| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
135.82 |
1.0557 |
0.1285 |
289 |
1 |
135.82 |
2008-11-20 |
| 2. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
135.81 |
1.0267 |
0.1593 |
261 |
3 |
128.10 |
2008-11-22 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
130.95 |
1.0960 |
0.0485 |
315 |
2 |
124.50 |
2008-11-22 |
| 4. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
130.63 |
1.0418 |
0.0966 |
214 |
3 |
115.11 |
2008-11-19 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
130.19 |
1.0777 |
0.0539 |
226 |
2 |
129.05 |
2008-11-22 |
| 6. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
130.01 |
1.0511 |
0.0828 |
252 |
1 |
130.01 |
2008-11-21 |
| 7. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
129.22 |
1.0125 |
0.1112 |
232 |
2 |
128.39 |
2008-11-22 |
| 8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
129.03 |
1.0638 |
0.0578 |
247 |
3 |
121.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 9. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
128.93 |
1.0540 |
0.0637 |
184 |
1 |
128.93 |
2008-11-19 |
| 10. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
128.74 |
0.9885 |
0.1326 |
355 |
2 |
126.78 |
2008-11-22 |
| 11. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
128.62 |
1.0199 |
0.0963 |
225 |
2 |
123.60 |
2008-11-22 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
126.74 |
1.0495 |
0.0535 |
323 |
1 |
126.74 |
2008-11-19 |
| 13. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
126.50 |
0.9915 |
0.1090 |
281 |
2 |
124.70 |
2008-11-19 |
| 14. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
126.30 |
0.9836 |
0.1162 |
289 |
2 |
120.66 |
2008-11-22 |
| 15. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
125.80 |
1.0351 |
0.0641 |
276 |
1 |
125.80 |
2008-11-22 |
| 16. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
125.52 |
1.0426 |
0.0462 |
131 |
1 |
125.52 |
2008-11-21 |
| 17. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
125.04 |
0.9841 |
0.1012 |
217 |
2 |
115.80 |
2008-11-23 |
| 18. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
124.86 |
0.9787 |
0.1117 |
364 |
2 |
121.97 |
2008-11-22 |
| 19. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
124.09 |
1.0588 |
0.0216 |
281 |
1 |
124.09 |
2008-11-19 |
| 20. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
123.71 |
1.0103 |
0.0610 |
209 |
1 |
123.71 |
2008-11-21 |
| 21. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
123.63 |
0.9538 |
0.1223 |
276 |
2 |
120.04 |
2008-11-22 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
123.41 |
0.9762 |
0.0982 |
249 |
1 |
123.41 |
2008-11-18 |
| 23. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
123.17 |
1.0462 |
0.0290 |
340 |
3 |
118.67 |
2008-11-22 |
| 24. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
122.89 |
1.0320 |
0.0438 |
401 |
1 |
122.89 |
2008-11-19 |
| 25. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
122.74 |
0.9829 |
0.0849 |
229 |
1 |
122.74 |
2008-11-18 |
| 26. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
122.55 |
1.0006 |
0.0662 |
311 |
1 |
122.55 |
2008-11-22 |
| 27. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
122.41 |
0.9681 |
0.1031 |
392 |
2 |
115.72 |
2008-11-21 |
| 28. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
122.24 |
0.9864 |
0.0815 |
292 |
2 |
114.79 |
2008-11-19 |
| 29. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
122.03 |
0.9833 |
0.0814 |
387 |
1 |
122.03 |
2008-11-19 |
| 30. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
121.63 |
1.0272 |
0.0295 |
226 |
1 |
121.63 |
2008-11-19 |
| 31. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
121.35 |
0.9922 |
0.0647 |
264 |
2 |
114.24 |
2008-11-22 |
| 32. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
121.32 |
1.0686 |
-0.0089 |
354 |
1 |
121.32 |
2008-11-21 |
