| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.49 |
0.9779 |
0.3468 |
255 |
2 |
37.17 |
2009-01-05 |
| 2. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
37.51 |
0.9621 |
0.3272 |
201 |
2 |
31.51 |
2009-01-05 |
| 3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
37.24 |
1.0881 |
0.1909 |
210 |
4 |
32.98 |
2009-01-05 |
| 4. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
36.97 |
1.0332 |
0.2397 |
267 |
4 |
29.11 |
2009-01-03 |
| 5. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
36.86 |
0.8777 |
0.3876 |
130 |
1 |
36.86 |
2009-01-05 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
35.41 |
1.0865 |
0.1328 |
237 |
2 |
35.11 |
2008-12-27 |
| 7. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
35.17 |
0.8911 |
0.3213 |
207 |
2 |
31.85 |
2009-01-03 |
| 8. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.89 |
1.0472 |
0.1480 |
149 |
1 |
34.89 |
2008-12-11 |
| 9. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
34.35 |
0.9349 |
0.2506 |
287 |
2 |
33.37 |
2009-01-05 |
| 10. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.31 |
0.9166 |
0.2675 |
133 |
1 |
34.31 |
2009-01-05 |
| 11. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
33.64 |
0.7904 |
0.3723 |
149 |
1 |
33.64 |
2009-01-05 |
| 12. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
33.59 |
1.0272 |
0.1272 |
226 |
1 |
33.59 |
2009-01-05 |
| 13. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
33.58 |
0.8827 |
0.2695 |
190 |
1 |
33.58 |
2008-12-12 |
| 14. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
33.35 |
0.9265 |
0.2206 |
254 |
2 |
29.90 |
2008-12-27 |
| 15. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
32.90 |
1.0178 |
0.1132 |
207 |
1 |
32.90 |
2009-01-05 |
| 16. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
32.81 |
1.0095 |
0.1186 |
211 |
1 |
32.81 |
2009-01-05 |
| 17. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.67 |
0.8680 |
0.2518 |
196 |
2 |
31.16 |
2009-01-03 |
| 18. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
32.54 |
0.9869 |
0.1297 |
193 |
2 |
30.60 |
2009-01-05 |
| 19. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
32.34 |
0.9780 |
0.1291 |
173 |
3 |
28.05 |
2009-01-05 |
| 20. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
32.18 |
1.0540 |
0.0487 |
184 |
1 |
32.18 |
2008-12-27 |
| 21. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
31.86 |
1.0638 |
0.0309 |
247 |
1 |
31.86 |
2008-12-20 |
| 22. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
31.84 |
1.0279 |
0.0624 |
172 |
2 |
30.73 |
2008-12-27 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
31.70 |
1.0199 |
0.0674 |
225 |
2 |
27.49 |
2009-01-05 |
| 24. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
31.48 |
1.0867 |
-0.0076 |
171 |
1 |
31.48 |
2008-12-17 |
| 25. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
31.36 |
1.0042 |
0.0714 |
168 |
1 |
31.36 |
2009-01-05 |
| 26. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
31.22 |
0.9841 |
0.0888 |
263 |
4 |
27.89 |
2009-01-05 |
| 27. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
31.20 |
1.1070 |
-0.0343 |
265 |
1 |
31.20 |
2008-12-27 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
30.63 |
0.8406 |
0.2106 |
170 |
5 |
26.61 |
2009-01-06 |
| 29. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
30.50 |
1.0576 |
-0.0108 |
231 |
1 |
30.50 |
2009-01-03 |
| 30. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
30.43 |
1.0086 |
0.0343 |
218 |
1 |
30.43 |
2008-12-27 |
| 31. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
30.32 |
0.8469 |
0.1962 |
164 |
1 |
30.32 |
2009-01-05 |
| 32. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
30.25 |
0.9981 |
0.0419 |
211 |
1 |
30.25 |
2009-01-05 |
| 33. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
30.16 |
0.8646 |
0.1697 |
110 |
1 |
30.16 |
2008-12-12 |
| 34. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
29.85 |
1.0426 |
-0.0195 |
131 |
1 |
29.85 |
2008-12-17 |
| 35. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.84 |
0.9927 |
0.0307 |
234 |
1 |
29.84 |
2009-01-05 |
| 36. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
29.71 |
0.8726 |
0.1519 |
150 |
1 |
29.71 |
2009-01-09 |
