| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
48.93 |
1.0800 |
0.1211 |
213 |
1 |
48.93 |
2008-11-07 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
48.85 |
0.9768 |
0.2265 |
237 |
2 |
47.60 |
2008-11-11 |
| 3. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
48.84 |
1.0334 |
0.1678 |
261 |
1 |
48.84 |
2008-11-13 |
| 4. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
48.45 |
1.0506 |
0.1411 |
259 |
1 |
48.45 |
2008-11-14 |
| 5. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.79 |
0.9928 |
0.1824 |
293 |
2 |
44.61 |
2008-11-07 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
47.73 |
1.0588 |
0.1156 |
281 |
2 |
46.67 |
2008-11-12 |
| 7. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
47.53 |
1.0462 |
0.1262 |
340 |
1 |
47.53 |
2008-11-07 |
| 8. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.40 |
0.9349 |
0.2339 |
287 |
1 |
47.40 |
2008-11-07 |
| 9. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
47.29 |
1.0125 |
0.1494 |
232 |
1 |
47.29 |
2008-11-07 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
47.23 |
1.0288 |
0.1285 |
166 |
1 |
47.23 |
2008-11-07 |
| 11. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.79 |
0.9917 |
0.1615 |
317 |
2 |
42.64 |
2008-11-13 |
| 12. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
46.66 |
0.9807 |
0.1556 |
129 |
1 |
46.66 |
2008-11-05 |
| 13. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
46.52 |
1.0472 |
0.0909 |
149 |
2 |
33.22 |
2008-11-07 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.29 |
1.0521 |
0.0810 |
197 |
1 |
46.29 |
2008-11-11 |
| 15. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
46.25 |
1.0079 |
0.1288 |
273 |
2 |
41.57 |
2008-11-13 |
| 16. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
45.84 |
1.0576 |
0.0672 |
231 |
2 |
41.92 |
2008-11-07 |
| 17. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
45.71 |
0.9948 |
0.1285 |
233 |
4 |
42.15 |
2008-11-12 |
| 18. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
45.47 |
1.0095 |
0.1075 |
211 |
1 |
45.47 |
2008-11-12 |
| 19. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
45.44 |
0.9310 |
0.1862 |
278 |
2 |
42.21 |
2008-11-07 |
| 20. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
45.27 |
0.9228 |
0.1952 |
305 |
5 |
40.57 |
2008-12-03 |
| 21. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
45.05 |
0.9869 |
0.1175 |
193 |
2 |
42.38 |
2008-11-12 |
| 22. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
45.05 |
0.9422 |
0.1607 |
190 |
1 |
45.05 |
2008-11-07 |
| 23. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
44.10 |
1.0106 |
0.0729 |
302 |
1 |
44.10 |
2008-11-07 |
| 24. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
44.08 |
0.9809 |
0.0993 |
209 |
1 |
44.08 |
2008-11-07 |
| 25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.05 |
0.9974 |
0.0820 |
163 |
2 |
35.97 |
2008-12-03 |
| 26. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
44.03 |
1.0960 |
-0.0091 |
315 |
1 |
44.03 |
2008-11-07 |
| 27. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
44.00 |
0.9833 |
0.1012 |
387 |
1 |
44.00 |
2008-12-03 |
| 28. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
44.00 |
0.9841 |
0.0964 |
263 |
1 |
44.00 |
2008-11-07 |
| 29. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
43.99 |
1.0511 |
0.0325 |
252 |
2 |
40.25 |
2008-11-06 |
| 30. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.93 |
0.9468 |
0.1333 |
318 |
2 |
40.00 |
2008-11-07 |
| 31. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
43.61 |
0.9001 |
0.1727 |
217 |
1 |
43.61 |
2008-11-11 |
| 32. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
43.44 |
0.9842 |
0.0862 |
335 |
1 |
43.44 |
2008-11-14 |
| 33. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.44 |
1.0208 |
0.0473 |
231 |
1 |
43.44 |
2008-11-07 |
| 34. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
43.39 |
0.8742 |
0.1973 |
202 |
1 |
43.39 |
