| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
51.44 |
1.1070 |
0.3592 |
265 |
1 |
51.44 |
2009-07-25 |
| 2. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
48.67 |
0.8606 |
0.5272 |
170 |
2 |
38.93 |
2009-07-24 |
| 3. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
48.17 |
0.9673 |
0.4085 |
292 |
2 |
47.48 |
2009-09-01 |
| 4. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
48.00 |
1.0042 |
0.3607 |
168 |
4 |
29.16 |
2009-07-25 |
| 5. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.99 |
1.0845 |
0.2542 |
212 |
1 |
46.99 |
2009-07-24 |
| 6. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
46.67 |
1.0506 |
0.2796 |
259 |
1 |
46.67 |
2009-08-01 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
46.59 |
1.0686 |
0.2633 |
354 |
1 |
46.59 |
2009-08-01 |
| 8. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.42 |
1.0086 |
0.3106 |
218 |
1 |
46.42 |
2009-07-25 |
| 9. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
46.27 |
1.0332 |
0.2854 |
267 |
1 |
46.27 |
2009-08-01 |
| 10. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
46.08 |
0.9260 |
0.3907 |
348 |
2 |
45.51 |
2009-08-01 |
| 11. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
45.87 |
0.8964 |
0.4084 |
199 |
2 |
44.48 |
2009-08-01 |
| 12. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
45.86 |
1.0279 |
0.2738 |
172 |
2 |
34.89 |
2009-07-24 |
| 13. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.62 |
1.0561 |
0.2426 |
227 |
2 |
43.53 |
2009-07-24 |
| 14. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
45.35 |
0.8911 |
0.4029 |
207 |
1 |
45.35 |
2009-07-25 |
| 15. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
45.09 |
1.0057 |
0.2826 |
382 |
1 |
45.09 |
2009-07-25 |
| 16. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.01 |
1.0132 |
0.2705 |
371 |
3 |
43.14 |
2009-08-01 |
| 17. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
44.71 |
0.9384 |
0.3336 |
296 |
1 |
44.71 |
2010-03-29 |
| 18. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.27 |
0.9931 |
0.2649 |
218 |
1 |
44.27 |
2009-08-01 |
| 19. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.23 |
1.0638 |
0.1949 |
247 |
1 |
44.23 |
2009-07-24 |
| 20. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
43.80 |
1.0250 |
0.2263 |
271 |
1 |
43.80 |
2009-08-01 |
| 21. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
43.64 |
0.9084 |
0.3369 |
271 |
1 |
43.64 |
2009-07-24 |
| 22. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
43.11 |
0.9713 |
0.2560 |
193 |
1 |
43.11 |
2009-08-01 |
| 23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.93 |
0.9745 |
0.2511 |
388 |
1 |
42.93 |
2009-09-01 |
| 24. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
42.79 |
0.8718 |
0.3472 |
193 |
1 |
42.79 |
2009-07-24 |
| 25. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.66 |
0.9841 |
0.2284 |
217 |
1 |
42.66 |
2009-07-25 |
| 26. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
42.21 |
1.0370 |
0.1657 |
262 |
1 |
42.21 |
2010-03-29 |
| 27. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
42.04 |
1.0059 |
0.1933 |
283 |
1 |
42.04 |
2009-07-25 |
| 28. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.87 |
0.9909 |
0.2068 |
293 |
1 |
41.87 |
2010-03-29 |
| 29. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
41.85 |
1.1198 |
0.0718 |
247 |
1 |
41.85 |
2009-08-01 |
| 30. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
41.70 |
0.9763 |
0.2115 |
283 |
1 |
41.70 |
2010-03-29 |
| 31. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
41.45 |
1.0101 |
0.1728 |
336 |
2 |
38.80 |
2009-08-01 |
| 32. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
41.38 |
1.0301 |
0.1477 |
268 |
1 |
41.38 |
2009-07-24 |
| 33. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
40.76 |
1.0543 |
0.1094 |
360 |
1 |
40.76 |
2009-07-25 |
| 34. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
40.68 |
0.9357 |
0.2212 |
204 |
1 |
40.68 |
2010-03-29 |
| 35. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
40.67 |
0.9948 |
0.1629 |
233 |
1 |
40.67 |
2009-09-01 |
| 36. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
40.00 |
0.9632 |
0.1776 |
287 |
2 |
39.63 |
2010-03-29 |
| 37. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
39.78 |
0.9027 |
0.2271 |
189 |
2 |
37.35 |
2010-03-29 |
| 38. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
39.69 |
0.7724 |
0.3566 |
142 |
1 |
39.69 |
2009-07-24 |
| 39. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
39.59 |
0.9963 |
0.1291 |
274 |
1 |
39.59 |
2009-08-01 |
| 40. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
39.39 |
0.9909 |
0.1351 |
334 |
2 |
31.52 |
2009-07-24 |
| 41. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
39.20 |
1.0540 |
0.0577 |
184 |
3 |
26.84 |
2009-08-01 |
| 42. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
38.95 |
0.9011 |
0.2116 |
322 |
1 |
38.95 |
2009-07-25 |
| 43. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.57 |
0.9346 |
0.1611 |
211 |
1 |
38.57 |
2009-07-25 |
| 44. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
38.55 |
1.0462 |
0.0548 |
340 |
1 |
38.55 |
2009-09-01 |
| 45. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
38.14 |
0.8768 |
0.2135 |
199 |
1 |
38.14 |
2010-03-29 |
| 46. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