| 37. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
29.67 |
0.8925 |
0.1354 |
293 |
1 |
29.67 |
2009-01-03 |
| 38. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.65 |
1.0333 |
-0.0182 |
176 |
1 |
29.65 |
2009-01-05 |
| 39. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
29.64 |
0.9001 |
0.1201 |
217 |
1 |
29.64 |
2009-01-05 |
| 40. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
29.63 |
0.8758 |
0.1421 |
127 |
1 |
29.63 |
2008-12-17 |
| 41. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
29.60 |
0.8986 |
0.1204 |
216 |
2 |
28.85 |
2009-01-05 |
| 42. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
29.59 |
1.0103 |
0.0021 |
209 |
1 |
29.59 |
2008-12-12 |
| 43. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
29.58 |
0.8077 |
0.2100 |
148 |
1 |
29.58 |
2009-01-06 |
| 44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
29.54 |
0.8168 |
0.1975 |
115 |
1 |
29.54 |
2008-12-27 |
| 45. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.38 |
0.8205 |
0.1921 |
135 |
1 |
29.38 |
2009-01-09 |
| 46. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.37 |
0.9841 |
0.0231 |
217 |
1 |
29.37 |
2008-12-27 |
| 47. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
29.17 |
1.0018 |
0.0020 |
246 |
1 |
29.17 |
2008-12-28 |
| 48. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
28.94 |
0.8192 |
0.1784 |
200 |
2 |
26.60 |
2009-01-05 |
| 49. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.89 |
1.0582 |
-0.0674 |
180 |
2 |
28.55 |
2009-01-06 |
| 50. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.86 |
0.8988 |
0.0940 |
216 |
3 |
26.20 |
2008-12-28 |
| 51. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
28.68 |
1.0115 |
-0.0301 |
189 |
1 |
28.68 |
2009-01-09 |
| 52. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
28.65 |
0.9054 |
0.0821 |
204 |
1 |
28.65 |
2009-01-05 |
| 53. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
28.63 |
0.9917 |
-0.0047 |
317 |
2 |
25.79 |
2008-12-27 |
| 54. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
28.51 |
0.9762 |
0.0045 |
249 |
1 |
28.51 |
2009-01-05 |
| 55. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
28.39 |
0.9285 |
0.0462 |
244 |
1 |
28.39 |
2009-01-06 |
| 56. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
28.39 |
0.8964 |
0.0772 |
199 |
1 |
28.39 |
2009-01-05 |
| 57. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
28.20 |
0.8365 |
0.1296 |
145 |
1 |
28.20 |
2009-01-05 |
| 58. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
28.18 |
0.8789 |
0.0847 |
136 |
1 |
28.18 |
2009-01-06 |
| 59. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
28.02 |
1.0334 |
-0.0703 |
261 |
2 |
27.77 |
2009-01-05 |
| 60. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
27.95 |
1.0414 |
-0.0810 |
234 |
1 |
27.95 |
2008-12-27 |
| 61. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
27.94 |
0.8124 |
0.1442 |
167 |
1 |
27.94 |
2009-01-05 |
| 62. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
27.81 |
0.9010 |
0.0580 |
266 |
1 |
27.81 |
2008-12-12 |
| 63. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
27.78 |
0.9352 |
0.0191 |
194 |
1 |
27.78 |
2009-01-05 |
| 64. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
27.75 |
0.8124 |
0.1432 |
137 |
1 |
27.75 |
2008-12-17 |
| 65. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
27.64 |
0.8847 |
0.0637 |
282 |
1 |
27.64 |
2008-12-27 |
| 66. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
27.62 |
0.8811 |
0.0640 |
201 |
2 |
26.58 |
2008-12-17 |
| 67. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
27.50 |
0.9827 |
-0.0361 |
314 |
2 |
26.66 |
2009-01-05 |
| 68. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
27.49 |
0.7271 |
0.2187 |
186 |
4 |
23.89 |
2009-01-05 |
| 69. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
27.32 |
1.0418 |
-0.1015 |
214 |
1 |
27.32 |
2009-01-03 |
| 70. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
27.28 |
1.0197 |
-0.0834 |
204 |
1 |
27.28 |
2008-12-11 |
| 71. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
27.19 |
1.0403 |
-0.1070 |
234 |
1 |
27.19 |
2009-01-05 |
| 72. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
27.15 |
