Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
124.22 |
1.1070 |
0.1720 |
265 |
1 |
124.22 |
2009-07-31 |
2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
122.47 |
1.0481 |
0.2062 |
255 |
1 |
122.47 |
2009-07-31 |
3. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
120.30 |
1.0588 |
0.1808 |
281 |
2 |
112.43 |
2009-07-31 |
4. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
119.92 |
1.0301 |
0.2042 |
268 |
1 |
119.92 |
2009-07-31 |
5. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
117.32 |
1.1198 |
0.0878 |
247 |
5 |
104.90 |
2009-07-31 |
6. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
117.19 |
1.0506 |
0.1563 |
259 |
1 |
117.19 |
2009-07-30 |
7. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
116.59 |
1.0543 |
0.1491 |
360 |
1 |
116.59 |
2009-07-31 |
8. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
116.12 |
1.0291 |
0.1650 |
240 |
3 |
100.78 |
2009-07-31 |
9. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
115.06 |
1.0333 |
0.1468 |
176 |
1 |
115.06 |
2010-11-02 |
10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
114.58 |
1.0800 |
0.0974 |
213 |
3 |
107.62 |
2009-07-31 |
11. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.90 |
1.0601 |
0.1099 |
256 |
1 |
113.90 |
2009-07-31 |
12. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
113.55 |
1.0682 |
0.1025 |
266 |
1 |
113.55 |
2009-07-31 |
13. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
112.65 |
0.9756 |
0.1840 |
223 |
1 |
112.65 |
2009-07-31 |
14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
112.39 |
1.0638 |
0.0918 |
247 |
2 |
108.38 |
2009-07-31 |
15. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
110.73 |
1.0669 |
0.0767 |
379 |
2 |
102.38 |
2009-07-31 |
16. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
110.05 |
1.0479 |
0.0838 |
205 |
1 |
110.05 |
2010-11-02 |
17. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
110.00 |
1.0135 |
0.1226 |
358 |
2 |
109.41 |
2009-08-01 |
18. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
109.17 |
1.0426 |
0.0776 |
131 |
3 |
95.71 |
2009-07-31 |
19. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
109.05 |
1.0639 |
0.0602 |
303 |
1 |
109.05 |
2009-07-31 |
20. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
108.67 |
1.0672 |
0.0507 |
239 |
1 |
108.67 |
2009-07-31 |
21. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
107.59 |
0.9841 |
0.1222 |
263 |
1 |
107.59 |
2009-07-31 |
22. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
107.20 |
1.0873 |
0.0135 |
243 |
1 |
107.20 |
2009-07-31 |
23. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
107.01 |
1.0960 |
0.0100 |
315 |
1 |
107.01 |
2009-07-30 |
24. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
106.96 |
0.9880 |
0.1092 |
199 |
1 |
106.96 |
2009-07-31 |
25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
106.72 |
1.0600 |
0.0392 |
351 |
1 |
106.72 |
2009-07-30 |
26. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
106.11 |
0.9809 |
0.1078 |
209 |
3 |
103.38 |
2009-07-31 |
27. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
105.70 |
1.1086 |
-0.0199 |
233 |
1 |
105.70 |
2009-07-31 |
28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
105.46 |
1.0495 |
0.0358 |
323 |
2 |
103.70 |
2010-11-02 |
29. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
105.42 |
0.9963 |
0.0867 |
274 |
2 |
99.91 |
2009-07-31 |
30. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
104.84 |
1.0250 |
0.0573 |
271 |
1 |
104.84 |
2009-07-31 |
31. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
103.47 |
1.0341 |
0.0305 |
273 |
1 |
103.47 |
2009-07-31 |
32. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
103.19 |
0.9922 |
0.0707 |
264 |
3 |
93.91 |
2009-08-01 |
33. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
103.10 |
1.0165 |
0.0441 |
316 |
1 |
103.10 |
2009-07-31 |
34. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
103.08 |
1.0617 |
-0.0024 |
171 |
2 |
98.79 |
2009-07-31 |
35. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
103.07 |
1.0543 |
0.0035 |
182 |
2 |
98.94 |
2009-07-30 |
36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
102.84 |
1.0540 |
-0.0003 |
184 |
1 |
102.84 |
2009-07-31 |
37. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
102.81 |
1.0272 |
0.0291 |
226 |
2 |
98.68 |
2009-08-01 |
38. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
102.78 |
1.0035 |
0.0552 |
310 |
1 |
102.78 |
2009-07-31 |
39. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
102.57 |
1.0686 |
-0.0091 |
354 |
1 |
102.57 |
2009-07-31 |
40. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
102.16 |
1.0557 |
-0.0028 |
289 |
2 |
99.85 |
2009-07-31 |
41. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
101.88 |
0.9836 |
0.0653 |
289 |
2 |
101.02 |
2009-07-31 |
42. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
101.87 |
0.9827 |
0.0668 |
314 |
1 |
101.87 |
2009-07-31 |
43. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
