| 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'... |
163.15 |
1.0777 |
0.2458 |
226 |
4 |
142.60 |
2008-10-05 |
| 2. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
155.74 |
1.1198 |
0.1444 |
247 |
1 |
155.74 |
2008-10-02 |
| 3. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
148.89 |
1.0582 |
0.1479 |
180 |
1 |
148.89 |
2008-10-05 |
| 4. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
148.55 |
1.0079 |
0.1976 |
273 |
3 |
123.43 |
2008-10-05 |
| 5. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
146.88 |
1.0743 |
0.1196 |
297 |
2 |
134.39 |
2008-10-05 |
| 6. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
145.63 |
1.0590 |
0.1225 |
250 |
3 |
139.01 |
2008-10-05 |
| 7. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
144.37 |
1.0006 |
0.1717 |
311 |
1 |
144.37 |
2008-10-04 |
| 8. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
144.08 |
1.0628 |
0.1092 |
363 |
1 |
144.08 |
2008-10-03 |
| 9. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
140.93 |
1.0135 |
0.1341 |
358 |
2 |
136.17 |
2008-10-05 |
| 10. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
140.15 |
1.0272 |
0.1086 |
226 |
1 |
140.15 |
2008-09-26 |
| 11. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
139.90 |
1.0686 |
0.0709 |
354 |
1 |
139.90 |
2008-09-26 |
| 12. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
139.09 |
1.1093 |
0.0143 |
220 |
2 |
131.53 |
2008-10-02 |
| 13. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
138.50 |
1.0059 |
0.1197 |
283 |
2 |
128.97 |
2008-10-02 |
| 14. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
137.48 |
1.0736 |
0.0451 |
350 |
1 |
137.48 |
2008-10-03 |
| 15. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
137.17 |
1.0607 |
0.0557 |
357 |
2 |
135.65 |
2008-10-01 |
| 16. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
134.76 |
0.9359 |
0.1587 |
355 |
2 |
129.42 |
2008-09-27 |
| 17. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
133.97 |
1.0461 |
0.0435 |
318 |
1 |
133.97 |
2008-10-05 |
| 18. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
132.57 |
0.9681 |
0.1135 |
392 |
1 |
132.57 |
2008-10-04 |
| 19. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
131.89 |
1.0016 |
0.0673 |
217 |
1 |
131.89 |
2008-10-02 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
131.54 |
1.1086 |
-0.0406 |
233 |
1 |
131.54 |
2008-10-03 |
| 21. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
130.87 |
1.0287 |
0.0323 |
269 |
1 |
130.87 |
2008-10-05 |
| 22. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
130.31 |
0.9719 |
0.0929 |
383 |
1 |
130.31 |
2008-10-03 |
| 23. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
130.04 |
0.9011 |
0.1575 |
322 |
1 |
130.04 |
2008-10-04 |
| 24. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
129.35 |
1.0320 |
0.0237 |
401 |
1 |
129.35 |
2008-10-03 |
| 25. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
128.92 |
1.0576 |
-0.0142 |
231 |
2 |
126.39 |
2008-10-03 |
| 26. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
128.37 |
0.9713 |
0.0690 |
193 |
1 |
128.37 |
2008-10-02 |
| 27. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
128.29 |
1.0018 |
0.0396 |
246 |
1 |
128.29 |
2008-10-03 |
| 28. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
128.20 |
0.9810 |
0.0643 |
362 |
2 |
127.64 |
2008-10-03 |
| 29. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
128.12 |
1.0495 |
-0.0103 |
323 |
1 |
128.12 |
2008-10-05 |
| 30. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
128.09 |
0.9931 |
0.0424 |
218 |
1 |
128.09 |
2008-10-02 |
| 31. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
127.65 |
0.9928 |
0.0425 |
293 |
2 |
122.63 |
2008-10-05 |
| 32. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
126.81 |
0.9836 |
0.0455 |
289 |
1 |
126.81 |
2008-10-02 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
126.60 |
1.0881 |
-0.0647 |
210 |
1 |
126.60 |
2008-10-03 |
