Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
168.32 |
1.0865 |
0.2573 |
237 |
1 |
168.32 |
2008-09-17 |
2. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
163.47 |
1.0462 |
0.2619 |
340 |
3 |
139.24 |
2008-10-14 |
3. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
157.67 |
1.0590 |
0.1985 |
250 |
2 |
138.08 |
2009-02-18 |
4. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
156.94 |
1.0736 |
0.1817 |
350 |
1 |
156.94 |
2008-10-14 |
5. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
156.80 |
1.0479 |
0.2021 |
205 |
1 |
156.80 |
2009-04-26 |
6. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
156.16 |
1.0561 |
0.1885 |
227 |
1 |
156.16 |
2009-07-11 |
7. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
153.10 |
1.0197 |
0.2004 |
204 |
2 |
153.09 |
2009-03-07 |
8. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
152.32 |
1.0464 |
0.1743 |
294 |
2 |
145.86 |
2009-07-11 |
9. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
143.15 |
0.9852 |
0.1563 |
235 |
1 |
143.15 |
2009-02-11 |
10. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
143.03 |
1.0638 |
0.0753 |
247 |
1 |
143.03 |
2010-01-08 |
11. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
141.62 |
1.0006 |
0.1292 |
311 |
1 |
141.62 |
2008-10-14 |
12. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
141.08 |
1.0960 |
0.0336 |
315 |
2 |
127.92 |
2009-07-15 |
13. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
140.30 |
0.9681 |
0.1567 |
392 |
3 |
119.39 |
2009-02-11 |
14. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
139.94 |
1.0028 |
0.1125 |
259 |
3 |
132.92 |
2009-02-18 |
15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
137.07 |
1.0800 |
0.0104 |
213 |
1 |
137.07 |
2009-02-11 |
16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
136.72 |
1.0639 |
0.0277 |
303 |
1 |
136.72 |
2009-02-11 |
17. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
136.66 |
1.0521 |
0.0323 |
197 |
1 |
136.66 |
2008-12-17 |
18. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
136.22 |
0.9604 |
0.1240 |
285 |
2 |
129.86 |
2009-07-15 |
19. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
135.87 |
1.0250 |
0.0616 |
271 |
2 |
122.55 |
2009-02-11 |
20. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
135.76 |
0.9866 |
0.0966 |
308 |
2 |
132.29 |
2008-12-17 |
21. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
135.06 |
1.0125 |
0.0598 |
171 |
2 |
130.71 |
2009-02-11 |
22. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
134.99 |
1.0341 |
0.0420 |
273 |
1 |
134.99 |
2008-09-27 |
23. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
134.70 |
0.9632 |
0.1123 |
287 |
1 |
134.70 |
2008-10-14 |
24. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
134.47 |
1.0279 |
0.0389 |
172 |
1 |
134.47 |
2009-01-07 |
25. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
133.09 |
1.0132 |
0.0488 |
371 |
1 |
133.09 |
2009-02-18 |
26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
132.98 |
1.0676 |
-0.0025 |
456 |
1 |
132.98 |
2008-12-07 |
27. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
132.93 |
0.9963 |
0.0614 |
274 |
2 |
128.88 |
2009-11-05 |
28. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
132.23 |
0.8666 |
0.1854 |
206 |
1 |
132.23 |
2009-03-07 |
29. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
131.87 |
1.1198 |
-0.0692 |
247 |
1 |
131.87 |
2008-10-14 |
30. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
131.85 |
1.0498 |
0.0029 |
261 |
1 |
131.85 |
2009-11-05 |
31. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
130.50 |
1.0481 |
-0.0152 |
255 |
1 |
130.50 |
2008-09-27 |
32. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
127.10 |
0.9833 |
0.0325 |
387 |
1 |
127.10 |
2009-04-26 |
33. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
127.08 |
0.9713 |
0.0405 |
193 |
1 |
127.08 |
2009-02-11 |
34. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
126.32 |
1.0060 |
0.0018 |
225 |
2 |
112.11 |
2008-09-27 |
35. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
124.53 |
1.0362 |
-0.0372 |
437 |
1 |
124.53 |
2008-09-27 |
36. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
124.17 |
1.0033 |
-0.0131 |
203 |
2 |
113.15 |
2010-01-08 |
37. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
124.10 |
