Hindi keyboard chart: every English key in InScript

Why learn this layout

Hindi typing in modern computer based exams uses Mangal/Unicode, and its keyboard is InScript, which already ships with Windows, macOS and Linux. The rule is direct: the Hindi character assigned to an English key is fixed by the standard. Learn the map once and Hindi typing works on any computer.

Four steps to practise it

1. Set your fingers on the home row first, following the learning guide. Left hand anchors on A, S, D, F; right hand anchors on J, K, L and semicolon.
2. Do not memorise the chart by reading it top to bottom. Type instead, and let the typing test teach your hands the route to each key.
3. Learn the Shift rule early. A normal key gives the full character, for example D gives र. With Shift it gives the matra or sign, for example Shift+D gives the halant, which is what makes half letters.
4. Once you stop searching for characters, run exam mode. Same layout, same pressure as the test day.

Adding the Hindi keyboard in Windows

1. Open Settings, then Time & Language, then Language & region.
2. Choose Add a language, pick Hindi, then Next and Install.
3. Click the language indicator on the taskbar. Hindi हिन्दी now appears in the list.
4. Selecting it switches the layout to InScript, and the chart above becomes the map of the keyboard in front of you.

Three short drills for the first week

• Vowels first: A, S, D, F, G give the five vowels. Five minutes on that row only.
• Then consonants: J, K, L. Type your own name.
• Matras last: let the Shift habit settle before you add them. Type whole characters correctly first.