| 34. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
126.39 |
0.9927 |
0.0296 |
234 |
1 |
126.39 |
2008-10-05 |
| 35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
126.28 |
1.0130 |
0.0118 |
288 |
1 |
126.28 |
2008-10-02 |
| 36. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
126.01 |
0.8986 |
0.1245 |
216 |
1 |
126.01 |
2008-10-03 |
| 37. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
125.56 |
0.9931 |
0.0302 |
339 |
2 |
119.76 |
2008-10-01 |
| 38. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
124.95 |
1.0234 |
-0.0055 |
392 |
1 |
124.95 |
2008-10-05 |
| 39. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
124.86 |
1.0060 |
0.0078 |
225 |
1 |
124.86 |
2008-10-05 |
| 40. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
124.55 |
0.9952 |
0.0177 |
220 |
1 |
124.55 |
2008-10-04 |
| 41. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
124.49 |
0.9658 |
0.0480 |
308 |
1 |
124.49 |
2008-10-04 |
| 42. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
124.15 |
1.0128 |
0.0013 |
369 |
2 |
111.21 |
2008-10-05 |
| 43. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
123.59 |
0.9841 |
0.0153 |
217 |
1 |
123.59 |
2008-10-03 |
| 44. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
123.13 |
0.9271 |
0.0715 |
295 |
1 |
123.13 |
2008-10-03 |
| 45. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
122.91 |
1.0865 |
-0.0895 |
237 |
1 |
122.91 |
2008-10-04 |
| 46. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
122.70 |
0.9680 |
0.0275 |
256 |
1 |
122.70 |
2008-10-02 |
| 47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
122.60 |
1.0208 |
-0.0263 |
231 |
1 |
122.60 |
2008-10-02 |
| 48. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
121.74 |
1.0615 |
-0.0769 |
201 |
3 |
117.76 |
2008-10-03 |
| 49. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
121.68 |
0.9698 |
0.0223 |
389 |
1 |
121.68 |
2008-10-04 |
| 50. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
121.66 |
1.0403 |
-0.0550 |
234 |
2 |
121.56 |
2008-10-03 |
| 51. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
121.61 |
1.0250 |
-0.0356 |
271 |
1 |
121.61 |
2008-09-27 |
| 52. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
121.23 |
0.8936 |
0.0887 |
346 |
1 |
121.23 |
2008-10-02 |
| 53. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
120.86 |
1.0035 |
-0.0225 |
310 |
1 |
120.86 |
2008-10-03 |
| 54. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
120.72 |
1.0106 |
-0.0323 |
302 |
1 |
120.72 |
2008-10-02 |
| 55. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
120.39 |
0.9829 |
-0.0070 |
229 |
1 |
120.39 |
2008-09-27 |
| 56. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
120.25 |
0.9927 |
-0.0167 |
276 |
1 |
120.25 |
2008-10-02 |
| 57. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
119.72 |
0.9284 |
0.0464 |
346 |
1 |
119.72 |
2008-10-05 |
| 58. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
119.28 |
1.0450 |
-0.0722 |
358 |
1 |
119.28 |
2008-10-01 |
| 59. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
119.12 |
1.0028 |
-0.0377 |
259 |
2 |
118.20 |
2008-10-02 |
| 60. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
119.10 |
0.9787 |
-0.0092 |
364 |
3 |
116.84 |
2008-10-03 |
| 61. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
117.86 |
0.9745 |
-0.0165 |
388 |
1 |
117.86 |
2008-10-03 |
| 62. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
117.84 |
0.9740 |
-0.0149 |
371 |
1 |
117.84 |
2008-10-03 |
| 63. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
117.64 |
1.0165 |
-0.0632 |
316 |
1 |
117.64 |
2008-10-05 |
| 64. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
117.53 |
0.8913 |
0.0634 |
201 |
2 |
116.08 |
2008-10-04 |
| 65. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
117.38 |
1.1070 |
-0.1561 |
265 |
1 |
117.38 |
2008-10-04 |
| 66. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
117.32 |
0.9736 |
-0.0150 |
378 |
1 |
117.32 |
2008-10-03 |
