Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
136.35 |
1.0476 |
0.2060 |
110 |
1 |
136.35 |
2009-12-01 |
2. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
128.01 |
0.9974 |
0.1841 |
163 |
1 |
128.01 |
2014-07-09 |
3. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
125.29 |
1.0033 |
0.1570 |
203 |
1 |
125.29 |
2009-12-01 |
4. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
125.13 |
0.9713 |
0.1859 |
193 |
1 |
125.13 |
2009-11-28 |
5. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
124.73 |
1.0165 |
0.1375 |
316 |
2 |
118.56 |
2009-12-01 |
6. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
123.84 |
1.0682 |
0.0794 |
266 |
1 |
123.84 |
2009-12-01 |
7. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
123.52 |
1.0615 |
0.0791 |
201 |
2 |
120.65 |
2009-12-01 |
8. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
123.41 |
1.0351 |
0.1113 |
276 |
1 |
123.41 |
2009-12-01 |
9. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
123.26 |
0.9869 |
0.1506 |
193 |
2 |
114.22 |
2009-12-01 |
10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
123.22 |
1.0521 |
0.0831 |
197 |
2 |
120.62 |
2011-05-07 |
11. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
121.97 |
1.0189 |
0.1096 |
290 |
1 |
121.97 |
2014-07-09 |
12. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
121.94 |
1.0800 |
0.0419 |
129 |
2 |
104.09 |
2009-12-01 |
13. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
121.86 |
1.0178 |
0.1086 |
207 |
2 |
106.44 |
2009-12-01 |
14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
121.68 |
1.0461 |
0.0851 |
286 |
2 |
108.57 |
2009-12-01 |
15. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
120.76 |
0.9807 |
0.1256 |
129 |
1 |
120.76 |
2009-12-01 |
16. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
120.46 |
0.9841 |
0.1294 |
263 |
1 |
120.46 |
2009-12-01 |
17. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
119.91 |
1.0264 |
0.0794 |
191 |
1 |
119.91 |
2009-12-01 |
18. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
117.59 |
1.0411 |
0.0491 |
341 |
1 |
117.59 |
2009-12-01 |
19. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
117.06 |
1.0301 |
0.0520 |
268 |
1 |
117.06 |
2009-12-01 |
20. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
116.66 |
1.0334 |
0.0457 |
261 |
2 |
111.32 |
2011-05-07 |
21. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
116.09 |
1.0836 |
-0.0058 |
206 |
1 |
116.09 |
2011-05-07 |
22. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
115.62 |
1.0063 |
0.0686 |
293 |
2 |
110.11 |
2009-12-01 |
23. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
115.53 |
1.0509 |
0.0258 |
295 |
1 |
115.53 |
2009-12-01 |
24. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
115.48 |
0.9801 |
0.0968 |
282 |
1 |
115.48 |
2009-12-01 |
25. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
115.41 |
0.9650 |
0.1058 |
347 |
4 |
105.51 |
2009-12-01 |
26. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
114.81 |
0.9915 |
0.0701 |
281 |
2 |
110.08 |
2009-12-01 |
27. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
114.69 |
1.1198 |
-0.0594 |
247 |
1 |
114.69 |
2009-12-01 |
28. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
114.60 |
0.9926 |
0.0791 |
413 |
1 |
114.60 |
2011-05-07 |
29. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
114.58 |
0.9649 |
0.1057 |
360 |
3 |
105.49 |
2011-05-07 |
30. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
114.57 |
0.8964 |
0.1610 |
199 |
3 |
111.28 |
2011-05-07 |
31. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
114.55 |
1.0585 |
0.0044 |
226 |
1 |
114.55 |
2009-12-01 |
32. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
114.34 |
1.0509 |
0.0213 |
430 |
1 |
114.34 |
2009-12-01 |
33. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
114.32 |
1.0101 |
0.0496 |
336 |
1 |
114.32 |
2009-12-01 |
34. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
114.22 |
0.9561 |
0.1025 |
362 |
1 |
114.22 |
2009-12-01 |
35. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
113.78 |
1.0511 |
0.0036 |
252 |
1 |
113.78 |
2009-12-01 |
36. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
113.69 |
1.0288 |
0.0186 |
166 |
1 |
113.69 |
2009-12-01 |
37. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
113.44 |
1.0106 |
0.0381 |
302 |
1 |
113.44 |
2009-12-01 |
38. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
112.99 |
1.0777 |
-0.0343 |
226 |
1 |
112.99 |
2009-12-01 |
39. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
112.83 |
0.9503 |
0.0871 |
211 |
1 |
112.83 |
2009-12-01 |
40. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
112.76 |
1.0341 |
0.0087 |
273 |
1 |
112.76 |
2009-11-28 |
41. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
112.74 |
0.9479 |
0.0970 |
317 |
1 |
112.74 |
2009-12-01 |
42. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
112.45 |
0.9424 |
0.1006 |
320 |
1 |
112.45 |
2009-12-01 |
43. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
111.44 |
1.0865 |
-0.0556 |
