Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
39.54 |
0.9252 |
0.3450 |
148 |
2 |
33.10 |
2009-08-31 |
2. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
38.98 |
0.8758 |
0.3741 |
127 |
2 |
32.31 |
2009-10-05 |
3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
38.52 |
1.1093 |
0.1217 |
220 |
2 |
30.87 |
2009-08-25 |
4. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
38.39 |
1.0585 |
0.1768 |
226 |
1 |
38.39 |
2009-08-25 |
5. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
37.76 |
1.1198 |
0.0913 |
247 |
2 |
34.78 |
2009-10-05 |
6. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
37.19 |
1.0095 |
0.1828 |
211 |
1 |
37.19 |
2009-11-02 |
7. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
36.99 |
0.9852 |
0.2015 |
235 |
2 |
31.25 |
2009-10-07 |
8. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
36.91 |
1.0877 |
0.0936 |
129 |
2 |
35.70 |
2009-09-23 |
9. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
36.88 |
0.8205 |
0.3650 |
135 |
1 |
36.88 |
2009-10-07 |
10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
36.31 |
1.0800 |
0.0824 |
213 |
3 |
32.08 |
2009-10-01 |
11. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
35.92 |
0.9275 |
0.2305 |
243 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-08-31 |
12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
35.65 |
1.0426 |
0.0974 |
131 |
2 |
30.51 |
2009-08-31 |
13. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.47 |
1.0178 |
0.1187 |
207 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-08-25 |
14. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
35.26 |
0.8768 |
0.2587 |
199 |
2 |
33.20 |
2009-08-31 |
15. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.08 |
0.9286 |
0.1989 |
177 |
3 |
28.28 |
2009-10-01 |
16. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
35.07 |
1.0873 |
0.0350 |
243 |
1 |
35.07 |
2009-10-07 |
17. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
34.90 |
0.8830 |
0.2308 |
134 |
3 |
30.86 |
2009-11-02 |
18. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
34.88 |
1.1086 |
0.0110 |
233 |
1 |
34.88 |
2009-10-01 |
19. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
34.48 |
0.7966 |
0.3157 |
184 |
1 |
34.48 |
2009-08-31 |
20. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
34.43 |
1.0588 |
0.0460 |
281 |
1 |
34.43 |
2009-08-31 |
21. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
34.28 |
1.0333 |
0.0614 |
176 |
1 |
34.28 |
2009-11-02 |
22. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
34.16 |
1.0250 |
0.0739 |
271 |
1 |
34.16 |
2009-09-09 |
23. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
34.05 |
1.0777 |
0.0126 |
226 |
2 |
30.69 |
2009-08-25 |
24. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
34.04 |
0.9925 |
0.0954 |
155 |
4 |
30.88 |
2009-09-21 |
25. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
33.75 |
0.9809 |
0.0979 |
209 |
3 |
30.21 |
2009-09-21 |
26. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.55 |
0.9077 |
0.1665 |
155 |
2 |
29.32 |
2009-10-07 |
27. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
33.55 |
0.8742 |
0.2066 |
202 |
1 |
33.55 |
2009-08-31 |
28. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
33.31 |
1.0301 |
0.0371 |
268 |
2 |
31.87 |
2009-11-02 |
29. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
33.31 |
1.0086 |
0.0556 |
218 |
2 |
30.89 |
2009-09-23 |
30. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
33.27 |
0.9873 |
0.0788 |
274 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-09-04 |
31. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.27 |
0.8375 |
0.2287 |
203 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-10-07 |
32. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
33.08 |
0.8726 |
0.1908 |
150 |
1 |
33.08 |
2009-10-01 |
33. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.06 |
1.0341 |
0.0258 |
273 |
1 |
33.06 |
2009-08-31 |
34. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
32.86 |
0.8811 |
0.1681 |
201 |
1 |
32.86 |
2009-09-02 |
35. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.67 |
0.7889 |
0.2624 |
97 |
1 |
32.67 |
2009-10-01 |
36. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
32.63 |
0.9604 |
0.0841 |
285 |
1 |
32.63 |
2009-08-31 |
37. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
32.57 |
0.8958 |
0.1454 |
188 |
2 |
31.20 |
2009-10-07 |
38. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
32.34 |
0.9137 |
0.1256 |
342 |
1 |
32.34 |
2009-10-07 |
39. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