| 67. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
116.60 |
0.9966 |
-0.0438 |
377 |
1 |
116.60 |
2008-10-04 |
| 68. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
116.43 |
1.0672 |
-0.1241 |
239 |
1 |
116.43 |
2008-10-02 |
| 69. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
116.24 |
1.0094 |
-0.0666 |
256 |
1 |
116.24 |
2008-10-02 |
| 70. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
115.90 |
1.0600 |
-0.1198 |
351 |
1 |
115.90 |
2008-10-02 |
| 71. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
115.32 |
0.9392 |
0.0021 |
360 |
1 |
115.32 |
2008-10-02 |
| 72. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
115.30 |
0.9636 |
-0.0300 |
281 |
1 |
115.30 |
2008-10-02 |
| 73. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
114.99 |
0.9650 |
-0.0298 |
347 |
1 |
114.99 |
2008-10-03 |
| 74. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
114.61 |
0.9609 |
-0.0267 |
331 |
1 |
114.61 |
2008-10-02 |
| 75. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
114.50 |
0.9143 |
0.0152 |
300 |
2 |
104.80 |
2008-10-03 |
| 76. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
114.42 |
0.9519 |
-0.0201 |
323 |
1 |
114.42 |
2008-10-03 |
| 77. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
114.36 |
0.9756 |
-0.0489 |
223 |
1 |
114.36 |
2008-10-02 |
| 78. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
114.19 |
0.9644 |
-0.0353 |
398 |
1 |
114.19 |
2008-10-03 |
| 79. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
113.24 |
0.9866 |
-0.0680 |
308 |
1 |
113.24 |
2008-09-26 |
| 80. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
113.21 |
1.0125 |
-0.0960 |
232 |
1 |
113.21 |
2008-10-04 |
| 81. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
113.00 |
0.9864 |
-0.0663 |
292 |
1 |
113.00 |
2008-10-04 |
| 82. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
112.82 |
0.9538 |
-0.0392 |
276 |
2 |
112.81 |
2008-10-04 |
| 83. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
112.60 |
1.0334 |
-0.1210 |
261 |
1 |
112.60 |
2008-10-02 |
| 84. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
112.53 |
0.9631 |
-0.0512 |
273 |
1 |
112.53 |
2008-09-27 |
| 85. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
111.50 |
0.8794 |
0.0312 |
427 |
1 |
111.50 |
2008-10-03 |
| 86. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
111.41 |
0.9271 |
-0.0213 |
323 |
1 |
111.41 |
2008-10-04 |
| 87. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
110.94 |
0.9827 |
-0.0824 |
314 |
1 |
110.94 |
2008-10-04 |
| 88. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
110.01 |
0.9425 |
-0.0500 |
248 |
1 |
110.01 |
2008-10-03 |
| 89. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
108.09 |
1.0227 |
-0.1404 |
378 |
1 |
108.09 |
2008-09-27 |
| 90. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
107.73 |
0.9206 |
-0.0469 |
317 |
1 |
107.73 |
2008-10-02 |
| 91. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
105.35 |
0.9980 |
-0.1420 |
295 |
1 |
105.35 |
2008-10-01 |
| 92. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
102.97 |
0.9128 |
-0.0812 |
237 |
1 |
102.97 |
2008-10-02 |
| 93. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
101.84 |
0.9503 |
-0.1318 |
211 |
1 |
101.84 |
2008-09-28 |
| 94. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
101.46 |
0.9228 |
-0.0962 |
305 |
2 |
98.88 |
2008-10-04 |
| 95. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
98.55 |
0.9809 |
-0.1865 |
209 |
1 |
98.55 |
2008-10-02 |
| 96. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
98.51 |
0.9012 |
-0.0997 |
322 |
1 |
98.51 |
2008-10-02 |
| 97. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
97.08 |
0.8172 |
-0.0352 |
204 |
1 |
97.08 |
2008-10-03 |
| 98. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
92.10 |
0.8964 |
-0.1537 |
199 |
1 |
92.10 |
2008-10-03 |
| 99. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
87.62 |
0.9243 |
-0.2131 |
240 |
1 |
87.62 |
2008-10-02 |