| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
117.74 |
0.9346 |
0.0949 |
211 |
4 |
110.51 |
2008-10-17 |
| 2. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
114.63 |
0.9917 |
0.0154 |
317 |
4 |
109.15 |
2008-10-18 |
| 3. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
123.03 |
1.0479 |
0.0296 |
205 |
4 |
117.16 |
2008-10-07 |
| 4. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
133.88 |
1.0628 |
0.1140 |
363 |
4 |
120.12 |
2008-10-17 |
| 5. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
108.24 |
0.9842 |
-0.0334 |
335 |
3 |
104.05 |
2008-10-07 |
| 6. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
123.18 |
1.0487 |
0.0295 |
253 |
3 |
118.35 |
2008-10-25 |
| 7. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
127.62 |
1.0057 |
0.1168 |
382 |
3 |
121.56 |
2008-10-25 |
| 8. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.12 |
0.9809 |
0.0951 |
209 |
3 |
115.60 |
2009-01-25 |
| 9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
133.74 |
1.0654 |
0.1056 |
247 |
3 |
118.43 |
2009-01-25 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
125.10 |
1.0576 |
0.0369 |
231 |
3 |
116.40 |
2008-10-23 |
| 11. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
117.28 |
1.0540 |
-0.0307 |
184 |
3 |
108.70 |
2008-10-13 |
| 12. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
125.41 |
1.0270 |
0.0737 |
303 |
3 |
116.47 |
2009-01-26 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
121.97 |
1.1070 |
-0.0384 |
265 |
3 |
118.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 14. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
121.13 |
1.0511 |
0.0130 |
252 |
3 |
114.66 |
2008-10-13 |
| 15. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
106.89 |
0.9425 |
-0.0051 |
248 |
3 |
102.71 |
2008-10-07 |
| 16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
127.16 |
1.0639 |
0.0527 |
303 |
3 |
124.00 |
2008-10-08 |
| 17. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
126.78 |
1.0404 |
0.0766 |
406 |
3 |
123.81 |
2008-10-18 |
| 18. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
121.41 |
1.0582 |
0.0035 |
180 |
3 |
114.39 |
2008-10-17 |
| 19. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
118.85 |
0.9839 |
0.0581 |
308 |
2 |
115.47 |
2009-01-25 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
124.42 |
1.0676 |
0.0283 |
456 |
2 |
117.74 |
2008-10-23 |
| 21. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
126.59 |
1.1093 |
-0.0044 |
220 |
2 |
118.37 |
2008-10-23 |
| 22. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
118.98 |
1.0865 |
-0.0434 |
237 |
2 |
117.51 |
2008-10-23 |
| 23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
129.34 |
1.0403 |
0.0927 |
234 |
2 |
122.35 |
2008-10-25 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
123.04 |
1.0199 |
0.0555 |
225 |
2 |
109.98 |
2008-10-23 |
| 25. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
128.98 |
1.0426 |
0.0850 |
131 |
2 |
126.67 |
2008-10-24 |
| 26. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
121.07 |
1.0672 |
-0.0066 |
239 |
2 |
115.87 |
2008-10-17 |
| 27. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
116.41 |
0.9829 |
0.0371 |
229 |
2 |
114.75 |
2008-10-23 |
| 28. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
113.06 |
0.9849 |
0.0074 |
337 |
2 |
111.31 |
2008-10-07 |
| 29. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
107.99 |
1.0481 |
-0.1094 |
255 |
2 |
107.93 |
2008-10-07 |
| 30. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
111.44 |
0.9931 |
-0.0202 |
218 |
2 |
104.35 |
2008-10-07 |
| 31. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
102.12 |
0.7923 |
0.1029 |
316 |
2 |
96.66 |
2008-10-07 |
| 32. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
114.10 |
1.0165 |
-0.0170 |
316 |
2 |
111.82 |
2008-10-07 |
| 33. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
122.79 |
1.0059 |
0.0722 |
283 |
2 |
116.70 |
2008-10-14 |
| 34. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
117.34 |
0.9966 |
0.0395 |
377 |
2 |
109.45 |
2008-10-07 |
| 35. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
110.59 |
0.9703 |
0.0056 |
394 |
2 |
102.32 |
2008-10-07 |
| 36. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
116.36 |
0.9807 |
0.0279 |
129 |
2 |
109.85 |
2008-10-14 |
| 37. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
127.78 |
1.0418 |
0.0800 |
214 |
2 |
121.41 |
2008-10-17 |
| 38. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
122.07 |
1.0016 |
0.0674 |
217 |
2 |
120.88 |
2008-10-07 |
| 39. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
123.64 |
1.0529 |
0.0341 |
373 |
2 |
122.23 |
2008-10-08 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
109.99 |
0.9996 |
-0.0281 |
483 |
2 |
103.97 |
2008-10-07 |
| 41. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
117.58 |
1.0567 |
-0.0260 |
314 |
2 |
115.94 |
2008-10-08 |
| 42. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
101.86 |
0.9885 |
-0.0961 |
355 |
2 |
98.37 |
2008-10-06 |
| 43. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
108.28 |
