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... |
58.97 |
1.0800 |
0.2544 |
129 |
1 |
58.97 |
2009-06-01 |
2. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
58.38 |
1.0291 |
0.2967 |
240 |
2 |
53.56 |
2009-02-04 |
3. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.52 |
1.0042 |
0.2088 |
168 |
1 |
53.52 |
2009-02-09 |
4. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
53.40 |
0.8646 |
0.3460 |
110 |
1 |
53.40 |
2009-01-29 |
5. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
53.10 |
0.9621 |
0.2476 |
212 |
1 |
53.10 |
2009-02-04 |
6. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
52.77 |
1.0432 |
0.1571 |
276 |
2 |
51.73 |
2009-01-29 |
7. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
52.73 |
1.0018 |
0.1973 |
246 |
2 |
48.89 |
2009-02-09 |
8. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.17 |
1.0567 |
0.1290 |
314 |
1 |
52.17 |
2009-02-09 |
9. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
51.01 |
0.9849 |
0.1758 |
337 |
1 |
51.01 |
2009-02-04 |
10. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
50.39 |
1.0472 |
0.0918 |
149 |
1 |
50.39 |
2009-01-29 |
11. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
50.00 |
0.8959 |
0.2459 |
328 |
2 |
49.32 |
2009-02-09 |
12. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
49.05 |
0.9957 |
0.1188 |
323 |
1 |
49.05 |
2009-01-29 |
13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
48.95 |
1.0272 |
0.0831 |
226 |
1 |
48.95 |
2009-01-29 |
14. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
48.40 |
1.0464 |
0.0584 |
294 |
1 |
48.40 |
2009-01-29 |
15. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
48.40 |
1.0461 |
0.0559 |
318 |
1 |
48.40 |
2009-02-04 |
16. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.16 |
1.0901 |
0.0063 |
288 |
1 |
48.16 |
2009-01-29 |
17. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
48.15 |
0.9479 |
0.1479 |
317 |
1 |
48.15 |
2009-02-04 |
18. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
47.71 |
0.9310 |
0.1526 |
278 |
1 |
47.71 |
2009-01-29 |
19. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
47.40 |
0.9260 |
0.1540 |
348 |
1 |
47.40 |
2009-02-04 |
20. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
47.36 |
1.0427 |
0.0343 |
269 |
1 |
47.36 |
2009-01-29 |
21. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
47.26 |
0.9621 |
0.1088 |
201 |
1 |
47.26 |
2009-02-04 |
22. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
47.12 |
1.0404 |
0.0351 |
406 |
1 |
47.12 |
2009-02-09 |
23. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
47.04 |
0.9981 |
0.0698 |
211 |
2 |
45.67 |
2009-01-29 |
24. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
46.81 |
0.9228 |
0.1452 |
305 |
3 |
39.72 |
2009-01-29 |
25. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
46.71 |
0.9810 |
0.0852 |
362 |
1 |
46.71 |
2009-01-29 |
26. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
46.38 |
0.9332 |
0.1205 |
267 |
1 |
46.38 |
2009-02-04 |
27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
46.23 |
1.0800 |
-0.0326 |
213 |
1 |
46.23 |
2009-01-29 |
28. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
46.01 |
1.0867 |
-0.0459 |
171 |
1 |
46.01 |
2009-01-29 |
29. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
45.81 |
1.0557 |
-0.0138 |
289 |
1 |
45.81 |
2009-02-09 |
30. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
45.68 |
0.9927 |
0.0456 |
276 |
1 |
45.68 |
2009-01-29 |
31. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
45.54 |
1.0332 |
0.0007 |
267 |
1 |
45.54 |
2009-06-01 |
32. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
45.45 |
0.9917 |
0.0428 |
317 |
2 |
38.90 |
2009-02-09 |
33. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
45.41 |
0.9183 |
0.1141 |
308 |
1 |
45.41 |
2009-01-29 |
34. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
45.09 |
0.9339 |
0.0961 |
317 |
1 |
45.09 |
2009-01-29 |
35. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
44.98 |
1.0060 |
0.0164 |
225 |
1 |
44.98 |
2009-01-29 |
36. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
44.74 |
1.0615 |
-0.0483 |
201 |
1 |
44.74 |
2009-02-05 |
37. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
44.70 |
0.8913 |
0.1255 |
201 |
1 |
44.70 |
2009-01-29 |
38. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
44.51 |
0.9673 |
0.0459 |
292 |
1 |
44.51 |
2009-01-29 |
39. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
44.34 |
1.0287 |
-0.0227 |
269 |
1 |
44.34 |
2009-01-29 |
40. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
