| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
69.21 |
1.0873 |
0.1291 |
243 |
1 |
69.21 |
2008-11-30 |
| 2. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
68.20 |
1.0464 |
0.1601 |
294 |
1 |
68.20 |
2008-12-19 |
| 3. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.25 |
0.9762 |
0.2085 |
249 |
1 |
67.25 |
2008-11-29 |
| 4. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
65.76 |
1.0521 |
0.1006 |
197 |
1 |
65.76 |
2008-12-01 |
| 5. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
65.32 |
0.9841 |
0.1631 |
217 |
1 |
65.32 |
2008-12-01 |
| 6. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
65.04 |
1.0567 |
0.0886 |
314 |
3 |
59.37 |
2008-12-02 |
| 7. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
64.80 |
1.0103 |
0.1253 |
209 |
1 |
64.80 |
2008-11-30 |
| 8. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
64.00 |
0.9541 |
0.1737 |
236 |
6 |
57.47 |
2008-12-02 |
| 9. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
63.95 |
1.0682 |
0.0592 |
266 |
2 |
62.84 |
2008-12-19 |
| 10. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
63.90 |
1.0178 |
0.1059 |
207 |
1 |
63.90 |
2008-12-19 |
| 11. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
63.42 |
1.0414 |
0.0746 |
234 |
1 |
63.42 |
2008-11-30 |
| 12. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
63.32 |
0.9963 |
0.1164 |
274 |
3 |
56.91 |
2008-12-19 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
63.29 |
1.1198 |
-0.0062 |
247 |
1 |
63.29 |
2008-11-29 |
| 14. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
63.26 |
1.0607 |
0.0561 |
357 |
3 |
55.45 |
2008-12-19 |
| 15. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
63.21 |
1.0881 |
0.0212 |
210 |
2 |
60.28 |
2008-11-30 |
| 16. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
62.70 |
0.9681 |
0.1416 |
392 |
1 |
62.70 |
2008-12-02 |
| 17. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
62.66 |
1.0487 |
0.0525 |
253 |
1 |
62.66 |
2008-11-30 |
| 18. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
62.58 |
0.9594 |
0.1408 |
258 |
3 |
53.54 |
2008-11-30 |
| 19. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.58 |
1.0466 |
0.0550 |
230 |
3 |
57.43 |
2008-11-30 |
| 20. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.53 |
1.0543 |
0.0491 |
360 |
1 |
62.53 |
2008-11-29 |
| 21. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
62.38 |
0.9597 |
0.1390 |
251 |
1 |
62.38 |
2008-12-01 |
| 22. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
62.26 |
1.0082 |
0.0831 |
212 |
1 |
62.26 |
2008-11-30 |
| 23. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
61.95 |
1.0736 |
0.0198 |
350 |
2 |
59.41 |
2008-11-30 |
| 24. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
61.79 |
0.9966 |
0.0986 |
377 |
2 |
59.33 |
2008-12-01 |
| 25. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.73 |
1.0867 |
-0.0041 |
171 |
1 |
61.73 |
2008-11-30 |
| 26. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
61.64 |
1.0743 |
0.0122 |
297 |
1 |
61.64 |
2008-11-29 |
| 27. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
61.59 |
0.9842 |
0.1025 |
335 |
1 |
61.59 |
2008-11-29 |
| 28. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
61.15 |
1.0639 |
0.0139 |
303 |
1 |
61.15 |
2008-11-30 |
| 29. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
61.03 |
1.0106 |
0.0630 |
302 |
2 |
58.51 |
2008-11-30 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
60.84 |
1.0006 |
0.0706 |
311 |
1 |
60.84 |
2008-11-30 |
| 31. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
60.81 |
0.9609 |
0.1146 |
331 |
1 |
60.81 |
2008-11-30 |
| 32. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
60.75 |
1.0125 |
0.0522 |
171 |
1 |
60.75 |
2008-12-02 |
| 33. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
60.70 |
0.9271 |
0.1441 |
323 |
2 |
56.40 |
2008-11-30 |
| 34. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
60.65 |
0.9931 |
0.0708 |
218 |
1 |
60.65 |
2008-11-29 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
60.25 |
1.0132 |
0.0481 |
371 |
1 |
60.25 |
2008-11-30 |
| 36. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
60.11 |
1.0426 |
0.0117 |
131 |
3 |
54.08 |
2008-12-02 |
| 37. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
60.11 |
0.9833 |
0.0774 |
387 |
1 |
60.11 |
2008-11-30 |
| 38. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
59.94 |
1.0016 |
0.0521 |
217 |
1 |
59.94 |
2008-11-30 |
| 39. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
