| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
153.95 |
1.0672 |
0.0782 |
239 |
1 |
153.95 |
2008-11-28 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
153.59 |
1.0639 |
0.0811 |
303 |
3 |
148.30 |
2009-06-14 |
| 3. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
153.17 |
1.0576 |
0.0804 |
231 |
3 |
143.71 |
2011-06-28 |
| 4. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
152.41 |
0.9928 |
0.1417 |
293 |
2 |
142.64 |
2011-06-28 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
151.94 |
1.0877 |
0.0405 |
129 |
1 |
151.94 |
2009-02-09 |
| 6. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
150.96 |
1.0432 |
0.0816 |
276 |
2 |
137.46 |
2009-06-13 |
| 7. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
150.42 |
1.0419 |
0.0814 |
341 |
2 |
142.52 |
2011-06-22 |
| 8. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
150.39 |
1.0270 |
0.0935 |
303 |
2 |
138.99 |
2008-12-18 |
| 9. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
150.07 |
0.9807 |
0.1253 |
129 |
3 |
135.21 |
2009-06-13 |
| 10. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
148.61 |
1.0341 |
0.0719 |
273 |
2 |
144.68 |
2009-06-14 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
148.55 |
1.0590 |
0.0461 |
250 |
3 |
141.43 |
2009-01-11 |
| 12. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
148.46 |
0.9836 |
0.1220 |
289 |
1 |
148.46 |
2008-11-02 |
| 13. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
147.62 |
1.0135 |
0.0890 |
358 |
2 |
136.87 |
2011-06-28 |
| 14. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
146.64 |
0.9963 |
0.0932 |
274 |
2 |
144.04 |
2009-05-13 |
| 15. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
146.33 |
1.0865 |
0.0028 |
237 |
1 |
146.33 |
2008-11-01 |
| 16. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
145.90 |
1.1198 |
-0.0345 |
247 |
2 |
143.26 |
2008-12-19 |
| 17. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
145.38 |
1.0272 |
0.0531 |
226 |
3 |
137.04 |
2008-12-24 |
| 18. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
145.21 |
1.0464 |
0.0398 |
294 |
1 |
145.21 |
2008-12-24 |
| 19. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
145.15 |
1.0250 |
0.0586 |
271 |
2 |
138.35 |
2009-02-09 |
| 20. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
145.10 |
1.0291 |
0.0491 |
240 |
1 |
145.10 |
2008-11-28 |
| 21. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
145.07 |
0.9931 |
0.0915 |
339 |
2 |
138.17 |
2011-07-09 |
| 22. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
144.14 |
1.0426 |
0.0265 |
131 |
1 |
144.14 |
2008-11-01 |
| 23. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
143.72 |
1.0800 |
-0.0170 |
129 |
2 |
132.00 |
2008-12-24 |
| 24. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
143.03 |
0.9909 |
0.0785 |
293 |
1 |
143.03 |
2008-11-04 |
| 25. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
142.50 |
1.0498 |
0.0123 |
261 |
3 |
134.60 |
2008-11-07 |
| 26. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
142.49 |
1.0333 |
0.0224 |
176 |
1 |
142.49 |
2008-12-21 |
| 27. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
142.36 |
1.0403 |
0.0178 |
234 |
1 |
142.36 |
2009-01-07 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
141.92 |
1.0208 |
0.0356 |
231 |
1 |
141.92 |
2008-12-13 |
| 29. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
141.54 |
0.9915 |
0.0613 |
281 |
2 |
136.24 |
2009-01-12 |
| 30. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
141.53 |
1.0960 |
-0.0383 |
315 |
2 |
139.23 |
2008-12-19 |
| 31. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
140.90 |
1.0103 |
0.0329 |
209 |
2 |
140.26 |
2008-11-09 |
| 32. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
140.73 |
0.9740 |
0.0769 |
371 |
1 |
140.73 |
2008-12-13 |
| 33. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
140.48 |
1.0132 |
0.0331 |
371 |
2 |
136.27 |
2009-01-21 |
| 34. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
140.19 |
1.0600 |
-0.0161 |
351 |
1 |
140.19 |
2008-12-24 |
| 35. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
140.13 |
0.9996 |
0.0510 |
483 |
2 |
135.85 |
2008-10-24 |
| 36. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
140.10 |
0.9839 |
0.0588 |
308 |
3 |
130.00 |
2008-11-22 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
139.96 |
1.0506 |
-0.0092 |
259 |
2 |
138.26 |
2008-12-24 |
| 38. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
139.95 |
1.0607 |
-0.0161 |
357 |
1 |
139.95 |
2008-12-24 |
| 39. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
139.92 |
1.0901 |
