| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
140.09 |
1.1086 |
0.2046 |
233 |
2 |
124.15 |
2008-11-14 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
130.71 |
1.0638 |
0.1587 |
247 |
1 |
130.71 |
2008-11-14 |
| 3. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
128.84 |
1.0607 |
0.1490 |
357 |
2 |
124.49 |
2008-11-14 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
125.97 |
1.0567 |
0.1229 |
314 |
1 |
125.97 |
2008-11-14 |
| 5. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
125.67 |
1.0743 |
0.1039 |
297 |
1 |
125.67 |
2008-11-14 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
124.69 |
1.1093 |
0.0529 |
220 |
2 |
121.75 |
2008-12-07 |
| 7. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
124.61 |
0.9680 |
0.1992 |
256 |
2 |
123.22 |
2008-11-14 |
| 8. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
122.82 |
1.0372 |
0.1126 |
249 |
1 |
122.82 |
2008-11-14 |
| 9. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
122.68 |
1.0498 |
0.1003 |
261 |
4 |
116.73 |
2008-11-14 |
| 10. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
122.43 |
1.0686 |
0.0815 |
354 |
1 |
122.43 |
2008-11-30 |
| 11. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
121.88 |
1.0576 |
0.0810 |
231 |
2 |
114.01 |
2008-11-14 |
| 12. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
121.76 |
0.9841 |
0.1545 |
263 |
2 |
111.53 |
2009-04-15 |
| 13. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
121.43 |
1.0362 |
0.1072 |
437 |
1 |
121.43 |
2008-11-14 |
| 14. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
120.30 |
1.0267 |
0.1029 |
261 |
2 |
113.57 |
2008-11-14 |
| 15. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
119.87 |
0.9359 |
0.1872 |
355 |
3 |
108.28 |
2008-11-14 |
| 16. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
118.92 |
0.9658 |
0.1514 |
308 |
1 |
118.92 |
2008-11-30 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
118.71 |
1.0600 |
0.0518 |
351 |
2 |
118.08 |
2008-11-14 |
| 18. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
118.12 |
0.9756 |
0.1297 |
223 |
1 |
118.12 |
2008-11-14 |
| 19. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
117.65 |
1.0561 |
0.0435 |
227 |
1 |
117.65 |
2008-11-14 |
| 20. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
117.50 |
1.0511 |
0.0508 |
252 |
1 |
117.50 |
2008-11-14 |
| 21. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
116.39 |
1.0481 |
0.0339 |
255 |
1 |
116.39 |
2008-11-14 |
| 22. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
115.72 |
1.0461 |
0.0395 |
318 |
1 |
115.72 |
2008-11-14 |
| 23. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
115.49 |
1.0227 |
0.0646 |
378 |
2 |
109.79 |
2008-12-21 |
| 24. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
114.86 |
1.0557 |
0.0208 |
289 |
2 |
106.53 |
2008-11-14 |
| 25. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
114.84 |
0.9842 |
0.0931 |
335 |
2 |
107.72 |
2008-12-07 |
| 26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
114.43 |
1.0540 |
0.0122 |
184 |
1 |
114.43 |
2008-11-14 |
| 27. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
114.20 |
0.9632 |
0.1071 |
287 |
1 |
114.20 |
2008-11-14 |
| 28. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
113.66 |
1.0800 |
-0.0230 |
129 |
1 |
113.66 |
2008-11-14 |
| 29. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
113.61 |
1.0165 |
0.0462 |
316 |
1 |
113.61 |
2008-11-14 |
| 30. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.49 |
1.0601 |
-0.0009 |
256 |
1 |
113.49 |
2008-11-14 |
| 31. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
113.38 |
0.9392 |
0.1282 |
360 |
2 |
107.95 |
2008-11-14 |
| 32. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
113.31 |
0.9807 |
0.0684 |
129 |
3 |
103.89 |
2008-12-21 |
| 33. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
113.13 |
0.9594 |
0.0978 |
258 |
2 |
105.86 |
2008-12-21 |
| 34. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
113.03 |
1.0495 |
0.0080 |
323 |
1 |
113.03 |
2008-12-07 |
| 35. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
112.85 |
1.0588 |
-0.0024 |
281 |
1 |
112.85 |
2008-11-14 |
| 36. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
112.58 |
0.8656 |
0.1894 |
242 |
1 |
112.58 |
2008-11-14 |
| 37. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
111.87 |
0.9704 |
0.0767 |
254 |
1 |
111.87 |
2008-11-14 |
| 38. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
111.35 |
1.0272 |
0.0129 |
226 |
2 |
110.57 |
2008-12-21 |
| 39. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
110.92 |
0.9880 |
0.0460 |
199 |
2 |
109.44 |
2008-11-30 |
| 40. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
110.89 |
1.0867 |
-0.0532 |
171 |
2 |
107.74 |
2008-12-21 |
| 41. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
110.87 |
1.0265 |
0.0149 |
375 |
1 |
110.87 |
2008-12-09 |
| 42. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