0.8887 |
0.0742 |
464 |
2 |
106.61 |
2008-10-07 |
| 44. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
107.71 |
1.0334 |
-0.0901 |
261 |
2 |
107.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 45. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
111.87 |
1.0291 |
-0.0506 |
240 |
2 |
107.19 |
2008-10-09 |
| 46. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
111.84 |
1.1086 |
-0.1278 |
233 |
2 |
110.49 |
2008-10-06 |
| 47. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
123.72 |
1.0686 |
0.0202 |
354 |
2 |
123.16 |
2008-10-09 |
| 48. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
115.04 |
0.9866 |
0.0224 |
308 |
1 |
115.04 |
2008-10-18 |
| 49. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
104.55 |
0.9604 |
-0.0464 |
285 |
1 |
104.55 |
2008-10-07 |
| 50. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
111.17 |
0.9609 |
0.0183 |
331 |
1 |
111.17 |
2008-10-07 |
| 51. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
120.69 |
1.0601 |
-0.0049 |
256 |
1 |
120.69 |
2008-10-13 |
| 52. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
118.05 |
0.8624 |
0.1680 |
174 |
1 |
118.05 |
2008-10-12 |
| 53. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
118.24 |
1.0901 |
-0.0513 |
288 |
1 |
118.24 |
2008-10-09 |
| 54. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
107.65 |
1.0035 |
-0.0595 |
310 |
1 |
107.65 |
2008-10-07 |
| 55. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
96.13 |
0.9597 |
-0.1177 |
251 |
1 |
96.13 |
2008-10-07 |
| 56. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
119.60 |
0.9827 |
0.0670 |
314 |
1 |
119.60 |
2008-10-08 |
| 57. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
111.31 |
0.9650 |
0.0134 |
347 |
1 |
111.31 |
2008-10-09 |
| 58. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
117.65 |
1.0287 |
0.0018 |
269 |
1 |
117.65 |
2008-10-09 |
| 59. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
114.17 |
0.9468 |
0.0539 |
318 |
1 |
114.17 |
2008-10-18 |
| 60. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
119.26 |
0.9787 |
0.0705 |
364 |
1 |
119.26 |
2008-10-14 |
| 61. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
105.35 |
1.0736 |
-0.1479 |
350 |
1 |
105.35 |
2008-10-07 |
| 62. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
106.14 |
0.9561 |
-0.0244 |
362 |
1 |
106.14 |
2008-10-07 |
| 63. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
115.51 |
0.9756 |
0.0364 |
223 |
1 |
115.51 |
2008-10-12 |
| 64. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
115.74 |
1.0873 |
-0.0755 |
243 |
1 |
115.74 |
2008-10-07 |
| 65. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
121.46 |
0.9890 |
0.0801 |
272 |
1 |
121.46 |
2008-10-17 |
| 66. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
110.72 |
0.9011 |
0.0726 |
322 |
1 |
110.72 |
2008-10-08 |
| 67. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
117.41 |
1.0411 |
-0.0098 |
341 |
1 |
117.41 |
2008-10-17 |
| 68. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
103.90 |
1.0588 |
-0.1484 |
281 |
1 |
103.90 |
2008-10-06 |
| 69. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
98.91 |
0.9779 |
-0.1131 |
255 |
1 |
98.91 |
2008-10-04 |
| 70. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
100.21 |
1.0130 |
-0.1351 |
288 |
1 |
100.21 |
2008-10-06 |
| 71. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
105.60 |
0.9119 |
0.0177 |
396 |
1 |
105.60 |
2008-10-02 |
| 72. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
118.76 |
1.0543 |
-0.0106 |
360 |
1 |
118.76 |
2008-10-08 |
| 73. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
116.22 |
1.0042 |
0.0110 |
168 |
1 |
116.22 |
2008-10-17 |
| 74. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
117.51 |
1.0082 |
0.0172 |
212 |
1 |
117.51 |
2008-10-02 |
| 75. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
114.55 |
0.9928 |
0.0109 |
293 |
1 |
114.55 |
2008-10-07 |
| 76. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
111.15 |
0.9243 |
0.0521 |
240 |
1 |
111.15 |
2008-10-17 |
| 77. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
109.88 |
0.9519 |
0.0151 |
323 |
1 |
109.88 |
2008-10-07 |
| 78. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
109.13 |
1.0506 |
-0.0945 |
259 |
1 |
109.13 |
2008-10-07 |
| 79. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
117.00 |
0.9927 |
0.0299 |
234 |
1 |
117.00 |
2008-10-07 |
| 80. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
120.87 |
1.0561 |
0.0020 |
227 |
1 |
120.87 |
2008-10-24 |
| 81. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
107.54 |
0.9603 |
-0.0124 |
430 |
1 |
107.54 |
2008-10-07 |
| 82. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
119.15 |
1.0521 |
-0.0129 |
197 |
1 |
119.15 |
2008-10-07 |
| 83. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
111.29 |
1.0250 |
-0.0466 |
271 |
1 |
111.29 |
2008-10-19 |
| 84. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
101.77 |
0.9434 |
-0.0474 |
367 |
1 |
101.77 |
2008-10-07 |
| 85. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
104.81 |
0.9981 |
