| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
54.45 |
1.0867 |
0.1784 |
171 |
3 |
47.84 |
2010-03-31 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
53.74 |
1.0638 |
0.1871 |
247 |
1 |
53.74 |
2008-12-04 |
| 3. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
53.40 |
1.0777 |
0.1651 |
226 |
1 |
53.40 |
2008-12-05 |
| 4. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
53.32 |
1.0800 |
0.1602 |
213 |
3 |
48.81 |
2008-11-26 |
| 5. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
53.03 |
1.0264 |
0.2057 |
191 |
3 |
46.02 |
2008-11-26 |
| 6. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
52.81 |
0.9010 |
0.3326 |
266 |
3 |
44.74 |
2008-12-04 |
| 7. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
52.44 |
1.0095 |
0.2115 |
211 |
4 |
44.53 |
2008-12-02 |
| 8. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
52.34 |
1.0865 |
0.1334 |
237 |
4 |
47.43 |
2008-12-09 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
52.18 |
1.1093 |
0.1015 |
220 |
5 |
45.94 |
2008-12-03 |
| 10. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
52.11 |
0.9841 |
0.2273 |
217 |
4 |
43.93 |
2008-11-25 |
| 11. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
51.80 |
0.9807 |
0.2152 |
129 |
4 |
45.94 |
2008-11-19 |
| 12. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
51.70 |
1.1198 |
0.0843 |
247 |
3 |
48.28 |
2008-12-12 |
| 13. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
51.16 |
0.9166 |
0.2785 |
133 |
3 |
40.47 |
2008-11-03 |
| 14. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
51.00 |
0.8680 |
0.3158 |
196 |
2 |
46.47 |
2008-11-21 |
| 15. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
50.61 |
0.9927 |
0.1888 |
262 |
3 |
46.58 |
2009-04-28 |
| 16. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
50.44 |
0.9779 |
0.1962 |
255 |
1 |
50.44 |
2008-11-19 |
| 17. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
50.11 |
1.0506 |
0.1169 |
259 |
3 |
45.38 |
2010-03-31 |
| 18. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
50.00 |
1.0601 |
0.1020 |
256 |
4 |
45.33 |
2008-12-15 |
| 19. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
49.83 |
0.9213 |
0.2378 |
165 |
1 |
49.83 |
2010-03-31 |
| 20. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
49.57 |
1.0615 |
0.0907 |
201 |
4 |
40.42 |
2010-03-31 |
| 21. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.77 |
1.0901 |
0.0484 |
288 |
3 |
41.39 |
2008-12-12 |
| 22. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
48.52 |
1.0279 |
0.0970 |
172 |
5 |
44.58 |
2008-12-05 |
| 23. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.36 |
1.0268 |
0.0932 |
179 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-03-31 |
| 24. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
48.34 |
1.0060 |
0.1211 |
225 |
4 |
44.03 |
2008-12-05 |
| 25. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.18 |
0.9931 |
0.1256 |
218 |
1 |
48.18 |
2008-11-17 |
| 26. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
48.10 |
0.9271 |
0.1933 |
295 |
1 |
48.10 |
2008-12-12 |
| 27. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
48.10 |
1.0125 |
0.1068 |
232 |
1 |
48.10 |
2008-12-02 |
| 28. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
48.04 |
1.0960 |
0.0275 |
315 |
3 |
44.62 |
2008-12-15 |
| 29. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
47.99 |
0.9780 |
0.1340 |
173 |
3 |
41.53 |
2008-12-12 |
| 30. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
47.67 |
1.0743 |
0.0375 |
297 |
1 |
47.67 |
2008-12-12 |
| 31. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
47.52 |
1.0511 |
0.0579 |
252 |
3 |
44.97 |
2008-12-04 |
| 32. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
47.21 |
1.0521 |
0.0422 |
197 |
1 |
47.21 |
2008-12-23 |
| 33. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.15 |
1.0476 |
0.0415 |
110 |
1 |
47.15 |
2008-12-12 |
| 34. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
47.15 |
1.0418 |
0.0575 |
214 |
2 |
42.60 |
2008-12-09 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
46.93 |
1.0199 |
0.0697 |
225 |
1 |
46.93 |
2008-12-08 |
| 36. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
46.87 |
0.8847 |
0.2050 |
282 |
2 |
43.59 |
2008-11-24 |
| 37. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.83 |
0.9917 |
0.1014 |
317 |
2 |
40.99 |
2009-05-15 |
| 38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
46.80 |
1.0181 |
0.0735 |
276 |
1 |
46.80 |
2008-12-09 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
46.64 |
1.0487 |
0.0357 |
253 |
2 |
44.05 |
2008-11-14 |
| 40. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
46.62 |
0.9756 |
0.1098 |
223 |
2 |
44.86 |
2008-12-12 |
| 41. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
46.56 |
0.9315 |
0.1550 |
273 |
2 |
38.07 |
2008-12-15 |
| 42. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
46.41 |
1.0197 |
0.0597 |
204 |
2 |
46.24 |
2008-11-26 |
| 43. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.91 |
1.0462 |
0.0263 |
