Nepali typing practice

Learn to type Nepali on the Preeti keyboard layout — the layout most Nepali offices, publishers and typing tests have used for decades. Every lesson shows the keyboard and both hands, with the finger you should be using highlighted.

Free, no account needed. Choose Nepali from the language setting on the practice page.

What Preeti actually is

Preeti is not a Nepali alphabet on your keyboard. It is a font that draws Devanagari letters in place of Latin ones. You press the ordinary keys of a QWERTY keyboard, and the font paints Nepali characters on screen.

That is why learning Preeti is really learning key positions: your fingers learn where each Nepali character lives on a standard keyboard.

Keys you pressWhat appears
g]kfnनेपाल
s[lifकृषि
ljBfnoविद्यालय
kf]v/fपोखरा

Preeti or Unicode?

Text typed in Preeti is stored as Latin characters wearing a Nepali face. It looks correct, but a computer cannot search it, spell-check it, or read it aloud, and it breaks when the font is missing. Unicode Devanagari is the modern standard and does not have those problems.

Typing Guru teaches the Preeti layout: the finger positions people are actually tested on. Whichever encoding your workplace or exam expects, the keys your fingers learn here are the same ones.

How the lessons are built

Lessons work through the keyboard a row at a time — the middle (home) row first, then the top row, then the bottom row, then everything together. Each stage alternates between layouts so the same finger movements get practised more than one way.

As you type, Typing Guru records which keys you miss and how long each one takes you. Your progress page turns that into your weakest keys, an accuracy map of the keyboard and a breakdown per finger — and can build a drill from the keys you keep getting wrong.

Common questions

Do I need a Nepali keyboard?
No. Preeti uses an ordinary QWERTY keyboard — that is the whole point of the layout.
Do I need to install a font?
No. Both the legacy face and the Unicode font are served by this site.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no account to create and no advertising.
Does it work on a phone?
Touch typing needs a physical keyboard. Read the guidance on a phone, then practise on a computer.

Other languages

Typing Guru also has a full course for Hindi on the Kruti Dev layout, and a general touch typing guide that applies whichever layout you are learning.