi Typing you can type your important emails, documents, letters etc in Hindi language. This keyboard tool is fast, efficient and accurate. You no longer need to remember Hindi keyboard layout. Just click on the website and start typing, that is it. Two keyboard layouts are offered. These two are popular with Hindi typists: Hindi Remington and Hindi Inscript.
What initially inspired the creation of this website is the difficulty faced by novice typists to write Hindi content when they do not know the keyboard layout. The team vision behind this website is to help those people who do not know Hindi typing keyboard layout by making a website which is fast, efficient and robust. It can help people who sometimes find it urgent to write some content in Hindi. The site provides you an on-screen keyboard with Hindi typing keyboard layout with the help of which you can write as much Hindi content as you wish with the reach of a single click.
This website is not only helpful to those users whose need to write Hindi content is meagre and infrequent but also to those who want to write long material in Hindi without the intention or time to remember layout.
The first typewriter was designed by IBM but its keystrokes frequently tangled with each other during typing, so they came up with a unique solution that was redesigning the key arrangement on the keyboard so that tangling of keys could become less frequent. That is how the QWERTY keyboard layout of English was born and with time it became very common.
Similarly in India typewriters were designed by taking into consideration the most frequent keys which compose words and avoiding the problem of tangling of keys. That is how Remington keyboard layout, which is also called KrutiDev font layout, was born but with time computers replaced typewriters while the key arrangement on the keyboard remained the same.
In later times government came up with the idea of same keyboard layout across all Indian languages so they designed keyboard layouts with scientific methods. That is how they designed the Inscript keyboard layout which is also called Mangal font layout.
Most of the government exams hold typing exams mostly in KrutiDev font. Learning to type in Hindi is slightly time-consuming and takes great effort on the part of beginners because Hindi has way more letters in comparison to English so you need to practice a little more.
There are mainly two layouts used in Hindi typing:
Remington keyboard layout is the most popular and most frequently used layout for typing Devanagari script. Remington keyboard is considered standard Hindi keyboard layout. Remington was the company who made this name popular and was credited for highest production of this keyboard. Thus the name stuck as Remington keyboard.
In the time period of typing machines Remington layout was highly popular among typists. Remington keyboard layout for Hindi is still used in Indian and state government exams like Informatics Assistant, Court Clerk and Personal Assistant. These two Hindi fonts Devlys and Kruti Dev are widely used in Hindi typing exams. Unlike 26 English alphabets, Hindi alphabets and all other Hindi symbols are not possible to have separate buttons on the keyboard otherwise it will consume mammoth space and capital for keyboard production. To get around this problem Hindi keyboard layout has arrangement of Alt + (number codes) for special symbols.
InScript (abbreviation of Indian script) is the standard keyboard layout for Indian language scripts using a standard 104 or 105 key layout. This keyboard layout is standardized by Government of India for most regional Indian languages and has been revised many times.
Inscript keyboard layout is frequently used by many Hindi journalists who write Hindi content on the internet in the form of blogs or articles. But despite many attempts by Government of India to make it standard among regional language typists, it still is not very popular even with government employees. Most work in government is still executed using Remington keyboard layout.
This keyboard uses Mangal Hindi font. It is very difficult to break the habits of learned typists. This keyboard layout is still used in many government exams like SSC and Data Entry Hindi typing tests.
Just bring your cursor to the text field and start typing with your keyboard. There is an additional facility in case your keyboard does not work properly, you can also type using mouse. Bring mouse pointer to the respective key on virtual Hindi keyboard and click on it, respective letter will be shown in the text field.
Both kinds of keyboard layout mentioned above are demanded in government jobs typing tests and both layouts are provided here. All you have to do is just switch the keyboard layout and select the one you prefer the most. There is an additional facility of switching to English QWERTY keyboard in case you need to type something in English.
Most keys on a keyboard have two terms or letters printed on them. You can type the lower term by just pressing or clicking on that key but for upper term you need to first press and hold the Shift key and then press the respective key.