Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
165.04 |
1.0197 |
0.1671 |
204 |
5 |
147.31 |
2008-09-29 |
2. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
163.97 |
1.0267 |
0.1572 |
261 |
1 |
163.97 |
2008-09-08 |
3. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
163.72 |
1.0777 |
0.0992 |
226 |
2 |
157.85 |
2008-09-07 |
4. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
160.21 |
1.0669 |
0.0899 |
379 |
2 |
152.50 |
2008-09-08 |
5. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
159.56 |
1.0404 |
0.1134 |
406 |
3 |
140.50 |
2008-08-15 |
6. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
158.37 |
1.0901 |
0.0522 |
288 |
2 |
154.81 |
2008-09-01 |
7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
157.72 |
1.0676 |
0.0726 |
456 |
3 |
152.36 |
2008-08-10 |
8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
157.42 |
1.0736 |
0.0624 |
350 |
1 |
157.42 |
2008-08-11 |
9. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
155.85 |
0.9841 |
0.1363 |
263 |
2 |
149.53 |
2008-08-12 |
10. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
155.80 |
0.9538 |
0.1677 |
276 |
5 |
146.00 |
2008-09-08 |
11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
155.41 |
1.0628 |
0.0581 |
363 |
3 |
141.10 |
2008-09-07 |
12. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
155.21 |
1.0234 |
0.0981 |
392 |
2 |
143.96 |
2008-08-24 |
13. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
155.21 |
1.0227 |
0.1008 |
378 |
3 |
148.26 |
2008-08-21 |
14. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
154.64 |
0.9839 |
0.1292 |
308 |
2 |
141.75 |
2010-03-18 |
15. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
154.49 |
1.0682 |
0.0451 |
266 |
1 |
154.49 |
2008-09-08 |
16. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
154.15 |
0.9885 |
0.1213 |
355 |
2 |
136.83 |
2008-08-12 |
17. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
153.70 |
1.0450 |
0.0668 |
358 |
5 |
138.58 |
2009-05-04 |
18. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
152.72 |
0.9359 |
0.1642 |
355 |
6 |
135.84 |
2008-09-08 |
19. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
152.58 |
1.0035 |
0.0955 |
310 |
1 |
152.58 |
2008-08-20 |
20. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
152.19 |
0.9801 |
0.1151 |
289 |
1 |
152.19 |
2008-08-15 |
21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
151.25 |
0.9927 |
0.0927 |
234 |
3 |
144.37 |
2008-09-08 |
22. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
151.17 |
1.0567 |
0.0312 |
314 |
1 |
151.17 |
2008-09-29 |
23. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
151.02 |
1.1093 |
-0.0278 |
220 |
3 |
139.50 |
2008-09-08 |
24. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
150.21 |
1.0481 |
0.0254 |
255 |
2 |
143.19 |
2009-05-04 |
25. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
150.12 |
0.9339 |
0.1525 |
317 |
5 |
120.05 |
2008-08-23 |
26. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
149.93 |
0.9468 |
0.1322 |
318 |
1 |
149.93 |
2008-09-07 |
27. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
149.81 |
1.0270 |
0.0519 |
303 |
1 |
149.81 |
2008-09-08 |
28. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
149.20 |
1.0686 |
0.0089 |
354 |
1 |
149.20 |
2008-08-12 |
29. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
149.12 |
0.9108 |
0.1624 |
235 |
3 |
133.36 |
2008-09-08 |
30. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
148.90 |
1.0600 |
0.0120 |
351 |
2 |
143.62 |
2008-09-08 |
31. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
148.83 |
1.0557 |
0.0167 |
289 |
1 |
148.83 |
2008-08-12 |
32. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
148.73 |
1.0028 |
0.0666 |
259 |
2 |
143.12 |
2008-08-11 |
33. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
148.47 |
0.9884 |
0.0827 |
267 |
4 |
129.71 |
2008-10-14 |
34. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
148.30 |
1.0059 |
0.0627 |
283 |
2 |
138.98 |
2009-01-14 |
35. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
148.19 |
1.0540 |
0.0076 |
184 |
2 |
144.95 |
2008-09-05 |
36. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
147.98 |
0.9680 |
0.0972 |
256 |
3 |
137.64 |
2008-09-05 |
37. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