237 |
1 |
111.44 |
2009-12-01 |
44. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
111.04 |
1.0250 |
0.0053 |
271 |
2 |
104.09 |
2011-05-07 |
45. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
110.80 |
1.0444 |
-0.0060 |
487 |
1 |
110.80 |
2009-12-01 |
46. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
110.79 |
1.0845 |
-0.0605 |
212 |
1 |
110.79 |
2009-12-01 |
47. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
110.64 |
1.0686 |
-0.0413 |
354 |
1 |
110.64 |
2009-12-01 |
48. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
110.54 |
1.0372 |
-0.0149 |
249 |
1 |
110.54 |
2009-12-01 |
49. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
110.27 |
1.0387 |
-0.0143 |
333 |
1 |
110.27 |
2009-12-01 |
50. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
110.17 |
0.9517 |
0.0663 |
276 |
1 |
110.17 |
2009-12-01 |
51. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
110.13 |
1.0403 |
-0.0231 |
234 |
1 |
110.13 |
2011-05-07 |
52. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
109.99 |
0.9918 |
0.0329 |
400 |
1 |
109.99 |
2009-12-01 |
53. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
109.80 |
0.9763 |
0.0391 |
143 |
1 |
109.80 |
2009-12-01 |
54. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
109.47 |
0.9538 |
0.0588 |
276 |
1 |
109.47 |
2009-12-01 |
55. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
109.25 |
0.9330 |
0.0894 |
341 |
1 |
109.25 |
2009-12-01 |
56. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
109.12 |
0.9519 |
0.0615 |
323 |
1 |
109.12 |
2011-05-07 |
57. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
109.04 |
1.0035 |
0.0059 |
310 |
3 |
98.74 |
2009-12-01 |
58. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
109.01 |
1.0432 |
-0.0341 |
276 |
1 |
109.01 |
2009-12-01 |
59. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
108.96 |
0.9949 |
0.0235 |
304 |
1 |
108.96 |
2009-12-01 |
60. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
108.91 |
0.9885 |
0.0192 |
355 |
1 |
108.91 |
2009-12-01 |
61. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
108.58 |
0.9931 |
0.0159 |
339 |
1 |
108.58 |
2009-12-01 |
62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
108.05 |
0.9809 |
0.0148 |
209 |
1 |
108.05 |
2009-12-01 |
63. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
107.88 |
1.0506 |
-0.0530 |
259 |
1 |
107.88 |
2009-12-01 |
64. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
107.86 |
0.9841 |
0.0104 |
217 |
1 |
107.86 |
2009-12-01 |
65. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
107.55 |
1.0132 |
-0.0177 |
371 |
1 |
107.55 |
2009-12-01 |
66. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
107.06 |
1.0028 |
-0.0135 |
259 |
1 |
107.06 |
2009-12-01 |
67. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
107.04 |
1.0199 |
-0.0335 |
225 |
1 |
107.04 |
2009-12-01 |
68. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
106.89 |
0.9299 |
0.0505 |
168 |
1 |
106.89 |
2009-12-01 |
69. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
106.79 |
0.9162 |
0.0728 |
401 |
2 |
100.39 |
2009-12-01 |
70. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
106.77 |
0.9873 |
-0.0008 |
274 |
1 |
106.77 |
2009-12-01 |
71. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
106.56 |
0.9692 |
0.0328 |
405 |
1 |
106.56 |
2009-12-01 |
72. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
106.40 |
1.0338 |
-0.0443 |
277 |
1 |
106.40 |
2009-12-01 |
73. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
106.18 |
0.9392 |
0.0491 |
360 |
1 |
106.18 |
2009-12-01 |
74. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
105.45 |
0.9515 |
0.0340 |
334 |
2 |
102.94 |
2009-12-01 |
75. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
105.38 |
1.0800 |
-0.1082 |
213 |
1 |
105.38 |
2009-12-01 |
76. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
105.14 |
0.8551 |
0.1176 |
150 |
1 |
105.14 |
2009-11-28 |
77. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
104.80 |
0.9119 |
0.0617 |
396 |
2 |
100.94 |
2009-12-01 |
78. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
104.27 |
0.9884 |
-0.0215 |
267 |
1 |
104.27 |
2009-12-01 |
79. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
104.17 |
0.9745 |
-0.0090 |
388 |
1 |
104.17 |
2009-12-01 |
80. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
103.81 |
0.9068 |
0.0514 |
212 |
1 |
103.81 |
2009-12-01 |
81. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
103.81 |
0.9269 |
0.0411 |
269 |
2 |
102.58 |
2009-12-01 |
82. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
103.61 |
0.8986 |
0.0646 |
363 |
2 |
98.42 |
2011-05-07 |
83. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
103.45 |
0.9827 |
-0.0251 |
314 |
1 |
103.45 |
2009-12-01 |
84. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
103.06 |
0.9183 |
0.0314 |
252 |
1 |
103.06 |
2009-12-01 |
85. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
102.59 |
0.9673 |
-0.0164 |
292 |
2 |
97.56 |
2009-12-01 |
86. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
