| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
161.51 |
1.0777 |
0.1700 |
226 |
1 |
161.51 |
2009-05-22 |
| 2. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
159.98 |
1.0601 |
0.1746 |
256 |
1 |
159.98 |
2009-05-30 |
| 3. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
152.19 |
1.0197 |
0.1558 |
204 |
2 |
145.63 |
2009-05-22 |
| 4. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
151.68 |
1.0270 |
0.1470 |
303 |
1 |
151.68 |
2009-05-22 |
| 5. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
150.15 |
1.0419 |
0.1227 |
341 |
1 |
150.15 |
2009-05-22 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
150.12 |
1.0881 |
0.0692 |
210 |
1 |
150.12 |
2009-05-22 |
| 7. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
148.69 |
1.0267 |
0.1265 |
261 |
2 |
139.95 |
2009-05-22 |
| 8. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
147.31 |
1.0495 |
0.0894 |
323 |
2 |
132.89 |
2009-05-30 |
| 9. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
146.38 |
0.9597 |
0.1726 |
251 |
1 |
146.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 10. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
145.98 |
1.0103 |
0.1130 |
209 |
1 |
145.98 |
2009-05-22 |
| 11. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
145.42 |
1.0669 |
0.0610 |
379 |
3 |
135.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 12. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
145.27 |
0.9836 |
0.1400 |
289 |
1 |
145.27 |
2009-05-22 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
144.86 |
1.0654 |
0.0524 |
247 |
1 |
144.86 |
2009-05-22 |
| 14. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
143.76 |
1.0877 |
0.0207 |
129 |
1 |
143.76 |
2009-05-22 |
| 15. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
142.89 |
0.9963 |
0.1063 |
274 |
1 |
142.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
142.53 |
1.0639 |
0.0394 |
303 |
2 |
141.51 |
2009-05-24 |
| 17. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
142.41 |
0.9400 |
0.1639 |
434 |
4 |
129.87 |
2009-05-30 |
| 18. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
142.37 |
0.9631 |
0.1374 |
273 |
1 |
142.37 |
2009-05-22 |
| 19. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
142.06 |
0.9829 |
0.1149 |
229 |
1 |
142.06 |
2009-05-22 |
| 20. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
141.62 |
0.9807 |
0.1028 |
129 |
1 |
141.62 |
2009-05-22 |
| 21. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
140.47 |
1.1086 |
-0.0220 |
233 |
1 |
140.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 22. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
140.34 |
0.9745 |
0.1128 |
388 |
2 |
139.71 |
2009-05-22 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
139.43 |
1.0404 |
0.0426 |
406 |
1 |
139.43 |
2009-05-22 |
| 24. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
139.24 |
0.9884 |
0.0907 |
267 |
2 |
132.65 |
2009-05-22 |
| 25. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
139.17 |
1.0411 |
0.0368 |
341 |
1 |
139.17 |
2009-05-22 |
| 26. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
139.01 |
0.9756 |
0.0985 |
223 |
2 |
128.86 |
2009-06-03 |
| 27. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
138.76 |
0.9869 |
0.0824 |
193 |
1 |
138.76 |
2009-05-22 |
| 28. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
138.13 |
1.0506 |
0.0170 |
259 |
2 |
134.06 |
2009-05-22 |
| 29. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
138.07 |
1.0867 |
-0.0236 |
171 |
2 |
133.36 |
2009-05-22 |
| 30. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
137.97 |
1.0253 |
0.0444 |
337 |
2 |
123.47 |
2009-05-30 |
| 31. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
137.24 |
0.9927 |
0.0651 |
234 |
1 |
137.24 |
2009-05-22 |
| 32. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
137.20 |
1.0540 |
0.0017 |
184 |
1 |
137.20 |
2009-05-22 |
| 33. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
136.93 |
1.0130 |
0.0457 |
288 |
1 |
136.93 |
2009-05-22 |
| 34. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
136.66 |
0.9673 |
0.0914 |
292 |
2 |
122.91 |
2009-05-22 |
| 35. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
136.12 |
0.9698 |
0.0876 |
389 |
3 |
121.56 |
2009-05-22 |
| 36. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
136.05 |
1.0387 |
0.0173 |
333 |
2 |
133.23 |
2009-05-22 |
| 37. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
135.95 |
0.9841 |
0.0653 |
263 |
3 |
128.48 |
2009-05-22 |
| 38. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
135.62 |
1.0372 |
0.0109 |
249 |
2 |
128.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
135.55 |
0.9885 |
0.0595 |
355 |
2 |
120.96 |
2009-05-22 |
| 40. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
135.52 |
0.9827 |
0.0659 |
314 |
1 |
135.52 |
2009-05-22 |
| 41. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
135.22 |
0.9332 |
0.1136 |
295 |
2 |
125.28 |
2009-05-30 |
| 42. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
134.91 |
0.9012 |
0.1452 |
322 |
2 |
131.64 |
2009-05-22 |
| 43. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
134.80 |
1.0873 |
-0.0482 |
243 |
1 |
134.80 |
2009-05-22 |
