| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
63.85 |
0.9621 |
0.2450 |
201 |
1 |
63.85 |
2009-07-03 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
63.12 |
1.0873 |
0.1058 |
243 |
1 |
63.12 |
2009-07-06 |
| 3. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.79 |
0.9952 |
0.1780 |
220 |
1 |
61.79 |
2009-07-03 |
| 4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
60.71 |
1.0672 |
0.0818 |
239 |
2 |
58.19 |
2009-07-06 |
| 5. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
60.63 |
0.9957 |
0.1570 |
323 |
1 |
60.63 |
2009-07-08 |
| 6. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
60.21 |
0.9807 |
0.1484 |
129 |
1 |
60.21 |
2009-07-06 |
| 7. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
60.18 |
0.8127 |
0.3238 |
167 |
2 |
53.60 |
2009-07-08 |
| 8. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
60.01 |
1.0227 |
0.1203 |
378 |
1 |
60.01 |
2009-07-06 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
58.88 |
1.0461 |
0.0714 |
318 |
1 |
58.88 |
2009-07-08 |
| 10. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
58.59 |
1.0543 |
0.0578 |
360 |
2 |
53.94 |
2009-07-06 |
| 11. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
58.11 |
1.0960 |
0.0088 |
315 |
1 |
58.11 |
2009-07-03 |
| 12. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
57.92 |
0.9756 |
0.1207 |
223 |
2 |
49.87 |
2009-07-03 |
| 13. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.85 |
0.8988 |
0.1961 |
193 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-07-08 |
| 14. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
57.57 |
1.0800 |
0.0034 |
129 |
2 |
40.29 |
2009-07-03 |
| 15. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
57.56 |
1.0682 |
0.0231 |
266 |
1 |
57.56 |
2009-07-06 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
57.47 |
1.0487 |
0.0376 |
253 |
2 |
55.54 |
2009-07-07 |
| 17. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
57.43 |
1.0178 |
0.0682 |
207 |
2 |
54.38 |
2009-07-03 |
| 18. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
57.05 |
1.0264 |
0.0499 |
191 |
1 |
57.05 |
2009-07-02 |
| 19. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.64 |
1.0464 |
0.0313 |
294 |
1 |
56.64 |
2009-07-07 |
| 20. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
56.62 |
1.0615 |
0.0078 |
201 |
1 |
56.62 |
2009-07-03 |
| 21. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.61 |
1.0033 |
0.0691 |
203 |
1 |
56.61 |
2009-07-06 |
| 22. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
56.60 |
0.9931 |
0.0833 |
339 |
2 |
55.04 |
2009-07-03 |
| 23. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.56 |
0.8869 |
0.1818 |
176 |
1 |
56.56 |
2009-07-03 |
| 24. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
56.48 |
1.0588 |
0.0109 |
281 |
1 |
56.48 |
2009-07-06 |
| 25. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
56.48 |
0.9346 |
0.1321 |
211 |
1 |
56.48 |
2009-07-08 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
56.42 |
1.0561 |
0.0105 |
227 |
2 |
53.84 |
2009-07-08 |
| 27. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
56.19 |
0.8959 |
0.1736 |
328 |
3 |
54.65 |
2009-07-06 |
| 28. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
56.14 |
1.0197 |
0.0416 |
204 |
1 |
56.14 |
2009-07-06 |
| 29. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
56.07 |
1.0495 |
0.0118 |
323 |
1 |
56.07 |
2009-07-03 |
| 30. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
55.63 |
1.0506 |
0.0024 |
259 |
1 |
55.63 |
2009-07-08 |
| 31. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.63 |
0.9842 |
0.0714 |
335 |
1 |
55.63 |
2009-07-02 |
| 32. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
55.48 |
1.0128 |
0.0446 |
369 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-07-06 |
| 33. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.46 |
1.0521 |
-0.0075 |
197 |
1 |
55.46 |
2009-07-06 |
| 34. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
55.42 |
0.9636 |
0.0844 |
281 |
2 |
53.51 |
2009-07-03 |
| 35. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
55.16 |
0.9299 |
0.1062 |
168 |
1 |
55.16 |
2009-07-02 |
| 36. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
54.79 |
0.9271 |
0.1128 |
323 |
1 |
54.79 |
2009-07-03 |
| 37. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
54.78 |
1.0800 |
-0.0457 |
213 |
1 |
54.78 |
2009-07-08 |
| 38. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
54.75 |
1.0287 |
0.0069 |
269 |
2 |
52.30 |
2009-07-03 |
| 39. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