340 |
2 |
43.97 |
2008-12-12 |
| 44. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.61 |
1.0561 |
0.0044 |
227 |
2 |
42.73 |
2008-11-21 |
| 45. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
45.59 |
1.0600 |
0.0023 |
351 |
3 |
40.49 |
2008-12-12 |
| 46. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
45.55 |
0.9598 |
0.1034 |
209 |
1 |
45.55 |
2010-03-31 |
| 47. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
45.52 |
0.8863 |
0.1705 |
127 |
1 |
45.52 |
2008-11-06 |
| 48. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
45.30 |
1.0432 |
0.0126 |
276 |
3 |
42.96 |
2008-12-09 |
| 49. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
45.26 |
1.0234 |
0.0349 |
392 |
1 |
45.26 |
2008-12-12 |
| 50. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
44.95 |
1.0576 |
-0.0134 |
231 |
2 |
44.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 51. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.84 |
0.9324 |
0.1150 |
246 |
1 |
44.84 |
2008-10-29 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
44.47 |
0.9927 |
0.0436 |
276 |
3 |
42.18 |
2008-12-05 |
| 53. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
44.21 |
0.9252 |
0.1050 |
148 |
1 |
44.21 |
2008-10-27 |
| 54. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
43.50 |
0.9285 |
0.0827 |
244 |
2 |
36.10 |
2008-11-10 |
| 55. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
43.48 |
0.9604 |
0.0500 |
285 |
1 |
43.48 |
2008-10-27 |
| 56. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.46 |
1.0101 |
0.0038 |
336 |
2 |
39.15 |
2008-11-17 |
| 57. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
43.32 |
0.9849 |
0.0251 |
337 |
1 |
43.32 |
2009-05-19 |
| 58. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
43.09 |
0.9909 |
0.0171 |
293 |
2 |
41.91 |
2008-11-17 |
| 59. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.96 |
1.0288 |
-0.0332 |
166 |
1 |
42.96 |
2008-11-24 |
| 60. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.65 |
1.0628 |
-0.0677 |
363 |
1 |
42.65 |
2008-12-12 |
| 61. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.53 |
1.0540 |
-0.0687 |
184 |
2 |
41.49 |
2008-12-02 |
| 62. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.49 |
1.0881 |
-0.1027 |
210 |
2 |
42.36 |
2008-10-27 |
| 63. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.25 |
1.0033 |
-0.0193 |
203 |
3 |
41.67 |
2008-12-15 |
| 64. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
42.08 |
0.9963 |
-0.0190 |
274 |
1 |
42.08 |
2008-11-12 |
| 65. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
41.96 |
0.9265 |
0.0493 |
254 |
1 |
41.96 |
2010-03-31 |
| 66. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
41.95 |
1.0426 |
-0.0699 |
131 |
3 |
40.97 |
2009-05-06 |
| 67. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
41.79 |
1.0094 |
-0.0364 |
256 |
1 |
41.79 |
2009-04-27 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
41.64 |
0.9880 |
-0.0228 |
199 |
1 |
41.64 |
2008-12-05 |
| 69. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
41.62 |
1.0736 |
-0.1021 |
350 |
1 |
41.62 |
2008-12-04 |
| 70. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
41.45 |
1.0498 |
-0.0836 |
261 |
2 |
39.35 |
2009-05-06 |
| 71. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
41.41 |
1.0291 |
-0.0672 |
240 |
2 |
38.32 |
2008-10-29 |
| 72. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
41.30 |
1.0873 |
-0.1289 |
243 |
1 |
41.30 |
2008-10-27 |
| 73. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
41.27 |
0.9726 |
-0.0067 |
396 |
1 |
41.27 |
2009-05-15 |
| 74. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
41.08 |
1.0466 |
-0.0907 |
230 |
1 |
41.08 |
2008-11-03 |
| 75. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.05 |
1.0877 |
-0.1355 |
129 |
1 |
41.05 |
2008-11-23 |
| 76. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
40.97 |
0.9070 |
0.0419 |
192 |
1 |
40.97 |
2008-12-23 |
| 77. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
40.97 |
0.8965 |
0.0577 |
150 |
2 |
40.85 |
2008-10-29 |
| 78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
40.93 |
0.9275 |
0.0305 |
243 |
2 |
40.42 |
2008-10-29 |
| 79. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
40.64 |
0.9332 |
0.0128 |
267 |
1 |
40.64 |
2008-12-04 |
| 80. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
40.61 |
0.9103 |
0.0348 |
269 |
1 |
40.61 |
2008-10-29 |
| 81. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.58 |
0.9027 |
0.0384 |
189 |
2 |
39.00 |
2008-12-04 |
| 82. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.44 |
0.9128 |
0.0257 |
237 |
1 |
40.44 |
2008-10-27 |
| 83. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
40.29 |
0.9503 |
-0.0192 |
211 |
1 |
40.29 |
2008-11-17 |
| 84. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
40.25 |
1.0427 |
-0.1050 |
269 |
1 |
40.25 |
2009-04-30 |
| 85. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.25 |
1.0287 |
-0.0930 |
269 |
1 |
40.25 |
2008-10-29 |
| 86. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.18 |