44.25 |
1.0521 |
-0.0527 |
197 |
1 |
44.25 |
2009-01-28 |
41. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
43.68 |
0.9922 |
0.0004 |
264 |
3 |
41.96 |
2009-02-05 |
42. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
43.38 |
0.9673 |
0.0217 |
393 |
1 |
43.38 |
2009-02-05 |
43. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
43.29 |
1.0736 |
-0.0879 |
350 |
1 |
43.29 |
2009-01-29 |
44. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
43.28 |
0.9632 |
0.0208 |
287 |
1 |
43.28 |
2009-01-29 |
45. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
43.26 |
0.9143 |
0.0691 |
300 |
1 |
43.26 |
2009-02-04 |
46. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
43.18 |
0.9864 |
-0.0020 |
292 |
1 |
43.18 |
2009-01-29 |
47. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
42.97 |
0.9890 |
-0.0093 |
272 |
1 |
42.97 |
2009-01-29 |
48. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.81 |
1.0540 |
-0.0869 |
184 |
1 |
42.81 |
2009-01-29 |
49. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
42.71 |
0.7923 |
0.1781 |
316 |
2 |
42.25 |
2009-02-09 |
50. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
42.68 |
0.9402 |
0.0270 |
310 |
1 |
42.68 |
2009-01-29 |
51. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
42.61 |
0.9869 |
-0.0230 |
193 |
2 |
39.70 |
2009-01-29 |
52. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
42.33 |
1.0094 |
-0.0482 |
256 |
1 |
42.33 |
2009-02-09 |
53. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
41.69 |
1.0403 |
-0.0955 |
234 |
1 |
41.69 |
2009-01-27 |
54. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
41.64 |
1.0103 |
-0.0706 |
209 |
1 |
41.64 |
2009-01-29 |
55. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.43 |
0.9974 |
-0.0607 |
163 |
1 |
41.43 |
2009-06-01 |
56. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
40.94 |
1.0006 |
-0.0712 |
311 |
1 |
40.94 |
2009-01-28 |
57. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
39.19 |
0.8656 |
0.0250 |
242 |
1 |
39.19 |
2009-02-05 |
58. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
39.09 |
0.8936 |
-0.0076 |
346 |
2 |
36.51 |
2009-02-05 |
59. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
39.05 |
0.9827 |
-0.0956 |
314 |
1 |
39.05 |
2009-01-29 |
60. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
38.81 |
1.0264 |
-0.1499 |
191 |
1 |
38.81 |
2009-01-28 |
61. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
38.72 |
0.8830 |
-0.0019 |
300 |
1 |
38.72 |
2009-01-29 |
62. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
38.25 |
1.0267 |
-0.1557 |
261 |
1 |
38.25 |
2009-01-28 |
63. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
37.81 |
1.0341 |
-0.1769 |
273 |
1 |
37.81 |
2009-01-28 |
64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
37.46 |
0.9103 |
-0.0607 |
269 |
1 |
37.46 |
2009-01-28 |
65. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
37.32 |
0.9852 |
-0.1392 |
235 |
1 |
37.32 |
2009-01-28 |
66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.24 |
0.8869 |
-0.0445 |
176 |
1 |
37.24 |
2009-01-27 |
67. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
36.92 |
0.9503 |
-0.1195 |
211 |
1 |
36.92 |
2009-01-29 |
68. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
36.77 |
0.9884 |
-0.1518 |
267 |
1 |
36.77 |
2009-06-01 |
69. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
36.70 |
1.0495 |
-0.2175 |
323 |
1 |
36.70 |
2009-01-28 |
70. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
36.17 |
0.9604 |
-0.1421 |
285 |
1 |
36.17 |
2009-01-27 |
71. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
35.80 |
1.0028 |
-0.1920 |
259 |
2 |
34.54 |
2009-01-29 |
72. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
35.72 |
0.9084 |
-0.0968 |
271 |
1 |
35.72 |
2009-01-28 |
73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
35.49 |
0.8381 |
-0.0297 |
283 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-01-28 |
74. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
34.82 |
0.9010 |
-0.1090 |
266 |
1 |
34.82 |
2009-01-28 |
75. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
33.94 |
0.8778 |
-0.1066 |
285 |
1 |
33.94 |
2009-01-28 |
76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
32.71 |
1.0333 |
-0.2971 |
176 |
1 |
32.71 |
2009-01-27 |
77. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
31.00 |
0.9145 |
-0.2088 |
404 |
1 |
31.00 |
2009-01-28 |
78. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
28.30 |
1.0301 |
-0.3909 |
268 |
1 |
28.30 |
2009-01-28 |