| 44. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
134.55 |
0.9864 |
0.0575 |
292 |
3 |
115.19 |
2009-05-22 |
| 45. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
134.38 |
1.0462 |
-0.0044 |
340 |
1 |
134.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 46. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
134.08 |
1.0743 |
-0.0367 |
297 |
1 |
134.08 |
2009-05-22 |
| 47. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
133.09 |
0.9762 |
0.0526 |
249 |
1 |
133.09 |
2009-05-22 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
133.02 |
1.0472 |
-0.0253 |
149 |
1 |
133.02 |
2009-05-22 |
| 49. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
132.93 |
0.9011 |
0.1296 |
322 |
2 |
123.03 |
2009-05-30 |
| 50. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
132.18 |
0.9890 |
0.0366 |
272 |
1 |
132.18 |
2009-05-30 |
| 51. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
132.02 |
1.0234 |
0.0012 |
392 |
2 |
126.20 |
2009-05-22 |
| 52. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
131.54 |
1.0106 |
0.0051 |
302 |
2 |
130.33 |
2009-05-30 |
| 53. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
131.49 |
0.9866 |
0.0301 |
308 |
1 |
131.49 |
2009-05-22 |
| 54. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
131.32 |
0.9931 |
0.0180 |
218 |
1 |
131.32 |
2009-05-22 |
| 55. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
131.24 |
0.9451 |
0.0772 |
419 |
1 |
131.24 |
2009-05-22 |
| 56. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
131.23 |
0.9424 |
0.0744 |
320 |
1 |
131.23 |
2009-05-22 |
| 57. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
130.84 |
1.0082 |
-0.0019 |
212 |
1 |
130.84 |
2009-05-30 |
| 58. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
130.65 |
1.0543 |
-0.0478 |
182 |
1 |
130.65 |
2009-05-30 |
| 59. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
130.43 |
1.0543 |
-0.0439 |
360 |
1 |
130.43 |
2009-05-22 |
| 60. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
130.31 |
1.0590 |
-0.0529 |
250 |
1 |
130.31 |
2009-05-22 |
| 61. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
130.27 |
1.0576 |
-0.0535 |
231 |
1 |
130.27 |
2009-05-22 |
| 62. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
130.14 |
0.9948 |
0.0099 |
233 |
2 |
120.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 63. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
130.01 |
0.9135 |
0.1001 |
393 |
2 |
113.94 |
2009-05-30 |
| 64. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
129.33 |
0.9833 |
0.0186 |
387 |
1 |
129.33 |
2009-05-22 |
| 65. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
129.09 |
1.0638 |
-0.0681 |
247 |
2 |
127.82 |
2009-05-30 |
| 66. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
128.96 |
1.0060 |
-0.0086 |
225 |
1 |
128.96 |
2009-05-22 |
| 67. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
128.46 |
1.0567 |
-0.0642 |
314 |
1 |
128.46 |
2009-05-22 |
| 68. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
128.43 |
1.0059 |
-0.0122 |
283 |
1 |
128.43 |
2009-05-22 |
| 69. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
128.37 |
0.9609 |
0.0360 |
331 |
1 |
128.37 |
2009-05-22 |
| 70. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
128.01 |
1.0018 |
-0.0122 |
246 |
1 |
128.01 |
2009-05-22 |
| 71. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
127.79 |
0.9265 |
0.0600 |
254 |
3 |
109.05 |
2009-05-22 |
| 72. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
127.40 |
0.9101 |
0.0783 |
351 |
1 |
127.40 |
2009-05-22 |
| 73. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
127.32 |
0.9392 |
0.0508 |
360 |
1 |
127.32 |
2009-05-22 |
| 74. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
126.51 |
0.9809 |
-0.0072 |
209 |
1 |
126.51 |
2009-05-22 |
| 75. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
126.40 |
1.0194 |
-0.0447 |
224 |
1 |
126.40 |
2009-05-22 |
| 76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
126.16 |
1.0333 |
-0.0635 |
176 |
1 |
126.16 |
2009-05-22 |
| 77. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
126.15 |
0.9636 |
0.0098 |
281 |
2 |
123.40 |
2009-05-22 |
| 78. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
126.08 |
0.9681 |
0.0118 |
392 |
2 |
124.08 |
2009-05-22 |
| 79. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
125.72 |
1.0272 |
-0.0578 |
226 |
1 |
125.72 |
2009-05-22 |
| 80. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
125.66 |
1.0960 |
-0.1209 |
315 |
1 |
125.66 |
2009-05-22 |
| 81. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
125.47 |
0.9880 |
-0.0227 |
199 |
1 |
125.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 82. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
125.45 |
1.0450 |
-0.0703 |
358 |
1 |
125.45 |
2009-05-22 |
| 83. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
125.15 |
0.9503 |
0.0100 |
211 |
1 |
125.15 |
2009-05-24 |
| 84. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
125.13 |
1.0035 |
-0.0360 |
310 |
1 |
125.13 |
2009-05-22 |
| 85. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
124.47 |
0.9839 |
-0.0223 |
308 |
1 |
124.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 86. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
