| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
40.10 |
1.0561 |
0.2981 |
227 |
2 |
36.78 |
2009-03-18 |
| 2. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
39.76 |
0.8406 |
0.5010 |
170 |
2 |
31.53 |
2009-02-03 |
| 3. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
38.17 |
1.0028 |
0.2866 |
259 |
3 |
29.62 |
2009-02-04 |
| 4. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
37.78 |
0.8777 |
0.3951 |
130 |
3 |
35.97 |
2009-03-18 |
| 5. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
37.60 |
0.8606 |
0.4104 |
170 |
2 |
32.77 |
2009-01-30 |
| 6. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.79 |
0.9213 |
0.3201 |
165 |
2 |
32.71 |
2009-03-18 |
| 7. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
36.18 |
0.9756 |
0.2466 |
223 |
1 |
36.18 |
2009-03-18 |
| 8. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.55 |
0.9931 |
0.2045 |
218 |
4 |
30.86 |
2009-03-18 |
| 9. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
35.52 |
1.0472 |
0.1470 |
149 |
2 |
31.76 |
2008-12-30 |
| 10. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
35.44 |
1.0865 |
0.1111 |
237 |
3 |
32.23 |
2009-01-30 |
| 11. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.31 |
1.0178 |
0.1738 |
207 |
2 |
33.31 |
2009-02-04 |
| 12. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
35.26 |
0.9371 |
0.2457 |
156 |
2 |
32.66 |
2009-01-16 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
35.02 |
1.0654 |
0.1156 |
247 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-02-03 |
| 14. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
34.57 |
1.0877 |
0.0771 |
129 |
2 |
31.74 |
2009-01-30 |
| 15. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
34.50 |
1.0287 |
0.1360 |
269 |
2 |
31.98 |
2009-01-30 |
| 16. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
33.93 |
1.0095 |
0.1356 |
211 |
1 |
33.93 |
2009-01-13 |
| 17. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
33.80 |
0.9316 |
0.2125 |
188 |
2 |
28.64 |
2009-01-15 |
| 18. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
33.59 |
0.8646 |
0.2668 |
110 |
3 |
30.51 |
2009-03-18 |
| 19. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.36 |
1.0197 |
0.1056 |
204 |
3 |
29.37 |
2009-02-03 |
| 20. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
33.16 |
1.0479 |
0.0708 |
205 |
1 |
33.16 |
2009-02-16 |
| 21. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
33.04 |
0.9768 |
0.1407 |
237 |
1 |
33.04 |
2009-01-24 |
| 22. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
32.76 |
0.9252 |
0.1821 |
148 |
1 |
32.76 |
2009-01-21 |
| 23. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
32.71 |
0.9594 |
0.1438 |
258 |
1 |
32.71 |
2009-02-03 |
| 24. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
32.40 |
0.9829 |
0.1109 |
229 |
1 |
32.40 |
2009-02-04 |
| 25. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
32.33 |
0.9103 |
0.1816 |
269 |
1 |
32.33 |
2009-02-04 |
| 26. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
32.03 |
0.9981 |
0.0829 |
211 |
2 |
28.09 |
2009-01-30 |
| 27. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
31.92 |
1.0588 |
0.0195 |
281 |
1 |
31.92 |
2009-02-13 |
| 28. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
31.88 |
0.9779 |
0.0974 |
255 |
1 |
31.88 |
2009-01-24 |
| 29. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
31.88 |
0.8965 |
0.1808 |
150 |
1 |
31.88 |
2009-01-27 |
| 30. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
31.81 |
0.9285 |
0.1441 |
244 |
2 |
30.38 |
2009-03-18 |
| 31. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.48 |
0.9880 |
0.0710 |
199 |
1 |
31.48 |
2009-01-19 |
| 32. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
31.39 |
1.0672 |
-0.0082 |
239 |
2 |
28.74 |
2009-01-13 |
| 33. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
31.24 |
0.8375 |
0.2165 |
203 |
2 |
31.13 |
2009-01-30 |
| 34. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
31.18 |
0.9468 |
0.1060 |
318 |
1 |
31.18 |
2009-02-04 |
| 35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
31.13 |
0.8680 |
0.1784 |
196 |
2 |
28.59 |
2009-01-30 |
| 36. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.76 |
0.8827 |
0.1521 |
190 |
1 |
30.76 |
2009-01-14 |
| 37. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
30.74 |
1.0576 |
-0.0223 |
231 |
1 |
30.74 |
2009-01-24 |
| 38. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
30.72 |
1.0867 |
-0.0537 |
171 |
1 |
30.72 |
2009-02-13 |
| 39. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.72 |
