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Kruti Dev is the most widely used legacy Devanagari font in India, and for a large number of state government recruitment tests it is still the layout candidates are examined on. If your notification names Kruti Dev, this is the layout to practise — not InScript, and not Remington Gail, however much more modern they may be. The key positions are what the exam will measure.
Technically, Kruti Dev is not a keyboard layout at all but a font. Typing in it means typing ordinary Latin bytes, which the Kruti Dev font then draws as Devanagari glyphs. That is why a Kruti Dev document opened on a machine without the font turns into unreadable Latin gibberish, and why examination boards have been steadily moving to Unicode. This test takes the honest route: it reproduces the exact Remington-family key positions Kruti Dev uses, so your fingers learn the real thing, but it writes proper Unicode Devanagari to the screen so the text stays readable and your results stay meaningful.
Two habits make Kruti Dev distinctive under the fingers, and both trip up typists coming from Unicode layouts. The short-i matra is struck BEFORE its consonant — you type ि then क to get कि — and the reph is struck AFTER its base consonant even though it is written before it. Those orderings are a direct inheritance from the typewriter, where the carriage had to move in a particular direction, and they are the single most common source of errors when a Kruti Dev typist first practises on a Unicode engine. This test handles the reordering for you, exactly as the font does.
Practise at the length your exam actually sets rather than at whatever feels comfortable. State typing tests commonly run to a fixed passage or a fixed number of minutes, and the skills those demand differ: a short test rewards burst speed, a long one rewards a rhythm you can hold. Match the test length here to the notification and the score you see will mean something.
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.
Yes, for many state-level recruitment tests, though the picture is shifting. Central examinations have largely moved to Unicode Mangal, while a number of state boards and court or clerical recruitments continue to examine in Kruti Dev. Always check the notification for the exam you are sitting, since boards change this between cycles.
No. This test reproduces the Kruti Dev key positions but renders the result as Unicode Devanagari, so it works in any browser with nothing installed. What you practise is the finger movement, which is the part the exam measures.
It is inherited from the mechanical typewriter, where ि had to be struck first so the carriage ended in the right place. Kruti Dev kept that behaviour, so कि is typed as ि then क. This test applies the same reordering, which is why the character appears to jump into place as you type.
The key positions are essentially the same — both are Remington-family legacy fonts, and a typist fluent in one can use the other almost immediately. They differ in the font files and in which exams and offices adopted them, which is why they are offered here as separate tests.
Let the exam decide. If your notification specifies Kruti Dev, practise Kruti Dev. If it specifies Mangal or Unicode, learn InScript, or Remington Gail if you already have typewriter muscle memory. If nothing constrains you, InScript is the better long-term investment because its output is readable everywhere.
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.