| 33. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
120.98 |
1.0130 |
0.0402 |
288 |
1 |
120.98 |
2008-11-21 |
| 34. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
120.97 |
0.9402 |
0.1109 |
310 |
3 |
114.55 |
2008-11-22 |
| 35. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
120.76 |
1.0521 |
-0.0066 |
197 |
2 |
118.22 |
2008-11-22 |
| 36. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
120.63 |
0.9650 |
0.0877 |
347 |
1 |
120.63 |
2008-11-21 |
| 37. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
120.54 |
1.0208 |
0.0283 |
231 |
3 |
117.99 |
2008-11-20 |
| 38. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
120.15 |
1.0250 |
0.0237 |
271 |
1 |
120.15 |
2008-11-18 |
| 39. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
120.10 |
0.9869 |
0.0549 |
193 |
2 |
98.53 |
2008-11-20 |
| 40. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
120.09 |
1.0016 |
0.0421 |
217 |
4 |
116.32 |
2008-11-21 |
| 41. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
119.96 |
1.0042 |
0.0361 |
168 |
3 |
111.95 |
2008-11-20 |
| 42. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
119.78 |
0.9933 |
0.0567 |
450 |
2 |
118.90 |
2008-11-22 |
| 43. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
119.69 |
1.0028 |
0.0379 |
259 |
1 |
119.69 |
2008-11-19 |
| 44. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
119.48 |
1.0506 |
-0.0111 |
259 |
2 |
112.39 |
2008-11-22 |
| 45. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
119.22 |
1.0479 |
-0.0118 |
205 |
1 |
119.22 |
2008-11-20 |
| 46. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
119.11 |
0.9890 |
0.0516 |
272 |
1 |
119.11 |
2008-11-22 |
| 47. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
118.76 |
1.0481 |
-0.0222 |
255 |
1 |
118.76 |
2008-11-20 |
| 48. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
118.49 |
0.9740 |
0.0606 |
371 |
1 |
118.49 |
2008-11-22 |
| 49. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
118.20 |
0.9332 |
0.0955 |
267 |
2 |
116.69 |
2008-11-21 |
| 50. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
117.94 |
0.9709 |
0.0543 |
264 |
1 |
117.94 |
2008-11-22 |
| 51. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
117.43 |
1.0101 |
0.0137 |
336 |
1 |
117.43 |
2008-11-21 |
| 52. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
116.93 |
1.0333 |
-0.0208 |
176 |
2 |
116.07 |
2008-11-19 |
| 53. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
116.83 |
0.9597 |
0.0572 |
251 |
1 |
116.83 |
2008-11-22 |
| 54. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
116.68 |
1.0165 |
-0.0019 |
316 |
1 |
116.68 |
2008-11-22 |
| 55. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
116.54 |
1.0881 |
-0.0778 |
210 |
1 |
116.54 |
2008-11-20 |
| 56. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
116.09 |
1.0601 |
-0.0530 |
256 |
1 |
116.09 |
2008-11-19 |
| 57. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
115.99 |
0.9827 |
0.0276 |
314 |
1 |
115.99 |
2008-11-18 |
| 58. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
115.89 |
0.9704 |
0.0381 |
254 |
1 |
115.89 |
2008-11-19 |
| 59. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
115.79 |
1.0901 |
-0.0805 |
288 |
1 |
115.79 |
2008-11-22 |
| 60. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
115.58 |
0.9996 |
0.0137 |
483 |
1 |
115.58 |
2008-11-18 |
| 61. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
115.47 |
1.0332 |
-0.0290 |
267 |
3 |
111.07 |
2008-11-20 |
| 62. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
115.44 |
0.9909 |
0.0176 |
334 |
3 |
109.66 |
2008-11-20 |
| 63. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
114.67 |
0.9927 |
0.0057 |
276 |
1 |
114.67 |
2008-11-21 |
| 64. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
114.51 |
0.9243 |
0.0742 |
240 |
3 |
109.71 |
2008-11-22 |
