Typing Speed Test in English and Hindi with Exam Targets
Timed or full-passage typing practice with net WPM, accuracy, pace chart and SSC, RRB and UPSSSC benchmarks.
Exam benchmarks
Pick the exam you're preparing for; the chart shows its target line.
| Exam | English | Hindi | Your best |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSC CHSL (LDC / JSA) | 35 WPM | 30 WPM | – |
| RRB NTPC typing posts | 30 WPM | 25 WPM | – |
| UPSSSC Junior Assistant | 30 WPM | 25 WPM | – |
| MP CPCT | 30 WPM | 20 WPM | – |
| Delhi Police HC (Ministerial) | 30 WPM | 25 WPM | – |
Net WPM is the standard exam measure: five characters make one word, and only characters that are still correct at the end count. Gross WPM counts everything you typed. Requirements above are from recent notifications and do change between cycles, so always confirm against yours. Exam software (SSC, railways, state boards) scores on its own rules; treat this as practice.
About this tool
Several recruitment exams end with a qualifying computer typing test. SSC CHSL for LDC and JSA posts, RRB NTPC typing posts, UPSSSC Junior Assistant, MP CPCT and Delhi Police ministerial posts all ask for a minimum speed in English or Hindi, and candidates who clear the written paper still get dropped here for a few words per minute.
This test lets you practise the way those exams measure you. Pick English or Hindi, a passage type (exam-style text, general prose or number-heavy text) and a duration of 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes, or type one full passage untimed. Time left, net WPM and accuracy update live while you type.
At the end you get net and gross words per minute, accuracy, a pace chart with your errors plotted on it, a consistency score, your most-missed keys, and a pass or short verdict against the exam you select from the benchmark table.
How to use the typing speed test
- Choose English or Hindi, then a passage type: Exam text, General or Numbers.
- Pick a mode from 30s, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min or Full passage.
- Click your exam in the benchmarks table so its target line appears on the chart.
- Click the passage area and start typing; the clock starts on your first keystroke.
- Keep going until the timer ends or the passage is complete.
- Read the result cards, then press Tab to repeat or Esc for a new passage.
How net WPM, gross WPM and accuracy are scored
A word is five characters, including spaces and punctuation, the convention most exam typing software follows. When the run ends, the tool compares what you typed, character by character, with the passage. Each character that matches is correct and each that does not is incorrect.
Only the final text counts for net WPM and accuracy. A mistake you backspace and fix is no longer in the final text, so it does not reduce those two figures, though it still appears in the errors count.
- Gross WPM: characters typed divided by 5, divided by minutes, rounded
- Net WPM: correct characters divided by 5, divided by minutes, rounded
- Accuracy: correct characters as a percentage of characters typed, rounded
- CPM: correct characters divided by minutes
- Keystrokes: characters typed plus backspaces
- Errors: every wrong character at the moment it was typed, fixed later or not; 'left uncorrected' is the count still wrong at the end
- Consistency: 100 minus the standard deviation of your per-second net WPM readings as a percentage of their mean, floored at zero
Worked example in 1-minute English mode
Hypothetical: in 1 min mode with English exam text and SSC CHSL selected, you type 190 characters in 60 seconds, making 11 wrong keystrokes and pressing Backspace 6 times to fix some of them. In the final text, 182 characters match the passage and 8 do not.
For consistency, suppose five of the per-second net readings were 34, 38, 36, 40 and 32. The mean is 36 and the standard deviation about 2.83, which is 7.9 percent of the mean, so consistency shows as 92 percent.
| Measure | Arithmetic | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| Gross WPM | 190 / 5 / 1 minute | 38 gross |
| Net WPM | 182 / 5 / 1 minute = 36.4 | 36 WPM |
| Accuracy | 182 / 190 x 100 = 95.8 | 96% |
| CPM | 182 / 1 minute | 182 CPM |
| Keystrokes | 190 typed + 6 backspaces | 196 (6 backspaces) |
| Errors | 11 slips, 8 still wrong at the end | 11 (8 left uncorrected) |
| Benchmark | 36 against the SSC CHSL English target of 35 | Clears SSC CHSL (LDC / JSA) |
Reading the result panel
The blue card is the headline. Net WPM is the figure that matters for an exam. Below it the card says whether you clear the selected exam or by how many WPM you fell short, using that exam's English or Hindi figure to match the language you typed in.
