| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
119.41 |
1.0867 |
0.2553 |
171 |
2 |
112.73 |
2008-10-12 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
117.95 |
1.1086 |
0.2217 |
233 |
1 |
117.95 |
2009-02-14 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
117.70 |
1.1070 |
0.2190 |
265 |
2 |
112.25 |
2008-10-18 |
| 4. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
115.11 |
1.0682 |
0.2306 |
266 |
1 |
115.11 |
2008-10-09 |
| 5. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
113.63 |
1.0567 |
0.2240 |
314 |
4 |
104.38 |
2009-03-02 |
| 6. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
113.55 |
1.0736 |
0.2091 |
350 |
2 |
112.87 |
2008-10-07 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
111.35 |
1.0403 |
0.2131 |
234 |
1 |
111.35 |
2008-10-09 |
| 8. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
109.96 |
1.0341 |
0.2047 |
273 |
1 |
109.96 |
2008-10-12 |
| 9. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
109.82 |
0.9890 |
0.2527 |
272 |
3 |
101.34 |
2008-10-18 |
| 10. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
107.02 |
1.0279 |
0.1725 |
172 |
2 |
85.32 |
2008-10-18 |
| 11. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
104.94 |
0.9787 |
0.2072 |
364 |
1 |
104.94 |
2008-10-12 |
| 12. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
104.67 |
1.0035 |
0.1766 |
310 |
1 |
104.67 |
2008-10-04 |
| 13. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
104.06 |
0.9801 |
0.1922 |
289 |
1 |
104.06 |
2008-10-09 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
103.49 |
1.0333 |
0.1277 |
176 |
1 |
103.49 |
2008-10-09 |
| 15. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
103.46 |
1.0016 |
0.1626 |
217 |
2 |
97.26 |
2008-10-09 |
| 16. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
103.12 |
1.0130 |
0.1490 |
288 |
1 |
103.12 |
2009-03-02 |
| 17. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
102.97 |
1.0472 |
0.1067 |
149 |
2 |
98.67 |
2008-10-12 |
| 18. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
101.65 |
1.0272 |
0.1160 |
226 |
1 |
101.65 |
2008-10-18 |
| 19. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
101.56 |
1.0432 |
0.1016 |
276 |
2 |
95.73 |
2008-10-12 |
| 20. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
101.46 |
1.0873 |
0.0528 |
243 |
1 |
101.46 |
2008-10-12 |
| 21. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
101.11 |
0.9909 |
0.1521 |
334 |
2 |
95.00 |
2008-10-10 |
| 22. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
101.10 |
0.9271 |
0.2115 |
295 |
4 |
91.58 |
2008-10-10 |
| 23. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
100.21 |
1.0901 |
0.0409 |
288 |
1 |
100.21 |
2008-10-04 |
| 24. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
99.69 |
0.9763 |
0.1463 |
143 |
2 |
98.39 |
2008-10-05 |
| 25. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
99.69 |
1.0529 |
0.0728 |
373 |
1 |
99.69 |
2008-10-12 |
| 26. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
99.55 |
0.9922 |
0.1299 |
264 |
2 |
94.42 |
2008-10-18 |
| 27. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
99.52 |
0.9713 |
0.1484 |
193 |
2 |
85.23 |
2008-10-10 |
| 28. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
99.52 |
1.0178 |
0.1016 |
207 |
2 |
96.24 |
2008-10-12 |
| 29. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
97.93 |
0.9915 |
0.1107 |
281 |
1 |
97.93 |
2008-10-09 |
| 30. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
97.68 |
1.0506 |
0.0493 |
259 |
1 |
97.68 |
2008-10-18 |
| 31. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
97.45 |
1.0411 |
0.0584 |
341 |
2 |
95.65 |
2008-10-09 |
| 32. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
96.81 |
1.0264 |
0.0598 |
191 |
1 |
96.81 |
2008-10-10 |
| 33. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
96.20 |
1.0419 |
0.0447 |
341 |
2 |
94.26 |
2008-10-18 |
| 34. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
95.70 |
1.0028 |
0.0740 |
259 |
1 |
95.70 |
2008-10-07 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
95.42 |
1.0464 |
0.0333 |
294 |
1 |
95.42 |
2008-10-04 |
| 36. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
95.21 |
1.0132 |
0.0597 |
371 |
1 |
95.21 |
2008-10-10 |
| 37. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
95.12 |
0.8986 |
0.1733 |
216 |
3 |
66.34 |
2008-10-12 |
| 38. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
94.68 |
1.0265 |
0.0435 |
375 |
1 |
94.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 39. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
94.52 |
1.0082 |
0.0513 |
212 |
1 |
94.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 40. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
94.08 |
0.9952 |
0.0667 |
220 |
2 |
92.62 |
2008-10-09 |
| 41. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
93.93 |
1.0227 |
0.0412 |
378 |
2 |
90.35 |
2008-10-09 |
| 42. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
92.93 |
0.9402 |