59.63 |
1.0270 |
0.0234 |
303 |
1 |
59.63 |
2008-12-01 |
| 40. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
59.28 |
0.9243 |
0.1214 |
240 |
2 |
49.74 |
2008-12-01 |
| 41. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
59.20 |
1.0341 |
0.0075 |
273 |
3 |
54.79 |
2008-11-30 |
| 42. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
59.09 |
0.9010 |
0.1417 |
266 |
2 |
56.12 |
2008-11-29 |
| 43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
58.55 |
1.0628 |
-0.0302 |
363 |
1 |
58.55 |
2008-11-30 |
| 44. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
58.51 |
1.0234 |
0.0106 |
392 |
2 |
56.51 |
2008-12-19 |
| 45. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.42 |
0.9885 |
0.0399 |
355 |
1 |
58.42 |
2008-11-30 |
| 46. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
58.24 |
0.8880 |
0.1373 |
296 |
1 |
58.24 |
2008-11-30 |
| 47. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
58.23 |
0.9011 |
0.1271 |
322 |
1 |
58.23 |
2008-11-30 |
| 48. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
57.90 |
0.9885 |
0.0373 |
469 |
1 |
57.90 |
2008-11-30 |
| 49. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
57.56 |
1.0362 |
-0.0168 |
437 |
2 |
55.67 |
2008-12-19 |
| 50. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
57.56 |
1.0588 |
-0.0456 |
281 |
1 |
57.56 |
2008-12-01 |
| 51. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
57.53 |
1.0095 |
0.0017 |
211 |
2 |
54.85 |
2008-11-30 |
| 52. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
57.28 |
0.9519 |
0.0602 |
323 |
1 |
57.28 |
2008-11-29 |
| 53. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
57.20 |
0.9315 |
0.0770 |
273 |
1 |
57.20 |
2008-11-29 |
| 54. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
57.18 |
0.9265 |
0.0788 |
254 |
2 |
53.92 |
2008-12-19 |
| 55. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
57.16 |
1.0189 |
-0.0135 |
290 |
3 |
55.29 |
2008-11-30 |
| 56. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.02 |
0.9927 |
0.0075 |
234 |
1 |
57.02 |
2008-11-29 |
| 57. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
56.95 |
0.9849 |
0.0186 |
337 |
2 |
52.93 |
2008-11-30 |
| 58. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
56.93 |
0.9915 |
0.0096 |
281 |
2 |
54.49 |
2008-11-29 |
| 59. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
56.51 |
0.9827 |
0.0127 |
314 |
1 |
56.51 |
2008-11-30 |
| 60. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
56.10 |
1.0272 |
-0.0420 |
226 |
1 |
56.10 |
2008-11-30 |
| 61. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
56.06 |
0.9538 |
0.0325 |
276 |
1 |
56.06 |
2008-11-29 |
| 62. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
55.98 |
1.0267 |
-0.0385 |
261 |
2 |
55.22 |
2008-11-30 |
| 63. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
55.83 |
1.0672 |
-0.0859 |
239 |
1 |
55.83 |
2008-11-29 |
| 64. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.82 |
0.9621 |
0.0226 |
212 |
1 |
55.82 |
2008-11-29 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
55.82 |
0.9434 |
0.0434 |
367 |
1 |
55.82 |
2008-11-29 |
| 66. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
55.47 |
0.9931 |
-0.0125 |
339 |
1 |
55.47 |
2008-11-30 |
| 67. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
55.20 |
0.8830 |
0.0908 |
300 |
2 |
53.38 |
2008-11-30 |
| 68. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.14 |
0.9400 |
0.0329 |
434 |
1 |
55.14 |
2008-11-30 |
| 69. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
55.06 |
1.0476 |
-0.0882 |
110 |
1 |
55.06 |
2008-11-29 |
| 70. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
54.99 |
0.9583 |
0.0098 |
237 |
3 |
49.61 |
2008-12-19 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
54.85 |
0.9359 |
0.0299 |
355 |
1 |
54.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 72. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
54.57 |
0.9685 |
-0.0076 |
304 |
1 |
54.57 |
2008-11-29 |
| 73. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
54.29 |
0.9673 |
-0.0099 |
292 |
2 |
52.54 |
2008-11-29 |
| 74. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
54.19 |
1.0265 |
-0.0694 |
375 |
1 |
54.19 |
2008-12-01 |
| 75. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.85 |
0.9206 |
0.0273 |
317 |
1 |
53.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 76. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
53.81 |
1.0334 |
-0.0873 |
261 |
2 |
53.75 |
2008-11-30 |
| 77. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
