Raavi is the Unicode Gurmukhi font that ships with Windows, and InScript is the standard keyboard layout used to type it. When a Punjab recruitment notification asks for Punjabi typing "in Raavi font", this is the combination it means: the text goes into the document as real Unicode Gurmukhi, so it can be searched, copied and opened on any computer without a special font.
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InScript was designed by the Government of India as one layout for every Indian script, and it shows. Vowel signs sit under the left hand and consonants under the right, in the traditional alphabet order, so a typist who already knows Hindi InScript finds most Punjabi letters on the same keys. The differences are the Gurmukhi-only signs: the tippi and bindi for nasal sounds, the addak that doubles the next consonant, and the subjoined forms of ਰ, ਹ and ਵ.
Those signs are where most practice time should go. The tippi (on X) and the bindi (on Shift+X) look small, but every one you miss is a wrong word, and the addak (Shift+4) has to be typed BEFORE the consonant it doubles. The subjoined letters have keys of their own on the shifted number row, which is quicker than building them with the halant.
This test maps your ordinary QWERTY keys to Raavi InScript, so you do not need to change your system keyboard or install anything. The key positions were checked against the Windows Punjabi keyboard driver itself.
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.