| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
50.40 |
1.0042 |
0.3042 |
168 |
2 |
40.75 |
2008-12-08 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.09 |
1.1093 |
0.1630 |
220 |
3 |
37.38 |
2008-12-14 |
| 3. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
48.58 |
0.9315 |
0.3349 |
273 |
1 |
48.58 |
2008-12-14 |
| 4. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
48.57 |
1.0582 |
0.2030 |
180 |
4 |
45.30 |
2008-12-08 |
| 5. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.24 |
0.9880 |
0.2635 |
199 |
1 |
48.24 |
2008-12-07 |
| 6. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.83 |
1.0094 |
0.2357 |
256 |
3 |
38.81 |
2008-12-15 |
| 7. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.55 |
0.9768 |
0.2622 |
237 |
4 |
40.14 |
2008-12-24 |
| 8. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.27 |
1.0333 |
0.1919 |
176 |
1 |
47.27 |
2008-12-06 |
| 9. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
47.17 |
0.9957 |
0.2318 |
323 |
2 |
41.09 |
2008-12-07 |
| 10. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
47.15 |
1.0033 |
0.2242 |
203 |
3 |
40.98 |
2008-12-14 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
46.11 |
0.9974 |
0.1987 |
163 |
2 |
42.05 |
2008-12-07 |
| 12. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.08 |
1.0178 |
0.1797 |
207 |
2 |
36.73 |
2008-12-14 |
| 13. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
45.92 |
1.0600 |
0.1353 |
351 |
1 |
45.92 |
2008-12-14 |
| 14. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
45.33 |
1.0372 |
0.1420 |
249 |
1 |
45.33 |
2008-12-07 |
| 15. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.84 |
1.0867 |
0.0757 |
171 |
1 |
44.84 |
2008-12-08 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
44.36 |
1.0672 |
0.0858 |
239 |
1 |
44.36 |
2008-12-24 |
| 17. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
44.14 |
1.0466 |
0.1015 |
230 |
2 |
43.53 |
2008-12-08 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
44.07 |
0.9952 |
0.1538 |
220 |
3 |
39.49 |
2008-12-08 |
| 19. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
43.45 |
0.9103 |
0.2199 |
269 |
5 |
39.02 |
2008-12-08 |
| 20. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.30 |
1.0800 |
0.0395 |
129 |
2 |
39.10 |
2008-12-08 |
| 21. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
43.28 |
1.0418 |
0.0850 |
214 |
1 |
43.28 |
2008-12-06 |
| 22. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
42.91 |
1.0567 |
0.0593 |
314 |
2 |
38.52 |
2008-12-07 |
| 23. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
42.83 |
0.9010 |
0.2157 |
266 |
2 |
41.77 |
2008-12-14 |
| 24. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.80 |
0.9931 |
0.1164 |
218 |
2 |
39.64 |
2008-12-08 |
| 25. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
42.76 |
0.9621 |
0.1527 |
212 |
1 |
42.76 |
2008-12-21 |
| 26. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
42.68 |
0.9807 |
0.1180 |
129 |
3 |
38.61 |
2008-12-08 |
| 27. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.47 |
0.9604 |
0.1423 |
285 |
1 |
42.47 |
2008-12-08 |
| 28. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
41.86 |
1.0272 |
0.0595 |
226 |
1 |
41.86 |
2008-12-21 |
| 29. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
41.62 |
1.0082 |
0.0693 |
212 |
1 |
41.62 |
2008-12-03 |
| 30. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
41.42 |
1.0199 |
0.0536 |
225 |
2 |
38.41 |
2008-12-26 |
| 31. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
41.22 |
0.9981 |
0.0731 |
211 |
1 |
41.22 |
2008-12-24 |
| 32. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
41.17 |
1.0461 |
0.0269 |
318 |
2 |
39.38 |
2008-12-06 |
| 33. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
41.11 |
1.0638 |
0.0034 |
247 |
4 |
37.57 |
2008-12-07 |
| 34. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.08 |
0.9349 |
0.1361 |
287 |
1 |
41.08 |
2008-12-01 |
| 35. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
41.05 |
0.9352 |
0.1313 |
194 |
3 |
35.19 |
2008-12-10 |
