How to use it
- Choose the time — 1, 2, 5, 10 or 15 minutes — and an easy, medium or hard passage, or paste your own.
- Click the typing box and start. The timer starts with your first key press.
- Type exactly as shown, including capitals and punctuation. Press Esc to restart at any time.
- See your net WPM, accuracy, mistakes and key depressions per hour when the time is up.
What the passages train
Easy passages use short, common words. Medium passages add longer sentences and more punctuation. Hard passages include capitals, numbers, quotation marks and semicolons — the details that cost marks in skill tests. All passages are written for ToolDabba and repeat if you finish before the time is up.
How mistakes are counted
- Full mistakes: a wrong word, a missed word or an extra word.
- Half mistakes: the right word with a wrong capital letter or punctuation mark, like “india” for “India”.
- One skipped word is counted once — the rest of your typing is lined up with the passage again.
Typing speed asked in government exams
| Exam / post | Skill test | Speed in recent notifications |
|---|---|---|
| SSC CHSL — LDC / JSA | Typing test on computer | 35 wpm English or 30 wpm Hindi (10,500 / 9,000 key depressions per hour) |
| SSC CHSL — DEO | Data Entry Speed Test, 15 minutes | 8,000 key depressions per hour |
| SSC CGL — Tax Assistant | Data Entry Speed Test, 15 minutes | 8,000 key depressions per hour |
| Court, state clerk posts, CPCT | Typing test | Varies by recruiter, post and state |
These figures are from recent SSC notifications. Requirements, durations, permitted keyboards and evaluation rules change, and every recruiter sets its own — always check the official notification for your exam.
Typing test or data entry test?
SSC uses two kinds of skill test. In the typing test for LDC / JSA posts, speed is judged in words per minute on a passage. In the Data Entry Speed Test for DEO and Tax Assistant posts, speed is measured in key depressions per hour, so every character — letters, digits, spaces and punctuation — counts. The key depressions per hour in your result help with both: 8,000 KDPH works out to about 27 words per minute.
Getting faster
- Learn touch typing on the home row and stop looking at the keys.
- Type in a steady rhythm; bursts of speed followed by corrections are slower overall.
- Use the 10 or 15 minute tests to build the stamina a real skill test needs.
- Count words in any practice passage with the word counter.