| 65. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
114.38 |
1.0095 |
-0.0156 |
211 |
2 |
110.17 |
2008-11-19 |
| 66. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
114.37 |
0.8880 |
0.1073 |
296 |
2 |
114.37 |
2008-11-19 |
| 67. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
114.18 |
1.0094 |
-0.0158 |
256 |
1 |
114.18 |
2008-11-19 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
114.18 |
0.9357 |
0.0556 |
204 |
2 |
107.94 |
2008-11-20 |
| 69. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
114.16 |
0.9673 |
0.0283 |
292 |
1 |
114.16 |
2008-11-19 |
| 70. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
114.07 |
1.0639 |
-0.0702 |
303 |
1 |
114.07 |
2008-11-21 |
| 71. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
113.96 |
1.0270 |
-0.0348 |
303 |
1 |
113.96 |
2008-11-22 |
| 72. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
113.66 |
0.9810 |
0.0130 |
362 |
1 |
113.66 |
2008-11-22 |
| 73. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
113.61 |
1.0035 |
-0.0144 |
310 |
1 |
113.61 |
2008-11-18 |
| 74. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
113.56 |
0.9594 |
0.0269 |
258 |
1 |
113.56 |
2008-11-22 |
| 75. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
113.30 |
0.8830 |
0.1053 |
300 |
1 |
113.30 |
2008-11-22 |
| 76. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
113.16 |
0.9451 |
0.0474 |
419 |
1 |
113.16 |
2008-11-23 |
| 77. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
113.14 |
0.9952 |
-0.0084 |
220 |
1 |
113.14 |
2008-11-19 |
| 78. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
112.92 |
0.9101 |
0.0763 |
351 |
2 |
112.08 |
2008-11-19 |
| 79. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
112.82 |
1.0265 |
-0.0412 |
375 |
1 |
112.82 |
2008-11-19 |
| 80. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
112.78 |
1.0264 |
-0.0493 |
191 |
2 |
111.73 |
2008-11-18 |
| 81. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
112.53 |
0.9981 |
-0.0199 |
211 |
1 |
112.53 |
2008-11-18 |
| 82. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
112.28 |
0.9352 |
0.0406 |
194 |
1 |
112.28 |
2008-11-18 |
| 83. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
112.09 |
1.0291 |
-0.0560 |
240 |
1 |
112.09 |
2008-11-22 |
| 84. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
111.57 |
0.9108 |
0.0598 |
235 |
2 |
83.52 |
2008-11-22 |
| 85. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
111.32 |
1.0476 |
-0.0885 |
110 |
1 |
111.32 |
2008-11-19 |
| 86. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
110.74 |
0.9434 |
0.0245 |
367 |
1 |
110.74 |
2008-11-22 |
| 87. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
110.67 |
1.0059 |
-0.0419 |
283 |
1 |
110.67 |
2008-11-21 |
| 88. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
110.55 |
0.9963 |
-0.0369 |
274 |
3 |
107.01 |
2008-11-22 |
| 89. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
109.95 |
0.9609 |
0.0004 |
331 |
1 |
109.95 |
2008-11-21 |
| 90. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
109.08 |
0.9698 |
-0.0159 |
389 |
1 |
109.08 |
2008-11-22 |
| 91. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
108.93 |
0.9271 |
0.0201 |
295 |
2 |
107.47 |
2008-11-20 |
| 92. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
108.60 |
0.9479 |
-0.0015 |
317 |
2 |
107.44 |
2008-11-19 |
| 93. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
108.28 |
0.9884 |
-0.0440 |
267 |
1 |
108.28 |
2008-11-19 |
| 94. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
108.20 |
0.9359 |
0.0060 |
355 |
1 |
108.20 |
2008-11-20 |
| 95. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
107.48 |
0.9678 |
-0.0286 |
392 |
1 |
107.48 |
2008-11-18 |
| 96. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
107.21 |
0.9644 |
-0.0288 |
398 |
1 |
107.21 |
2008-11-22 |