0.9869 |
0.0469 |
193 |
1 |
30.72 |
2009-02-04 |
| 40. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
30.71 |
0.8918 |
0.1496 |
163 |
2 |
30.24 |
2009-02-16 |
| 41. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
30.63 |
1.0132 |
0.0218 |
371 |
2 |
29.18 |
2009-02-04 |
| 42. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
30.49 |
1.0403 |
-0.0124 |
234 |
3 |
28.43 |
2009-03-18 |
| 43. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
30.47 |
0.8906 |
0.1475 |
128 |
2 |
28.13 |
2008-12-29 |
| 44. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
30.41 |
0.7724 |
0.2528 |
142 |
3 |
27.42 |
2009-02-03 |
| 45. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
30.40 |
0.8985 |
0.1246 |
127 |
1 |
30.40 |
2008-12-31 |
| 46. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.29 |
0.9070 |
0.1110 |
192 |
2 |
28.11 |
2009-01-05 |
| 47. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
30.19 |
1.0414 |
-0.0229 |
234 |
3 |
28.18 |
2009-04-09 |
| 48. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
30.12 |
0.9299 |
0.0787 |
168 |
2 |
26.71 |
2008-12-30 |
| 49. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
30.07 |
0.8789 |
0.1307 |
136 |
2 |
28.62 |
2009-01-04 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
29.84 |
0.9780 |
0.0233 |
173 |
1 |
29.84 |
2009-03-11 |
| 51. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
29.80 |
1.0279 |
-0.0274 |
172 |
2 |
29.16 |
2009-01-27 |
| 52. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
29.80 |
1.0615 |
-0.0583 |
201 |
2 |
26.56 |
2009-02-03 |
| 53. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
29.76 |
0.8911 |
0.1149 |
207 |
1 |
29.76 |
2009-01-07 |
| 54. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
29.57 |
0.9809 |
0.0135 |
209 |
1 |
29.57 |
2008-12-28 |
| 55. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
29.51 |
1.0511 |
-0.0530 |
252 |
1 |
29.51 |
2009-02-04 |
| 56. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
29.43 |
0.9948 |
-0.0023 |
233 |
1 |
29.43 |
2009-03-04 |
| 57. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
29.32 |
1.1093 |
-0.1251 |
220 |
1 |
29.32 |
2009-01-09 |
| 58. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
29.20 |
1.0582 |
-0.0755 |
180 |
1 |
29.20 |
2009-01-24 |
| 59. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
29.18 |
0.9310 |
0.0536 |
278 |
1 |
29.18 |
2009-01-07 |
| 60. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
29.18 |
0.9286 |
0.0583 |
177 |
3 |
27.40 |
2009-01-25 |
| 61. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.01 |
0.8124 |
0.1681 |
137 |
1 |
29.01 |
2008-12-29 |
| 62. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
29.00 |
0.8168 |
0.1601 |
115 |
1 |
29.00 |
2009-01-13 |
| 63. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
28.70 |
0.9084 |
0.0619 |
271 |
1 |
28.70 |
2009-01-07 |
| 64. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
28.50 |
0.8201 |
0.1355 |
187 |
3 |
25.62 |
2009-02-16 |
| 65. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
28.48 |
0.9762 |
-0.0149 |
249 |
2 |
27.59 |
2009-01-16 |
| 66. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
28.30 |
0.9264 |
0.0297 |
177 |
2 |
26.26 |
2009-01-28 |
| 67. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
28.29 |
1.0426 |
-0.0917 |
131 |
1 |
28.29 |
2009-01-14 |
| 68. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
28.18 |
1.0800 |
-0.1359 |
129 |
2 |
26.45 |
2009-01-24 |
| 69. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
28.15 |
0.8124 |
0.1333 |
167 |
1 |
28.15 |
2008-12-29 |
| 70. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
28.09 |
0.7987 |
0.1486 |
176 |
1 |
28.09 |
2009-01-30 |
| 71. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
28.06 |
1.0125 |
-0.0670 |
232 |
1 |
28.06 |
2009-01-19 |
| 72. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
28.06 |
0.9001 |
0.0473 |
217 |
1 |
28.06 |
2009-01-13 |
| 73. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
28.00 |
0.9915 |
-0.0474 |
281 |
1 |
28.00 |
2009-01-09 |
| 74. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
27.93 |
0.9890 |
-0.0425 |
272 |
1 |
27.93 |
2009-04-09 |
| 75. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
27.82 |
1.0418 |
-0.1021 |
214 |
2 |
26.23 |
2009-01-07 |
| 76. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
27.68 |
1.0086 |
-0.0788 |
218 |
1 |
27.68 |
2009-01-14 |
| 77. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
27.36 |
0.8192 |
0.1061 |
