| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
165.55 |
1.0873 |
0.1360 |
243 |
2 |
150.52 |
2009-07-02 |
| 2. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
164.10 |
1.0567 |
0.1585 |
314 |
2 |
158.41 |
2009-07-03 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
161.81 |
1.0960 |
0.1066 |
315 |
3 |
145.68 |
2009-07-02 |
| 4. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
160.51 |
1.0800 |
0.1018 |
129 |
1 |
160.51 |
2009-07-29 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
160.42 |
1.0426 |
0.1415 |
131 |
2 |
159.06 |
2009-07-01 |
| 6. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
156.35 |
1.0561 |
0.0998 |
227 |
1 |
156.35 |
2009-07-01 |
| 7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
156.21 |
1.0638 |
0.0910 |
247 |
1 |
156.21 |
2009-07-02 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
153.30 |
1.0800 |
0.0522 |
213 |
1 |
153.30 |
2009-07-02 |
| 9. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
150.60 |
1.0264 |
0.0844 |
191 |
1 |
150.60 |
2009-07-02 |
| 10. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
150.55 |
1.0095 |
0.1037 |
211 |
2 |
145.14 |
2009-07-28 |
| 11. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
150.32 |
1.0615 |
0.0484 |
201 |
1 |
150.32 |
2009-07-01 |
| 12. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
150.31 |
0.9836 |
0.1294 |
289 |
2 |
144.70 |
2009-07-02 |
| 13. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
150.05 |
0.9632 |
0.1489 |
287 |
1 |
150.05 |
2009-07-02 |
| 14. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
149.77 |
0.9966 |
0.1194 |
377 |
2 |
140.41 |
2009-07-28 |
| 15. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
149.38 |
1.0320 |
0.0799 |
401 |
4 |
136.27 |
2009-07-03 |
| 16. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
149.31 |
1.0617 |
0.0418 |
171 |
3 |
146.32 |
2009-07-28 |
| 17. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
149.26 |
0.8624 |
0.2379 |
174 |
2 |
129.37 |
2009-07-01 |
| 18. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
148.86 |
1.1086 |
-0.0061 |
233 |
1 |
148.86 |
2009-07-02 |
| 19. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
148.00 |
1.0557 |
0.0412 |
289 |
1 |
148.00 |
2009-07-01 |
| 20. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
147.65 |
1.0418 |
0.0521 |
214 |
1 |
147.65 |
2009-07-01 |
| 21. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
147.28 |
1.0600 |
0.0306 |
351 |
1 |
147.28 |
2009-07-01 |
| 22. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
147.04 |
1.0028 |
0.0846 |
259 |
1 |
147.04 |
2009-07-01 |
| 23. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
146.78 |
1.0086 |
0.0737 |
218 |
1 |
146.78 |
2009-07-28 |
| 24. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
146.71 |
1.1093 |
-0.0288 |
220 |
1 |
146.71 |
2009-07-10 |
| 25. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
146.64 |
1.0472 |
0.0320 |
149 |
1 |
146.64 |
2009-07-02 |
| 26. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
146.41 |
1.0414 |
0.0415 |
234 |
1 |
146.41 |
2009-07-02 |
| 27. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
145.72 |
1.0881 |
-0.0133 |
210 |
2 |
143.84 |
2009-07-01 |
| 28. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
145.53 |
1.0042 |
0.0693 |
168 |
1 |
145.53 |
2009-07-02 |
| 29. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
145.49 |
1.0404 |
0.0415 |
406 |
1 |
145.49 |
2009-07-01 |
| 30. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
145.14 |
0.9852 |
0.0886 |
235 |
1 |
145.14 |
2009-07-01 |
| 31. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
144.47 |
0.9673 |
0.1043 |
292 |
2 |
136.98 |
2009-07-02 |
| 32. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
144.07 |
0.9713 |
0.0937 |
193 |
2 |
135.69 |
2009-07-03 |
| 33. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
143.68 |
0.9763 |
0.0867 |
143 |
1 |
143.68 |
2009-07-01 |
| 34. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
143.53 |
1.0450 |
0.0227 |
358 |
1 |
143.53 |
2009-07-01 |
| 35. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
143.33 |
1.0079 |
0.0520 |
273 |
2 |
138.89 |
2009-07-01 |
| 36. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
143.30 |
1.0132 |
0.0481 |
371 |
1 |
143.30 |
2009-07-29 |
| 37. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
143.29 |
1.0288 |
0.0271 |
166 |
1 |
143.29 |
2009-07-02 |
| 38. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
142.96 |
0.9909 |
0.0718 |
293 |
2 |
123.81 |
2009-07-28 |
| 39. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
142.71 |
1.0006 |
0.0557 |
311 |
2 |
132.61 |
2009-07-15 |
| 40. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
142.31 |
1.0466 |
0.0063 |
230 |
1 |
142.31 |
2009-07-01 |
| 41. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