The pace chart plots net WPM (dark line) and gross WPM (grey line) for every second of the run, with the exam target as a dashed orange line and a red dot wherever you made a fresh error, so you can see what each correction cost you.
The accuracy and consistency rings turn green at 95 percent and above, amber from 85 to 94, and red below that. 'Words with mistakes' lists up to 12 passage words that ended with a wrong character, and 'Keys you missed most' shows up to six characters you mistyped most often, which points to a weak finger or an unfamiliar Hindi matra.
The exam benchmarks
The table lists minimum speeds commonly cited for five recruitments. SSC CHSL (LDC / JSA) is listed at 35 WPM English and 30 WPM Hindi; RRB NTPC typing posts, UPSSSC Junior Assistant and Delhi Police Head Constable (Ministerial) at 30 and 25; and MP CPCT at 30 and 20. They come from recent notifications and move between cycles, so confirm the number in yours.
Your best net WPM for the current language and mode appears in the last column as 'Clears' or the number of WPM short for each exam.
SSC's Data Entry Speed Test (DEST) for DEO posts is specified in key depressions per hour (8,000 KDPH is the commonly cited figure), and this tool does not score a DEST.
Where this differs from the exam software
Exam bodies run their own typing software with their own scoring. Some count a wrong word as a whole-word error, some penalise errors beyond a percentage threshold, and some allow no backspacing. Your exam score may therefore differ from what you see on this page.
In timed modes the passage is extended automatically when you get within 40 characters of its end. In Full passage mode the run ends when you type the last character.
Hindi passages are Unicode text, which most government typing tests now use. Inscript, Remington, Krutidev-mapped or phonetic input all work, since the test only compares the characters that reach the page with the passage.
Everything runs in the browser. The passages are built into the page and your best scores are kept in local storage on this device only.
Frequently asked questions
›What typing speed is needed for SSC CHSL and what is DEST?
For LDC and JSA posts, the commonly cited SSC CHSL typing requirement is 35 words per minute in English or 30 in Hindi, measured over a 10-minute test on a computer. The Data Entry Speed Test for DEO posts is different and is stated as key depressions per hour, with 8,000 KDPH the usual figure. Both come from past notifications and can change, so check the one you are applying under.
›Why is my net WPM lower than my gross WPM?
Gross WPM counts every character you typed, right or wrong. Net WPM counts only the characters that still match the passage when the run ends. The gap between them is your uncorrected errors expressed as words. In the example above, 190 typed characters give 38 gross, but with 8 wrong characters in the final text only 182 count, giving 36 net. Exams look at the net figure, so accuracy is worth more than raw speed.
›Do mistakes I fix with Backspace count against me?
Not in net WPM or accuracy, because those compare only the final text with the passage. They do count in two other places. The errors card records every wrong keystroke at the moment you make it, and the keystrokes card includes each backspace. Those two numbers show how much time you are spending on repairs, which is time lost in a real test even when the final text is clean.
›Which Hindi font or keyboard layout does the test use?
The Hindi passages are Unicode text, so they display in Mangal or any Devanagari font on your system, which matches the Unicode Hindi used in most government typing tests today. The layout is whatever your operating system is set to: Inscript, Remington (Krutidev-style mapping), Google Input Tools or a phonetic keyboard all work, since the test compares the characters you produce with the passage, not the keys you press.
›Where is my personal best saved and can I reset it?
It is saved in your browser's local storage on this device, one value for each combination of language and mode, and it is updated only when a run's net WPM beats the stored figure. Nothing is sent to a server, so a different browser or device starts fresh. Clearing site data for this website in your browser settings removes the stored bests. In a private window the best is not kept.
›Why does the passage get longer while I am typing?
In the timed modes the test adds another passage from the same language and category when you come within 40 characters of the end, so a fast typist in 5-minute mode never runs out of text before the clock stops. The joined text is scored as one passage. In Full passage mode nothing is added, and the run ends the moment you type the last character of the single passage.
›What does the consistency percentage mean?
It measures how even your pace was. The tool records your net WPM every second, finds the standard deviation of those readings, divides it by the average and subtracts that fraction from 100 percent. A typist who holds 36 WPM throughout scores close to 100; one who bursts to 50 and stalls at 20 scores much lower. Readings of zero are ignored, and runs with fewer than three readings are shown as 100.