102.31 |
0.9403 |
0.0185 |
345 |
1 |
102.31 |
2009-12-01 |
87. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
102.18 |
0.9854 |
-0.0392 |
174 |
1 |
102.18 |
2009-12-01 |
88. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
102.07 |
0.9543 |
-0.0036 |
265 |
1 |
102.07 |
2009-12-01 |
89. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
102.07 |
0.8718 |
0.0756 |
318 |
2 |
100.49 |
2009-12-01 |
90. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
102.04 |
0.9265 |
0.0160 |
254 |
2 |
97.50 |
2009-12-01 |
91. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
101.87 |
0.9309 |
0.0212 |
376 |
1 |
101.87 |
2009-12-01 |
92. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
101.38 |
0.9842 |
-0.0445 |
335 |
2 |
98.12 |
2014-07-09 |
93. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
101.37 |
0.9594 |
-0.0238 |
258 |
1 |
101.37 |
2009-12-01 |
94. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
100.98 |
1.0272 |
-0.0955 |
226 |
1 |
100.98 |
2009-12-01 |
95. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
100.80 |
0.8993 |
0.0356 |
366 |
3 |
97.90 |
2011-05-07 |
96. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
99.99 |
1.0018 |
-0.0770 |
246 |
1 |
99.99 |
2009-12-01 |
97. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
99.83 |
0.9957 |
-0.0686 |
323 |
2 |
97.35 |
2009-12-01 |
98. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
99.75 |
0.9987 |
-0.0720 |
236 |
1 |
99.75 |
2011-05-07 |
99. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
99.70 |
1.0060 |
-0.0775 |
244 |
1 |
99.70 |
2009-12-01 |
100. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
99.59 |
0.9698 |
-0.0440 |
389 |
1 |
99.59 |
2009-12-01 |
101. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
99.50 |
0.9494 |
-0.0166 |
397 |
1 |
99.50 |
2011-05-07 |
102. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.40 |
1.0125 |
-0.0984 |
171 |
1 |
99.40 |
2009-12-01 |
103. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
99.10 |
0.8986 |
0.0160 |
205 |
1 |
99.10 |
2009-12-01 |
104. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
99.08 |
0.9603 |
-0.0387 |
430 |
1 |
99.08 |
2009-12-01 |
105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
98.57 |
0.9597 |
-0.0482 |
251 |
1 |
98.57 |
2009-12-01 |
106. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
98.51 |
1.0188 |
-0.0987 |
316 |
1 |
98.51 |
2009-12-01 |
107. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
98.22 |
0.8787 |
0.0275 |
443 |
1 |
98.22 |
2011-05-07 |
108. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
97.76 |
0.9682 |
-0.0540 |
341 |
1 |
97.76 |
2009-12-01 |
109. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
97.51 |
1.0450 |
-0.1382 |
358 |
1 |
97.51 |
2009-12-01 |
110. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
96.51 |
0.9101 |
-0.0141 |
351 |
1 |
96.51 |
2009-12-01 |
111. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
95.80 |
1.0197 |
-0.1360 |
204 |
1 |
95.80 |
2009-12-01 |
112. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
95.75 |
0.9880 |
-0.1071 |
199 |
1 |
95.75 |
2014-07-09 |
113. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
95.58 |
0.9228 |
-0.0348 |
305 |
1 |
95.58 |
2009-12-01 |
114. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
95.19 |
0.8328 |
0.0507 |
343 |
1 |
95.19 |
2011-05-07 |
115. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
95.00 |
0.9817 |
-0.0982 |
304 |
1 |
95.00 |
2009-12-01 |
116. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
94.36 |
0.9183 |
-0.0453 |
308 |
1 |
94.36 |
2009-12-01 |
117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
93.78 |
0.9332 |
-0.0665 |
267 |
1 |
93.78 |
2009-12-01 |
118. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
93.33 |
0.9561 |
-0.0903 |
291 |
1 |
93.33 |
2009-12-01 |
119. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
92.66 |
0.9332 |
-0.0755 |
295 |
1 |
92.66 |
2009-12-01 |
120. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
92.03 |
1.0144 |
-0.1629 |
162 |
1 |
92.03 |
2009-12-01 |
121. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
91.76 |
0.7923 |
0.0562 |
316 |
1 |
91.76 |
2011-05-07 |
122. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
90.88 |
0.9357 |
-0.0982 |
204 |
1 |
90.88 |
2011-05-07 |
123. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
90.86 |
0.9468 |
-0.1074 |
318 |
1 |
90.86 |
2009-12-01 |
124. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
89.62 |
0.9643 |
-0.1277 |
282 |
2 |
83.83 |
2009-12-01 |
125. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
89.33 |
0.9931 |
-0.1717 |
218 |
2 |
83.44 |
2009-12-01 |
126. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
87.88 |
1.0243 |
-0.2087 |
153 |
1 |
87.88 |
2009-12-01 |
127. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
87.82 |
0.8172 |
-0.0102 |
204 |
1 |
87.82 |
2009-12-01 |
128. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
86.74 |
0.8624 |
-0.0659 |
174 |
1 |
86.74 |
2009-12-01 |