| 36. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
41.04 |
1.0181 |
0.0506 |
276 |
1 |
41.04 |
2008-12-05 |
| 37. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.93 |
1.1070 |
-0.0436 |
265 |
1 |
40.93 |
2008-12-08 |
| 38. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
40.90 |
1.0590 |
0.0036 |
250 |
2 |
40.08 |
2008-12-08 |
| 39. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
40.78 |
0.9538 |
0.1066 |
276 |
1 |
40.78 |
2008-12-08 |
| 40. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
40.71 |
1.0106 |
0.0471 |
302 |
2 |
39.48 |
2008-12-08 |
| 41. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
40.67 |
1.0800 |
-0.0252 |
213 |
1 |
40.67 |
2008-12-08 |
| 42. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.58 |
0.9763 |
0.0785 |
143 |
5 |
30.35 |
2008-12-08 |
| 43. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
40.32 |
0.9260 |
0.1255 |
348 |
1 |
40.32 |
2008-12-05 |
| 44. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
40.31 |
0.8847 |
0.1614 |
282 |
2 |
39.12 |
2008-12-15 |
| 45. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
40.17 |
0.8742 |
0.1749 |
202 |
2 |
38.45 |
2008-12-08 |
| 46. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
40.16 |
0.8827 |
0.1576 |
190 |
1 |
40.16 |
2008-12-08 |
| 47. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
40.09 |
0.9779 |
0.0631 |
255 |
1 |
40.09 |
2008-12-08 |
| 48. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
39.79 |
0.9963 |
0.0360 |
274 |
1 |
39.79 |
2008-12-08 |
| 49. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
39.67 |
1.0291 |
0.0003 |
240 |
1 |
39.67 |
2008-12-06 |
| 50. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
39.62 |
1.0557 |
-0.0243 |
289 |
2 |
38.97 |
2008-12-03 |
| 51. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
39.58 |
1.0079 |
0.0203 |
273 |
2 |
37.35 |
2008-12-07 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
39.55 |
1.0521 |
-0.0293 |
197 |
2 |
38.75 |
2008-12-08 |
| 53. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
39.46 |
0.8669 |
0.1653 |
255 |
1 |
39.46 |
2008-12-05 |
| 54. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
39.31 |
0.8869 |
0.1328 |
176 |
2 |
33.29 |
2008-12-08 |
| 55. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
39.30 |
1.0059 |
0.0171 |
283 |
2 |
34.24 |
2008-12-14 |
| 56. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.21 |
0.9283 |
0.0926 |
317 |
1 |
39.21 |
2008-12-05 |
| 57. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.19 |
0.9673 |
0.0539 |
292 |
1 |
39.19 |
2008-12-08 |
| 58. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
39.15 |
1.0588 |
-0.0408 |
281 |
1 |
39.15 |
2008-12-07 |
| 59. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
39.10 |
1.0279 |
-0.0170 |
172 |
3 |
33.26 |
2008-12-26 |
| 60. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
38.94 |
1.0601 |
-0.0509 |
256 |
1 |
38.94 |
2008-12-08 |
| 61. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
38.92 |
0.9829 |
0.0283 |
229 |
1 |
38.92 |
2008-12-08 |
| 62. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
38.75 |
0.9927 |
0.0167 |
262 |
2 |
34.97 |
2008-12-24 |
| 63. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
38.65 |
0.9841 |
0.0174 |
217 |
5 |
36.41 |
2008-12-08 |
| 64. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
38.41 |
0.9884 |
0.0127 |
267 |
1 |
38.41 |
2008-12-06 |
| 65. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.32 |
0.9400 |
0.0588 |
434 |
1 |
38.32 |
2008-12-08 |
| 66. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.03 |
1.0101 |
-0.0197 |
336 |
1 |
38.03 |
2008-12-08 |
| 67. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
38.01 |
0.8680 |
0.1152 |
196 |
1 |
38.01 |
2008-12-14 |
| 68. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
38.01 |
0.9286 |
0.0613 |
177 |
1 |
38.01 |
2008-12-01 |
| 69. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
37.84 |
0.8603 |
0.1233 |
270 |
1 |
37.84 |
2008-12-08 |
| 70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
37.84 |
0.9425 |