101.61 |
0.8986 |
0.1524 |
363 |
3 |
89.04 |
2009-07-31 |
44. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
101.56 |
0.9927 |
0.0494 |
234 |
1 |
101.56 |
2009-07-31 |
45. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
101.32 |
1.0199 |
0.0193 |
225 |
2 |
101.03 |
2009-08-01 |
46. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
101.31 |
1.0654 |
-0.0251 |
247 |
2 |
97.28 |
2009-07-31 |
47. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
101.10 |
1.0059 |
0.0360 |
283 |
1 |
101.10 |
2009-07-31 |
48. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
101.01 |
1.0521 |
-0.0180 |
197 |
1 |
101.01 |
2009-07-31 |
49. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
101.01 |
1.0392 |
0.0055 |
258 |
1 |
101.01 |
2010-11-02 |
50. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
100.61 |
1.0487 |
-0.0153 |
253 |
2 |
98.38 |
2009-07-31 |
51. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
100.49 |
1.0016 |
0.0312 |
217 |
2 |
98.27 |
2009-07-31 |
52. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
100.05 |
0.9636 |
0.0648 |
281 |
1 |
100.05 |
2009-07-31 |
53. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
99.91 |
0.9864 |
0.0458 |
292 |
2 |
93.42 |
2009-07-31 |
54. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
99.89 |
1.0414 |
-0.0142 |
234 |
1 |
99.89 |
2009-07-31 |
55. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
99.80 |
0.9981 |
0.0282 |
211 |
1 |
99.80 |
2009-07-31 |
56. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
99.65 |
1.0607 |
-0.0322 |
357 |
1 |
99.65 |
2009-07-31 |
57. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
99.61 |
1.0867 |
-0.0659 |
171 |
1 |
99.61 |
2009-07-31 |
58. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
99.35 |
0.9574 |
0.0684 |
354 |
2 |
92.20 |
2009-07-30 |
59. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
98.85 |
0.9726 |
0.0500 |
396 |
1 |
98.85 |
2009-07-31 |
60. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
98.10 |
1.0181 |
-0.0072 |
276 |
2 |
93.50 |
2009-07-30 |
61. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
97.87 |
1.0006 |
0.0066 |
311 |
2 |
93.46 |
2009-07-31 |
62. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
97.42 |
1.0334 |
-0.0314 |
261 |
1 |
97.42 |
2009-07-30 |
63. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
97.24 |
1.0288 |
-0.0328 |
166 |
1 |
97.24 |
2009-07-31 |
64. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
97.12 |
0.9680 |
0.0316 |
256 |
3 |
93.34 |
2009-07-31 |
65. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
97.08 |
0.9357 |
0.0611 |
204 |
1 |
97.08 |
2009-07-31 |
66. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
95.98 |
1.0264 |
-0.0429 |
191 |
2 |
75.45 |
2009-08-01 |
67. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
95.92 |
0.9931 |
-0.0100 |
218 |
1 |
95.92 |
2009-07-31 |
68. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
95.31 |
1.0877 |
-0.1104 |
129 |
1 |
95.31 |
2009-07-31 |
69. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
94.73 |
0.9763 |
-0.0021 |
143 |
1 |
94.73 |
2009-07-31 |
70. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
94.70 |
0.9849 |
-0.0093 |
337 |
2 |
90.23 |
2009-07-31 |
71. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
94.10 |
0.9503 |
0.0112 |
211 |
2 |
89.39 |
2009-07-31 |
72. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
93.68 |
0.9678 |
0.0003 |
392 |
1 |
93.68 |
2009-07-31 |
73. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
93.57 |
0.9545 |
0.0179 |
412 |
1 |
93.57 |
2010-11-02 |
74. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
93.37 |
1.0287 |
-0.0692 |
269 |
1 |
93.37 |
2009-07-30 |
75. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
93.23 |
0.9909 |
-0.0271 |
293 |
2 |
86.70 |
2009-07-31 |
76. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
93.00 |
1.0845 |
-0.1288 |
212 |
1 |
93.00 |
2009-07-31 |
77. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
92.44 |
1.0144 |
-0.0623 |
162 |
1 |
92.44 |
2010-11-02 |
78. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
92.11 |
1.0404 |
-0.0879 |
406 |
1 |
92.11 |
2009-07-31 |
79. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
91.61 |
0.9400 |
0.0050 |
434 |
1 |
91.61 |
2009-08-01 |
80. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
91.11 |
0.9928 |
-0.0562 |
293 |
1 |
91.11 |
2009-07-30 |
81. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
91.10 |
0.8656 |
0.0727 |
242 |
2 |
89.62 |
2009-07-31 |
82. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
91.09 |
0.9271 |
0.0124 |
323 |
1 |
91.09 |
2009-07-31 |
83. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
90.97 |
0.9698 |
-0.0290 |
389 |
1 |
90.97 |
2009-07-31 |
84. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
90.35 |
0.9332 |
-0.0024 |
295 |
1 |
90.35 |
2009-07-30 |
85. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
90.31 |
1.0189 |
-0.0906 |