32.23 |
0.7988 |
0.2328 |
134 |
1 |
32.23 |
2009-09-23 |
40. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
32.20 |
0.9791 |
0.0470 |
154 |
1 |
32.20 |
2009-09-04 |
41. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
32.17 |
0.9927 |
0.0397 |
276 |
1 |
32.17 |
2009-11-02 |
42. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
32.14 |
1.0165 |
0.0135 |
316 |
1 |
32.14 |
2009-10-05 |
43. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
32.11 |
0.8168 |
0.2109 |
115 |
2 |
31.21 |
2009-09-09 |
44. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
32.02 |
0.9084 |
0.1200 |
271 |
2 |
30.44 |
2009-09-21 |
45. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
31.93 |
1.0479 |
-0.0255 |
205 |
1 |
31.93 |
2009-08-25 |
46. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
31.88 |
1.0094 |
0.0131 |
256 |
2 |
29.18 |
2009-10-01 |
47. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
31.83 |
0.9948 |
0.0249 |
233 |
1 |
31.83 |
2009-10-07 |
48. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
31.77 |
1.0370 |
-0.0183 |
262 |
1 |
31.77 |
2009-10-07 |
49. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
31.74 |
0.8985 |
0.1160 |
127 |
1 |
31.74 |
2009-09-21 |
50. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.56 |
1.0103 |
-0.0039 |
209 |
1 |
31.56 |
2009-08-25 |
51. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
31.41 |
0.9917 |
0.0176 |
317 |
1 |
31.41 |
2009-10-07 |
52. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.27 |
1.0540 |
-0.0563 |
184 |
1 |
31.27 |
2009-09-09 |
53. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
31.25 |
0.9841 |
0.0147 |
217 |
2 |
28.95 |
2009-09-21 |
54. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
31.22 |
0.8925 |
0.1156 |
293 |
1 |
31.22 |
2009-08-31 |
55. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.05 |
0.8127 |
0.1793 |
167 |
1 |
31.05 |
2009-09-04 |
56. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
30.99 |
0.8680 |
0.1208 |
196 |
1 |
30.99 |
2009-09-21 |
57. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
30.85 |
0.8970 |
0.0928 |
152 |
1 |
30.85 |
2009-08-25 |
58. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
30.80 |
0.9346 |
0.0501 |
211 |
1 |
30.80 |
2009-10-05 |
59. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
30.59 |
0.9685 |
0.0130 |
304 |
1 |
30.59 |
2009-10-01 |
60. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
30.49 |
0.9310 |
0.0461 |
278 |
2 |
30.02 |
2009-09-04 |
61. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
30.43 |
1.0016 |
-0.0276 |
217 |
2 |
28.58 |
2009-09-09 |
62. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
30.35 |
0.8337 |
0.1390 |
142 |
3 |
27.14 |
2009-09-11 |
63. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
30.30 |
1.0063 |
-0.0300 |
293 |
1 |
30.30 |
2009-09-04 |
64. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
30.28 |
1.0267 |
-0.0528 |
261 |
1 |
30.28 |
2009-08-25 |
65. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
30.17 |
0.8880 |
0.0793 |
296 |
1 |
30.17 |
2009-09-21 |
66. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
29.92 |
1.0125 |
-0.0548 |
232 |
1 |
29.92 |
2009-09-04 |
67. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
29.92 |
1.0197 |
-0.0623 |
204 |
1 |
29.92 |
2009-09-09 |
68. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
29.74 |
0.7425 |
0.2124 |
148 |
2 |
27.85 |
2009-09-21 |
69. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
29.72 |
0.9204 |
0.0331 |
121 |
1 |
29.72 |
2009-09-02 |
70. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
29.60 |
0.9915 |
-0.0436 |
281 |
1 |
29.60 |
2009-09-23 |
71. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
29.55 |
0.9827 |
-0.0346 |
314 |
1 |
29.55 |
2009-08-25 |
72. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.36 |
0.8124 |
0.1299 |
137 |
1 |
29.36 |
2009-08-25 |
73. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
29.35 |
0.7724 |
0.1667 |
142 |
1 |
29.35 |
2009-08-19 |
74. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
29.34 |
0.7423 |
0.1963 |
145 |
1 |
29.34 |
2009-09-02 |
75. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
29.30 |
1.0462 |
-0.1040 |
340 |
1 |
29.30 |
2009-08-25 |
76. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
29.24 |
1.0060 |
-0.0621 |
244 |
1 |
29.24 |
2009-08-31 |
77. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
29.23 |
0.9890 |
-0.0482 |
272 |
1 |
29.23 |
2009-08-31 |
78. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
29.12 |
0.9931 |
-0.0636 |
218 |
1 |
29.12 |