0.0419 |
248 |
3 |
36.28 |
2008-12-14 |
| 71. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
37.80 |
0.9084 |
0.0757 |
271 |
1 |
37.80 |
2008-12-15 |
| 72. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
37.75 |
1.0250 |
-0.0408 |
271 |
3 |
35.95 |
2008-12-14 |
| 73. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
37.66 |
0.8117 |
0.1705 |
209 |
1 |
37.66 |
2008-12-08 |
| 74. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
37.59 |
0.9594 |
0.0159 |
258 |
2 |
37.02 |
2008-12-08 |
| 75. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
37.54 |
1.0095 |
-0.0351 |
211 |
2 |
37.01 |
2008-12-05 |
| 76. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
37.37 |
1.0865 |
-0.1153 |
237 |
1 |
37.37 |
2008-12-07 |
| 77. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
37.35 |
1.0132 |
-0.0418 |
371 |
1 |
37.35 |
2008-12-26 |
| 78. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
37.25 |
1.0197 |
-0.0533 |
204 |
2 |
36.98 |
2008-12-15 |
| 79. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
37.23 |
1.0777 |
-0.1121 |
226 |
1 |
37.23 |
2008-12-08 |
| 80. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
37.15 |
0.9756 |
-0.0107 |
223 |
3 |
35.78 |
2008-12-05 |
| 81. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
37.04 |
0.9980 |
-0.0331 |
295 |
1 |
37.04 |
2008-12-05 |
| 82. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
36.92 |
0.9922 |
-0.0320 |
264 |
2 |
32.97 |
2008-12-05 |
| 83. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
36.56 |
0.8845 |
0.0670 |
239 |
3 |
34.83 |
2008-12-14 |
| 84. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
36.56 |
1.1198 |
-0.1706 |
247 |
1 |
36.56 |
2008-12-01 |
| 85. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
36.55 |
0.9809 |
-0.0349 |
209 |
1 |
36.55 |
2008-12-07 |
| 86. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
36.24 |
0.9310 |
0.0103 |
278 |
2 |
35.08 |
2008-12-01 |
| 87. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
36.15 |
1.0288 |
-0.0941 |
166 |
1 |
36.15 |
2008-12-01 |
| 88. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
36.08 |
1.0414 |
-0.1047 |
234 |
1 |
36.08 |
2008-12-08 |
| 89. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
36.06 |
0.8988 |
0.0383 |
216 |
1 |
36.06 |
2008-12-01 |
| 90. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
36.03 |
0.9468 |
-0.0107 |
318 |
1 |
36.03 |
2008-12-05 |
| 91. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
35.97 |
0.9183 |
0.0173 |
308 |
1 |
35.97 |
2008-12-07 |
| 92. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
35.96 |
1.0403 |
-0.1075 |
234 |
1 |
35.96 |
2008-12-06 |
| 93. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
35.93 |
0.8964 |
0.0344 |
199 |
2 |
32.63 |
2008-12-05 |
| 94. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
35.91 |
0.8339 |
0.0988 |
209 |
1 |
35.91 |
2008-12-08 |
| 95. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
35.86 |
1.0540 |
-0.1271 |
184 |
1 |
35.86 |
2008-12-08 |
| 96. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.84 |
0.9243 |
0.0091 |
240 |
2 |
30.66 |
2008-12-08 |
| 97. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
35.75 |
0.9583 |
-0.0288 |
237 |
1 |
35.75 |
2008-12-07 |
| 98. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
35.60 |
0.9299 |
-0.0132 |
168 |
1 |
35.60 |
2008-12-08 |
| 99. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
35.55 |
0.8646 |
0.0556 |
110 |
1 |
35.55 |
2008-12-08 |
| 100. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
35.51 |
0.9357 |
-0.0152 |
204 |
2 |
32.20 |
2008-12-08 |
| 101. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.43 |
1.0561 |
-0.1374 |
227 |
1 |
35.43 |
2008-12-03 |
| 102. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
35.29 |
0.9070 |
0.0051 |
192 |
2 |
33.41 |
2008-12-24 |
| 103. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
35.26 |
0.9402 |
-0.0259 |
310 |
1 |
35.26 |
2008-12-05 |
| 104. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
35.22 |
0.9931 |
-0.0735 |
339 |
1 |
35.22 |
