InScript vs Remington: Which Hindi Keyboard to Learn?
Here’s a fun little test: ask an experienced Hindi typist which keyboard layout to learn, and their answer usually depends on their age. You’ll hear “InScript” from younger typists and “Remington” (sometimes called “Krutidev typing,” after the font it’s paired with) from folks who learned decades ago. Both are real, both work, but which one YOU should learn depends on what you’re using it for so let’s dig in.
Remington: the old typewriter layout
Remington goes back to mechanical Hindi typewriters from way before computers were common. Fun fact: the keys weren’t placed based on how Hindi sounds work at all they were placed so the metal typewriter arms wouldn’t physically jam into each other. A lot of government offices and older typists still use it today, mostly out of habit, almost always paired with Kruti Dev rather than real Unicode.
InScript: built around the language itself
InScript came later, from CDAC, and it’s now the official layout the Government of India recommends it’s also just built into every Windows and Android Hindi keyboard by default. Instead of typewriter mechanics, it groups keys by how they actually sound: vowel signs and the halant on one hand, common consonants on the other. Here’s the neat part this same structure works across Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and most other Indian scripts. Learn the finger pattern once on our Typing Tutor, and it carries over if you ever pick up a second Indian language.
Why this actually matters if you’re prepping for an exam
Nearly every SSC, Railway, and state government typing exam today runs on InScript, in Unicode not Kruti Dev, not Remington. So if you learned Remington years ago on an old typewriter and haven’t sat at a real exam keyboard since, practicing on the layout your exam will actually use is going to help you a lot more than leaning on old muscle memory that doesn’t match anymore.
What we teach here
Every lesson in our Typing Tutor and every test on this site uses InScript, in real Unicode exactly what you’ll see on exam day. And if your office still runs on Kruti Dev for existing documents, no problem our Font Converter handles that conversion separately, so you don’t have to relearn typing just to move between the two.
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