110.34 |
0.9980 |
0.0369 |
295 |
1 |
110.34 |
2008-11-14 |
| 43. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
110.17 |
1.0042 |
0.0231 |
168 |
1 |
110.17 |
2008-11-14 |
| 44. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
110.13 |
0.9609 |
0.0746 |
331 |
2 |
103.85 |
2009-10-16 |
| 45. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
109.97 |
1.1198 |
-0.0916 |
247 |
1 |
109.97 |
2008-11-14 |
| 46. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
109.83 |
1.0432 |
-0.0147 |
276 |
3 |
109.11 |
2008-12-21 |
| 47. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
109.73 |
0.9885 |
0.0386 |
355 |
1 |
109.73 |
2009-05-10 |
| 48. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
109.49 |
1.0125 |
0.0073 |
171 |
1 |
109.49 |
2008-12-07 |
| 49. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
109.39 |
0.9833 |
0.0429 |
387 |
2 |
101.58 |
2009-04-15 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.93 |
1.0426 |
-0.0272 |
131 |
2 |
105.16 |
2009-10-16 |
| 51. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
108.75 |
1.0060 |
0.0124 |
225 |
3 |
100.11 |
2008-11-14 |
| 52. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
108.50 |
0.9604 |
0.0529 |
285 |
1 |
108.50 |
2008-11-30 |
| 53. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
108.48 |
0.9434 |
0.0763 |
367 |
2 |
105.91 |
2008-11-14 |
| 54. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
107.88 |
0.9678 |
0.0461 |
392 |
1 |
107.88 |
2008-11-14 |
| 55. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
107.29 |
0.9866 |
0.0178 |
308 |
1 |
107.29 |
2008-11-14 |
| 56. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
106.97 |
0.9541 |
0.0475 |
236 |
1 |
106.97 |
2008-11-14 |
| 57. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
106.91 |
0.9400 |
0.0630 |
434 |
2 |
103.92 |
2008-11-23 |
| 58. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
106.76 |
1.0639 |
-0.0638 |
303 |
1 |
106.76 |
2008-11-14 |
| 59. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
106.70 |
0.9909 |
0.0121 |
293 |
1 |
106.70 |
2008-11-14 |
| 60. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
106.57 |
0.9890 |
0.0121 |
272 |
1 |
106.57 |
2008-11-22 |
| 61. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
106.16 |
0.8887 |
0.1186 |
464 |
1 |
106.16 |
2008-11-14 |
| 62. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
106.11 |
0.9503 |
0.0359 |
211 |
1 |
106.11 |
2008-11-14 |
| 63. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
105.56 |
0.9952 |
-0.0051 |
220 |
1 |
105.56 |
2008-11-14 |
| 64. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
105.49 |
0.9650 |
0.0247 |
347 |
1 |
105.49 |
2008-11-23 |
| 65. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
105.24 |
0.9736 |
0.0182 |
378 |
1 |
105.24 |
2008-11-14 |
| 66. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
104.99 |
1.0351 |
-0.0489 |
276 |
1 |
104.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 67. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
104.67 |
0.9681 |
0.0168 |
392 |
1 |
104.67 |
2008-11-14 |
| 68. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
104.29 |
0.9265 |
0.0481 |
254 |
2 |
100.34 |
2008-11-14 |
| 69. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
103.96 |
0.9114 |
0.0687 |
399 |
2 |
96.41 |
2008-12-21 |
| 70. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
103.62 |
0.9713 |
-0.0033 |
193 |
2 |
103.40 |
2008-11-14 |
| 71. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
103.55 |
1.0016 |
-0.0344 |
217 |
1 |
103.55 |
2008-12-21 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
102.84 |
0.9780 |
-0.0221 |
173 |
1 |
102.84 |
2008-11-14 |
| 73. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
102.76 |
0.9957 |
-0.0304 |
323 |
1 |
102.76 |
2008-11-14 |
| 74. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
102.73 |
0.9243 |
0.0389 |
240 |
1 |
102.73 |
2008-11-30 |
| 75. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
102.47 |
0.9631 |
-0.0050 |
273 |
1 |
102.47 |
2008-11-14 |
| 76. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
102.46 |
0.9352 |
0.0222 |
194 |
1 |
102.46 |
2009-05-10 |
| 77. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
102.40 |
1.0006 |
-0.0426 |
311 |
1 |
102.40 |
2008-11-22 |
| 78. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
102.29 |
1.0487 |
-0.0940 |
253 |
1 |
102.29 |
2008-11-14 |
| 79. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
102.27 |
1.0287 |
-0.0731 |
269 |
1 |
102.27 |
2008-11-14 |
| 80. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
101.97 |
0.9101 |
0.0477 |
351 |
2 |
92.22 |
2008-12-21 |
| 81. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
101.18 |
0.8624 |
0.0794 |
174 |
1 |
101.18 |
2008-11-14 |
| 82. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
100.66 |
1.0101 |
-0.0667 |
336 |
1 |
100.66 |
2008-11-14 |
| 83. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