147.91 |
1.0743 |
-0.0086 |
297 |
3 |
146.45 |
2008-09-08 |
38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
147.90 |
1.0181 |
0.0477 |
276 |
2 |
134.65 |
2008-09-07 |
39. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
147.84 |
0.9400 |
0.1266 |
434 |
2 |
145.34 |
2008-08-10 |
40. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
147.64 |
1.0060 |
0.0573 |
225 |
6 |
125.30 |
2008-09-16 |
41. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
147.54 |
0.9917 |
0.0723 |
317 |
2 |
144.87 |
2008-09-05 |
42. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
147.42 |
1.0333 |
0.0226 |
176 |
1 |
147.42 |
2008-11-04 |
43. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
147.22 |
0.9271 |
0.1321 |
295 |
5 |
128.31 |
2008-08-15 |
44. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
147.20 |
0.9583 |
0.1016 |
237 |
4 |
119.35 |
2008-09-05 |
45. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
147.19 |
0.9996 |
0.0672 |
483 |
3 |
130.73 |
2008-09-08 |
46. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
147.15 |
0.9597 |
0.0996 |
251 |
2 |
131.17 |
2008-09-07 |
47. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
146.59 |
1.0638 |
-0.0108 |
247 |
1 |
146.59 |
2008-09-17 |
48. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
146.51 |
1.0639 |
-0.0084 |
303 |
3 |
134.06 |
2008-09-05 |
49. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
146.31 |
1.0615 |
-0.0115 |
201 |
1 |
146.31 |
2008-09-07 |
50. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
145.95 |
0.9561 |
0.0959 |
362 |
3 |
130.99 |
2008-08-15 |
51. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
145.83 |
1.0576 |
-0.0109 |
231 |
2 |
138.53 |
2008-11-12 |
52. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
145.42 |
1.0106 |
0.0349 |
302 |
2 |
132.39 |
2008-09-14 |
53. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
145.24 |
1.0057 |
0.0424 |
382 |
1 |
145.24 |
2008-09-01 |
54. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
144.78 |
0.9574 |
0.0877 |
354 |
2 |
131.36 |
2008-08-21 |
55. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
144.77 |
0.9842 |
0.0598 |
335 |
2 |
136.02 |
2008-08-12 |
56. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
144.71 |
1.0094 |
0.0321 |
256 |
2 |
141.52 |
2008-09-29 |
57. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
144.07 |
0.8880 |
0.1489 |
296 |
4 |
132.13 |
2008-08-22 |
58. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
143.94 |
1.0250 |
0.0137 |
271 |
3 |
141.92 |
2008-08-15 |
59. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
143.85 |
1.0607 |
-0.0227 |
357 |
1 |
143.85 |
2008-08-15 |
60. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
143.44 |
1.0069 |
0.0286 |
242 |
1 |
143.44 |
2010-03-18 |
61. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
142.47 |
0.9594 |
0.0640 |
258 |
3 |
129.58 |
2008-08-12 |
62. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
142.34 |
0.9402 |
0.0821 |
310 |
1 |
142.34 |
2008-08-23 |
63. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
141.90 |
0.9915 |
0.0286 |
281 |
5 |
127.73 |
2010-03-18 |
64. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
141.89 |
1.0800 |
-0.0660 |
129 |
1 |
141.89 |
2010-03-18 |
65. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
141.73 |
0.8792 |
0.1516 |
214 |
1 |
141.73 |
2008-08-20 |
66. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
141.29 |
0.9424 |
0.0767 |
320 |
5 |
134.74 |
2008-09-08 |
67. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
140.96 |
1.0881 |
-0.0778 |
210 |
1 |
140.96 |
2008-08-12 |
68. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
140.92 |
0.9265 |
0.0864 |
254 |
1 |
140.92 |
2008-09-01 |
69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
140.13 |
0.8986 |
0.1079 |
205 |
3 |
135.33 |
2008-09-29 |
70. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
140.05 |
0.9631 |
0.0441 |
273 |
2 |
133.84 |
2008-08-15 |
71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
140.00 |
0.9673 |
0.0422 |
292 |
1 |
140.00 |
2008-09-14 |
72. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
139.61 |
0.9604 |
0.0420 |
285 |
1 |
139.61 |
2010-03-18 |
73. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