2008-11-03 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.13 |
0.9931 |
0.0720 |
339 |
2 |
40.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 36. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
43.06 |
0.9315 |
0.1291 |
273 |
2 |
37.97 |
2008-11-12 |
| 37. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
42.92 |
1.0178 |
0.0359 |
207 |
2 |
39.45 |
2008-11-07 |
| 38. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
42.80 |
1.0333 |
0.0140 |
176 |
1 |
42.80 |
2008-11-13 |
| 39. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
42.68 |
1.0006 |
0.0488 |
311 |
1 |
42.68 |
2008-11-14 |
| 40. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
42.22 |
1.0028 |
0.0342 |
259 |
1 |
42.22 |
2008-11-12 |
| 41. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
42.18 |
1.0199 |
0.0134 |
225 |
2 |
37.87 |
2008-11-07 |
| 42. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
42.11 |
0.9780 |
0.0511 |
173 |
2 |
39.48 |
2008-11-13 |
| 43. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
41.84 |
0.9756 |
0.0524 |
223 |
1 |
41.84 |
2008-11-07 |
| 44. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
41.67 |
0.9583 |
0.0666 |
237 |
1 |
41.67 |
2008-11-07 |
| 45. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
41.50 |
1.0270 |
-0.0062 |
303 |
2 |
39.94 |
2008-11-14 |
| 46. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
41.46 |
0.9352 |
0.0830 |
194 |
2 |
40.24 |
2008-11-12 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
41.39 |
0.9880 |
0.0253 |
199 |
1 |
41.39 |
2008-11-07 |
| 48. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
41.32 |
0.9829 |
0.0322 |
229 |
1 |
41.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 49. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
41.24 |
1.0600 |
-0.0459 |
351 |
1 |
41.24 |
2008-11-11 |
| 50. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
41.02 |
1.0743 |
-0.0648 |
297 |
2 |
40.36 |
2008-11-13 |
| 51. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
40.96 |
1.0901 |
-0.0812 |
288 |
1 |
40.96 |
2008-11-05 |
| 52. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.90 |
0.9027 |
0.0992 |
189 |
2 |
40.31 |
2008-11-07 |
| 53. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
40.77 |
0.9839 |
0.0181 |
308 |
1 |
40.77 |
2008-11-11 |
| 54. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
40.75 |
0.9621 |
0.0367 |
201 |
1 |
40.75 |
2008-11-12 |
| 55. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
40.72 |
0.8869 |
0.1117 |
176 |
1 |
40.72 |
2008-11-12 |
| 56. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.58 |
1.0403 |
-0.0445 |
234 |
2 |
39.65 |
2008-11-11 |
| 57. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
40.51 |
0.9745 |
0.0234 |
388 |
1 |
40.51 |
2008-11-12 |
| 58. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
40.30 |
0.8680 |
0.1177 |
196 |
2 |
38.20 |
2008-11-12 |
| 59. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
39.97 |
1.0267 |
-0.0412 |
261 |
1 |
39.97 |
2008-11-06 |
| 60. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.83 |
0.9243 |
0.0567 |
240 |
1 |
39.83 |
2008-11-13 |
| 61. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
39.37 |
0.8847 |
0.0807 |
282 |
1 |
39.37 |
2008-11-12 |
| 62. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
39.34 |
0.8986 |
0.0688 |
216 |
1 |
39.34 |
2008-11-11 |
| 63. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
39.14 |
1.0736 |
-0.1091 |
350 |
1 |
39.14 |
2008-11-11 |
| 64. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
38.75 |
0.8624 |
0.0851 |
174 |
1 |
38.75 |
2008-11-12 |
| 65. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
38.53 |
1.0018 |
-0.0547 |
246 |
2 |
36.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 66. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.52 |
1.0250 |
-0.0756 |
271 |
1 |
38.52 |
2008-11-11 |
| 67. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
38.28 |