100.15 |
1.0476 |
-0.1202 |
110 |
1 |
100.15 |
2008-11-30 |
| 84. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
100.07 |
0.9966 |
-0.0534 |
377 |
1 |
100.07 |
2008-11-14 |
| 85. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
99.99 |
0.9849 |
-0.0484 |
337 |
1 |
99.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 86. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
99.96 |
0.9727 |
-0.0310 |
442 |
1 |
99.96 |
2009-04-15 |
| 87. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
99.64 |
0.9479 |
-0.0142 |
317 |
1 |
99.64 |
2008-12-07 |
| 88. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
99.59 |
0.8830 |
0.0510 |
300 |
1 |
99.59 |
2008-11-14 |
| 89. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
99.52 |
0.9917 |
-0.0588 |
317 |
1 |
99.52 |
2008-12-07 |
| 90. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
99.22 |
0.9561 |
-0.0265 |
362 |
1 |
99.22 |
2008-12-21 |
| 91. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
99.19 |
1.0582 |
-0.1336 |
180 |
1 |
99.19 |
2008-11-14 |
| 92. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
99.13 |
0.9119 |
0.0196 |
396 |
1 |
99.13 |
2008-11-14 |
| 93. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
98.65 |
0.9402 |
-0.0195 |
310 |
1 |
98.65 |
2008-11-30 |
| 94. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
98.40 |
0.9933 |
-0.0656 |
450 |
1 |
98.40 |
2008-11-14 |
| 95. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
98.33 |
0.9519 |
-0.0284 |
323 |
1 |
98.33 |
2008-12-09 |
| 96. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
98.17 |
0.9745 |
-0.0543 |
388 |
1 |
98.17 |
2008-11-14 |
| 97. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
97.47 |
0.9500 |
-0.0368 |
287 |
1 |
97.47 |
2008-11-14 |
| 98. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
97.04 |
1.0094 |
-0.1018 |
256 |
1 |
97.04 |
2008-11-22 |
| 99. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
96.90 |
0.9468 |
-0.0408 |
318 |
1 |
96.90 |
2008-11-22 |
| 100. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
96.89 |
1.0128 |
-0.0999 |
369 |
1 |
96.89 |
2008-12-07 |
| 101. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
96.53 |
0.9839 |
-0.0814 |
308 |
1 |
96.53 |
2008-11-14 |
| 102. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
96.28 |
0.9284 |
-0.0244 |
346 |
1 |
96.28 |
2008-11-14 |
| 103. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
95.59 |
1.0130 |
-0.1191 |
288 |
1 |
95.59 |
2008-11-14 |
| 104. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
94.01 |
1.0334 |
-0.1550 |
261 |
1 |
94.01 |
2008-12-21 |
| 105. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
93.99 |
0.8437 |
0.0344 |
268 |
1 |
93.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 106. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
93.51 |
0.9583 |
-0.0836 |
237 |
1 |
93.51 |
2008-12-21 |
| 107. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
93.41 |
0.9108 |
-0.0376 |
235 |
1 |
93.41 |
2008-11-14 |
| 108. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
93.12 |
1.0464 |
-0.1708 |
294 |
1 |
93.12 |
2008-11-14 |
| 109. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
93.10 |
0.9206 |
-0.0497 |
317 |
2 |
83.71 |
2008-11-14 |
| 110. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
93.09 |
0.9787 |
-0.1050 |
364 |
1 |
93.09 |
2008-11-14 |
| 111. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
93.06 |
1.0462 |
-0.1732 |
340 |
1 |
93.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 112. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
92.56 |
1.0028 |
-0.1386 |
259 |
1 |
92.56 |
2008-11-14 |
| 113. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
92.16 |
0.9299 |
-0.0768 |
168 |
1 |
92.16 |
2008-11-14 |
| 114. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
92.00 |
0.9885 |
-0.1218 |
469 |
1 |
92.00 |
2008-12-21 |
| 115. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
89.80 |
0.9673 |
-0.1241 |
393 |
1 |
89.80 |
2008-11-14 |
| 116. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
89.79 |
0.8172 |
0.0177 |
204 |
3 |
83.60 |
2008-12-09 |
| 117. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
88.98 |
0.9698 |
-0.1332 |
389 |
1 |
88.98 |
2008-11-14 |
| 118. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
88.91 |
0.9346 |
-0.1066 |
211 |
1 |
88.91 |
2008-11-14 |
| 119. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
88.62 |
0.8964 |
-0.0711 |
199 |
1 |
88.62 |
2008-11-14 |
| 120. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
87.04 |
0.9128 |
-0.1023 |
237 |
1 |
87.04 |
2008-11-30 |
| 121. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
84.73 |
0.9931 |
-0.2054 |
218 |
1 |
84.73 |
2008-12-21 |
| 122. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
84.52 |
0.9801 |
-0.1908 |
289 |
1 |
84.52 |
2008-11-14 |
| 123. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
84.39 |
0.7923 |
-0.0033 |
316 |
1 |
84.39 |
2008-11-14 |