| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
93.20 |
1.1198 |
-0.0239 |
247 |
1 |
93.20 |
2008-12-02 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
86.47 |
1.0901 |
-0.0709 |
288 |
1 |
86.47 |
2008-08-11 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
90.57 |
1.0877 |
-0.0253 |
129 |
1 |
90.57 |
2008-11-10 |
| 4. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
90.29 |
1.0865 |
-0.0243 |
237 |
2 |
88.39 |
2008-08-13 |
| 5. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
89.13 |
1.0845 |
-0.0369 |
212 |
1 |
89.13 |
2009-06-10 |
| 6. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
85.99 |
1.0777 |
-0.0682 |
226 |
3 |
83.46 |
2009-05-24 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
91.39 |
1.0686 |
0.0105 |
354 |
1 |
91.39 |
2008-11-03 |
| 8. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
91.23 |
1.0682 |
0.0065 |
266 |
1 |
91.23 |
2008-08-25 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
97.78 |
1.0676 |
0.0881 |
456 |
1 |
97.78 |
2008-08-27 |
| 10. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
86.41 |
1.0672 |
-0.0519 |
239 |
1 |
86.41 |
2008-10-21 |
| 11. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
94.73 |
1.0669 |
0.0513 |
379 |
2 |
89.75 |
2009-05-22 |
| 12. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.69 |
1.0654 |
-0.1072 |
247 |
1 |
81.69 |
2009-05-22 |
| 13. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
95.86 |
1.0639 |
0.0656 |
303 |
1 |
95.86 |
2009-06-12 |
| 14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
93.81 |
1.0638 |
0.0383 |
247 |
1 |
93.81 |
2009-05-22 |
| 15. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
93.57 |
1.0628 |
0.0405 |
363 |
1 |
93.57 |
2008-08-15 |
| 16. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
82.23 |
1.0607 |
-0.0908 |
357 |
1 |
82.23 |
2009-05-24 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
90.64 |
1.0601 |
0.0033 |
256 |
2 |
85.43 |
2008-08-13 |
| 18. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
100.52 |
1.0590 |
0.1234 |
250 |
2 |
94.72 |
2008-08-08 |
| 19. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
89.29 |
1.0576 |
-0.0098 |
231 |
2 |
87.90 |
2008-08-11 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
86.43 |
1.0567 |
-0.0402 |
314 |
2 |
84.18 |
2008-12-03 |
| 21. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
87.64 |
1.0562 |
-0.0199 |
360 |
1 |
87.64 |
2010-06-29 |
| 22. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
86.69 |
1.0557 |
-0.0347 |
289 |
1 |
86.69 |
2008-08-25 |
| 23. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
80.71 |
1.0543 |
-0.1085 |
182 |
1 |
80.71 |
2009-06-16 |
| 24. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
89.00 |
1.0529 |
-0.0031 |
373 |
1 |
89.00 |
2008-11-03 |
| 25. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
86.42 |
1.0506 |
-0.0344 |
259 |
1 |
86.42 |
2009-05-22 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
91.80 |
1.0481 |
0.0245 |
255 |
2 |
87.12 |
2008-11-12 |
| 27. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
79.37 |
1.0476 |
-0.1238 |
110 |
1 |
79.37 |
2009-06-02 |
| 28. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
84.14 |
1.0462 |
-0.0535 |
340 |
3 |
81.98 |
2009-06-12 |
| 29. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
91.10 |
1.0450 |
0.0323 |
358 |
1 |
91.10 |
2009-10-06 |
| 30. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
88.13 |
1.0432 |
-0.0057 |
276 |
1 |
88.13 |
2009-06-05 |
| 31. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
94.12 |
1.0334 |
0.0738 |
261 |
3 |
83.89 |
2009-02-06 |
| 32. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.99 |
1.0333 |
0.0797 |
176 |
1 |
94.99 |
2008-11-10 |
| 33. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
85.35 |
1.0291 |
-0.0272 |
240 |
1 |
85.35 |
2009-06-05 |
| 34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
84.86 |
1.0288 |
-0.0353 |
166 |
2 |
76.06 |
2009-05-22 |
| 35. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
87.14 |
1.0250 |
0.0031 |
271 |
3 |
82.08 |
2009-06-02 |
| 36. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
79.20 |
1.0234 |
-0.0881 |
392 |
1 |
79.20 |
2008-08-13 |
| 37. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
75.96 |
1.0227 |
-0.1238 |
378 |
1 |
75.96 |
2008-08-13 |
| 38. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
81.76 |
1.0189 |
-0.0580 |
290 |
2 |
75.84 |