| 97. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
106.59 |
0.9027 |
0.0209 |
189 |
1 |
106.59 |
2008-11-18 |
| 98. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
106.57 |
1.0106 |
-0.0847 |
302 |
1 |
106.57 |
2008-11-21 |
| 99. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
106.33 |
0.8794 |
0.0520 |
427 |
1 |
106.33 |
2008-11-19 |
| 100. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
106.28 |
0.9070 |
0.0126 |
192 |
1 |
106.28 |
2008-11-22 |
| 101. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
105.98 |
0.9346 |
-0.0158 |
211 |
2 |
101.19 |
2008-11-22 |
| 102. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
105.59 |
0.9632 |
-0.0437 |
287 |
2 |
103.48 |
2008-11-23 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
105.42 |
0.9114 |
0.0129 |
399 |
1 |
105.42 |
2008-11-18 |
| 104. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
105.30 |
0.8624 |
0.0487 |
174 |
1 |
105.30 |
2008-11-19 |
| 105. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
105.08 |
0.9135 |
0.0092 |
393 |
2 |
102.85 |
2008-11-19 |
| 106. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
104.95 |
0.8986 |
0.0147 |
216 |
1 |
104.95 |
2008-11-18 |
| 107. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
104.53 |
0.9866 |
-0.0772 |
308 |
1 |
104.53 |
2008-11-18 |
| 108. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
104.40 |
0.9839 |
-0.0762 |
308 |
1 |
104.40 |
2008-11-22 |
| 109. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
104.15 |
0.9012 |
0.0080 |
322 |
1 |
104.15 |
2008-11-20 |
| 110. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
103.70 |
0.9392 |
-0.0313 |
360 |
1 |
103.70 |
2008-11-19 |
| 111. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
102.60 |
0.9842 |
-0.0899 |
335 |
1 |
102.60 |
2008-11-22 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
102.41 |
0.8437 |
0.0461 |
268 |
1 |
102.41 |
2008-11-18 |
| 113. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
101.43 |
0.9143 |
-0.0314 |
300 |
1 |
101.43 |
2008-11-19 |
| 114. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
101.13 |
0.9561 |
-0.0752 |
362 |
1 |
101.13 |
2008-11-19 |
| 115. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
100.55 |
0.9284 |
-0.0505 |
346 |
1 |
100.55 |
2008-11-22 |
| 116. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
100.55 |
1.0079 |
-0.1347 |
273 |
1 |
100.55 |
2008-11-20 |
| 117. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
100.31 |
0.9673 |
-0.0913 |
393 |
1 |
100.31 |
2008-11-18 |
| 118. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
100.15 |
0.9424 |
-0.0692 |
320 |
1 |
100.15 |
2008-11-18 |
| 119. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
100.02 |
0.9068 |
-0.0391 |
212 |
1 |
100.02 |
2008-11-21 |
| 120. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
98.16 |
0.9703 |
-0.1104 |
394 |
1 |
98.16 |
2008-11-20 |
| 121. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
98.05 |
0.8656 |
-0.0121 |
242 |
1 |
98.05 |
2008-11-20 |
| 122. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
96.91 |
0.9136 |
-0.0680 |
348 |
1 |
96.91 |
2008-11-20 |
| 123. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
96.38 |
1.0279 |
-0.1959 |
172 |
1 |
96.38 |
2008-11-23 |
| 124. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
95.60 |
0.9931 |
-0.1661 |
218 |
1 |
95.60 |
2008-11-22 |
| 125. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
91.66 |
0.9332 |
-0.1354 |
295 |
1 |
91.66 |
2008-11-22 |
| 126. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
89.20 |
0.9636 |
-0.1902 |
281 |
1 |
89.20 |
2008-11-19 |
| 127. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
88.98 |
0.9380 |
-0.1666 |
284 |
1 |
88.98 |
2008-11-20 |
| 128. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
87.65 |
0.7923 |
-0.0305 |
316 |
1 |
87.65 |
2008-11-18 |