141.83 |
1.0462 |
0.0065 |
340 |
3 |
131.08 |
2009-07-01 |
| 42. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
141.18 |
1.0387 |
0.0104 |
333 |
1 |
141.18 |
2009-07-01 |
| 43. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
140.65 |
0.9332 |
0.1091 |
295 |
1 |
140.65 |
2009-07-03 |
| 44. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
140.08 |
1.0332 |
0.0029 |
267 |
3 |
135.47 |
2009-07-02 |
| 45. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
139.81 |
0.9680 |
0.0668 |
256 |
2 |
138.36 |
2009-07-01 |
| 46. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
139.69 |
0.9631 |
0.0702 |
273 |
2 |
139.01 |
2009-07-29 |
| 47. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
138.81 |
0.9927 |
0.0351 |
276 |
1 |
138.81 |
2009-07-02 |
| 48. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
138.64 |
0.9810 |
0.0500 |
362 |
1 |
138.64 |
2009-07-01 |
| 49. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
138.56 |
0.9736 |
0.0589 |
378 |
2 |
133.91 |
2009-07-02 |
| 50. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
138.36 |
1.0686 |
-0.0411 |
354 |
1 |
138.36 |
2009-07-29 |
| 51. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
137.59 |
0.8646 |
0.1501 |
110 |
1 |
137.59 |
2009-07-01 |
| 52. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
137.55 |
1.0128 |
0.0119 |
369 |
1 |
137.55 |
2009-07-01 |
| 53. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
137.22 |
1.0334 |
-0.0186 |
261 |
1 |
137.22 |
2009-07-01 |
| 54. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
137.22 |
1.0543 |
-0.0422 |
182 |
3 |
131.66 |
2009-07-01 |
| 55. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
136.89 |
0.9841 |
0.0255 |
217 |
2 |
128.21 |
2009-07-02 |
| 56. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
136.80 |
1.0588 |
-0.0464 |
281 |
1 |
136.80 |
2009-07-01 |
| 57. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
136.69 |
1.0487 |
-0.0394 |
253 |
1 |
136.69 |
2009-07-01 |
| 58. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
136.16 |
1.0506 |
-0.0435 |
259 |
2 |
126.13 |
2009-07-03 |
| 59. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
135.88 |
0.9807 |
0.0131 |
129 |
1 |
135.88 |
2009-07-01 |
| 60. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
135.84 |
0.9952 |
0.0123 |
220 |
2 |
135.68 |
2009-07-01 |
| 61. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
135.82 |
0.9765 |
0.0278 |
269 |
3 |
120.49 |
2009-07-02 |
| 62. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
135.76 |
0.9827 |
0.0227 |
314 |
1 |
135.76 |
2009-07-01 |
| 63. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
135.56 |
1.0427 |
-0.0388 |
269 |
1 |
135.56 |
2009-07-01 |
| 64. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
135.06 |
0.9927 |
0.0033 |
234 |
1 |
135.06 |
2009-07-01 |
| 65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
134.96 |
0.9842 |
0.0166 |
335 |
1 |
134.96 |
2009-07-05 |
| 66. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
134.71 |
0.9915 |
0.0043 |
281 |
1 |
134.71 |
2009-07-16 |
| 67. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
134.40 |
1.0270 |
-0.0320 |
303 |
2 |
132.64 |
2009-07-03 |
| 68. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
134.21 |
0.9685 |
0.0252 |
304 |
1 |
134.21 |
2009-07-02 |
| 69. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
134.19 |
1.0669 |
-0.0709 |
379 |
1 |
134.19 |
2009-07-02 |
| 70. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
133.65 |
0.9101 |
0.0826 |
351 |
1 |
133.65 |
2009-07-29 |
| 71. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
133.30 |
0.9756 |
0.0099 |
223 |
1 |
133.30 |
2009-07-01 |
| 72. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
133.15 |
0.9574 |
0.0309 |
354 |
1 |
133.15 |
2009-07-01 |
| 73. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
132.54 |
1.0479 |
-0.0689 |
205 |
1 |
132.54 |
2009-07-01 |
| 74. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
132.08 |
0.9070 |
0.0653 |
192 |
3 |
129.20 |
2009-07-16 |
| 75. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
132.08 |
1.0351 |
-0.0541 |
276 |
1 |
132.08 |
2009-07-01 |
| 76. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
131.12 |
0.9541 |
0.0165 |
236 |
1 |
131.12 |
2009-07-01 |
| 77. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
130.67 |
1.0208 |
-0.0543 |
231 |
2 |
119.75 |
2009-07-02 |
| 78. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
130.24 |
1.0265 |
-0.0594 |
375 |
1 |
130.24 |
2009-07-01 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
128.85 |
1.0341 |
-0.0816 |
273 |
1 |
128.85 |
2009-07-02 |
| 80. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
128.60 |
1.0101 |
-0.0571 |
336 |
1 |
128.60 |
2009-07-16 |