2009-06-12 |
| 39. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
89.16 |
1.0132 |
0.0365 |
371 |
1 |
89.16 |
2008-11-03 |
| 40. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
76.40 |
1.0103 |
-0.1180 |
209 |
1 |
76.40 |
2009-06-02 |
| 41. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
86.69 |
1.0101 |
0.0115 |
336 |
2 |
83.22 |
2009-06-16 |
| 42. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
86.99 |
1.0094 |
0.0141 |
256 |
2 |
84.48 |
2008-08-25 |
| 43. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.96 |
1.0079 |
-0.0569 |
273 |
1 |
80.96 |
2009-06-03 |
| 44. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
85.34 |
1.0059 |
-0.0008 |
283 |
2 |
84.27 |
2009-06-12 |
| 45. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
91.11 |
1.0057 |
0.0694 |
382 |
1 |
91.11 |
2008-08-12 |
| 46. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
78.36 |
1.0033 |
-0.0818 |
203 |
1 |
78.36 |
2008-11-10 |
| 47. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
85.16 |
1.0028 |
-0.0022 |
259 |
1 |
85.16 |
2008-08-11 |
| 48. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
90.88 |
1.0016 |
0.0662 |
217 |
1 |
90.88 |
2008-08-11 |
| 49. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
97.23 |
0.9981 |
0.1456 |
211 |
2 |
83.96 |
2008-08-15 |
| 50. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
93.08 |
0.9974 |
0.0942 |
163 |
1 |
93.08 |
2009-05-22 |
| 51. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
81.36 |
0.9933 |
-0.0291 |
450 |
1 |
81.36 |
2008-12-01 |
| 52. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
75.35 |
0.9931 |
-0.1114 |
218 |
1 |
75.35 |
2009-05-22 |
| 53. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
82.28 |
0.9931 |
-0.0210 |
339 |
1 |
82.28 |
2008-08-11 |
| 54. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
71.46 |
0.9922 |
-0.1520 |
264 |
1 |
71.46 |
2009-06-16 |
| 55. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
83.48 |
0.9917 |
-0.0078 |
317 |
2 |
83.05 |
2009-06-12 |
| 56. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
89.74 |
0.9909 |
0.0689 |
334 |
1 |
89.74 |
2009-02-08 |
| 57. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
87.31 |
0.9890 |
0.0421 |
272 |
1 |
87.31 |
2009-02-02 |
| 58. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
83.90 |
0.9884 |
0.0009 |
267 |
1 |
83.90 |
2008-08-15 |
| 59. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
82.64 |
0.9866 |
-0.0143 |
308 |
2 |
80.55 |
2008-11-10 |
| 60. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
84.57 |
0.9849 |
0.0110 |
337 |
3 |
79.56 |
2009-06-05 |
| 61. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
92.21 |
0.9842 |
0.1032 |
335 |
1 |
92.21 |
2008-08-11 |
| 62. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
79.78 |
0.9841 |
-0.0476 |
263 |
1 |
79.78 |
2008-08-11 |
| 63. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
94.01 |
0.9836 |
0.1230 |
289 |
3 |
90.07 |
2008-11-10 |
| 64. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
85.71 |
0.9833 |
0.0273 |
387 |
1 |
85.71 |
2008-08-08 |
| 65. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
92.95 |
0.9829 |
0.1103 |
229 |
1 |
92.95 |
2008-08-15 |
| 66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
82.95 |
0.9801 |
-0.0048 |
289 |
1 |
82.95 |
2008-11-03 |
| 67. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
66.95 |
0.9765 |
-0.1910 |
269 |
1 |
66.95 |
2010-06-29 |
| 68. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
81.18 |
0.9756 |
-0.0217 |
223 |
3 |
77.63 |
2010-06-29 |
| 69. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
82.56 |
0.9736 |
0.0045 |
378 |
1 |
82.56 |
2008-11-10 |
| 70. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
79.08 |
0.9713 |
-0.0429 |
193 |
3 |
72.29 |
2009-05-22 |
| 71. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
77.18 |
0.9698 |
-0.0575 |
389 |
1 |
77.18 |
2008-08-13 |
| 72. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
85.16 |
0.9680 |
0.0338 |
256 |
1 |
85.16 |
2008-08-08 |
| 73. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
82.24 |
0.9673 |
0.0021 |
292 |
1 |
82.24 |
2008-11-03 |
| 74. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
71.17 |
0.9644 |
-0.1252 |
398 |
1 |
71.17 |
2008-11-11 |
| 75. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
88.43 |
0.9636 |
0.0754 |
281 |
1 |
88.43 |
2008-08-11 |
| 76. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
