| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
132.47 |
1.0800 |
0.1799 |
129 |
1 |
132.47 |
2009-06-16 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
128.76 |
1.0800 |
0.1484 |
213 |
3 |
112.21 |
2009-06-18 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
128.12 |
1.1086 |
0.1169 |
233 |
3 |
120.20 |
2009-06-19 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
128.00 |
0.9974 |
0.2227 |
163 |
2 |
113.90 |
2009-06-18 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
127.50 |
1.0777 |
0.1393 |
226 |
3 |
111.95 |
2009-06-18 |
| 6. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
126.89 |
1.0320 |
0.1873 |
401 |
3 |
117.64 |
2009-06-18 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
126.11 |
1.0676 |
0.1428 |
456 |
2 |
118.06 |
2009-06-18 |
| 8. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
124.67 |
1.0419 |
0.1532 |
341 |
3 |
109.82 |
2009-06-18 |
| 9. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
124.60 |
1.0567 |
0.1343 |
314 |
2 |
121.24 |
2009-06-24 |
| 10. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
124.58 |
1.0264 |
0.1605 |
191 |
2 |
119.90 |
2009-06-18 |
| 11. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
122.84 |
1.0462 |
0.1312 |
340 |
1 |
122.84 |
2009-06-13 |
| 12. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
120.35 |
1.0901 |
0.0623 |
288 |
2 |
119.74 |
2009-06-13 |
| 13. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
119.77 |
1.0018 |
0.1434 |
246 |
1 |
119.77 |
2009-06-13 |
| 14. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
119.37 |
1.0372 |
0.1034 |
249 |
2 |
115.53 |
2009-06-13 |
| 15. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
118.98 |
1.0362 |
0.1074 |
437 |
1 |
118.98 |
2009-06-16 |
| 16. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
116.75 |
0.9780 |
0.1316 |
173 |
2 |
115.35 |
2009-06-18 |
| 17. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
116.44 |
0.9763 |
0.1361 |
143 |
1 |
116.44 |
2008-10-06 |
| 18. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
116.40 |
1.0736 |
0.0415 |
350 |
1 |
116.40 |
2009-06-18 |
| 19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
116.34 |
1.0332 |
0.0781 |
267 |
1 |
116.34 |
2009-06-16 |
| 20. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
116.13 |
1.0845 |
0.0243 |
212 |
1 |
116.13 |
2009-06-13 |
| 21. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
115.98 |
1.0016 |
0.1052 |
217 |
1 |
115.98 |
2008-11-12 |
| 22. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
115.63 |
1.0472 |
0.0516 |
149 |
2 |
99.94 |
2009-06-18 |
| 23. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
115.35 |
1.0481 |
0.0466 |
255 |
3 |
113.21 |
2009-06-19 |
| 24. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
114.69 |
1.0686 |
0.0310 |
354 |
2 |
108.90 |
2009-06-13 |
| 25. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
114.42 |
0.9890 |
0.1083 |
272 |
1 |
114.42 |
2009-06-13 |
| 26. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
114.42 |
1.0189 |
0.0739 |
290 |
2 |
106.85 |
2009-06-13 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
114.27 |
1.0521 |
0.0343 |
197 |
3 |
100.73 |
2009-06-18 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
113.41 |
0.9927 |
0.0916 |
276 |
2 |
108.12 |
2009-08-25 |
| 29. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
112.70 |
1.0476 |
0.0199 |
110 |
1 |
112.70 |
2008-11-11 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
112.13 |
1.0867 |
-0.0197 |
171 |
1 |
112.13 |
2009-06-13 |
| 31. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
111.95 |
0.9981 |
0.0707 |
211 |
2 |
107.09 |
2009-06-18 |
| 32. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
111.38 |
1.0479 |
0.0147 |
205 |
1 |
111.38 |
2009-06-13 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
111.33 |
1.0103 |
0.0477 |
209 |
2 |
111.26 |
2009-06-18 |
| 34. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
110.96 |
1.0370 |
0.0230 |
262 |
1 |
110.96 |
2009-06-16 |
| 35. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
110.84 |
1.0529 |
0.0087 |
373 |
1 |
110.84 |
2009-06-16 |
| 36. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
110.61 |
0.9839 |
0.0727 |
308 |
1 |
110.61 |
2009-06-13 |
| 37. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
110.53 |
1.0291 |
0.0249 |
240 |
1 |
110.53 |
2008-10-07 |
| 38. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
110.51 |
1.0165 |
0.0386 |
316 |
1 |
110.51 |
2008-11-12 |
| 39. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
109.40 |
0.9538 |
0.0912 |
276 |
1 |
109.40 |
2008-11-12 |
| 40. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
109.30 |
1.0333 |
0.0058 |
176 |
1 |
109.30 |
2009-06-16 |
| 41. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