0.1044 |
310 |
2 |
88.69 |
2008-10-18 |
| 43. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
92.90 |
0.9709 |
0.0739 |
264 |
2 |
85.82 |
2008-10-10 |
| 44. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
92.83 |
1.0462 |
0.0022 |
340 |
2 |
91.45 |
2009-02-28 |
| 45. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
92.70 |
1.0197 |
0.0224 |
204 |
1 |
92.70 |
2008-10-18 |
| 46. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
92.57 |
0.9885 |
0.0606 |
469 |
2 |
88.29 |
2008-10-12 |
| 47. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
92.34 |
0.9023 |
0.1361 |
268 |
1 |
92.34 |
2008-10-10 |
| 48. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
92.07 |
1.0561 |
-0.0213 |
227 |
1 |
92.07 |
2008-10-09 |
| 49. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
92.04 |
0.9829 |
0.0528 |
229 |
1 |
92.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 50. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
91.98 |
0.9866 |
0.0495 |
308 |
1 |
91.98 |
2008-10-12 |
| 51. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
91.34 |
1.0800 |
-0.0585 |
129 |
2 |
90.87 |
2008-11-01 |
| 52. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
91.33 |
0.9468 |
0.0814 |
318 |
2 |
83.66 |
2009-02-14 |
| 53. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
91.09 |
0.9927 |
0.0335 |
276 |
2 |
83.63 |
2009-03-02 |
| 54. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
90.85 |
0.9162 |
0.1079 |
401 |
2 |
88.56 |
2008-10-12 |
| 55. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
90.63 |
0.9183 |
0.1030 |
308 |
2 |
87.13 |
2009-03-02 |
| 56. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
90.20 |
0.9012 |
0.1179 |
322 |
2 |
88.54 |
2008-10-12 |
| 57. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
90.05 |
1.0582 |
-0.0474 |
180 |
1 |
90.05 |
2008-10-12 |
| 58. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
89.96 |
1.0086 |
-0.0001 |
218 |
1 |
89.96 |
2008-10-04 |
| 59. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
89.80 |
1.0511 |
-0.0383 |
252 |
1 |
89.80 |
2008-10-05 |
| 60. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
89.53 |
0.9400 |
0.0706 |
434 |
1 |
89.53 |
2008-10-12 |
| 61. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
89.24 |
0.9927 |
0.0087 |
234 |
1 |
89.24 |
2008-10-10 |
| 62. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
88.84 |
0.9583 |
0.0424 |
237 |
2 |
88.83 |
2008-10-12 |
| 63. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
88.18 |
1.0125 |
-0.0247 |
171 |
2 |
88.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 64. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
88.11 |
0.9996 |
-0.0002 |
483 |
1 |
88.11 |
2008-10-09 |
| 65. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
87.95 |
0.9299 |
0.0518 |
168 |
1 |
87.95 |
2008-10-18 |
| 66. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
87.30 |
0.9780 |
-0.0015 |
173 |
1 |
87.30 |
2008-10-04 |
| 67. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
87.05 |
0.9027 |
0.0737 |
189 |
1 |
87.05 |
2008-10-18 |
| 68. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
86.88 |
0.9864 |
-0.0046 |
292 |
1 |
86.88 |
2008-10-12 |
| 69. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
86.81 |
0.9339 |
0.0491 |
317 |
2 |
85.90 |
2008-10-04 |
| 70. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
86.55 |
0.9762 |
-0.0020 |
249 |
1 |
86.55 |
2008-10-12 |
| 71. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
86.54 |
1.0461 |
-0.0698 |
318 |
1 |
86.54 |
2008-10-12 |
| 72. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
86.20 |
0.9681 |
0.0078 |
392 |
1 |
86.20 |
2008-10-09 |
| 73. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
86.04 |
0.8656 |
0.1040 |
242 |
1 |
86.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 74. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
85.85 |
0.9644 |
0.0050 |
398 |
2 |
82.62 |
2008-10-09 |
| 75. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
85.72 |
1.0479 |
-0.0847 |
205 |
1 |
85.72 |
2008-10-12 |
| 76. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
85.54 |
0.9726 |
-0.0046 |
396 |
2 |
76.62 |
2008-11-01 |
| 77. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
85.24 |
0.9658 |
-0.0027 |
308 |
2 |
80.41 |
2008-10-09 |
| 78. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
84.83 |
1.0414 |
-0.0876 |
234 |
1 |
84.83 |
2009-02-28 |
| 79. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
84.74 |
0.9574 |
-0.0005 |
354 |
1 |
84.74 |
2008-10-09 |
| 80. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
84.54 |
0.8830 |
0.0709 |
300 |
1 |
84.54 |
2008-10-05 |
| 81. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
84.34 |
1.0042 |
-0.0588 |
168 |
2 |
83.59 |
2009-03-06 |
| 82. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
84.11 |
0.9636 |
-0.0184 |
281 |
1 |
84.11 |
2009-03-02 |
| 83. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
83.88 |
0.9948 |
-0.0519 |
233 |