0.9392 |
0.0075 |
360 |
1 |
38.28 |
2008-11-07 |
| 68. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
38.27 |
1.0291 |
-0.0908 |
240 |
1 |
38.27 |
2008-11-12 |
| 69. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
38.08 |
0.8339 |
0.1013 |
209 |
1 |
38.08 |
2008-11-12 |
| 70. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.01 |
0.9271 |
0.0093 |
323 |
1 |
38.01 |
2008-11-06 |
| 71. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
38.01 |
0.8964 |
0.0346 |
199 |
2 |
38.00 |
2008-11-16 |
| 72. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
37.81 |
0.9500 |
-0.0193 |
287 |
1 |
37.81 |
2008-11-12 |
| 73. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
37.80 |
0.8656 |
0.0643 |
242 |
1 |
37.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 74. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
37.60 |
1.0418 |
-0.1172 |
214 |
2 |
33.21 |
2008-11-08 |
| 75. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
37.59 |
0.8827 |
0.0368 |
190 |
1 |
37.59 |
2008-11-13 |
| 76. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
37.58 |
1.0487 |
-0.1276 |
253 |
1 |
37.58 |
2008-11-13 |
| 77. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
37.58 |
0.9597 |
-0.0362 |
251 |
1 |
37.58 |
2008-11-07 |
| 78. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
37.36 |
0.9332 |
-0.0154 |
267 |
1 |
37.36 |
2008-11-12 |
| 79. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.96 |
0.9425 |
-0.0338 |
248 |
1 |
36.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 80. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
36.56 |
0.9957 |
-0.0978 |
323 |
1 |
36.56 |
2008-11-12 |
| 81. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
36.37 |
0.9285 |
-0.0369 |
244 |
1 |
36.37 |
2008-11-05 |
| 82. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.19 |
0.9680 |
-0.0790 |
256 |
1 |
36.19 |
2008-11-06 |
| 83. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
35.76 |
0.8959 |
-0.0122 |
328 |
1 |
35.76 |
2008-11-05 |
| 84. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
35.54 |
1.0426 |
-0.1738 |
131 |
1 |
35.54 |
2008-11-12 |
| 85. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
34.49 |
0.8913 |
-0.0429 |
201 |
1 |
34.49 |
2008-11-06 |
| 86. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.45 |
0.8127 |
0.0296 |
167 |
1 |
34.45 |
2008-11-05 |
| 87. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
34.10 |
0.9538 |
-0.1168 |
276 |
1 |
34.10 |
2008-11-12 |
| 88. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
33.97 |
1.0103 |
-0.1820 |
209 |
1 |
33.97 |
2008-11-08 |
| 89. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
33.22 |
0.8381 |
-0.0191 |
283 |
1 |
33.22 |
2008-11-07 |
| 90. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.60 |
0.8172 |
-0.0214 |
204 |
1 |
32.60 |
2008-11-12 |
| 91. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
31.82 |
1.0865 |
-0.3059 |
237 |
1 |
31.82 |
2008-11-05 |
| 92. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
31.73 |
1.0590 |
-0.2815 |
250 |
2 |
28.76 |
2008-11-12 |
| 93. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
30.89 |
0.8880 |
-0.1301 |
296 |
1 |
30.89 |
2008-11-11 |
| 94. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
30.27 |
0.9836 |
-0.2410 |
289 |
1 |
30.27 |
2008-11-05 |
| 95. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
29.72 |
0.8815 |
-0.1477 |
296 |
1 |
29.72 |
2008-11-06 |
| 96. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
28.43 |
0.9380 |
-0.2425 |
284 |
1 |
28.43 |
2008-11-05 |
| 97. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
27.76 |
0.8778 |
-0.1956 |
285 |
1 |
27.76 |
2008-11-11 |
| 98. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
26.32 |
0.9763 |
-0.3320 |
143 |
1 |
26.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 99. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
23.62 |
1.0867 |
-0.5131 |
171 |
1 |
23.62 |
2008-11-06 |