109.19 |
1.0669 |
-0.0205 |
379 |
1 |
109.19 |
2008-10-13 |
| 42. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
109.03 |
1.0079 |
0.0327 |
273 |
1 |
109.03 |
2009-06-24 |
| 43. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
109.02 |
0.9650 |
0.0792 |
347 |
2 |
107.13 |
2009-06-18 |
| 44. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
108.76 |
1.0351 |
0.0078 |
276 |
1 |
108.76 |
2009-06-24 |
| 45. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
108.76 |
0.9842 |
0.0570 |
335 |
2 |
102.26 |
2009-06-13 |
| 46. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
108.53 |
1.0466 |
-0.0102 |
230 |
1 |
108.53 |
2009-06-24 |
| 47. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
107.96 |
1.0543 |
-0.0206 |
360 |
1 |
107.96 |
2008-10-06 |
| 48. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
107.48 |
1.0042 |
0.0187 |
168 |
1 |
107.48 |
2009-06-13 |
| 49. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
106.98 |
1.0197 |
0.0004 |
204 |
1 |
106.98 |
2008-10-13 |
| 50. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
106.02 |
0.9915 |
0.0203 |
281 |
1 |
106.02 |
2009-06-19 |
| 51. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
105.97 |
0.8847 |
0.1253 |
282 |
1 |
105.97 |
2009-06-13 |
| 52. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
105.95 |
0.8845 |
0.1288 |
239 |
1 |
105.95 |
2009-06-13 |
| 53. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
105.74 |
0.9884 |
0.0241 |
267 |
1 |
105.74 |
2009-06-13 |
| 54. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
105.35 |
0.9852 |
0.0205 |
235 |
2 |
98.87 |
2009-06-16 |
| 55. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
105.23 |
1.0461 |
-0.0388 |
318 |
1 |
105.23 |
2008-11-12 |
| 56. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
105.16 |
1.0682 |
-0.0627 |
266 |
1 |
105.16 |
2008-11-11 |
| 57. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
104.38 |
0.9357 |
0.0591 |
204 |
1 |
104.38 |
2009-06-13 |
| 58. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
104.25 |
0.9574 |
0.0415 |
354 |
3 |
101.61 |
2009-06-23 |
| 59. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
104.02 |
1.0270 |
-0.0329 |
303 |
1 |
104.02 |
2009-06-13 |
| 60. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
103.82 |
1.0543 |
-0.0660 |
182 |
1 |
103.82 |
2009-06-13 |
| 61. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
103.58 |
1.0125 |
-0.0247 |
232 |
1 |
103.58 |
2009-06-18 |
| 62. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
103.55 |
1.0743 |
-0.0842 |
297 |
2 |
103.33 |
2009-06-18 |
| 63. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
103.47 |
0.9136 |
0.0779 |
348 |
1 |
103.47 |
2009-06-16 |
| 64. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
102.99 |
0.9243 |
0.0614 |
240 |
1 |
102.99 |
2009-06-13 |
| 65. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
102.78 |
0.9644 |
0.0203 |
398 |
1 |
102.78 |
2009-06-18 |
| 66. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
102.36 |
1.0341 |
-0.0572 |
273 |
1 |
102.36 |
2009-06-16 |
| 67. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
102.15 |
1.0028 |
-0.0284 |
259 |
1 |
102.15 |
2008-10-06 |
| 68. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
102.04 |
0.9787 |
-0.0008 |
364 |
1 |
102.04 |
2008-10-06 |
| 69. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
102.03 |
0.9909 |
-0.0126 |
334 |
1 |
102.03 |
2008-10-07 |
| 70. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
100.99 |
0.9726 |
-0.0030 |
396 |
1 |
100.99 |
2009-06-13 |
| 71. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
100.96 |
1.0057 |
-0.0387 |
382 |
2 |
98.12 |
2009-06-16 |
| 72. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
100.70 |
0.9119 |
0.0540 |
396 |
1 |
100.70 |
2008-10-07 |
| 73. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
100.60 |
0.9265 |
0.0330 |
254 |
1 |
100.60 |
2009-06-13 |
| 74. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
100.32 |
0.8986 |
0.0576 |
205 |
1 |
100.32 |
2009-06-13 |
| 75. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
99.48 |
0.9713 |
-0.0228 |
193 |
1 |
99.48 |
2009-06-18 |
| 76. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
99.13 |
0.9836 |
-0.0370 |
289 |
1 |
99.13 |
2009-06-16 |
| 77. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
98.77 |
1.0877 |
-0.1481 |
129 |
1 |
98.77 |
2009-06-13 |
| 78. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
98.07 |
0.9833 |
-0.0446 |
387 |
1 |
98.07 |
2008-10-06 |
| 79. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
97.80 |
0.8986 |
0.0357 |
216 |
1 |
97.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 80. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
97.65 |
1.0607 |
-0.1256 |
357 |
1 |
97.65 |
2009-06-13 |
