Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
143.11 |
1.0800 |
0.1496 |
129 |
3 |
136.84 |
2009-04-10 |
2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
140.02 |
1.0881 |
0.1178 |
210 |
1 |
140.02 |
2009-02-01 |
3. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
137.46 |
1.0264 |
0.1569 |
191 |
5 |
125.84 |
2009-04-10 |
4. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
136.97 |
1.0615 |
0.1188 |
201 |
3 |
124.37 |
2009-04-07 |
5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
133.50 |
1.0676 |
0.0901 |
456 |
1 |
133.50 |
2009-04-03 |
6. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
132.74 |
1.0960 |
0.0546 |
315 |
3 |
124.48 |
2009-04-15 |
7. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
132.59 |
1.0521 |
0.0875 |
197 |
4 |
119.48 |
2009-01-31 |
8. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
132.19 |
1.1086 |
0.0336 |
233 |
2 |
131.09 |
2009-04-08 |
9. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
131.78 |
1.0291 |
0.1070 |
240 |
1 |
131.78 |
2009-02-01 |
10. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
131.41 |
1.0877 |
0.0439 |
129 |
2 |
130.20 |
2009-02-01 |
11. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
130.45 |
0.9422 |
0.1793 |
190 |
3 |
117.53 |
2009-02-01 |
12. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
129.66 |
1.0639 |
0.0570 |
303 |
2 |
116.10 |
2009-01-30 |
13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
129.32 |
1.0617 |
0.0532 |
171 |
2 |
121.06 |
2009-01-30 |
14. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
128.96 |
1.0506 |
0.0627 |
259 |
7 |
115.59 |
2009-02-06 |
15. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
128.73 |
1.0777 |
0.0319 |
226 |
2 |
126.42 |
2009-01-27 |
16. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
128.67 |
1.0873 |
0.0209 |
243 |
2 |
127.49 |
2009-01-31 |
17. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
128.31 |
1.0279 |
0.0745 |
172 |
1 |
128.31 |
2009-04-10 |
18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
127.79 |
1.0800 |
0.0206 |
213 |
2 |
124.26 |
2009-04-08 |
19. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
127.22 |
1.0576 |
0.0382 |
231 |
2 |
122.86 |
2009-01-28 |
20. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
126.89 |
1.0543 |
0.0437 |
360 |
2 |
117.88 |
2009-04-10 |
21. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
126.27 |
1.0498 |
0.0417 |
261 |
2 |
120.61 |
2009-04-15 |
22. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
126.24 |
1.0638 |
0.0243 |
247 |
5 |
114.01 |
2009-01-28 |
23. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
125.24 |
1.0588 |
0.0227 |
281 |
3 |
115.70 |
2009-01-28 |
24. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
124.90 |
1.0387 |
0.0440 |
333 |
7 |
114.47 |
2009-04-10 |
25. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.28 |
1.0682 |
0.0060 |
266 |
3 |
122.68 |
2009-02-01 |
26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
124.16 |
1.0208 |
0.0511 |
231 |
2 |
119.52 |
2009-01-30 |
27. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
123.65 |
1.0743 |
-0.0056 |
297 |
4 |
117.57 |
2009-02-01 |
28. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
122.86 |
1.0101 |
0.0524 |
336 |
1 |
122.86 |
2009-02-01 |
29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
122.71 |
1.0128 |
0.0534 |
369 |
1 |
122.71 |
2009-04-10 |
30. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
122.59 |
0.9909 |
0.0721 |
293 |
1 |
122.59 |
2009-01-31 |
31. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
122.23 |
1.0540 |
-0.0037 |
184 |
1 |
122.23 |
2009-01-25 |
32. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
121.98 |
1.0686 |
-0.0119 |
354 |
2 |
120.12 |
2009-02-01 |
33. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
121.43 |
1.0414 |
0.0060 |
234 |
1 |
121.43 |
2009-02-01 |
34. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
121.15 |
1.0320 |
0.0199 |
401 |
2 |
114.64 |
2009-04-07 |
35. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
120.90 |
1.0272 |
0.0144 |
226 |
2 |
111.54 |
2009-01-26 |
36. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
120.62 |
1.0427 |
-0.0005 |
269 |
3 |
111.58 |
2009-01-30 |
37. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
119.93 |
0.9243 |
0.1131 |
240 |
3 |
111.30 |
2009-04-03 |
38. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
119.62 |
0.9603 |
0.0778 |
430 |
3 |
109.54 |
2009-01-28 |
39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
119.09 |
1.0487 |
-0.0229 |
253 |
1 |
119.09 |
2009-01-31 |
40. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
119.05 |
1.0082 |
0.0144 |
212 |
2 |
114.36 |
2009-01-27 |
41. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
118.75 |
1.0079 |
0.0161 |
273 |
2 |
116.67 |
2009-02-01 |
42. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
118.67 |
1.0901 |
-0.0638 |
288 |
1 |
118.67 |
2009-01-30 |
43. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