0.9931 |
-0.0077 |
218 |
1 |
124.10 |
2009-02-17 |
38. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
124.09 |
0.8986 |
0.0889 |
205 |
2 |
113.79 |
2009-04-26 |
39. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
123.83 |
0.9928 |
-0.0063 |
293 |
2 |
118.79 |
2009-05-03 |
40. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
123.71 |
1.0873 |
-0.1041 |
243 |
1 |
123.71 |
2009-07-11 |
41. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
122.09 |
0.9765 |
-0.0040 |
269 |
2 |
109.65 |
2009-04-26 |
42. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
121.30 |
1.0682 |
-0.1003 |
266 |
1 |
121.30 |
2009-02-11 |
43. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
121.14 |
0.9183 |
0.0482 |
308 |
1 |
121.14 |
2009-04-26 |
44. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
120.67 |
0.9479 |
0.0156 |
317 |
1 |
120.67 |
2008-10-14 |
45. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
120.22 |
0.9709 |
-0.0140 |
264 |
1 |
120.22 |
2009-02-11 |
46. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
120.02 |
1.1070 |
-0.1515 |
265 |
1 |
120.02 |
2008-10-14 |
47. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
118.85 |
0.9836 |
-0.0363 |
289 |
1 |
118.85 |
2009-02-11 |
48. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
117.71 |
1.0094 |
-0.0713 |
256 |
1 |
117.71 |
2008-09-27 |
49. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
115.82 |
1.0881 |
-0.1691 |
210 |
1 |
115.82 |
2009-02-14 |
50. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
114.44 |
0.9809 |
-0.0730 |
209 |
1 |
114.44 |
2008-10-14 |
51. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.16 |
1.0601 |
-0.1618 |
256 |
1 |
113.16 |
2008-09-27 |
52. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
112.56 |
0.8794 |
0.0239 |
427 |
1 |
112.56 |
2009-02-18 |
53. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
112.43 |
0.8778 |
0.0197 |
285 |
2 |
104.50 |
2009-11-05 |
54. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
112.01 |
0.9727 |
-0.0737 |
442 |
1 |
112.01 |
2008-12-07 |
55. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
111.22 |
1.0101 |
-0.1223 |
336 |
1 |
111.22 |
2009-02-11 |
56. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
110.59 |
1.0466 |
-0.1661 |
230 |
1 |
110.59 |
2009-02-14 |
57. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
109.68 |
0.9011 |
-0.0243 |
322 |
1 |
109.68 |
2008-12-17 |
58. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
109.21 |
0.9807 |
-0.1224 |
129 |
1 |
109.21 |
2009-02-14 |
59. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
109.03 |
0.8656 |
0.0040 |
242 |
1 |
109.03 |
2009-04-26 |
60. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
106.75 |
0.9012 |
-0.0476 |
322 |
1 |
106.75 |
2009-02-11 |
61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
106.36 |
0.9070 |
-0.0648 |
192 |
1 |
106.36 |
2009-02-11 |
62. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
106.12 |
0.9143 |
-0.0682 |
300 |
1 |
106.12 |
2008-09-27 |
63. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
105.00 |
0.9027 |
-0.0701 |
189 |
1 |
105.00 |
2008-10-14 |
64. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
103.84 |
0.9827 |
-0.1550 |
314 |
1 |
103.84 |
2009-11-05 |
65. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
102.69 |
1.0057 |
-0.1853 |
382 |
1 |
102.69 |
2009-02-11 |
66. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
102.66 |
0.9704 |
-0.1531 |
254 |
1 |
102.66 |
2009-02-16 |
67. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
100.46 |
1.0253 |
-0.2226 |
337 |
1 |
100.46 |
2009-04-26 |
68. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
97.26 |
0.9703 |
-0.1897 |
394 |
1 |
97.26 |
2008-09-27 |
69. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
96.94 |
0.9284 |
-0.1533 |
346 |
1 |
96.94 |
2009-02-14 |
70. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
94.84 |
1.0208 |
-0.2663 |
231 |
1 |
94.84 |
2009-04-26 |
71. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
91.30 |
0.8964 |
-0.1731 |
199 |
1 |
91.30 |
2008-09-27 |
72. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
86.62 |
0.9299 |
-0.2497 |
168 |
1 |
86.62 |
2009-02-19 |
73. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
85.51 |
0.9680 |
-0.2882 |
256 |
1 |
85.51 |
2009-02-11 |