139.50 |
0.9927 |
0.0116 |
276 |
4 |
131.43 |
2008-09-14 |
74. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
139.48 |
0.9948 |
0.0076 |
233 |
2 |
131.84 |
2008-08-15 |
75. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
139.38 |
1.0865 |
-0.0839 |
237 |
2 |
129.60 |
2008-08-11 |
76. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
139.37 |
0.9143 |
0.0894 |
300 |
1 |
139.37 |
2008-09-08 |
77. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
139.10 |
0.9070 |
0.0890 |
192 |
3 |
124.63 |
2008-09-07 |
78. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
138.62 |
0.9681 |
0.0348 |
392 |
3 |
129.70 |
2008-09-14 |
79. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
138.08 |
1.0590 |
-0.0667 |
250 |
3 |
127.84 |
2008-10-14 |
80. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
137.70 |
0.9011 |
0.0927 |
322 |
5 |
128.50 |
2008-08-23 |
81. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
137.25 |
0.9928 |
-0.0060 |
293 |
2 |
135.02 |
2008-09-17 |
82. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
136.90 |
0.9909 |
-0.0021 |
334 |
1 |
136.90 |
2008-09-07 |
83. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
136.78 |
0.9678 |
0.0205 |
392 |
2 |
132.84 |
2008-09-08 |
84. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
136.64 |
0.9673 |
0.0196 |
393 |
2 |
125.56 |
2008-08-18 |
85. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
136.34 |
0.9787 |
0.0055 |
364 |
3 |
132.44 |
2008-09-17 |
86. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
135.68 |
0.9243 |
0.0538 |
240 |
2 |
133.44 |
2008-08-11 |
87. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
135.66 |
1.0341 |
-0.0588 |
273 |
3 |
127.31 |
2008-09-01 |
88. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
135.65 |
0.9866 |
-0.0104 |
308 |
2 |
123.18 |
2008-08-20 |
89. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
135.21 |
0.9228 |
0.0543 |
305 |
1 |
135.21 |
2008-08-12 |
90. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
135.19 |
0.9135 |
0.0678 |
393 |
3 |
130.34 |
2008-09-07 |
91. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
135.13 |
1.0334 |
-0.0620 |
261 |
4 |
129.02 |
2008-09-08 |
92. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
134.30 |
0.9756 |
-0.0103 |
223 |
1 |
134.30 |
2008-08-11 |
93. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
133.63 |
0.9963 |
-0.0375 |
274 |
1 |
133.63 |
2010-03-18 |
94. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
133.61 |
0.9332 |
0.0278 |
267 |
1 |
133.61 |
2008-08-11 |
95. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
133.14 |
0.9101 |
0.0514 |
351 |
1 |
133.14 |
2008-08-20 |
96. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
132.96 |
0.8830 |
0.0758 |
300 |
2 |
126.75 |
2008-08-12 |
97. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
132.52 |
1.0529 |
-0.0972 |
373 |
1 |
132.52 |
2009-01-14 |
98. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
131.83 |
1.0411 |
-0.0912 |
341 |
1 |
131.83 |
2008-10-14 |
99. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
131.73 |
0.9703 |
-0.0163 |
394 |
4 |
124.18 |
2008-08-21 |
100. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
131.66 |
0.9841 |
-0.0405 |
217 |
1 |
131.66 |
2008-08-15 |
101. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
130.52 |
0.9829 |
-0.0449 |
229 |
1 |
130.52 |
2008-08-11 |
102. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
130.12 |
1.0511 |
-0.1135 |
252 |
1 |
130.12 |
2008-11-12 |
103. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
130.01 |
0.9726 |
-0.0324 |
396 |
1 |
130.01 |
2008-09-01 |
104. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
130.00 |
1.0132 |
-0.0777 |
371 |
1 |
130.00 |
2008-08-12 |
105. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
128.92 |
0.8936 |
0.0324 |
346 |
1 |
128.92 |
2008-09-17 |
106. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
128.72 |
0.8993 |
0.0291 |
366 |
1 |
128.72 |
2008-08-12 |
107. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
128.71 |
1.0601 |
-0.1377 |
256 |
3 |
122.61 |
2008-11-12 |
108. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
128.57 |
0.9519 |
-0.0235 |
323 |
1 |
128.57 |
2008-08-11 |
109. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