118.06 |
0.9597 |
0.0596 |
251 |
2 |
116.65 |
2009-04-10 |
44. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
118.02 |
1.0567 |
-0.0383 |
314 |
1 |
118.02 |
2009-04-10 |
45. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
117.96 |
1.0130 |
0.0053 |
288 |
2 |
114.30 |
2009-01-26 |
46. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
117.77 |
1.0672 |
-0.0519 |
239 |
1 |
117.77 |
2009-01-25 |
47. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
117.55 |
1.0601 |
-0.0487 |
256 |
1 |
117.55 |
2009-01-28 |
48. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
117.54 |
0.9948 |
0.0186 |
233 |
1 |
117.54 |
2009-01-30 |
49. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
117.41 |
1.0403 |
-0.0286 |
234 |
1 |
117.41 |
2009-01-26 |
50. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
117.37 |
1.0404 |
-0.0224 |
406 |
3 |
114.01 |
2009-01-28 |
51. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
117.37 |
0.9762 |
0.0369 |
249 |
2 |
109.70 |
2009-01-27 |
52. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
117.25 |
1.0265 |
-0.0108 |
375 |
2 |
109.88 |
2009-04-10 |
53. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
117.22 |
1.1070 |
-0.0963 |
265 |
1 |
117.22 |
2009-01-27 |
54. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
117.14 |
1.0867 |
-0.0800 |
171 |
1 |
117.14 |
2009-01-30 |
55. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
117.09 |
1.0426 |
-0.0360 |
131 |
2 |
113.70 |
2009-01-26 |
56. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
117.08 |
0.9957 |
0.0146 |
323 |
1 |
117.08 |
2009-01-27 |
57. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
116.83 |
0.9829 |
0.0248 |
229 |
1 |
116.83 |
2009-01-26 |
58. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
116.61 |
1.0462 |
-0.0367 |
340 |
1 |
116.61 |
2009-01-27 |
59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
116.53 |
1.0495 |
-0.0442 |
323 |
1 |
116.53 |
2009-01-27 |
60. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
116.49 |
1.0103 |
-0.0106 |
209 |
2 |
113.03 |
2009-01-30 |
61. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
116.46 |
1.0301 |
-0.0262 |
268 |
1 |
116.46 |
2009-01-26 |
62. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
116.31 |
0.9681 |
0.0414 |
392 |
1 |
116.31 |
2009-01-28 |
63. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
116.22 |
1.0654 |
-0.0648 |
247 |
3 |
106.25 |
2009-02-01 |
64. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
116.11 |
0.8986 |
0.1018 |
205 |
2 |
113.38 |
2009-02-01 |
65. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
116.08 |
0.9594 |
0.0407 |
258 |
2 |
111.10 |
2009-04-10 |
66. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
115.96 |
1.0669 |
-0.0629 |
379 |
1 |
115.96 |
2009-01-30 |
67. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
115.89 |
1.0270 |
-0.0262 |
303 |
1 |
115.89 |
2009-01-31 |
68. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
115.46 |
1.0511 |
-0.0528 |
252 |
1 |
115.46 |
2009-01-30 |
69. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
115.25 |
1.0197 |
-0.0269 |
204 |
2 |
113.54 |
2009-01-26 |
70. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
115.04 |
0.9698 |
0.0280 |
389 |
1 |
115.04 |
2009-01-28 |
71. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
114.77 |
1.0557 |
-0.0640 |
289 |
1 |
114.77 |
2009-01-26 |
72. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
114.46 |
1.0042 |
-0.0202 |
168 |
1 |
114.46 |
2009-01-26 |
73. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
114.35 |
0.9866 |
0.0006 |
308 |
2 |
112.03 |
2009-01-30 |
74. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
114.19 |
0.9726 |
0.0180 |
396 |
1 |
114.19 |
2009-01-27 |
75. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
114.17 |
0.9963 |
-0.0134 |
274 |
1 |
114.17 |
2009-01-28 |
76. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
113.77 |
1.0334 |
-0.0522 |
261 |
1 |
113.77 |
2009-01-26 |
77. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
113.39 |
1.0419 |
-0.0603 |
341 |
2 |
107.75 |
2009-01-26 |
78. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
113.35 |
1.0362 |
-0.0518 |
437 |
1 |
113.35 |
2009-01-25 |
79. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
112.98 |
1.0479 |
-0.0746 |
205 |
2 |
108.72 |
2009-01-27 |
80. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
112.81 |
0.9265 |
0.0459 |
254 |
1 |
112.81 |
2009-01-27 |
81. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
112.48 |
1.0332 |
-0.0632 |
267 |
1 |
112.48 |
2009-01-30 |
82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
112.11 |
1.0234 |
-0.0519 |
392 |
1 |
112.11 |
2009-01-27 |
83. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
112.09 |
1.0178 |
-0.0523 |
207 |
1 |
112.09 |
2009-01-26 |
84. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
111.84 |
1.0086 |
-0.0479 |
218 |
1 |
111.84 |
2009-01-25 |
85. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
111.67 |
1.0115 |
-0.0531 |
189 |
1 |
111.67 |
2009-01-27 |
86. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
111.35 |
1.0035 |
-0.0421 |
310 |
1 |
111.35 |
2009-01-25 |
87. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
111.04 |
0.9787 |
-0.0172 |
364 |
1 |
111.04 |
2009-01-25 |
88. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
110.90 |
1.0432 |
-0.0857 |
276 |
2 |
109.10 |
2009-01-27 |
89. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
110.47 |
1.0132 |
-0.0595 |
371 |
1 |
110.47 |
2009-01-27 |
90. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
110.46 |
1.0028 |
-0.0508 |
259 |
1 |
110.46 |
2009-01-26 |
91. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
110.27 |
1.0600 |
-0.1083 |
351 |
2 |
106.08 |
2009-01-27 |
92. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
109.40 |
0.9836 |
-0.0397 |
289 |
2 |
106.52 |
2009-01-27 |
93. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
109.13 |
0.9673 |
-0.0236 |
292 |
1 |
109.13 |
2009-01-26 |
94. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
107.90 |
1.0194 |
-0.0907 |
224 |
1 |
107.90 |
2009-01-30 |
95. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
107.82 |
1.0181 |
-0.0867 |
276 |
1 |
107.82 |
2009-01-26 |
96. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
107.25 |
1.0411 |
-0.1141 |
341 |
1 |
107.25 |
2009-01-27 |
97. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
107.06 |
0.9538 |
-0.0305 |
276 |
1 |
107.06 |
2009-01-27 |
98. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
107.04 |
1.0543 |
-0.1342 |
182 |
1 |
107.04 |
2009-01-25 |
99. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
105.87 |
1.0227 |
-0.1034 |
378 |
1 |
105.87 |
2009-01-24 |
100. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
105.71 |
0.8656 |
0.0474 |
242 |
2 |
103.61 |
2009-01-27 |
101. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
105.02 |
1.0288 |
-0.1277 |
166 |
1 |
105.02 |
2009-01-26 |
102. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
105.00 |
0.9636 |
-0.0594 |
281 |
1 |
105.00 |
2009-01-27 |
103. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
104.96 |
0.9183 |
-0.0121 |
308 |
1 |
104.96 |
2009-01-27 |
104. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
104.44 |
0.9869 |
-0.0897 |
193 |
2 |
100.56 |
2009-01-27 |
105. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
104.30 |
1.0341 |
-0.1351 |
273 |
1 |
104.30 |
2009-01-28 |
106. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
104.23 |
0.9880 |
-0.0932 |
199 |
1 |
104.23 |
2009-01-25 |
107. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
103.57 |
0.9519 |
-0.0548 |
323 |
1 |
103.57 |
2009-01-28 |
108. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
103.43 |
1.0095 |
-0.1189 |
211 |
1 |
103.43 |
2009-01-30 |
109. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
103.32 |
1.0418 |
-0.1500 |
214 |
1 |
103.32 |
2009-01-25 |
110. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
102.93 |
0.9604 |
-0.0748 |
285 |
1 |
102.93 |
2009-01-27 |
111. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
102.38 |
1.0287 |
-0.1469 |
269 |
1 |
102.38 |
2009-01-24 |
112. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
102.32 |
0.9885 |
-0.0994 |
469 |
1 |
102.32 |
2009-01-25 |
113. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
101.32 |
0.9736 |
-0.0928 |
378 |
1 |
101.32 |
2009-01-25 |
114. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
100.97 |
1.0165 |
-0.1467 |
316 |
1 |
100.97 |
2009-01-26 |
115. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
99.26 |
0.9574 |
-0.0984 |
354 |
1 |
99.26 |
2009-01-25 |
116. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
99.11 |
0.9658 |
-0.1076 |
308 |
1 |
99.11 |
2009-01-26 |
117. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
98.50 |
0.9928 |
-0.1442 |
293 |
2 |
95.34 |
2009-01-26 |
118. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
97.93 |
0.9957 |
-0.1475 |
323 |
1 |
97.93 |
2009-01-25 |
119. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
97.15 |
1.0461 |
-0.2064 |
318 |
1 |
97.15 |
2009-01-26 |
120. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
96.78 |
0.9284 |
-0.0904 |
346 |
1 |
96.78 |
2009-01-25 |
121. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
96.25 |
0.9927 |
-0.1624 |
276 |
1 |
96.25 |
2009-01-26 |
122. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
95.94 |
0.9541 |
-0.1265 |
236 |
1 |
95.94 |
2009-01-25 |
123. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
93.18 |
0.9841 |
-0.1844 |
217 |
1 |
93.18 |
2009-01-25 |
124. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
92.95 |
0.9810 |
-0.1750 |
362 |
1 |
92.95 |
2009-01-24 |
125. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
85.98 |
0.9027 |
-0.1657 |
189 |
1 |
85.98 |
2009-01-25 |
126. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
83.69 |
0.9966 |
-0.2688 |
377 |
1 |
83.69 |
2009-01-25 |