290 |
1 |
90.31 |
2009-07-31 |
86. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
90.24 |
1.0320 |
-0.0978 |
401 |
1 |
90.24 |
2009-07-31 |
87. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
89.68 |
1.0432 |
-0.1202 |
276 |
1 |
89.68 |
2009-07-30 |
88. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
89.68 |
1.0466 |
-0.1246 |
230 |
1 |
89.68 |
2009-07-30 |
89. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
89.21 |
1.0279 |
-0.1160 |
172 |
1 |
89.21 |
2009-07-31 |
90. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
89.03 |
0.9108 |
0.0048 |
235 |
3 |
80.70 |
2009-07-31 |
91. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
88.78 |
0.9271 |
-0.0144 |
295 |
1 |
88.78 |
2009-07-31 |
92. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
88.74 |
0.9966 |
-0.0767 |
377 |
2 |
84.11 |
2009-07-31 |
93. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
88.53 |
1.0777 |
-0.1693 |
226 |
1 |
88.53 |
2009-07-30 |
94. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
88.49 |
0.9709 |
-0.0621 |
264 |
1 |
88.49 |
2009-08-01 |
95. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
88.46 |
0.8666 |
0.0407 |
206 |
2 |
86.30 |
2009-07-31 |
96. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
88.35 |
0.9422 |
-0.0387 |
190 |
1 |
88.35 |
2009-07-31 |
97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
87.76 |
0.9468 |
-0.0445 |
318 |
1 |
87.76 |
2009-07-31 |
98. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
87.31 |
0.9909 |
-0.0891 |
334 |
1 |
87.31 |
2009-07-31 |
99. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.08 |
1.0057 |
-0.1073 |
382 |
1 |
87.08 |
2009-07-30 |
100. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
86.86 |
0.9931 |
-0.0954 |
339 |
1 |
86.86 |
2009-07-31 |
101. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
86.67 |
0.9114 |
-0.0126 |
399 |
1 |
86.67 |
2009-07-31 |
102. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
86.43 |
0.9561 |
-0.0657 |
362 |
1 |
86.43 |
2009-07-31 |
103. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
86.27 |
0.9801 |
-0.0933 |
289 |
1 |
86.27 |
2009-07-30 |
104. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
86.16 |
0.9650 |
-0.0763 |
347 |
2 |
79.17 |
2009-07-30 |
105. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
86.02 |
1.0101 |
-0.1238 |
336 |
1 |
86.02 |
2009-07-31 |
106. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
85.55 |
0.8880 |
-0.0082 |
296 |
1 |
85.55 |
2009-07-31 |
107. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
85.20 |
1.0743 |
-0.1972 |
297 |
1 |
85.20 |
2009-07-31 |
108. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
84.89 |
0.8964 |
-0.0265 |
199 |
1 |
84.89 |
2009-07-31 |
109. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
84.60 |
0.9500 |
-0.0785 |
287 |
1 |
84.60 |
2009-08-01 |
110. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
84.56 |
0.9829 |
-0.1142 |
229 |
1 |
84.56 |
2009-07-30 |
111. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
84.08 |
0.8794 |
-0.0084 |
427 |
1 |
84.08 |
2009-07-30 |
112. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
83.89 |
0.9996 |
-0.1296 |
483 |
1 |
83.89 |
2009-07-31 |
113. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
83.80 |
1.0865 |
-0.2252 |
237 |
2 |
83.31 |
2009-07-31 |
114. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
82.35 |
1.0197 |
-0.1750 |
204 |
1 |
82.35 |
2009-07-30 |
115. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
81.95 |
0.8830 |
-0.0381 |
300 |
2 |
81.12 |
2009-07-31 |
116. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
81.39 |
0.9101 |
-0.0696 |
351 |
1 |
81.39 |
2009-07-31 |
117. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
81.09 |
1.0042 |
-0.1745 |
168 |
1 |
81.09 |
2009-08-01 |
118. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
80.30 |
0.9583 |
-0.1325 |
237 |
2 |
76.10 |
2009-07-31 |
119. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
79.40 |
1.0227 |
-0.2006 |
378 |
1 |
79.40 |
2009-07-30 |
120. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
78.38 |
1.0194 |
-0.2161 |
224 |
1 |
78.38 |
2009-07-31 |
121. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
77.44 |
0.9243 |
-0.1265 |
240 |
1 |
77.44 |
2009-07-31 |
122. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
76.82 |
0.8887 |
-0.0855 |
464 |
2 |
76.46 |
2010-11-02 |
123. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
76.11 |
0.8986 |
-0.1161 |
216 |
1 |
76.11 |
2009-07-31 |
124. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
74.73 |
0.9119 |
-0.1400 |
396 |
1 |
74.73 |
2009-07-30 |
125. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
74.21 |
0.9070 |
-0.1496 |
192 |
2 |
73.40 |
2009-07-31 |
126. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
74.01 |
1.0561 |
-0.2978 |
227 |
1 |
74.01 |
2009-07-30 |
127. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
69.90 |
0.9451 |
-0.2196 |
419 |
1 |
69.90 |
2009-07-31 |