-0.0807 |
211 |
1 |
104.81 |
2008-10-07 |
| 86. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
115.21 |
0.9636 |
0.0451 |
281 |
1 |
115.21 |
2008-10-07 |
| 87. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
92.92 |
0.9101 |
-0.0927 |
351 |
1 |
92.92 |
2008-10-07 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
96.52 |
0.9948 |
-0.1507 |
233 |
1 |
96.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 89. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
100.11 |
0.9681 |
-0.0856 |
392 |
1 |
100.11 |
2008-10-07 |
| 90. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
104.45 |
1.0332 |
-0.1186 |
267 |
1 |
104.45 |
2008-10-07 |
| 91. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
117.39 |
1.0086 |
0.0164 |
218 |
1 |
117.39 |
2008-10-14 |
| 92. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
113.17 |
1.0777 |
-0.0877 |
226 |
1 |
113.17 |
2008-10-07 |
| 93. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
91.63 |
0.8172 |
-0.0194 |
204 |
1 |
91.63 |
2008-10-02 |
| 94. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
98.06 |
1.0351 |
-0.1724 |
276 |
1 |
98.06 |
2008-10-07 |
| 95. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
119.34 |
1.0682 |
-0.0206 |
266 |
1 |
119.34 |
2008-10-07 |
| 96. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
121.11 |
1.0135 |
0.0519 |
358 |
1 |
121.11 |
2008-10-07 |
| 97. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
127.21 |
1.0800 |
0.0289 |
129 |
1 |
127.21 |
2008-10-24 |
| 98. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
112.52 |
1.0132 |
-0.0262 |
371 |
1 |
112.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 99. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
98.61 |
0.9952 |
-0.1291 |
220 |
1 |
98.61 |
2008-10-07 |
| 100. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
98.40 |
1.0095 |
-0.1491 |
211 |
1 |
98.40 |
2008-10-07 |
| 101. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
100.20 |
1.0018 |
-0.1238 |
246 |
1 |
100.20 |
2008-10-06 |
| 102. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
112.99 |
0.9740 |
0.0198 |
371 |
1 |
112.99 |
2008-10-07 |
| 103. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
128.29 |
1.0450 |
0.0858 |
358 |
1 |
128.29 |
2008-10-17 |
| 104. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
107.88 |
1.0419 |
-0.0934 |
341 |
1 |
107.88 |
2008-10-06 |
| 105. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
122.27 |
1.0743 |
-0.0008 |
297 |
1 |
122.27 |
2008-10-07 |
| 106. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
91.03 |
0.9644 |
-0.1645 |
398 |
1 |
91.03 |
2008-10-06 |
| 107. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
104.74 |
0.9012 |
0.0200 |
322 |
1 |
104.74 |
2008-10-07 |
| 108. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
112.27 |
0.9726 |
0.0168 |
396 |
1 |
112.27 |
2008-10-06 |
| 109. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
106.18 |
1.0320 |
-0.0956 |
401 |
1 |
106.18 |
2008-10-07 |
| 110. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
94.98 |
0.9228 |
-0.0867 |
305 |
1 |
94.98 |
2008-10-06 |
| 111. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
110.90 |
1.0669 |
-0.0916 |
379 |
1 |
110.90 |
2008-10-06 |
| 112. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
95.35 |
0.9114 |
-0.0690 |
399 |
1 |
95.35 |
2008-10-06 |
| 113. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
98.83 |
1.0181 |
-0.1512 |
276 |
1 |
98.83 |
2008-10-06 |
| 114. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
106.80 |
1.1198 |
-0.1849 |
247 |
1 |
106.80 |
2008-10-06 |
| 115. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
114.59 |
0.9631 |
0.0410 |
273 |
1 |
114.59 |
2008-10-17 |
| 116. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
104.35 |
0.9594 |
-0.0469 |
258 |
1 |
104.35 |
2008-10-06 |
| 117. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
109.14 |
1.0867 |
-0.1346 |
171 |
1 |
109.14 |
2008-10-07 |
| 118. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
110.00 |
0.9909 |
-0.0229 |
334 |
1 |
110.00 |
2008-10-06 |
| 119. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
108.59 |
1.0227 |
-0.0649 |
378 |
1 |
108.59 |
2008-10-07 |
| 120. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
105.23 |
0.9678 |
-0.0414 |
392 |
1 |
105.23 |
2008-10-02 |
| 121. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
114.01 |
0.9658 |
0.0374 |
308 |
1 |
114.01 |
2008-10-07 |
| 122. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
110.27 |
0.9836 |
-0.0170 |
289 |
1 |
110.27 |
2008-10-02 |
| 123. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
111.60 |
0.9500 |
0.0299 |
287 |
1 |
111.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 124. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
108.90 |
1.0272 |
-0.0749 |
226 |
1 |
108.90 |
2008-10-02 |
| 125. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
120.92 |
1.0960 |
-0.0314 |
315 |
1 |
120.92 |
2008-10-17 |
| 126. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
124.67 |
1.0301 |
0.0621 |
268 |
1 |
124.67 |
2009-01-26 |