In the modern times identity verification has become an important task for various reasons. Mostly identity provided by the authorities is the combination of characters & digits. Now there are several techniques available to recognize them efficiently, & good accuracy rates also have been achieved for characters & digits recognition (Typewritten).But in case of handwritten characters, accuracy rate becomes low. In this paper performance of template matching technique is analyzed for handwritten & typewritten character recognition using two parameters i.e. accuracy rate & time taken for execution. Here template matching technique has been applied to offline Typewritten character set & offline Handwritten characters set.