2009-09-02 |
79. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
29.10 |
0.9541 |
-0.0208 |
236 |
1 |
29.10 |
2009-08-25 |
80. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
29.09 |
0.9756 |
-0.0439 |
223 |
1 |
29.09 |
2009-08-21 |
81. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.05 |
0.8192 |
0.1139 |
200 |
1 |
29.05 |
2009-09-21 |
82. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
29.03 |
0.9762 |
-0.0457 |
249 |
1 |
29.03 |
2009-09-09 |
83. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
29.02 |
0.8606 |
0.0694 |
170 |
1 |
29.02 |
2009-09-02 |
84. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.01 |
0.8474 |
0.0829 |
265 |
1 |
29.01 |
2009-10-01 |
85. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
29.01 |
0.9768 |
-0.0457 |
237 |
1 |
29.01 |
2009-08-21 |
86. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
29.00 |
1.0042 |
-0.0785 |
168 |
1 |
29.00 |
2009-08-25 |
87. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
28.90 |
1.0028 |
-0.0776 |
259 |
1 |
28.90 |
2009-08-25 |
88. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
28.88 |
0.8988 |
0.0260 |
193 |
1 |
28.88 |
2009-10-07 |
89. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
28.71 |
0.9927 |
-0.0707 |
262 |
1 |
28.71 |
2009-08-21 |
90. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
28.55 |
0.8551 |
0.0601 |
150 |
1 |
28.55 |
2009-10-01 |
91. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
28.27 |
0.7901 |
0.1106 |
154 |
2 |
28.05 |
2009-08-25 |
92. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
28.26 |
1.0472 |
-0.1479 |
149 |
2 |
27.85 |
2009-10-01 |
93. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
28.22 |
0.9349 |
-0.0280 |
287 |
1 |
28.22 |
2009-08-25 |
94. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
28.18 |
0.8562 |
0.0415 |
132 |
1 |
28.18 |
2009-09-21 |
95. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
28.06 |
1.0969 |
-0.1955 |
303 |
1 |
28.06 |
2009-08-31 |
96. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
27.90 |
0.9380 |
-0.0455 |
284 |
1 |
27.90 |
2009-09-09 |
97. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
27.90 |
1.0576 |
-0.1664 |
231 |
1 |
27.90 |
2009-09-21 |
98. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.88 |
1.0543 |
-0.1643 |
182 |
1 |
27.88 |
2009-08-31 |
99. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
27.57 |
0.9757 |
-0.0957 |
176 |
1 |
27.57 |
2009-08-31 |
100. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
27.43 |
0.9869 |
-0.1117 |
193 |
1 |
27.43 |
2009-08-21 |
101. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
27.39 |
1.0865 |
-0.2092 |
237 |
1 |
27.39 |
2009-08-19 |
102. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
27.33 |
0.8669 |
0.0149 |
255 |
1 |
27.33 |
2009-08-21 |
103. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
27.22 |
0.8553 |
0.0201 |
145 |
2 |
25.88 |
2009-09-21 |
104. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.16 |
0.9027 |
-0.0361 |
189 |
2 |
26.71 |
2009-09-11 |
105. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
27.06 |
1.0414 |
-0.1754 |
234 |
1 |
27.06 |
2009-09-21 |
106. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
27.04 |
1.0199 |
-0.1575 |
225 |
1 |
27.04 |
2009-08-25 |
107. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
26.99 |
0.8208 |
0.0468 |
149 |
1 |
26.99 |
2009-08-21 |
108. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
26.88 |
0.8365 |
0.0207 |
145 |
1 |
26.88 |
2009-09-04 |
109. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
26.88 |
0.8339 |
0.0267 |
209 |
1 |
26.88 |
2009-08-19 |
110. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
26.84 |
1.0845 |
-0.2258 |
212 |
1 |
26.84 |
2009-08-25 |
111. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
26.77 |
0.8656 |
-0.0069 |
242 |
1 |
26.77 |
2009-08-25 |
112. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
26.30 |
1.0638 |
-0.2234 |
247 |
1 |
26.30 |
2009-08-25 |
113. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
25.44 |
1.0867 |
-0.2765 |
171 |
1 |
25.44 |
2009-08-21 |
114. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
25.30 |
0.9108 |
-0.1008 |
235 |
1 |
25.30 |
2009-08-21 |
115. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
25.08 |
0.8117 |
-0.0054 |
209 |
1 |
25.08 |
2009-08-25 |
116. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
23.19 |
1.0601 |
-0.3213 |
256 |
1 |
23.19 |
2009-09-11 |
117. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
19.55 |
1.0617 |
-0.4390 |
171 |
1 |
19.55 |
2009-09-11 |