-0.0466 |
288 |
1 |
139.92 |
2009-05-03 |
| 40. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
139.75 |
1.0466 |
-0.0067 |
230 |
2 |
136.08 |
2008-12-18 |
| 41. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
139.33 |
0.9974 |
0.0358 |
163 |
3 |
134.75 |
2008-12-03 |
| 42. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
139.11 |
1.0800 |
-0.0474 |
213 |
1 |
139.11 |
2009-01-18 |
| 43. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
139.09 |
1.0264 |
0.0047 |
191 |
1 |
139.09 |
2009-01-07 |
| 44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
138.57 |
1.0521 |
-0.0263 |
197 |
2 |
129.06 |
2008-11-08 |
| 45. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
137.81 |
1.0462 |
-0.0175 |
340 |
2 |
137.35 |
2008-12-19 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
137.56 |
0.9927 |
0.0279 |
234 |
1 |
137.56 |
2008-11-16 |
| 47. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
137.06 |
1.0881 |
-0.0719 |
210 |
1 |
137.06 |
2008-12-24 |
| 48. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
136.95 |
1.0601 |
-0.0440 |
256 |
2 |
127.18 |
2008-11-23 |
| 49. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
136.37 |
1.0582 |
-0.0463 |
180 |
1 |
136.37 |
2008-10-25 |
| 50. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
136.09 |
1.0628 |
-0.0479 |
363 |
2 |
133.86 |
2009-01-18 |
| 51. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
136.07 |
1.0404 |
-0.0228 |
406 |
3 |
132.46 |
2008-11-04 |
| 52. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
136.05 |
1.0079 |
0.0037 |
273 |
1 |
136.05 |
2008-12-18 |
| 53. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
136.05 |
1.0418 |
-0.0284 |
214 |
1 |
136.05 |
2008-12-24 |
| 54. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
135.79 |
1.0181 |
-0.0062 |
276 |
1 |
135.79 |
2009-01-04 |
| 55. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
135.59 |
0.9681 |
0.0466 |
392 |
2 |
131.17 |
2008-12-24 |
| 56. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
135.35 |
1.0736 |
-0.0637 |
350 |
1 |
135.35 |
2008-11-02 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
135.08 |
0.9841 |
0.0196 |
263 |
1 |
135.08 |
2008-11-13 |
| 58. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
135.00 |
1.0669 |
-0.0590 |
379 |
3 |
130.63 |
2008-12-19 |
| 59. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
134.63 |
0.9880 |
0.0097 |
199 |
1 |
134.63 |
2008-12-19 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
134.61 |
1.0267 |
-0.0218 |
261 |
1 |
134.61 |
2008-11-14 |
| 61. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
134.52 |
1.0125 |
-0.0163 |
171 |
2 |
128.22 |
2008-12-01 |
| 62. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
134.52 |
0.9957 |
0.0052 |
323 |
1 |
134.52 |
2008-12-24 |
| 63. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
134.39 |
1.0411 |
-0.0392 |
341 |
1 |
134.39 |
2008-11-28 |
| 64. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
134.05 |
0.9736 |
0.0311 |
378 |
2 |
133.88 |
2008-12-13 |
| 65. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
134.03 |
1.0654 |
-0.0705 |
247 |
2 |
130.05 |
2008-11-09 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
133.29 |
0.9114 |
0.0880 |
399 |
1 |
133.29 |
2008-11-14 |
| 67. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
132.94 |
0.9762 |
0.0131 |
249 |
2 |
132.16 |
2008-11-21 |
| 68. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
132.77 |
1.0334 |
-0.0460 |
261 |
1 |
132.77 |
2009-01-07 |
| 69. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
132.64 |
1.0042 |
-0.0210 |
168 |
2 |
124.44 |
2008-11-08 |
| 70. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
132.64 |
0.9603 |
0.0322 |
430 |
1 |
132.64 |
2008-11-14 |
| 71. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
132.50 |
0.9704 |
0.0156 |
254 |
1 |
132.50 |
2008-11-21 |
| 72. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
131.32 |
1.0197 |
-0.0444 |
204 |
2 |
127.10 |
2008-12-20 |
| 73. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
130.96 |
0.9765 |
-0.0027 |
269 |
1 |
130.96 |
2009-01-04 |
| 74. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
130.77 |
0.9787 |
-0.0023 |
364 |
1 |
130.77 |
2008-11-10 |
| 75. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
130.50 |
0.9424 |
0.0311 |
320 |
1 |
130.50 |
2008-10-29 |
| 76. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
130.48 |
0.9698 |
0.0061 |
389 |
1 |
130.48 |
2008-11-22 |
| 77. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
130.40 |
1.0060 |
-0.0350 |
225 |
1 |
130.40 |
2009-01-21 |