2008-12-05 |
| 105. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
35.21 |
0.8965 |
0.0189 |
150 |
3 |
33.45 |
2008-12-05 |
| 106. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.06 |
0.9827 |
-0.0709 |
314 |
1 |
35.06 |
2008-12-06 |
| 107. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.87 |
0.9909 |
-0.0803 |
293 |
1 |
34.87 |
2008-12-06 |
| 108. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
34.83 |
0.9541 |
-0.0486 |
236 |
1 |
34.83 |
2008-12-07 |
| 109. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
34.70 |
0.9503 |
-0.0555 |
211 |
1 |
34.70 |
2008-12-14 |
| 110. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
34.57 |
0.8906 |
0.0167 |
128 |
1 |
34.57 |
2008-12-05 |
| 111. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
34.38 |
0.9023 |
-0.0106 |
268 |
1 |
34.38 |
2008-12-24 |
| 112. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
34.20 |
1.0873 |
-0.2019 |
243 |
1 |
34.20 |
2008-12-01 |
| 113. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
34.01 |
0.9709 |
-0.0887 |
264 |
1 |
34.01 |
2008-12-05 |
| 114. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
33.80 |
1.0511 |
-0.1713 |
252 |
1 |
33.80 |
2008-12-01 |
| 115. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
33.56 |
0.8778 |
-0.0043 |
285 |
1 |
33.56 |
2008-12-08 |
| 116. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
33.49 |
0.8777 |
-0.0122 |
130 |
1 |
33.49 |
2008-12-01 |
| 117. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
33.45 |
1.0743 |
-0.2044 |
297 |
1 |
33.45 |
2008-12-06 |
| 118. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
33.38 |
0.9143 |
-0.0463 |
300 |
1 |
33.38 |
2008-12-07 |
| 119. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
33.38 |
0.9836 |
-0.1165 |
289 |
2 |
32.97 |
2008-12-07 |
| 120. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
33.23 |
1.0060 |
-0.1422 |
225 |
1 |
33.23 |
2008-12-07 |
| 121. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
32.92 |
0.8830 |
-0.0255 |
300 |
1 |
32.92 |
2008-12-07 |
| 122. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.92 |
0.8656 |
-0.0094 |
242 |
1 |
32.92 |
2008-12-14 |
| 123. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
32.84 |
0.9561 |
-0.1016 |
362 |
1 |
32.84 |
2008-12-05 |
| 124. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
32.16 |
0.9704 |
-0.1353 |
254 |
1 |
32.16 |
2008-12-08 |
| 125. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
31.71 |
1.0615 |
-0.2412 |
201 |
1 |
31.71 |
2008-12-07 |
| 126. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
31.62 |
1.0506 |
-0.2301 |
259 |
1 |
31.62 |
2008-12-05 |
| 127. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
31.56 |
0.9890 |
-0.1657 |
272 |
1 |
31.56 |
2008-12-06 |
| 128. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.51 |
0.8192 |
0.0009 |
200 |
1 |
31.51 |
2008-12-06 |
| 129. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
31.26 |
1.0472 |
-0.2420 |
149 |
1 |
31.26 |
2008-12-14 |
| 130. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
31.14 |
1.0881 |
-0.2836 |
210 |
1 |
31.14 |
2008-12-06 |
| 131. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.68 |
1.0426 |
-0.2502 |
131 |
1 |
30.68 |
2008-12-08 |
| 132. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
30.37 |
0.8194 |
-0.0321 |
193 |
1 |
30.37 |
2008-12-05 |
| 133. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
30.37 |
1.0018 |
-0.2133 |
246 |
1 |
30.37 |
2008-12-04 |
| 134. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.70 |
0.9500 |
-0.1776 |
287 |
1 |
29.70 |
2008-12-05 |
| 135. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
28.90 |
0.9841 |
-0.2359 |
263 |
1 |
28.90 |
2008-12-05 |
| 136. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
27.69 |
0.9068 |
-0.1906 |
212 |
1 |
27.69 |
2008-12-01 |
| 137. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
27.09 |
0.8666 |
-0.1667 |
206 |
1 |
27.09 |
2008-12-05 |
| 138. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.91 |
0.8986 |
-0.2264 |
216 |
1 |
25.91 |
2008-12-01 |