| 81. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
128.04 |
0.9963 |
-0.0516 |
274 |
2 |
125.66 |
2009-07-16 |
| 82. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
127.93 |
1.0059 |
-0.0585 |
283 |
1 |
127.93 |
2009-07-01 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
127.88 |
0.9885 |
-0.0359 |
469 |
1 |
127.88 |
2009-07-01 |
| 84. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
126.31 |
0.9359 |
-0.0010 |
355 |
1 |
126.31 |
2009-07-01 |
| 85. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
125.82 |
0.7923 |
0.1388 |
316 |
1 |
125.82 |
2009-07-01 |
| 86. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
125.70 |
0.8845 |
0.0464 |
239 |
1 |
125.70 |
2009-07-01 |
| 87. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
125.58 |
0.9468 |
-0.0183 |
318 |
1 |
125.58 |
2009-07-02 |
| 88. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
124.46 |
0.8474 |
0.0735 |
265 |
1 |
124.46 |
2009-07-02 |
| 89. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
124.36 |
0.9948 |
-0.0762 |
233 |
1 |
124.36 |
2009-07-16 |
| 90. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
124.16 |
0.8964 |
0.0189 |
199 |
1 |
124.16 |
2009-07-03 |
| 91. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.83 |
0.9809 |
-0.0691 |
209 |
1 |
123.83 |
2009-07-01 |
| 92. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
123.52 |
0.9704 |
-0.0570 |
254 |
1 |
123.52 |
2009-07-01 |
| 93. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
123.14 |
0.9866 |
-0.0756 |
308 |
1 |
123.14 |
2009-07-01 |
| 94. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
123.01 |
0.9561 |
-0.0449 |
362 |
2 |
112.90 |
2009-07-01 |
| 95. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
122.52 |
0.8830 |
0.0255 |
300 |
1 |
122.52 |
2009-07-03 |
| 96. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
122.39 |
0.8880 |
0.0171 |
296 |
1 |
122.39 |
2009-07-01 |
| 97. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
122.00 |
0.9299 |
-0.0362 |
168 |
2 |
121.45 |
2009-07-02 |
| 98. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
121.49 |
1.0845 |
-0.1873 |
212 |
1 |
121.49 |
2009-07-01 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
121.18 |
0.9357 |
-0.0419 |
204 |
2 |
111.47 |
2009-07-01 |
| 100. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
120.83 |
1.0035 |
-0.1095 |
310 |
1 |
120.83 |
2009-07-01 |
| 101. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
120.79 |
0.9678 |
-0.0704 |
392 |
1 |
120.79 |
2009-07-01 |
| 102. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
120.35 |
1.0178 |
-0.1297 |
207 |
1 |
120.35 |
2009-07-15 |
| 103. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
120.33 |
0.9380 |
-0.0498 |
284 |
1 |
120.33 |
2009-07-10 |
| 104. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
120.18 |
1.0736 |
-0.1825 |
350 |
1 |
120.18 |
2009-07-01 |
| 105. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
120.05 |
1.0654 |
-0.1803 |
247 |
1 |
120.05 |
2009-07-01 |
| 106. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
116.80 |
0.9183 |
-0.0540 |
308 |
2 |
109.96 |
2009-07-01 |
| 107. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
115.71 |
0.9880 |
-0.1369 |
199 |
2 |
113.11 |
2009-07-16 |
| 108. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
115.53 |
0.9206 |
-0.0662 |
317 |
1 |
115.53 |
2009-07-01 |
| 109. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
114.94 |
0.9839 |
-0.1346 |
308 |
1 |
114.94 |
2009-07-01 |
| 110. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
114.38 |
1.0106 |
-0.1662 |
302 |
1 |
114.38 |
2009-07-01 |
| 111. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
113.63 |
1.0125 |
-0.1776 |
171 |
2 |
108.97 |
2009-07-01 |
| 112. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
111.57 |
0.9114 |
-0.0795 |
399 |
1 |
111.57 |
2009-07-01 |
| 113. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
111.29 |
0.8437 |
-0.0220 |
268 |
1 |
111.29 |
2009-07-01 |
| 114. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
108.32 |
0.9726 |
-0.1672 |
396 |
1 |
108.32 |
2009-07-01 |
| 115. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
106.78 |
0.9145 |
-0.1222 |
404 |
1 |
106.78 |
2009-07-01 |
| 116. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
105.39 |
0.9422 |
-0.1689 |
190 |
1 |
105.39 |
2009-07-01 |
| 117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
104.93 |
0.9332 |
-0.1582 |
267 |
1 |
104.93 |
2009-07-02 |
| 118. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
100.19 |
0.9027 |
-0.1665 |
189 |
1 |
100.19 |
2009-07-01 |
| 119. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
99.08 |
0.9787 |
-0.2438 |
364 |
1 |
99.08 |
2009-07-01 |
| 120. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
98.66 |
0.9503 |
-0.2287 |
211 |
1 |
98.66 |
2009-07-02 |