128.49 |
0.9740 |
-0.0467 |
371 |
1 |
128.49 |
2008-08-14 |
110. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
128.13 |
0.9713 |
-0.0513 |
193 |
2 |
120.76 |
2008-09-16 |
111. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
128.00 |
0.9836 |
-0.0631 |
289 |
2 |
120.08 |
2008-09-08 |
112. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
127.83 |
0.9909 |
-0.0671 |
293 |
2 |
120.33 |
2008-09-07 |
113. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
127.72 |
0.8656 |
0.0540 |
242 |
3 |
124.33 |
2008-09-07 |
114. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
127.40 |
0.9933 |
-0.0698 |
450 |
1 |
127.40 |
2008-11-04 |
115. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
127.36 |
0.8437 |
0.0714 |
268 |
2 |
123.14 |
2008-08-13 |
116. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
126.16 |
0.9206 |
-0.0130 |
317 |
1 |
126.16 |
2008-09-05 |
117. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
126.10 |
0.9128 |
-0.0089 |
237 |
2 |
121.43 |
2008-09-08 |
118. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
125.74 |
0.9644 |
-0.0572 |
398 |
2 |
123.12 |
2008-08-15 |
119. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
125.04 |
1.0476 |
-0.1580 |
110 |
1 |
125.04 |
2008-10-14 |
120. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
124.75 |
0.9931 |
-0.1001 |
218 |
4 |
115.01 |
2008-09-05 |
121. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
124.69 |
0.9810 |
-0.0795 |
362 |
2 |
123.67 |
2008-09-07 |
122. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
124.35 |
1.0800 |
-0.1889 |
213 |
1 |
124.35 |
2008-08-11 |
123. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
124.13 |
0.9650 |
-0.0699 |
347 |
1 |
124.13 |
2008-08-12 |
124. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
123.17 |
0.9922 |
-0.1061 |
264 |
1 |
123.17 |
2008-08-20 |
125. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
122.78 |
1.0960 |
-0.2093 |
315 |
1 |
122.78 |
2010-03-18 |
126. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
122.49 |
0.9119 |
-0.0271 |
396 |
1 |
122.49 |
2008-11-12 |
127. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
121.64 |
0.9957 |
-0.1215 |
323 |
2 |
118.68 |
2008-12-30 |
128. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
121.53 |
1.0016 |
-0.1296 |
217 |
1 |
121.53 |
2008-08-11 |
129. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
120.83 |
0.9183 |
-0.0489 |
308 |
2 |
119.32 |
2008-08-21 |
130. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
118.92 |
0.9636 |
-0.1103 |
281 |
1 |
118.92 |
2009-01-14 |
131. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
118.52 |
0.9698 |
-0.1130 |
389 |
2 |
116.83 |
2008-09-07 |
132. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
118.15 |
0.8986 |
-0.0445 |
363 |
2 |
108.99 |
2008-09-08 |
133. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
118.12 |
1.0462 |
-0.1943 |
340 |
1 |
118.12 |
2008-08-11 |
134. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
117.91 |
0.9931 |
-0.1412 |
339 |
1 |
117.91 |
2008-08-14 |
135. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
116.54 |
0.9145 |
-0.0735 |
404 |
1 |
116.54 |
2008-08-11 |
136. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
115.79 |
0.9271 |
-0.0926 |
323 |
2 |
113.25 |
2008-09-05 |
137. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
114.91 |
0.8172 |
0.0042 |
204 |
2 |
112.34 |
2008-09-08 |
138. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
114.48 |
0.9422 |
-0.1248 |
190 |
1 |
114.48 |
2008-08-21 |
139. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
110.58 |
1.0264 |
-0.2363 |
191 |
1 |
110.58 |
2008-11-12 |
140. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
110.40 |
0.8913 |
-0.0968 |
201 |
1 |
110.40 |
2008-08-10 |
141. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
108.06 |
0.9709 |
-0.1961 |
264 |
1 |
108.06 |
2010-03-18 |
142. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
105.47 |
0.9981 |
-0.2417 |
211 |
1 |
105.47 |
2008-08-11 |
143. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
104.90 |
0.8964 |
-0.1461 |
199 |
2 |
94.64 |
2008-08-11 |
144. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
103.00 |
1.0561 |
-0.3186 |
227 |
1 |
103.00 |
2008-11-04 |