54.69 |
1.0094 |
0.0262 |
256 |
1 |
54.69 |
2009-07-02 |
| 40. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
54.68 |
1.0404 |
-0.0002 |
406 |
2 |
53.06 |
2009-07-06 |
| 41. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
54.66 |
0.9915 |
0.0426 |
281 |
1 |
54.66 |
2009-07-03 |
| 42. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
54.50 |
1.0590 |
-0.0282 |
250 |
1 |
54.50 |
2009-07-03 |
| 43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
54.22 |
0.9827 |
0.0448 |
314 |
1 |
54.22 |
2009-07-02 |
| 44. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
54.13 |
0.9928 |
0.0315 |
293 |
2 |
49.80 |
2009-07-03 |
| 45. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.12 |
0.9745 |
0.0523 |
388 |
2 |
53.50 |
2009-07-08 |
| 46. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
54.05 |
1.0272 |
-0.0060 |
226 |
1 |
54.05 |
2009-07-02 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
53.73 |
0.9809 |
0.0324 |
209 |
1 |
53.73 |
2009-07-03 |
| 48. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
53.72 |
0.9948 |
0.0211 |
233 |
2 |
51.61 |
2009-07-07 |
| 49. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
53.63 |
1.0462 |
-0.0279 |
340 |
1 |
53.63 |
2009-07-06 |
| 50. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
53.61 |
1.0036 |
0.0124 |
277 |
1 |
53.61 |
2009-07-06 |
| 51. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
53.34 |
0.9836 |
0.0263 |
289 |
2 |
52.97 |
2009-07-08 |
| 52. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
53.30 |
0.9866 |
0.0228 |
308 |
1 |
53.30 |
2009-07-07 |
| 53. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
53.24 |
1.0427 |
-0.0339 |
269 |
1 |
53.24 |
2009-07-03 |
| 54. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
53.17 |
0.8988 |
0.1078 |
216 |
2 |
52.12 |
2009-07-06 |
| 55. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
53.12 |
0.9927 |
0.0148 |
262 |
1 |
53.12 |
2009-07-06 |
| 56. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
52.93 |
0.9631 |
0.0384 |
273 |
2 |
45.47 |
2009-07-03 |
| 57. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
52.90 |
0.9143 |
0.0881 |
300 |
2 |
49.61 |
2009-07-03 |
| 58. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
52.85 |
1.0016 |
-0.0027 |
217 |
1 |
52.85 |
2009-07-03 |
| 59. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
52.84 |
0.9849 |
0.0166 |
337 |
1 |
52.84 |
2009-07-06 |
| 60. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
52.65 |
1.0881 |
-0.0953 |
210 |
1 |
52.65 |
2009-07-06 |
| 61. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
52.56 |
1.0638 |
-0.0708 |
247 |
1 |
52.56 |
2009-07-02 |
| 62. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.50 |
0.9011 |
0.0959 |
322 |
1 |
52.50 |
2009-07-06 |
| 63. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
52.49 |
0.9597 |
0.0341 |
251 |
1 |
52.49 |
2009-07-02 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
52.43 |
0.9852 |
0.0067 |
235 |
1 |
52.43 |
2009-07-02 |
| 65. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.40 |
1.0777 |
-0.0879 |
226 |
1 |
52.40 |
2009-07-06 |
| 66. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
52.24 |
0.9228 |
0.0706 |
305 |
3 |
49.58 |
2009-07-06 |
| 67. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
52.23 |
1.0267 |
-0.0349 |
261 |
1 |
52.23 |
2009-07-02 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
52.21 |
1.0106 |
-0.0233 |
302 |
1 |
52.21 |
2009-07-03 |
| 69. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.18 |
0.9114 |
0.0838 |
399 |
1 |
52.18 |
2009-07-03 |
| 70. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
52.13 |
0.9166 |
0.0728 |
133 |
1 |
52.13 |
2009-07-06 |
| 71. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
52.05 |
1.0291 |
-0.0460 |
240 |
1 |
52.05 |
2009-07-02 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
51.62 |
1.0498 |
-0.0716 |
261 |
1 |
51.62 |
2009-07-06 |
| 73. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
51.62 |
0.9922 |
-0.0146 |
264 |
1 |
51.62 |
2009-07-03 |
| 74. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
51.57 |
0.8913 |
0.0863 |
201 |
1 |
51.57 |
2009-07-02 |
| 75. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
51.39 |
0.9763 |
-0.0041 |
143 |
1 |
51.39 |
2009-07-06 |
| 76. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
51.17 |
1.0165 |
-0.0488 |
316 |
1 |
51.17 |
2009-07-06 |
| 77. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
51.11 |
0.9681 |
0.0048 |
392 |
1 |
51.11 |
2009-07-08 |