| 78. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
129.53 |
1.0495 |
-0.0863 |
323 |
2 |
122.96 |
2008-11-30 |
| 79. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
127.04 |
1.0686 |
-0.1199 |
354 |
2 |
124.05 |
2008-11-21 |
| 80. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
126.92 |
0.9864 |
-0.0384 |
292 |
1 |
126.92 |
2008-10-27 |
| 81. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
126.91 |
1.0035 |
-0.0588 |
310 |
1 |
126.91 |
2008-11-02 |
| 82. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
126.46 |
0.9927 |
-0.0513 |
276 |
1 |
126.46 |
2008-11-01 |
| 83. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
126.34 |
1.0288 |
-0.0936 |
166 |
1 |
126.34 |
2008-11-01 |
| 84. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
126.30 |
0.9658 |
-0.0225 |
308 |
1 |
126.30 |
2008-12-18 |
| 85. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
126.00 |
1.0543 |
-0.1147 |
360 |
1 |
126.00 |
2008-11-08 |
| 86. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
125.58 |
0.9145 |
0.0232 |
404 |
1 |
125.58 |
2008-11-06 |
| 87. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
125.52 |
1.0178 |
-0.0858 |
207 |
1 |
125.52 |
2008-11-11 |
| 88. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
125.43 |
0.9709 |
-0.0392 |
264 |
3 |
117.74 |
2008-11-03 |
| 89. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
124.99 |
0.9948 |
-0.0662 |
233 |
1 |
124.99 |
2008-11-23 |
| 90. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
124.92 |
1.0540 |
-0.1298 |
184 |
1 |
124.92 |
2008-10-29 |
| 91. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
124.43 |
1.0372 |
-0.1120 |
249 |
1 |
124.43 |
2008-11-07 |
| 92. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
124.20 |
1.0461 |
-0.1201 |
318 |
1 |
124.20 |
2008-10-27 |
| 93. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
123.84 |
0.9922 |
-0.0705 |
264 |
1 |
123.84 |
2008-11-05 |
| 94. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
123.55 |
0.9841 |
-0.0684 |
217 |
1 |
123.55 |
2008-10-27 |
| 95. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
122.85 |
1.0094 |
-0.0956 |
256 |
1 |
122.85 |
2008-10-25 |
| 96. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
122.83 |
0.9966 |
-0.0758 |
377 |
1 |
122.83 |
2008-11-14 |
| 97. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
122.38 |
0.9632 |
-0.0518 |
287 |
1 |
122.38 |
2008-11-21 |
| 98. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
122.36 |
0.9332 |
-0.0231 |
267 |
2 |
121.83 |
2008-11-09 |
| 99. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
122.31 |
1.0873 |
-0.1806 |
243 |
1 |
122.31 |
2008-11-02 |
| 100. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
122.07 |
1.0033 |
-0.0951 |
203 |
1 |
122.07 |
2008-12-24 |
| 101. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
121.96 |
1.0867 |
-0.1840 |
171 |
1 |
121.96 |
2008-10-27 |
| 102. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
121.13 |
1.0086 |
-0.1121 |
218 |
1 |
121.13 |
2008-11-05 |
| 103. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
120.98 |
1.0351 |
-0.1315 |
276 |
1 |
120.98 |
2008-11-08 |
| 104. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
120.23 |
0.9909 |
-0.0929 |
334 |
1 |
120.23 |
2008-10-27 |
| 105. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
119.30 |
0.9315 |
-0.0426 |
273 |
1 |
119.30 |
2008-10-31 |
| 106. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
117.94 |
0.9680 |
-0.0909 |
256 |
1 |
117.94 |
2008-11-09 |
| 107. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
117.45 |
0.8656 |
0.0089 |
242 |
1 |
117.45 |
2008-10-24 |
| 108. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
117.11 |
1.0101 |
-0.1376 |
336 |
1 |
117.11 |
2008-11-01 |
| 109. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
115.94 |
0.8794 |
-0.0108 |
427 |
1 |
115.94 |
2008-11-08 |
| 110. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
113.92 |
1.0199 |
-0.1768 |
225 |
1 |
113.92 |
2008-10-29 |
| 111. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
111.98 |
1.0414 |
-0.2100 |
234 |
1 |
111.98 |
2008-11-07 |
| 112. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
109.80 |
1.0287 |
-0.2138 |
269 |
1 |
109.80 |
2008-12-03 |
| 113. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
109.78 |
0.9917 |
-0.1737 |
317 |
1 |
109.78 |
2008-10-22 |
| 114. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
105.16 |
0.9479 |
-0.1649 |
317 |
1 |
105.16 |
2008-10-27 |
| 115. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
66.93 |
0.9183 |
-0.4224 |
308 |
1 |
66.93 |
2008-10-31 |