A four-week touch typing practice plan

This is our own plan for people learning to type without looking, or rebuilding speed for a typing test. It assumes about 20 minutes a day and uses the TypeTez timer. It makes no promise about the speed you will reach: that depends on where you start and how regularly you practise.

A typical 20-minute session

1. Warm-up, 3 minutes. Type the home-row keys slowly while saying each letter in your head. No timer.
2. Focus drill, 7 minutes. The week's new keys or problem words. Type each problem word five times correctly.
3. Timed tests, 8 minutes. Two or more TypeTez tests at the week's length. Read your mistake review after each one.
4. Note, 2 minutes. Write down your net speed, your accuracy and the word you got wrong most. Your results also stay in your local history.

Week 1: home row and no looking

• Learn the home position and the finger map. Cover your hands with a cloth if you keep looking down.
• Use 1-minute tests only. Aim for 95% accuracy or better before trying to go faster.
• Expect your speed to drop at first if you used to look at the keys. That is normal while new habits form.

Week 2: top and bottom rows

• Add the reaches above and below each home key, a few keys a day. Return to the home key after every reach.
• Move to 2-minute tests. Keep the 95% target; if accuracy falls, slow down.
• Start using the opposite Shift key for capitals.

Week 3: full passages, punctuation and numbers

• Practise the punctuation and numbers drills (passages en-25 and en-29), then mixed passages.
• Do one 5-minute test a day. In the mistake review, look for patterns: the same letter, the same finger, or words at the end of lines.
• Aim for steady rhythm. If you speed up near the end and make errors, hold back.

Week 4: stamina for exam-length tests

• Do at least one 10-minute test every other day. The SSC CHSL 2026 typing test for LDC/JSA, for example, judges accuracy on a passage typed in 10 minutes.
• On the other days, do two 5-minute tests and fix your top three problem words.
• Compare your net speed in week 4 with week 1 in your history. Look at accuracy as well as speed.

Source: Notice: Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Level Examination, 2026, Staff Selection Commission (SSC), para 13.9.13.7. Checked 26 October 2026.

If you are learning Hindi Inscript

The same four weeks work for Hindi. On the Windows Inscript (Hindi Traditional) layout, the left-hand home keys give vowel signs and the virama, and the right-hand home keys give common consonants:

Source: Hindi Traditional Keyboard, Microsoft Learn. Checked 26 October 2026.

Week 1 drills: words made only from these keys, such as पर, कर, तक and चुप. Then add the Shift layer and the top row in week 2. Use our Hindi passages from week 3. Our Hindi passages are still awaiting native-speaker review.