| 78. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
51.07 |
1.0419 |
-0.0722 |
341 |
1 |
51.07 |
2009-07-08 |
| 79. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
50.75 |
1.0567 |
-0.0965 |
314 |
1 |
50.75 |
2009-07-06 |
| 80. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
50.68 |
1.0543 |
-0.0985 |
182 |
1 |
50.68 |
2009-07-02 |
| 81. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
50.65 |
0.9917 |
-0.0310 |
317 |
1 |
50.65 |
2009-07-02 |
| 82. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
50.57 |
0.8993 |
0.0605 |
366 |
1 |
50.57 |
2009-07-06 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
50.42 |
0.9885 |
-0.0276 |
469 |
1 |
50.42 |
2009-07-06 |
| 84. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
50.36 |
0.9392 |
0.0199 |
360 |
1 |
50.36 |
2009-07-06 |
| 85. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.26 |
0.9780 |
-0.0331 |
173 |
1 |
50.26 |
2009-07-02 |
| 86. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
50.06 |
1.0101 |
-0.0610 |
336 |
1 |
50.06 |
2009-07-03 |
| 87. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
49.88 |
1.0540 |
-0.1151 |
184 |
1 |
49.88 |
2009-07-02 |
| 88. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
49.67 |
0.9162 |
0.0249 |
401 |
2 |
49.24 |
2009-07-06 |
| 89. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
49.07 |
1.0845 |
-0.1571 |
212 |
1 |
49.07 |
2009-07-01 |
| 90. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
48.80 |
1.0877 |
-0.1678 |
129 |
1 |
48.80 |
2009-07-01 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
48.70 |
0.8656 |
0.0570 |
242 |
1 |
48.70 |
2009-07-06 |
| 92. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
48.66 |
0.9500 |
-0.0276 |
287 |
1 |
48.66 |
2009-07-06 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
48.40 |
0.9787 |
-0.0596 |
364 |
1 |
48.40 |
2009-07-06 |
| 94. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
48.22 |
0.8964 |
0.0130 |
199 |
1 |
48.22 |
2009-07-08 |
| 95. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
48.11 |
1.0736 |
-0.1608 |
350 |
1 |
48.11 |
2009-07-06 |
| 96. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.05 |
0.8986 |
0.0087 |
205 |
1 |
48.05 |
2009-07-08 |
| 97. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
47.33 |
0.9243 |
-0.0269 |
240 |
1 |
47.33 |
2009-07-08 |
| 98. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
47.19 |
1.0059 |
-0.1120 |
283 |
1 |
47.19 |
2009-07-02 |
| 99. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
47.15 |
0.9658 |
-0.0702 |
308 |
1 |
47.15 |
2009-07-06 |
| 100. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
47.10 |
0.9402 |
-0.0511 |
310 |
1 |
47.10 |
2009-07-02 |
| 101. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
46.91 |
0.9503 |
-0.0697 |
211 |
1 |
46.91 |
2009-07-07 |
| 102. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
46.56 |
1.0479 |
-0.1688 |
205 |
1 |
46.56 |
2009-07-01 |
| 103. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
46.37 |
0.9252 |
-0.0476 |
148 |
1 |
46.37 |
2009-07-01 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.78 |
0.9359 |
-0.0694 |
355 |
1 |
45.78 |
2009-07-03 |
| 105. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
45.75 |
0.9339 |
-0.0629 |
317 |
1 |
45.75 |
2009-07-06 |
| 106. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.72 |
0.9801 |
-0.1348 |
289 |
1 |
44.72 |
2009-07-06 |
| 107. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
44.71 |
1.0042 |
-0.1626 |
168 |
1 |
44.71 |
2009-07-02 |
| 108. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
44.06 |
1.0086 |
-0.1799 |
218 |
1 |
44.06 |
2009-07-01 |
| 109. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.18 |
0.9422 |
-0.1310 |
190 |
2 |
42.08 |
2009-07-08 |
| 110. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.19 |
0.9981 |
-0.2016 |
211 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-07-01 |
| 111. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.10 |
1.1198 |
-0.3251 |
247 |
1 |
42.10 |
2009-07-01 |
| 112. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
42.04 |
0.9316 |
-0.1349 |
188 |
1 |
42.04 |
2009-07-01 |
| 113. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
41.19 |
1.0115 |
-0.2383 |
189 |
1 |
41.19 |
2009-07-02 |
| 114. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
40.79 |
0.9206 |
-0.1493 |
317 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-07-02 |
| 115. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
39.12 |
0.8827 |
-0.1477 |
190 |
1 |
39.12 |
2009-07-01 |