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Devlys is a legacy Devanagari font from the same Remington family as Kruti Dev, and it became the house standard in a good deal of judicial, clerical and district-level government work. Where an office or a recruitment board specified Devlys years ago, the documents, the templates and the examiners tend to still be there, which is why it continues to appear in notifications long after Unicode became the technically better answer.
Under the fingers, Devlys is close enough to Kruti Dev that a typist fluent in either can sit down at the other and work. Both descend from the Remington typewriter arrangement, so the consonants fall in the same places and the same characters are built from sequences rather than single keys. The practical differences are in the font files and in institutional habit rather than in what your hands do, which means practice here transfers directly if your exam turns out to specify the other one.
Like every legacy font, Devlys writes Latin bytes that only look like Hindi while the Devlys font is installed. Send that document to someone without the font and they receive gibberish; search it, and nothing matches. This test therefore separates the two halves of the problem — it drills the genuine Devlys key positions, including the typewriter orderings for the short-i matra and the reph, while putting real Unicode Devanagari on your screen so the passage stays readable and your accuracy figures stay honest.
If you are preparing for a specific post, practise at the passage length the notification sets and pay as much attention to accuracy as to speed. Clerical and court typing tests are usually marked with an error threshold that disqualifies rather than merely deducts, so a slower, clean run is worth far more than a fast one with mistakes scattered through it.
A one-minute typing test is the quickest honest answer to "how fast do I type?" You get a passage, sixty seconds on the clock, and a words-per-minute figure the moment the timer stops. It is short enough to take on a coffee break and repeat five times in a row, which makes it the natural starting point if you have never measured your speed before.
What a single minute actually measures is your burst speed — how fast you type when you are fresh, focused and have not yet felt any fatigue. That is genuinely useful information, but it is worth knowing that almost everyone scores highest on the one-minute test and lower on every longer one. A typist who hits 55 WPM over a minute might settle at 45 WPM over ten. Neither number is wrong; they are measuring different things. Treat your one-minute score as your ceiling, not your working pace.
For that reason the one-minute test is best used as a daily habit rather than a final verdict. Take it once before you start practising to warm your hands up, and once after, to see whether the session moved anything. Because the sample is small, a single run bounces around a lot — an unfamiliar word or one bad backspace can swing the result by several WPM. Run it three times and take the middle score if you want a number you can trust.
Watch accuracy as closely as speed here. Over sixty seconds, a handful of uncorrected mistakes drags your net WPM down sharply, because the error penalty is spread across so few words. Typists who slow down by ten percent and stop making errors almost always end up with a higher net score than typists who race and correct. If you are choosing one thing to fix, fix the errors first — speed follows accuracy far more reliably than the reverse.
Very little from the typist's point of view — both are Remington-family legacy fonts and the key positions are essentially the same, so skill in one transfers to the other. They differ in the font files themselves and in which offices and boards adopted them. Practise the one your notification names.
It appears most often in judicial, clerical and district-level recruitment where Devlys was adopted as the office standard. Because boards revise their requirements between cycles, treat the notification for your specific exam as the authority rather than any general list.
No. This test reproduces the Devlys key positions and renders Unicode Devanagari on screen, so it runs in any browser with nothing installed. The finger movements you practise are the ones the exam measures.
Because Devlys inherits the typewriter's striking order. The short-i matra ि is typed before its consonant and the reph after its base, even though both are written the other way round. The test reorders them as you type, exactly as the font does, so what you see is the correctly formed word.
Only if an exam or an employer requires it. For general use, Unicode layouts such as InScript produce text that is searchable, portable and readable without any font installed. If Devlys is what you are being tested on, though, practising anything else will not help your score.
It is accurate for what it measures — your fresh, short-burst speed — but it is a small sample, so individual runs vary. Expect a spread of several WPM between attempts. Take it three times and use the middle result, or move to a 3-minute test if you want a steadier number.
Around 40 WPM is a solid everyday standard, 50 to 60 WPM is comfortably fast, and above 70 WPM is genuinely quick. Beginners commonly start between 20 and 30 WPM. Because the one-minute test flatters you slightly, aim a little higher here than you would on a longer test.
No. The 1-minute test is free and open to everyone on 91Typing with no account needed — just start typing. Creating a free account only adds progress tracking, so you can see your WPM trend over weeks instead of a single score.
Correct them. Uncorrected errors are deducted from your net WPM, and over a single minute that penalty is heavy because it is spread over so few words. Backspacing costs you a moment; leaving the error costs you more.
Daily is reasonable, as a warm-up and a quick check. But do not mistake repeated testing for practice — improvement comes from structured lessons and drills on your weak keys. The test tells you where you are; the lessons are what move you.