| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
131.87 |
1.0543 |
0.2803 |
360 |
1 |
131.87 |
2011-04-07 |
| 2. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
129.59 |
1.0333 |
0.2707 |
176 |
1 |
129.59 |
2011-04-11 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
124.94 |
1.0901 |
0.1738 |
288 |
1 |
124.94 |
2011-04-11 |
| 4. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
122.22 |
1.0465 |
0.1792 |
183 |
1 |
122.22 |
2012-08-06 |
| 5. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
121.47 |
1.0506 |
0.1756 |
259 |
1 |
121.47 |
2011-04-09 |
| 6. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
119.62 |
0.9922 |
0.2163 |
264 |
1 |
119.62 |
2011-04-11 |
| 7. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
118.20 |
0.9603 |
0.2387 |
430 |
3 |
101.67 |
2014-02-04 |
| 8. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
118.14 |
1.0387 |
0.1587 |
333 |
1 |
118.14 |
2011-04-11 |
| 9. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
117.91 |
1.0845 |
0.1050 |
212 |
2 |
116.24 |
2012-09-19 |
| 10. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
117.60 |
1.0873 |
0.0969 |
243 |
1 |
117.60 |
2011-04-07 |
| 11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
116.92 |
1.0628 |
0.1199 |
363 |
1 |
116.92 |
2011-04-11 |
| 12. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
116.47 |
1.0600 |
0.1163 |
351 |
2 |
109.16 |
2013-09-26 |
| 13. |
He always seemed to women different from what he was, and th... |
116.38 |
1.0803 |
0.1035 |
260 |
1 |
116.38 |
2018-09-30 |
| 14. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
115.97 |
1.0332 |
0.1368 |
267 |
1 |
115.97 |
2011-04-07 |
| 15. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
114.13 |
1.0669 |
0.0886 |
379 |
1 |
114.13 |
2013-09-26 |
| 16. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
113.52 |
1.0777 |
0.0663 |
226 |
1 |
113.52 |
2011-04-11 |
| 17. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
113.43 |
1.0585 |
0.0893 |
226 |
1 |
113.43 |
2013-11-18 |
| 18. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
112.74 |
1.0759 |
0.0677 |
273 |
1 |
112.74 |
2013-09-26 |
| 19. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
111.58 |
1.0501 |
0.0769 |
263 |
2 |
106.23 |
2013-09-26 |
| 20. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
111.55 |
1.1062 |
0.0217 |
200 |
1 |
111.55 |
2013-09-26 |
| 21. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
111.17 |
0.9123 |
0.2191 |
351 |
3 |
93.96 |
2013-09-26 |
| 22. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
110.61 |
0.9597 |
0.1574 |
251 |
2 |
106.54 |
2011-04-07 |
| 23. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
110.43 |
1.0444 |
0.0838 |
487 |
1 |
110.43 |
2013-11-18 |
| 24. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
110.26 |
0.9643 |
0.1573 |
282 |
1 |
110.26 |
2011-04-07 |
| 25. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
109.72 |
1.0115 |
0.0907 |
189 |
1 |
109.72 |
2013-11-18 |
| 26. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
109.19 |
1.0960 |
0.0101 |
315 |
1 |
109.19 |
2011-07-18 |
| 27. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
109.17 |
0.9673 |
0.1370 |
292 |
3 |
97.06 |
2012-08-06 |
| 28. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
108.87 |
0.9536 |
0.1539 |
311 |
2 |
103.24 |
2013-09-26 |
| 29. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
108.79 |
1.0399 |
0.0634 |
257 |
1 |
108.79 |
2013-01-13 |
| 30. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
108.62 |
1.0272 |
0.0670 |
226 |
2 |
104.11 |
2011-04-09 |
| 31. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
108.56 |
0.9869 |
0.1052 |
193 |
1 |
108.56 |
2014-09-16 |
| 32. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
108.52 |
1.0086 |
0.0822 |
218 |
1 |
108.52 |
2012-01-31 |
| 33. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
107.76 |
1.0640 |
0.0291 |
210 |
1 |
107.76 |
2013-09-26 |
| 34. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
107.74 |
0.9839 |
0.1034 |
308 |
1 |
107.74 |
2011-04-07 |
| 35. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
107.73 |
0.9630 |
0.1379 |
379 |
1 |
107.73 |
2013-11-16 |
| 36. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
107.69 |
1.0461 |
0.0566 |
535 |
1 |
107.69 |
2011-04-07 |
| 37. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
107.48 |
1.0346 |
0.0595 |
326 |
1 |
107.48 |
2013-11-18 |
| 38. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
107.39 |
0.9957 |
0.0922 |
323 |
2 |
105.73 |
2012-08-06 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
106.53 |
1.0487 |
0.0239 |
253 |
2 |
99.07 |
2012-08-06 |
| 40. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
106.22 |
1.0101 |
0.0638 |
336 |
1 |
106.22 |