123.73 |
0.8913 |
0.0662 |
201 |
1 |
123.73 |
2009-05-22 |
| 87. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
123.72 |
1.0132 |
-0.0567 |
371 |
2 |
121.56 |
2009-05-22 |
| 88. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
123.61 |
0.9603 |
0.0003 |
430 |
1 |
123.61 |
2009-05-30 |
| 89. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
123.51 |
0.9704 |
-0.0161 |
254 |
2 |
120.40 |
2009-05-30 |
| 90. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
123.27 |
0.9228 |
0.0341 |
305 |
2 |
119.28 |
2009-05-30 |
| 91. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
123.00 |
0.9703 |
-0.0134 |
394 |
1 |
123.00 |
2009-05-22 |
| 92. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
122.38 |
0.9339 |
0.0174 |
317 |
1 |
122.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 93. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
122.33 |
0.9909 |
-0.0419 |
334 |
1 |
122.33 |
2009-05-22 |
| 94. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
121.95 |
1.0128 |
-0.0638 |
369 |
1 |
121.95 |
2009-05-22 |
| 95. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
121.15 |
0.9027 |
0.0297 |
189 |
1 |
121.15 |
2009-05-22 |
| 96. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
121.11 |
0.9650 |
-0.0267 |
347 |
2 |
107.25 |
2009-05-22 |
| 97. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
120.42 |
0.9425 |
-0.0115 |
248 |
2 |
117.22 |
2009-05-22 |
| 98. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
120.38 |
0.9952 |
-0.0629 |
220 |
1 |
120.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 99. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
120.07 |
0.9284 |
0.0028 |
346 |
1 |
120.07 |
2009-05-22 |
| 100. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
120.05 |
1.0101 |
-0.0809 |
336 |
1 |
120.05 |
2009-05-22 |
| 101. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
120.03 |
0.9500 |
-0.0211 |
287 |
1 |
120.03 |
2009-05-22 |
| 102. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
119.35 |
1.0028 |
-0.0820 |
259 |
1 |
119.35 |
2009-05-22 |
| 103. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
118.37 |
0.9346 |
-0.0232 |
211 |
1 |
118.37 |
2009-05-30 |
| 104. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
117.99 |
0.9143 |
-0.0019 |
300 |
2 |
116.11 |
2009-05-22 |
| 105. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
117.94 |
0.9841 |
-0.0764 |
217 |
1 |
117.94 |
2009-05-22 |
| 106. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
117.64 |
0.9206 |
-0.0115 |
317 |
1 |
117.64 |
2009-05-22 |
| 107. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
117.48 |
0.9719 |
-0.0573 |
383 |
1 |
117.48 |
2009-05-22 |
| 108. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
117.23 |
0.9604 |
-0.0570 |
285 |
1 |
117.23 |
2009-05-22 |
| 109. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
117.18 |
0.9068 |
-0.0036 |
212 |
1 |
117.18 |
2009-05-22 |
| 110. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
116.63 |
0.9740 |
-0.0699 |
371 |
1 |
116.63 |
2009-05-22 |
| 111. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
113.60 |
0.9915 |
-0.1152 |
281 |
2 |
111.99 |
2009-05-22 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
113.35 |
0.8437 |
0.0309 |
268 |
2 |
112.35 |
2009-05-22 |
| 113. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
112.49 |
0.8993 |
-0.0279 |
366 |
1 |
112.49 |
2009-05-22 |
| 114. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
111.47 |
1.0265 |
-0.1621 |
375 |
1 |
111.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 115. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
111.44 |
0.9332 |
-0.0728 |
267 |
1 |
111.44 |
2009-05-22 |
| 116. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
109.65 |
1.0686 |
-0.2185 |
354 |
1 |
109.65 |
2009-05-22 |
| 117. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
106.89 |
0.9402 |
-0.1171 |
310 |
1 |
106.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 118. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
106.66 |
0.9136 |
-0.0870 |
348 |
2 |
106.20 |
2009-05-22 |
| 119. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
105.97 |
0.9852 |
-0.1679 |
235 |
1 |
105.97 |
2009-05-22 |
| 120. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
105.77 |
0.9909 |
-0.1700 |
293 |
1 |
105.77 |
2009-05-22 |
| 121. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
102.45 |
1.0086 |
-0.2224 |
218 |
1 |
102.45 |
2009-05-22 |
| 122. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
102.22 |
1.0461 |
-0.2552 |
318 |
1 |
102.22 |
2009-05-30 |
| 123. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
102.12 |
1.0181 |
-0.2289 |
276 |
1 |
102.12 |
2009-05-22 |
| 124. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
101.75 |
1.0199 |
-0.2386 |
225 |
2 |
100.72 |
2009-05-22 |
| 125. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
101.20 |
1.0264 |
-0.2498 |
191 |
1 |
101.20 |
2009-05-22 |
| 126. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
96.58 |
1.0094 |
-0.2644 |
256 |
1 |
96.58 |
2009-05-22 |
| 127. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
84.15 |
0.8624 |
-0.2189 |
174 |
1 |
84.15 |
2009-05-22 |