| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
38.47 |
1.0561 |
0.2642 |
227 |
1 |
38.47 |
2010-05-07 |
| 2. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
37.07 |
0.9324 |
0.3445 |
246 |
2 |
33.25 |
2010-01-08 |
| 3. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
34.52 |
0.7724 |
0.4117 |
142 |
2 |
26.24 |
2010-03-12 |
| 4. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
34.43 |
0.9927 |
0.1919 |
262 |
1 |
34.43 |
2010-01-08 |
| 5. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
33.89 |
0.8663 |
0.2937 |
172 |
1 |
33.89 |
2010-01-22 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
33.87 |
1.0615 |
0.0989 |
201 |
1 |
33.87 |
2010-03-12 |
| 7. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
33.69 |
0.9346 |
0.2197 |
211 |
2 |
27.43 |
2010-06-11 |
| 8. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
33.21 |
0.8948 |
0.2451 |
164 |
1 |
33.21 |
2009-11-18 |
| 9. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
33.09 |
1.0106 |
0.1249 |
302 |
1 |
33.09 |
2009-11-25 |
| 10. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
33.06 |
0.9102 |
0.2304 |
239 |
1 |
33.06 |
2009-11-25 |
| 11. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.65 |
0.9757 |
0.1423 |
176 |
1 |
32.65 |
2010-01-08 |
| 12. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
32.62 |
0.9685 |
0.1524 |
304 |
1 |
32.62 |
2009-11-18 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
32.59 |
1.0288 |
0.0857 |
166 |
1 |
32.59 |
2010-05-07 |
| 14. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
32.55 |
0.8194 |
0.2975 |
193 |
2 |
29.55 |
2010-02-08 |
| 15. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.48 |
0.9866 |
0.1292 |
308 |
1 |
32.48 |
2010-03-26 |
| 16. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
32.21 |
1.0272 |
0.0768 |
226 |
1 |
32.21 |
2009-11-18 |
| 17. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
32.21 |
1.0585 |
0.0504 |
226 |
1 |
32.21 |
2009-11-13 |
| 18. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
32.09 |
1.0334 |
0.0679 |
261 |
1 |
32.09 |
2009-11-25 |
| 19. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
32.07 |
0.9310 |
0.1697 |
278 |
1 |
32.07 |
2010-03-12 |
| 20. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
31.92 |
1.0472 |
0.0426 |
149 |
1 |
31.92 |
2009-11-18 |
| 21. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
31.90 |
0.8919 |
0.2026 |
116 |
1 |
31.90 |
2010-06-04 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
31.82 |
1.0511 |
0.0433 |
252 |
1 |
31.82 |
2010-03-26 |
| 23. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.55 |
1.0540 |
0.0243 |
184 |
1 |
31.55 |
2009-11-09 |
| 24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
31.35 |
0.8958 |
0.1771 |
188 |
1 |
31.35 |
2009-11-13 |
| 25. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
31.31 |
0.8758 |
0.1976 |
127 |
1 |
31.31 |
2010-01-22 |
| 26. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
31.20 |
0.9264 |
0.1457 |
177 |
1 |
31.20 |
2009-11-18 |
| 27. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
31.18 |
1.0341 |
0.0358 |
273 |
1 |
31.18 |
2010-03-26 |
| 28. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
31.16 |
1.0600 |
0.0101 |
351 |
1 |
31.16 |
2010-04-30 |
| 29. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
31.04 |
0.8378 |
0.2305 |
219 |
1 |
31.04 |
2009-11-27 |
| 30. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
30.98 |
0.8337 |
0.2296 |
142 |
2 |
27.41 |
2010-06-11 |
| 31. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
30.87 |
0.9827 |
0.0780 |
314 |
1 |
30.87 |
2010-04-30 |
| 32. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
30.84 |
0.7271 |
0.3321 |
186 |
2 |
29.04 |
2010-05-07 |
| 33. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
30.80 |
1.0267 |
0.0338 |
261 |
1 |
30.80 |
2009-11-25 |
| 34. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
30.68 |
0.9854 |
0.0691 |
174 |
1 |
30.68 |
2010-03-12 |
| 35. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
30.54 |
1.0881 |
-0.0436 |
210 |
1 |
30.54 |
2009-11-13 |
| 36. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
30.28 |
0.9931 |
0.0424 |
218 |
1 |
30.28 |
2010-01-08 |
| 37. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
30.24 |
1.0026 |
0.0398 |
200 |
3 |
28.60 |
2010-03-26 |
| 38. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
30.24 |
1.0524 |
-0.0163 |
177 |
1 |
30.24 |
2009-11-27 |
| 39. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
30.17 |
1.0264 |
0.0050 |
191 |
2 |
29.75 |
2009-11-25 |
| 40. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
30.10 |
0.9422 |
0.0859 |
190 |
1 |
30.10 |
2010-06-04 |
| 41. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
30.09 |
0.8830 |
0.1439 |
134 |
2 |
26.88 |
2010-01-22 |
| 42. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
30.00 |
0.7920 |
0.2350 |
230 |
1 |
30.00 |
2010-06-11 |
| 43. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
29.93 |
1.0115 |
0.0106 |
189 |
1 |
29.93 |
2009-11-18 |
| 44. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
29.75 |
1.0042 |
0.0131 |
168 |
2 |
29.40 |
2009-11-13 |
| 45. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
29.75 |
1.0082 |
0.0079 |
212 |
1 |
29.75 |
2010-01-22 |
| 46. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
29.60 |
0.9070 |
0.1041 |
192 |
1 |
29.60 |
2009-11-25 |
| 47. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
29.48 |
0.9352 |