2013-11-18 |
| 41. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
106.12 |
0.9743 |
0.1080 |
397 |
1 |
106.12 |
2012-08-06 |
| 42. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
105.57 |
1.0291 |
0.0343 |
240 |
1 |
105.57 |
2011-04-11 |
| 43. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
105.45 |
0.9930 |
0.0801 |
350 |
1 |
105.45 |
2011-04-09 |
| 44. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
105.35 |
1.0265 |
0.0402 |
375 |
2 |
100.90 |
2013-09-26 |
| 45. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
105.01 |
1.0492 |
0.0155 |
284 |
1 |
105.01 |
2011-04-07 |
| 46. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
103.38 |
1.0682 |
-0.0241 |
266 |
1 |
103.38 |
2011-04-07 |
| 47. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
103.29 |
0.9890 |
0.0571 |
272 |
1 |
103.29 |
2012-09-19 |
| 48. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
103.06 |
0.9844 |
0.0675 |
351 |
1 |
103.06 |
2012-08-06 |
| 49. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
103.02 |
0.9143 |
0.1261 |
300 |
1 |
103.02 |
2011-11-21 |
| 50. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
102.59 |
1.1138 |
-0.0701 |
341 |
1 |
102.59 |
2013-09-26 |
| 51. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
102.58 |
1.0408 |
0.0017 |
257 |
1 |
102.58 |
2013-11-18 |
| 52. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
102.41 |
0.9851 |
0.0529 |
237 |
1 |
102.41 |
2011-04-07 |
| 53. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
102.05 |
0.9849 |
0.0458 |
337 |
1 |
102.05 |
2011-04-11 |
| 54. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
101.95 |
0.9265 |
0.1015 |
254 |
1 |
101.95 |
2012-08-06 |
| 55. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
101.38 |
1.0026 |
0.0244 |
200 |
1 |
101.38 |
2012-01-31 |
| 56. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
101.24 |
0.8827 |
0.1347 |
190 |
1 |
101.24 |
2011-04-07 |
| 57. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
100.83 |
0.9503 |
0.0603 |
211 |
1 |
100.83 |
2013-09-26 |
| 58. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
100.32 |
0.9817 |
0.0356 |
304 |
1 |
100.32 |
2014-02-04 |
| 59. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
100.11 |
0.9980 |
0.0144 |
295 |
1 |
100.11 |
2014-09-16 |
| 60. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
99.62 |
0.8718 |
0.1364 |
318 |
1 |
99.62 |
2011-04-11 |
| 61. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
99.49 |
0.9745 |
0.0310 |
388 |
1 |
99.49 |
2011-04-10 |
| 62. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
98.94 |
0.9797 |
0.0227 |
269 |
1 |
98.94 |
2013-12-14 |
| 63. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
98.10 |
1.0283 |
-0.0322 |
272 |
1 |
98.10 |
2012-08-06 |
| 64. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
97.66 |
1.0493 |
-0.0574 |
264 |
1 |
97.66 |
2013-09-26 |
| 65. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
97.38 |
0.9809 |
-0.0028 |
209 |
2 |
95.34 |
2013-11-16 |
| 66. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
97.24 |
0.9046 |
0.0894 |
448 |
1 |
97.24 |
2013-09-26 |
| 67. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
96.59 |
1.0419 |
-0.0644 |
341 |
1 |
96.59 |
2013-09-26 |
| 68. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
96.51 |
0.9332 |
0.0415 |
295 |
1 |
96.51 |
2012-08-06 |
| 69. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
95.93 |
0.9609 |
0.0114 |
331 |
1 |
95.93 |
2013-09-26 |
| 70. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
95.69 |
0.9402 |
0.0229 |
310 |
1 |
95.69 |
2012-08-06 |
| 71. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
95.35 |
0.9927 |
-0.0305 |
276 |
1 |
95.35 |
2013-09-26 |
| 72. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
94.92 |
0.9068 |
0.0486 |
212 |
1 |
94.92 |
2012-01-31 |
| 73. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
94.90 |
0.9500 |
0.0090 |
287 |
1 |
94.90 |
2011-04-07 |
| 74. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
94.78 |
1.0450 |
-0.0840 |
358 |
2 |
93.59 |
2012-08-06 |
| 75. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
94.59 |
1.0199 |
-0.0698 |
225 |
1 |
94.59 |
2011-04-07 |
| 76. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
94.56 |
1.0304 |
-0.0731 |
257 |
1 |
94.56 |
2012-08-06 |
| 77. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
94.43 |
0.9101 |
0.0463 |
351 |
1 |
94.43 |
2011-04-07 |
| 78. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
94.05 |
1.0094 |
-0.0613 |
256 |
1 |
94.05 |
2012-09-19 |
| 79. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
94.01 |
0.9194 |
0.0393 |
360 |
1 |
94.01 |
2011-04-07 |
| 80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
93.90 |
0.9519 |
-0.0009 |
323 |
2 |
90.78 |