200 |
1 |
27.36 |
2009-02-03 |
| 78. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
27.36 |
0.9583 |
-0.0345 |
237 |
1 |
27.36 |
2009-02-04 |
| 79. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
27.29 |
1.0016 |
-0.0823 |
217 |
1 |
27.29 |
2008-12-30 |
| 80. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
27.14 |
1.0529 |
-0.1345 |
373 |
1 |
27.14 |
2009-01-25 |
| 81. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
27.07 |
0.7271 |
0.1867 |
186 |
1 |
27.07 |
2009-01-29 |
| 82. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
27.02 |
0.8880 |
0.0238 |
296 |
1 |
27.02 |
2009-02-03 |
| 83. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
26.96 |
0.9357 |
-0.0282 |
204 |
1 |
26.96 |
2009-02-16 |
| 84. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
26.82 |
0.7988 |
0.1040 |
134 |
2 |
25.82 |
2009-01-13 |
| 85. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
26.75 |
0.9422 |
-0.0448 |
190 |
2 |
26.73 |
2009-01-29 |
| 86. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
26.63 |
1.0334 |
-0.1355 |
261 |
1 |
26.63 |
2009-01-26 |
| 87. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
26.57 |
0.7966 |
0.1058 |
184 |
1 |
26.57 |
2009-01-04 |
| 88. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.50 |
0.8869 |
0.0047 |
176 |
1 |
26.50 |
2009-01-07 |
| 89. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
26.45 |
0.8925 |
0.0068 |
293 |
1 |
26.45 |
2009-01-04 |
| 90. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
26.44 |
1.0540 |
-0.1670 |
184 |
1 |
26.44 |
2008-12-28 |
| 91. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
26.40 |
0.8469 |
0.0435 |
164 |
1 |
26.40 |
2008-12-29 |
| 92. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
26.37 |
0.8988 |
-0.0100 |
193 |
2 |
26.16 |
2009-02-13 |
| 93. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
26.26 |
1.0521 |
-0.1718 |
197 |
1 |
26.26 |
2008-12-28 |
| 94. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
26.19 |
0.8830 |
-0.0055 |
134 |
1 |
26.19 |
2009-01-30 |
| 95. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
26.17 |
0.8603 |
0.0224 |
270 |
2 |
25.27 |
2009-03-11 |
| 96. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
26.01 |
0.9010 |
-0.0211 |
266 |
1 |
26.01 |
2009-01-19 |
| 97. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
25.78 |
0.8077 |
0.0619 |
148 |
1 |
25.78 |
2008-12-31 |
| 98. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
25.74 |
1.0272 |
-0.1611 |
226 |
1 |
25.74 |
2009-01-30 |
| 99. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
25.35 |
1.0094 |
-0.1543 |
256 |
1 |
25.35 |
2009-01-09 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
24.97 |
0.8205 |
0.0234 |
135 |
2 |
24.30 |
2009-01-13 |
| 101. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
24.77 |
0.8811 |
-0.0506 |
201 |
1 |
24.77 |
2008-12-29 |
| 102. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
24.49 |
0.8758 |
-0.0516 |
127 |
1 |
24.49 |
2008-12-29 |
| 103. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
24.37 |
0.9324 |
-0.1077 |
246 |
1 |
24.37 |
2008-12-29 |
| 104. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
24.31 |
1.0332 |
-0.2142 |
267 |
1 |
24.31 |
2009-01-13 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.26 |
0.8624 |
-0.0491 |
174 |
1 |
24.26 |
2008-12-31 |
| 106. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
24.09 |
0.7384 |
0.0702 |
106 |
1 |
24.09 |
2009-01-05 |
| 107. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
24.01 |
0.9621 |
-0.1555 |
201 |
1 |
24.01 |
2009-03-11 |
| 108. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
23.75 |
0.9346 |
-0.1369 |
211 |
1 |
23.75 |
2008-12-31 |
| 109. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
23.14 |
0.8656 |
-0.0845 |
242 |
1 |
23.14 |
2009-03-18 |
| 110. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
23.04 |
1.0845 |
-0.3091 |
212 |
1 |
23.04 |
2009-01-05 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
22.42 |
0.8666 |
-0.1137 |
206 |
1 |
22.42 |
2008-12-31 |
| 112. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
22.40 |
0.8726 |
-0.1155 |
150 |
1 |
22.40 |
2009-01-04 |
| 113. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
22.30 |
0.9827 |
-0.2304 |
314 |
1 |
22.30 |
2009-01-18 |
| 114. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
22.09 |
0.9836 |
-0.2393 |
289 |
1 |
22.09 |
2008-12-29 |
| 115. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
22.01 |
1.0103 |
-0.2745 |
209 |
1 |
22.01 |
2009-01-05 |