| 81. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
97.05 |
1.0035 |
-0.0764 |
310 |
1 |
97.05 |
2009-06-24 |
| 82. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
96.98 |
0.9719 |
-0.0389 |
383 |
1 |
96.98 |
2008-10-07 |
| 83. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
96.83 |
1.0511 |
-0.1249 |
252 |
1 |
96.83 |
2009-06-13 |
| 84. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
96.68 |
1.0638 |
-0.1428 |
247 |
1 |
96.68 |
2008-10-08 |
| 85. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
96.35 |
0.8603 |
0.0594 |
270 |
1 |
96.35 |
2009-06-13 |
| 86. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
96.11 |
1.0615 |
-0.1470 |
201 |
1 |
96.11 |
2009-08-25 |
| 87. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
95.79 |
0.9756 |
-0.0619 |
223 |
1 |
95.79 |
2009-06-15 |
| 88. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
95.60 |
0.9128 |
-0.0030 |
237 |
1 |
95.60 |
2009-06-16 |
| 89. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
95.31 |
0.9927 |
-0.0810 |
262 |
1 |
95.31 |
2009-06-15 |
| 90. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
95.02 |
0.9332 |
-0.0248 |
295 |
4 |
94.84 |
2009-06-15 |
| 91. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
94.21 |
0.9392 |
-0.0339 |
360 |
2 |
92.24 |
2009-06-13 |
| 92. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
94.07 |
1.0094 |
-0.1114 |
256 |
2 |
91.96 |
2009-06-19 |
| 93. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
93.95 |
1.0128 |
-0.1093 |
369 |
1 |
93.95 |
2008-10-06 |
| 94. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
92.94 |
0.9315 |
-0.0427 |
273 |
1 |
92.94 |
2009-06-13 |
| 95. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
92.76 |
1.0181 |
-0.1315 |
276 |
2 |
92.73 |
2009-06-13 |
| 96. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
92.65 |
0.9594 |
-0.0770 |
258 |
1 |
92.65 |
2008-10-07 |
| 97. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
92.60 |
1.0060 |
-0.1216 |
225 |
1 |
92.60 |
2008-10-06 |
| 98. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
92.02 |
0.9609 |
-0.0779 |
331 |
1 |
92.02 |
2009-06-18 |
| 99. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
91.88 |
0.9922 |
-0.1148 |
264 |
1 |
91.88 |
2008-10-08 |
| 100. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
91.82 |
0.9011 |
-0.0217 |
322 |
1 |
91.82 |
2009-06-13 |
| 101. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
91.77 |
0.9727 |
-0.0902 |
442 |
1 |
91.77 |
2008-10-13 |
| 102. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
91.70 |
0.9736 |
-0.0914 |
378 |
1 |
91.70 |
2009-06-24 |
| 103. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
91.50 |
0.9145 |
-0.0378 |
404 |
1 |
91.50 |
2008-10-07 |
| 104. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
91.19 |
0.9765 |
-0.1070 |
269 |
1 |
91.19 |
2009-06-23 |
| 105. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
90.78 |
0.9948 |
-0.1297 |
233 |
1 |
90.78 |
2009-06-13 |
| 106. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
90.69 |
0.9299 |
-0.0729 |
168 |
1 |
90.69 |
2008-10-08 |
| 107. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
90.46 |
1.0059 |
-0.1415 |
283 |
1 |
90.46 |
2009-06-13 |
| 108. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
90.43 |
0.9162 |
-0.0521 |
401 |
1 |
90.43 |
2008-10-06 |
| 109. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
89.60 |
1.0006 |
-0.1457 |
311 |
1 |
89.60 |
2008-11-12 |
| 110. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
89.45 |
0.9451 |
-0.0837 |
419 |
1 |
89.45 |
2009-06-24 |
| 111. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
89.22 |
1.0418 |
-0.1897 |
214 |
1 |
89.22 |
2008-10-06 |
| 112. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
89.00 |
0.9917 |
-0.1405 |
317 |
1 |
89.00 |
2009-06-13 |
| 113. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
87.25 |
0.9621 |
-0.1327 |
201 |
1 |
87.25 |
2009-06-15 |
| 114. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
87.06 |
1.0135 |
-0.1797 |
358 |
1 |
87.06 |
2008-10-06 |
| 115. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
85.38 |
0.9339 |
-0.1137 |
317 |
1 |
85.38 |
2008-10-07 |
| 116. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
84.54 |
0.9829 |
-0.1773 |
229 |
1 |
84.54 |
2009-06-16 |
| 117. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
79.13 |
0.8572 |
-0.1046 |
232 |
1 |
79.13 |
2009-06-13 |
| 118. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
78.09 |
0.9068 |
-0.1644 |
212 |
2 |
73.78 |
2008-10-07 |
| 119. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
76.41 |
0.8172 |
-0.0934 |
204 |
1 |
76.41 |
2009-06-13 |
| 120. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
76.07 |
0.8666 |
-0.1442 |
206 |
1 |
76.07 |
2009-06-13 |