1 |
83.88 |
2008-10-12 |
| 84. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
83.64 |
0.9810 |
-0.0347 |
362 |
2 |
82.52 |
2008-10-04 |
| 85. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
82.99 |
0.8845 |
0.0507 |
239 |
1 |
82.99 |
2008-10-10 |
| 86. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
82.67 |
0.9917 |
-0.0593 |
317 |
1 |
82.67 |
2008-10-10 |
| 87. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
82.44 |
1.0543 |
-0.1243 |
360 |
1 |
82.44 |
2008-10-18 |
| 88. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
82.31 |
1.0267 |
-0.0974 |
261 |
2 |
80.80 |
2008-10-09 |
| 89. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
81.72 |
0.9422 |
-0.0278 |
190 |
1 |
81.72 |
2008-10-12 |
| 90. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
80.84 |
1.0270 |
-0.1169 |
303 |
1 |
80.84 |
2008-10-10 |
| 91. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
80.75 |
0.9424 |
-0.0314 |
320 |
2 |
74.83 |
2008-10-09 |
| 92. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
80.49 |
0.9332 |
-0.0262 |
295 |
2 |
75.63 |
2008-10-12 |
| 93. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
79.84 |
0.9745 |
-0.0742 |
388 |
1 |
79.84 |
2008-10-09 |
| 94. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
79.31 |
0.8778 |
0.0162 |
285 |
1 |
79.31 |
2008-10-09 |
| 95. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
78.89 |
0.9541 |
-0.0661 |
236 |
1 |
78.89 |
2008-10-04 |
| 96. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.60 |
0.9673 |
-0.0809 |
292 |
1 |
78.60 |
2009-03-02 |
| 97. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
78.51 |
0.8913 |
-0.0067 |
201 |
3 |
70.70 |
2008-10-09 |
| 98. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
77.79 |
0.9963 |
-0.1237 |
274 |
1 |
77.79 |
2008-10-05 |
| 99. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
77.79 |
0.9727 |
-0.0910 |
442 |
1 |
77.79 |
2008-10-18 |
| 100. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
77.74 |
0.9632 |
-0.0876 |
287 |
1 |
77.74 |
2008-10-18 |
| 101. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
76.85 |
0.9114 |
-0.0396 |
399 |
2 |
75.94 |
2008-10-09 |
| 102. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
76.84 |
0.9011 |
-0.0337 |
322 |
1 |
76.84 |
2008-10-04 |
| 103. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
76.81 |
0.9561 |
-0.0906 |
362 |
1 |
76.81 |
2008-10-09 |
| 104. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
75.12 |
0.9880 |
-0.1475 |
199 |
1 |
75.12 |
2008-10-09 |
| 105. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
75.11 |
0.8986 |
-0.0490 |
363 |
1 |
75.11 |
2008-10-18 |
| 106. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
73.86 |
0.9265 |
-0.0971 |
254 |
1 |
73.86 |
2008-10-05 |
| 107. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
72.02 |
1.0654 |
-0.2583 |
247 |
1 |
72.02 |
2009-03-02 |
| 108. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
71.44 |
0.9597 |
-0.1564 |
251 |
1 |
71.44 |
2009-03-02 |
| 109. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
70.62 |
0.9128 |
-0.1218 |
237 |
2 |
70.30 |
2009-03-02 |
| 110. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
70.32 |
0.9621 |
-0.1693 |
212 |
1 |
70.32 |
2009-03-02 |
| 111. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
70.14 |
0.7923 |
-0.0034 |
316 |
2 |
65.74 |
2008-10-10 |
| 112. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
69.52 |
0.9756 |
-0.1950 |
223 |
1 |
69.52 |
2008-10-10 |
| 113. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
68.83 |
0.9698 |
-0.1913 |
389 |
1 |
68.83 |
2008-10-07 |
| 114. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
68.28 |
0.9703 |
-0.1964 |
394 |
1 |
68.28 |
2008-10-04 |
| 115. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
67.71 |
1.0234 |
-0.2585 |
392 |
1 |
67.71 |
2009-03-02 |
| 116. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
67.40 |
0.9357 |
-0.1806 |
204 |
1 |
67.40 |
2008-10-10 |
| 117. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
66.23 |
0.9673 |
-0.2194 |
393 |
1 |
66.23 |
2009-03-06 |
| 118. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
65.33 |
0.9136 |
-0.1765 |
348 |
1 |
65.33 |
2008-10-18 |
| 119. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
64.85 |
0.9346 |
-0.2091 |
211 |
1 |
64.85 |
2008-10-05 |
| 120. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
64.67 |
0.9029 |
-0.1738 |
393 |
1 |
64.67 |
2008-10-07 |
| 121. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
61.61 |
0.8959 |
-0.1988 |
328 |
1 |
61.61 |
2009-03-02 |
| 122. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
61.50 |
0.8172 |
-0.1310 |
204 |
1 |
61.50 |
2009-03-02 |
| 123. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
61.08 |
0.9068 |
-0.2230 |
212 |
1 |
61.08 |
2008-10-10 |
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The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
50.49 |
1.0095 |
-0.4452 |
211 |
1 |
50.49 |
2008-10-10 |