0.0755 |
194 |
2 |
28.16 |
2010-06-11 |
| 48. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
29.38 |
0.9400 |
0.0709 |
434 |
1 |
29.38 |
2010-02-19 |
| 49. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.29 |
0.8124 |
0.1940 |
137 |
2 |
27.83 |
2010-01-22 |
| 50. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
29.19 |
0.8925 |
0.1163 |
293 |
1 |
29.19 |
2009-11-25 |
| 51. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.07 |
0.9841 |
0.0102 |
217 |
1 |
29.07 |
2009-11-10 |
| 52. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
28.57 |
0.8911 |
0.0905 |
207 |
1 |
28.57 |
2010-02-24 |
| 53. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
28.49 |
0.9621 |
0.0126 |
201 |
2 |
28.37 |
2010-03-26 |
| 54. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
28.48 |
1.0144 |
-0.0360 |
162 |
1 |
28.48 |
2010-06-11 |
| 55. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
28.22 |
0.9636 |
0.0033 |
281 |
1 |
28.22 |
2009-11-25 |
| 56. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
28.08 |
0.8201 |
0.1370 |
187 |
1 |
28.08 |
2010-06-04 |
| 57. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
28.07 |
0.8161 |
0.1495 |
109 |
1 |
28.07 |
2010-04-30 |
| 58. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
28.06 |
0.9917 |
-0.0268 |
317 |
1 |
28.06 |
2009-11-18 |
| 59. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
28.01 |
0.8551 |
0.1061 |
150 |
1 |
28.01 |
2009-11-25 |
| 60. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
27.92 |
0.7988 |
0.1570 |
134 |
1 |
27.92 |
2009-11-10 |
| 61. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.79 |
1.0543 |
-0.1042 |
182 |
1 |
27.79 |
2009-11-25 |
| 62. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
27.75 |
0.9925 |
-0.0446 |
155 |
1 |
27.75 |
2010-04-30 |
| 63. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
27.72 |
0.9948 |
-0.0449 |
233 |
1 |
27.72 |
2010-05-07 |
| 64. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
27.07 |
0.8168 |
0.1097 |
115 |
1 |
27.07 |
2009-11-09 |
| 65. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
26.82 |
0.9210 |
-0.0049 |
200 |
1 |
26.82 |
2010-03-12 |
| 66. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.73 |
0.8124 |
0.1000 |
167 |
2 |
26.70 |
2009-11-25 |
| 67. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.60 |
0.8869 |
0.0230 |
176 |
1 |
26.60 |
2009-11-25 |
| 68. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
26.55 |
0.8175 |
0.0941 |
181 |
1 |
26.55 |
2009-11-18 |
| 69. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
26.50 |
0.9271 |
-0.0186 |
295 |
1 |
26.50 |
2009-11-13 |
| 70. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
26.24 |
0.8789 |
0.0153 |
136 |
1 |
26.24 |
2009-11-10 |
| 71. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
26.10 |
0.8316 |
0.0669 |
304 |
1 |
26.10 |
2009-11-25 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
26.10 |
0.9704 |
-0.0753 |
254 |
2 |
25.93 |
2010-04-30 |
| 73. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
25.98 |
1.0590 |
-0.1692 |
250 |
1 |
25.98 |
2009-10-23 |
| 74. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
25.65 |
0.9935 |
-0.1118 |
217 |
1 |
25.65 |
2009-11-25 |
| 75. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
25.56 |
0.8721 |
0.0102 |
231 |
1 |
25.56 |
2010-06-04 |
| 76. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.55 |
0.8986 |
-0.0219 |
216 |
1 |
25.55 |
2010-04-30 |
| 77. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
25.50 |
1.0250 |
-0.1477 |
271 |
1 |
25.50 |
2009-11-09 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
25.43 |
0.8077 |
0.0642 |
148 |
1 |
25.43 |
2010-06-11 |
| 79. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
25.32 |
0.8365 |
0.0277 |
145 |
1 |
25.32 |
2009-11-09 |
| 80. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
25.23 |
0.9332 |
-0.0682 |
267 |
1 |
25.23 |
2009-11-18 |
| 81. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
25.16 |
1.0131 |
-0.1471 |
245 |
1 |
25.16 |
2009-11-18 |
| 82. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
25.07 |
0.9027 |
-0.0467 |
189 |
1 |
25.07 |
2009-11-18 |
| 83. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
25.01 |
1.0103 |
-0.1586 |
209 |
1 |
25.01 |
2009-11-06 |
| 84. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
24.08 |
0.9680 |
-0.1426 |
256 |
1 |
24.08 |
2009-11-09 |
| 85. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
23.42 |
0.7987 |
0.0030 |
176 |
1 |
23.42 |
2009-11-10 |
| 86. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
23.37 |
0.8837 |
-0.0836 |
157 |
1 |
23.37 |
2010-06-11 |
| 87. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
23.30 |
0.8172 |
-0.0231 |
204 |
1 |
23.30 |
2009-11-13 |
| 88. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
23.25 |
0.9258 |
-0.1245 |
184 |
1 |
23.25 |
2009-11-25 |
| 89. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
23.19 |
0.8964 |
-0.1047 |
199 |
1 |
23.19 |
2009-11-18 |
| 90. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.08 |
0.7423 |
0.0466 |
145 |
1 |
23.08 |
2009-11-09 |
| 91. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
21.40 |
0.8339 |
-0.1016 |
209 |
1 |
21.40 |
2009-10-23 |
| 92. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
21.17 |
0.8218 |
-0.0969 |
163 |
1 |
21.17 |
2009-11-18 |
| 93. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
19.11 |
0.8965 |
-0.2423 |
150 |
1 |
19.11 |
2009-11-06 |