37.30 |
0.7923 |
0.2705 |
316 |
1 |
37.30 |
2009-07-25 |
| 47. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
36.65 |
0.9183 |
0.1262 |
308 |
2 |
36.09 |
2010-03-29 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
36.59 |
1.0264 |
0.0113 |
191 |
1 |
36.59 |
2009-07-24 |
| 49. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
36.33 |
0.8830 |
0.1540 |
300 |
1 |
36.33 |
2009-08-01 |
| 50. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
36.19 |
0.8669 |
0.1697 |
255 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-07-24 |
| 51. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.56 |
0.9852 |
0.0266 |
235 |
1 |
35.56 |
2009-07-24 |
| 52. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
34.45 |
0.9807 |
-0.0117 |
129 |
1 |
34.45 |
2009-07-25 |
| 53. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
33.81 |
0.8830 |
0.0733 |
134 |
1 |
33.81 |
2009-07-24 |
| 54. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
32.80 |
0.8918 |
0.0458 |
163 |
4 |
29.15 |
2008-10-10 |
| 55. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.12 |
0.9352 |
-0.0224 |
194 |
1 |
32.12 |
2010-03-29 |
| 56. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
31.72 |
0.9621 |
-0.0626 |
201 |
3 |
28.31 |
2009-07-24 |
| 57. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
30.88 |
0.8339 |
0.0439 |
209 |
2 |
26.02 |
2008-09-30 |
| 58. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
28.89 |
1.0418 |
-0.2197 |
214 |
1 |
28.89 |
2008-10-10 |
| 59. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
27.26 |
0.9371 |
-0.1712 |
156 |
3 |
25.81 |
2008-10-04 |
| 60. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
26.92 |
0.8906 |
-0.1165 |
128 |
1 |
26.92 |
2008-10-01 |
| 61. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
26.66 |
1.0582 |
-0.3038 |
180 |
1 |
26.66 |
2008-08-20 |
| 62. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
26.41 |
1.0669 |
-0.3134 |
379 |
1 |
26.41 |
2008-08-23 |
| 63. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
25.72 |
0.8218 |
-0.0912 |
163 |
1 |
25.72 |
2008-10-10 |
| 64. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
25.69 |
1.0197 |
-0.2918 |
204 |
1 |
25.69 |
2008-10-04 |
| 65. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
25.46 |
0.8624 |
-0.1440 |
174 |
2 |
23.72 |
2008-10-01 |
| 66. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
25.37 |
1.0881 |
-0.3715 |
210 |
2 |
24.83 |
2008-08-28 |
| 67. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
25.27 |
0.8965 |
-0.1784 |
150 |
2 |
21.81 |
2008-10-10 |
| 68. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
25.02 |
1.0576 |
-0.3499 |
231 |
1 |
25.02 |
2008-09-04 |
| 69. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
24.58 |
1.0800 |
-0.3850 |
213 |
1 |
24.58 |
2008-08-28 |
| 70. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
24.16 |
1.0095 |
-0.3250 |
211 |
1 |
24.16 |
2008-08-28 |
| 71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
24.06 |
0.8077 |
-0.1247 |
148 |
1 |
24.06 |
2008-08-23 |
| 72. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
23.80 |
0.8305 |
-0.1596 |
162 |
1 |
23.80 |
2008-08-23 |
| 73. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
23.79 |
0.9286 |
-0.2515 |
177 |
2 |
23.38 |
2008-10-04 |
| 74. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
23.72 |
0.9285 |
-0.2571 |
244 |
1 |
23.72 |
2008-10-01 |
| 75. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
23.47 |
1.0016 |
-0.3371 |
217 |
1 |
23.47 |
2008-09-04 |
| 76. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
23.29 |
0.9166 |
-0.2531 |
133 |
1 |
23.29 |
2008-08-24 |
| 77. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
23.25 |
0.8164 |
-0.1569 |
197 |
1 |
23.25 |
2008-08-23 |
| 78. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
23.22 |
0.8680 |
-0.2140 |
196 |
1 |
23.22 |
2008-10-01 |
| 79. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
23.03 |
0.9422 |
-0.2938 |
190 |
1 |
23.03 |
2008-08-23 |
| 80. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
22.50 |
0.8789 |
-0.2463 |
136 |
1 |
22.50 |
2008-09-30 |
| 81. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
22.50 |
0.7973 |
-0.1545 |
127 |
1 |
22.50 |
2008-10-04 |
| 82. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
22.35 |
0.9779 |
-0.3454 |
255 |
1 |
22.35 |
2008-08-18 |
| 83. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
21.72 |
1.0601 |
-0.4473 |
256 |
1 |
21.72 |
2008-10-10 |
| 84. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
21.60 |
1.0288 |
-0.4210 |
166 |
1 |
21.60 |
2008-10-10 |
| 85. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
21.13 |
0.9001 |
-0.3006 |
217 |
1 |
21.13 |
2008-08-21 |
| 86. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
20.42 |
0.8192 |
-0.2385 |
200 |
1 |
20.42 |
2008-09-30 |
| 87. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
20.31 |
1.0333 |
-0.4628 |
176 |
1 |
20.31 |
2008-08-28 |
| 88. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
20.25 |
0.8205 |
-0.2448 |
135 |
1 |
20.25 |
2008-08-21 |
| 89. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
20.17 |
0.9763 |
-0.4052 |
143 |
1 |
20.17 |
2008-08-20 |
| 90. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
18.86 |
1.0521 |
-0.5237 |
197 |
1 |
18.86 |
2008-09-30 |