0.9974 |
-0.0661 |
163 |
2 |
37.99 |
2008-10-30 |
| 87. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
39.90 |
0.9108 |
0.0177 |
235 |
1 |
39.90 |
2008-11-21 |
| 88. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
39.79 |
1.0016 |
-0.0771 |
217 |
1 |
39.79 |
2008-10-27 |
| 89. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.56 |
0.9310 |
-0.0108 |
278 |
2 |
38.21 |
2009-04-21 |
| 90. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
39.07 |
0.8624 |
0.0421 |
174 |
4 |
36.15 |
2008-11-20 |
| 91. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
38.94 |
1.0106 |
-0.1055 |
302 |
2 |
38.20 |
2009-04-27 |
| 92. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
38.79 |
0.9763 |
-0.0742 |
143 |
1 |
38.79 |
2008-11-21 |
| 93. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
38.64 |
0.9915 |
-0.0933 |
281 |
1 |
38.64 |
2008-10-28 |
| 94. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
38.61 |
1.0672 |
-0.1700 |
239 |
1 |
38.61 |
2008-11-03 |
| 95. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
38.49 |
1.0341 |
-0.1391 |
273 |
1 |
38.49 |
2008-10-28 |
| 96. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
38.40 |
0.9594 |
-0.0677 |
258 |
1 |
38.40 |
2008-10-27 |
| 97. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
38.37 |
0.8986 |
-0.0075 |
205 |
1 |
38.37 |
2008-11-24 |
| 98. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
38.28 |
0.9422 |
-0.0566 |
190 |
1 |
38.28 |
2008-11-21 |
| 99. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.24 |
1.0272 |
-0.1396 |
226 |
1 |
38.24 |
2008-11-24 |
| 100. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
38.11 |
0.8911 |
-0.0032 |
207 |
1 |
38.11 |
2008-10-29 |
| 101. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.54 |
0.9841 |
-0.1124 |
263 |
2 |
33.23 |
2008-11-03 |
| 102. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
37.54 |
0.9680 |
-0.0946 |
256 |
1 |
37.54 |
2008-11-06 |
| 103. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
37.23 |
0.9434 |
-0.0728 |
367 |
1 |
37.23 |
2008-11-19 |
| 104. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
37.21 |
1.0472 |
-0.1879 |
149 |
1 |
37.21 |
2008-11-17 |
| 105. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
36.99 |
1.1086 |
-0.2477 |
233 |
1 |
36.99 |
2008-10-27 |
| 106. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
36.87 |
0.9685 |
-0.1102 |
304 |
1 |
36.87 |
2008-11-07 |
| 107. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
35.99 |
0.9299 |
-0.1013 |
168 |
1 |
35.99 |
2008-10-31 |
| 108. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
35.69 |
1.0270 |
-0.1964 |
303 |
1 |
35.69 |
2008-10-24 |
| 109. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
35.30 |
0.8880 |
-0.0670 |
296 |
1 |
35.30 |
2008-11-20 |
| 110. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
35.18 |
0.9264 |
-0.1074 |
177 |
1 |
35.18 |
2008-11-13 |
| 111. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
34.94 |
1.0267 |
-0.2112 |
261 |
1 |
34.94 |
2008-10-27 |
| 112. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
34.78 |
0.9869 |
-0.1818 |
193 |
3 |
31.36 |
2008-12-04 |
| 113. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
34.66 |
0.8669 |
-0.0548 |
255 |
1 |
34.66 |
2008-11-12 |
| 114. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
34.39 |
0.8830 |
-0.0810 |
300 |
1 |
34.39 |
2008-10-30 |
| 115. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
33.76 |
0.9574 |
-0.1694 |
354 |
1 |
33.76 |
2008-10-27 |
| 116. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.75 |
0.8339 |
-0.0499 |
209 |
1 |
33.75 |
2008-10-29 |
| 117. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
33.58 |
1.0588 |
-0.2781 |
281 |
1 |
33.58 |
2008-12-04 |
| 118. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
32.63 |
0.9864 |
-0.2243 |
292 |
1 |
32.63 |
2008-10-24 |
| 119. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
32.63 |
0.9084 |
-0.1486 |
271 |
1 |
32.63 |
2008-11-12 |
| 120. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
32.20 |
0.9884 |
-0.2377 |
267 |
1 |
32.20 |
2008-10-24 |
| 121. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
31.80 |
0.8778 |
-0.1371 |
285 |
1 |
31.80 |
2008-10-27 |
| 122. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
31.58 |
0.8117 |
-0.0747 |
209 |
1 |
31.58 |
2008-10-24 |
| 123. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
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2008-10-27 |
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Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
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2008-11-10 |
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Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
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2008-10-24 |
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My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
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