79.02 |
0.9609 |
-0.0270 |
331 |
1 |
79.02 |
2009-06-16 |
| 77. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
77.07 |
0.9603 |
-0.0488 |
430 |
1 |
77.07 |
2008-11-12 |
| 78. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
84.06 |
0.9574 |
0.0345 |
354 |
2 |
80.52 |
2009-06-12 |
| 79. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
81.61 |
0.9561 |
0.0052 |
362 |
2 |
81.12 |
2009-06-12 |
| 80. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
78.44 |
0.9538 |
-0.0318 |
276 |
1 |
78.44 |
2008-12-08 |
| 81. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
83.98 |
0.9519 |
0.0398 |
323 |
1 |
83.98 |
2008-08-11 |
| 82. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
90.97 |
0.9503 |
0.1135 |
211 |
3 |
85.92 |
2008-11-03 |
| 83. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
88.39 |
0.9500 |
0.0917 |
287 |
1 |
88.39 |
2009-02-08 |
| 84. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
80.81 |
0.9468 |
0.0032 |
318 |
1 |
80.81 |
2008-12-01 |
| 85. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
76.94 |
0.9424 |
-0.0355 |
320 |
2 |
76.46 |
2008-08-15 |
| 86. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
78.48 |
0.9422 |
-0.0246 |
190 |
2 |
72.19 |
2009-05-22 |
| 87. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
79.41 |
0.9402 |
-0.0084 |
310 |
2 |
79.22 |
2008-09-18 |
| 88. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
89.39 |
0.9400 |
0.1144 |
434 |
1 |
89.39 |
2008-08-11 |
| 89. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
83.10 |
0.9392 |
0.0442 |
360 |
1 |
83.10 |
2008-12-01 |
| 90. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
83.58 |
0.9380 |
0.0435 |
284 |
2 |
82.88 |
2009-06-02 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
83.68 |
0.9359 |
0.0490 |
355 |
1 |
83.68 |
2009-06-02 |
| 92. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
94.82 |
0.9353 |
0.1878 |
174 |
1 |
94.82 |
2008-09-18 |
| 93. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
88.03 |
0.9346 |
0.0982 |
211 |
1 |
88.03 |
2009-05-22 |
| 94. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.94 |
0.9339 |
-0.2840 |
317 |
1 |
54.94 |
2009-06-16 |
| 95. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
87.88 |
0.9332 |
0.1007 |
267 |
1 |
87.88 |
2008-12-01 |
| 96. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.33 |
0.9271 |
-0.0511 |
323 |
1 |
74.33 |
2009-02-08 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
86.97 |
0.9265 |
0.0956 |
254 |
1 |
86.97 |
2009-06-05 |
| 98. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
82.47 |
0.9243 |
0.0477 |
240 |
2 |
80.22 |
2009-06-02 |
| 99. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
83.18 |
0.9228 |
0.0600 |
305 |
2 |
82.83 |
2008-11-03 |
| 100. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
79.67 |
0.9183 |
0.0194 |
308 |
1 |
79.67 |
2009-06-02 |
| 101. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
89.28 |
0.9145 |
0.1395 |
404 |
4 |
79.24 |
2009-06-09 |
| 102. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
80.18 |
0.9136 |
0.0325 |
348 |
1 |
80.18 |
2008-11-03 |
| 103. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
81.74 |
0.9128 |
0.0457 |
237 |
3 |
75.82 |
2009-05-22 |
| 104. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.02 |
0.9114 |
0.0725 |
399 |
1 |
83.02 |
2009-05-22 |
| 105. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
87.60 |
0.9108 |
0.1197 |
235 |
1 |
87.60 |
2009-02-06 |
| 106. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
76.17 |
0.9027 |
-0.0109 |
189 |
1 |
76.17 |
2009-06-12 |
| 107. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
79.24 |
0.8993 |
0.0352 |
366 |
1 |
79.24 |
2008-11-10 |
| 108. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
78.82 |
0.8986 |
0.0264 |
205 |
2 |
70.27 |
2010-06-29 |
| 109. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
78.33 |
0.8880 |
0.0330 |
296 |
2 |
74.27 |
2009-02-02 |
| 110. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
72.53 |
0.8830 |
-0.0283 |
300 |
1 |
72.53 |
2009-05-22 |
| 111. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
72.05 |
0.8778 |
-0.0294 |
285 |
1 |
72.05 |
2009-06-12 |
| 112. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
79.76 |
0.8666 |
0.0687 |
206 |
1 |
79.76 |
2009-02-06 |
| 113. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
72.82 |
0.8437 |
0.0113 |
268 |
1 |
72.82 |
2008-08-11 |