53.50 |
0.9574 |
-0.0130 |
354 |
1 |
53.50 |
2008-11-29 |
| 78. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
53.41 |
0.8988 |
0.0400 |
193 |
1 |
53.41 |
2008-11-29 |
| 79. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
53.30 |
1.0227 |
-0.0789 |
378 |
1 |
53.30 |
2008-11-29 |
| 80. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
53.20 |
1.0057 |
-0.0669 |
382 |
1 |
53.20 |
2008-11-29 |
| 81. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
52.90 |
0.9836 |
-0.0529 |
289 |
1 |
52.90 |
2008-11-29 |
| 82. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.63 |
0.9145 |
0.0148 |
404 |
2 |
50.58 |
2008-11-30 |
| 83. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
52.56 |
1.0101 |
-0.0837 |
336 |
1 |
52.56 |
2008-11-29 |
| 84. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
52.44 |
1.0615 |
-0.1421 |
201 |
1 |
52.44 |
2008-11-29 |
| 85. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
52.26 |
0.9763 |
-0.0575 |
143 |
1 |
52.26 |
2008-11-29 |
| 86. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
52.25 |
0.9917 |
-0.0705 |
317 |
1 |
52.25 |
2008-11-30 |
| 87. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
52.03 |
0.9768 |
-0.0603 |
237 |
1 |
52.03 |
2008-11-29 |
| 88. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
52.03 |
1.0197 |
-0.1063 |
204 |
1 |
52.03 |
2008-11-29 |
| 89. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
52.03 |
1.0291 |
-0.1160 |
240 |
1 |
52.03 |
2008-11-30 |
| 90. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
51.54 |
0.9726 |
-0.0609 |
396 |
1 |
51.54 |
2008-11-30 |
| 91. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
51.10 |
0.8986 |
0.0007 |
216 |
2 |
51.07 |
2008-12-19 |
| 92. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
51.10 |
0.9346 |
-0.0388 |
211 |
1 |
51.10 |
2008-11-30 |
| 93. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
50.85 |
0.8964 |
-0.0050 |
199 |
1 |
50.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 94. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
50.29 |
1.0686 |
-0.1806 |
354 |
1 |
50.29 |
2008-11-29 |
| 95. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
50.10 |
1.0035 |
-0.1219 |
310 |
1 |
50.10 |
2008-11-29 |
| 96. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
49.85 |
0.9339 |
-0.0515 |
317 |
2 |
46.23 |
2008-11-30 |
| 97. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.82 |
1.0332 |
-0.1578 |
267 |
1 |
49.82 |
2008-11-29 |
| 98. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
49.57 |
0.9839 |
-0.1125 |
308 |
1 |
49.57 |
2008-11-29 |
| 99. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
49.41 |
0.9332 |
-0.0644 |
267 |
1 |
49.41 |
2008-11-29 |
| 100. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
49.35 |
0.9425 |
-0.0741 |
248 |
1 |
49.35 |
2008-11-29 |
| 101. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
49.26 |
0.9909 |
-0.1202 |
293 |
1 |
49.26 |
2008-12-19 |
| 102. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.22 |
1.0601 |
-0.1979 |
256 |
2 |
48.67 |
2008-11-29 |
| 103. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
49.16 |
1.0511 |
-0.1849 |
252 |
1 |
49.16 |
2008-11-29 |
| 104. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
49.07 |
0.8603 |
0.0024 |
270 |
1 |
49.07 |
2008-11-29 |
| 105. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
48.47 |
0.9271 |
-0.0754 |
295 |
1 |
48.47 |
2008-11-30 |
| 106. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.22 |
0.9068 |
-0.0610 |
212 |
1 |
48.22 |
2008-12-01 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.02 |
0.8666 |
-0.0249 |
206 |
2 |
39.43 |
2008-11-30 |
| 108. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
47.97 |
0.9673 |
-0.1201 |
393 |
1 |
47.97 |
2008-11-29 |
| 109. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.69 |
0.9128 |
-0.0773 |
237 |
2 |
45.90 |
2008-11-30 |
| 110. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
47.25 |
0.9807 |
-0.1618 |
129 |
1 |
47.25 |
2008-12-02 |
| 111. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.74 |
0.9801 |
-0.1766 |
289 |
1 |
45.74 |
2008-11-29 |
| 112. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.71 |
1.0208 |
-0.2353 |
231 |
1 |
44.71 |
2008-11-29 |
| 113. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
43.28 |
0.9561 |
-0.1943 |
362 |
1 |
43.28 |
2008-11-29 |
| 114. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
42.34 |
1.0877 |
-0.3475 |
129 |
1 |
42.34 |
2008-11-29 |