2013-12-01 |
| 81. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
93.36 |
0.9713 |
-0.0311 |
193 |
1 |
93.36 |
2011-04-11 |
| 82. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
92.46 |
0.8981 |
0.0433 |
255 |
1 |
92.46 |
2013-09-26 |
| 83. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
92.24 |
0.9543 |
-0.0174 |
265 |
1 |
92.24 |
2013-09-26 |
| 84. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
92.20 |
0.9820 |
-0.0441 |
297 |
1 |
92.20 |
2013-09-26 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
91.42 |
0.9108 |
0.0111 |
235 |
1 |
91.42 |
2013-09-26 |
| 86. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
91.29 |
0.8880 |
0.0327 |
296 |
1 |
91.29 |
2012-08-06 |
| 87. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
90.97 |
0.9434 |
-0.0217 |
367 |
1 |
90.97 |
2011-04-11 |
| 88. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
90.97 |
1.0753 |
-0.1512 |
206 |
1 |
90.97 |
2011-04-07 |
| 89. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
89.18 |
0.8815 |
0.0226 |
296 |
1 |
89.18 |
2011-04-10 |
| 90. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
89.15 |
0.8624 |
0.0317 |
174 |
1 |
89.15 |
2011-04-07 |
| 91. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
88.20 |
0.9330 |
-0.0325 |
341 |
1 |
88.20 |
2013-11-18 |
| 92. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
87.73 |
0.8721 |
0.0183 |
231 |
1 |
87.73 |
2013-09-26 |
| 93. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
85.94 |
0.8656 |
0.0021 |
242 |
1 |
85.94 |
2011-04-07 |
| 94. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
85.82 |
1.0498 |
-0.1840 |
261 |
1 |
85.82 |
2011-04-07 |
| 95. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
85.78 |
0.9517 |
-0.0792 |
397 |
1 |
85.78 |
2012-08-06 |
| 96. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
85.35 |
0.9637 |
-0.0914 |
342 |
1 |
85.35 |
2012-08-06 |
| 97. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
85.23 |
0.9985 |
-0.1273 |
392 |
1 |
85.23 |
2013-09-26 |
| 98. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
84.87 |
0.9339 |
-0.0727 |
317 |
1 |
84.87 |
2011-04-11 |
| 99. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
84.41 |
0.9228 |
-0.0674 |
305 |
1 |
84.41 |
2011-04-07 |
| 100. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
83.76 |
0.8986 |
-0.0496 |
363 |
1 |
83.76 |
2011-04-07 |
| 101. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
82.73 |
0.8992 |
-0.0538 |
320 |
1 |
82.73 |
2013-09-26 |
| 102. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
82.63 |
0.8887 |
-0.0420 |
464 |
1 |
82.63 |
2011-04-07 |
| 103. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
82.53 |
0.9709 |
-0.1407 |
264 |
1 |
82.53 |
2012-08-06 |
| 104. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
82.45 |
1.0464 |
-0.2106 |
294 |
1 |
82.45 |
2012-08-06 |
| 105. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
82.22 |
0.9541 |
-0.1252 |
236 |
1 |
82.22 |
2011-04-11 |
| 106. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
82.00 |
0.9206 |
-0.0939 |
317 |
1 |
82.00 |
2012-09-19 |
| 107. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
81.44 |
0.9842 |
-0.1619 |
335 |
1 |
81.44 |
2011-04-11 |
| 108. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
79.97 |
1.0079 |
-0.2035 |
273 |
1 |
79.97 |
2011-04-09 |
| 109. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
79.65 |
0.9762 |
-0.1742 |
249 |
1 |
79.65 |
2011-07-18 |
| 110. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
79.06 |
0.9352 |
-0.1402 |
194 |
1 |
79.06 |
2011-04-07 |
| 111. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
77.98 |
1.0103 |
-0.2309 |
209 |
1 |
77.98 |
2011-04-09 |
| 112. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
77.13 |
0.7923 |
-0.0150 |
316 |
1 |
77.13 |
2013-09-26 |
| 113. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
75.97 |
1.0590 |
-0.2954 |
250 |
1 |
75.97 |
2011-04-11 |
| 114. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
75.69 |
0.9424 |
-0.1774 |
320 |
1 |
75.69 |
2012-08-06 |
| 115. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
74.59 |
0.9632 |
-0.2111 |
287 |
1 |
74.59 |
2012-08-06 |
| 116. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
74.45 |
0.9329 |
-0.1692 |
345 |
1 |
74.45 |
2013-09-26 |
| 117. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
72.18 |
0.9740 |
-0.2442 |
371 |
1 |
72.18 |
2011-04-09 |
| 118. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
71.63 |
0.7739 |
-0.0512 |
207 |
1 |
71.63 |
2011-04-10 |
| 119. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
68.00 |
0.9931 |
-0.3128 |
218 |
1 |
68.00 |
2011-04-07 |
| 120. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
56.25 |
0.9763 |
-0.4117 |
143 |
1 |
56.25 |
2012-01-31 |