0.8906 |
0.0522 |
128 |
1 |
27.15 |
2008-12-27 |
| 73. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
27.12 |
0.8985 |
0.0307 |
127 |
1 |
27.12 |
2008-12-11 |
| 74. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
27.11 |
0.9763 |
-0.0446 |
143 |
2 |
23.92 |
2009-01-05 |
| 75. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
27.11 |
1.0498 |
-0.1164 |
261 |
2 |
26.78 |
2008-12-20 |
| 76. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
27.06 |
0.9346 |
-0.0070 |
211 |
1 |
27.06 |
2008-12-11 |
| 77. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.93 |
0.8624 |
0.0589 |
174 |
2 |
24.60 |
2009-01-05 |
| 78. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
26.79 |
0.7966 |
0.1306 |
184 |
1 |
26.79 |
2009-01-03 |
| 79. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
26.76 |
0.8986 |
0.0198 |
205 |
2 |
24.11 |
2009-01-05 |
| 80. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
26.74 |
0.9252 |
-0.0052 |
148 |
1 |
26.74 |
2008-12-12 |
| 81. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
26.74 |
0.9213 |
-0.0041 |
165 |
1 |
26.74 |
2009-01-05 |
| 82. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
26.62 |
0.8814 |
0.0319 |
169 |
1 |
26.62 |
2009-01-03 |
| 83. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
26.61 |
1.0901 |
-0.1732 |
288 |
1 |
26.61 |
2008-12-28 |
| 84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.58 |
0.9070 |
0.0021 |
192 |
1 |
26.58 |
2009-01-05 |
| 85. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
26.46 |
0.7987 |
0.1102 |
176 |
1 |
26.46 |
2008-12-11 |
| 86. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
26.24 |
0.8474 |
0.0552 |
265 |
2 |
25.30 |
2009-01-03 |
| 87. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
26.18 |
1.0615 |
-0.1645 |
201 |
1 |
26.18 |
2008-12-12 |
| 88. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
25.97 |
1.0561 |
-0.1652 |
227 |
1 |
25.97 |
2009-01-05 |
| 89. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
25.86 |
0.9108 |
-0.0219 |
235 |
2 |
24.88 |
2009-01-03 |
| 90. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
25.68 |
0.7384 |
0.1407 |
106 |
1 |
25.68 |
2009-01-03 |
| 91. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
25.65 |
0.9680 |
-0.0862 |
256 |
1 |
25.65 |
2008-12-11 |
| 92. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
25.18 |
0.9357 |
-0.0725 |
204 |
2 |
25.10 |
2009-01-09 |
| 93. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
25.06 |
0.9243 |
-0.0609 |
240 |
2 |
23.75 |
2009-01-06 |
| 94. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
24.91 |
0.8603 |
-0.0043 |
270 |
1 |
24.91 |
2009-01-05 |
| 95. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
24.81 |
0.8869 |
-0.0367 |
176 |
1 |
24.81 |
2009-01-05 |
| 96. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
24.79 |
0.8572 |
-0.0070 |
232 |
1 |
24.79 |
2009-01-03 |
| 97. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
24.73 |
0.8172 |
0.0283 |
204 |
1 |
24.73 |
2009-01-05 |
| 98. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
24.24 |
1.0800 |
-0.2500 |
213 |
2 |
20.71 |
2009-01-05 |
| 99. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
24.02 |
0.8666 |
-0.0438 |
206 |
1 |
24.02 |
2009-01-05 |
| 100. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.68 |
0.7423 |
0.0693 |
145 |
1 |
23.68 |
2009-01-09 |
| 101. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
23.08 |
0.8194 |
-0.0276 |
193 |
2 |
22.00 |
2009-01-06 |
| 102. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
23.05 |
0.9422 |
-0.1556 |
190 |
1 |
23.05 |
2009-01-05 |
| 103. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
23.04 |
0.8161 |
-0.0223 |
109 |
1 |
23.04 |
2009-01-05 |
| 104. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
22.44 |
0.9310 |
-0.1609 |
278 |
1 |
22.44 |
2008-12-27 |
| 105. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
21.86 |
0.8606 |
-0.1102 |
170 |
1 |
21.86 |
2008-12-20 |
| 106. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
21.79 |
0.9271 |
-0.1794 |
295 |
1 |
21.79 |
2008-12-20 |
| 107. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
21.45 |
0.8863 |
-0.1535 |
127 |
1 |
21.45 |
2008-12-11 |