| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
57.56 |
1.0665 |
0.3284 |
196 |
1 |
57.56 |
2013-08-08 |
| 2. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
55.67 |
1.0086 |
0.3417 |
218 |
1 |
55.67 |
2013-08-08 |
| 3. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
53.11 |
1.0487 |
0.2410 |
253 |
1 |
53.11 |
2013-08-07 |
| 4. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
52.82 |
0.9421 |
0.3416 |
173 |
1 |
52.82 |
2013-08-13 |
| 5. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
50.61 |
0.9464 |
0.2819 |
119 |
1 |
50.61 |
2013-08-08 |
| 6. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
50.52 |
0.9324 |
0.2993 |
246 |
1 |
50.52 |
2013-08-08 |
| 7. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
50.13 |
1.0095 |
0.2082 |
211 |
1 |
50.13 |
2013-08-08 |
| 8. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
50.07 |
1.0509 |
0.1740 |
295 |
1 |
50.07 |
2013-08-08 |
| 9. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
50.00 |
0.9989 |
0.2243 |
282 |
2 |
47.87 |
2013-08-08 |
| 10. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
49.98 |
1.0640 |
0.1572 |
210 |
2 |
45.01 |
2013-08-08 |
| 11. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
49.96 |
0.9403 |
0.2836 |
307 |
1 |
49.96 |
2013-08-14 |
| 12. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
49.95 |
1.0567 |
0.1579 |
314 |
2 |
44.81 |
2013-08-13 |
| 13. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
48.87 |
1.1093 |
0.0732 |
220 |
1 |
48.87 |
2013-08-08 |
| 14. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
48.14 |
1.0016 |
0.1675 |
217 |
3 |
44.41 |
2013-08-08 |
| 15. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
47.94 |
0.8903 |
0.2710 |
135 |
2 |
41.28 |
2013-08-08 |
| 16. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
47.93 |
0.9673 |
0.2006 |
292 |
1 |
47.93 |
2013-08-13 |
| 17. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
47.76 |
0.9371 |
0.2152 |
156 |
1 |
47.76 |
2013-07-31 |
| 18. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
47.75 |
0.9801 |
0.1890 |
282 |
1 |
47.75 |
2013-08-08 |
| 19. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
47.12 |
1.0181 |
0.1286 |
276 |
1 |
47.12 |
2013-08-14 |
| 20. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
46.94 |
0.8827 |
0.2546 |
190 |
1 |
46.94 |
2013-08-08 |
| 21. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
46.59 |
0.9621 |
0.1725 |
212 |
1 |
46.59 |
2013-08-08 |
| 22. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
46.48 |
1.1198 |
0.0091 |
247 |
1 |
46.48 |
2013-08-07 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
46.32 |
0.9349 |
0.1941 |
287 |
1 |
46.32 |
2014-06-01 |
| 24. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
46.05 |
0.9001 |
0.2201 |
217 |
1 |
46.05 |
2013-08-08 |
| 25. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
45.81 |
0.8768 |
0.2408 |
199 |
2 |
44.27 |
2013-08-08 |
| 26. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
45.63 |
0.9564 |
0.1465 |
263 |
1 |
45.63 |
2013-08-08 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
45.52 |
1.0461 |
0.0628 |
318 |
1 |
45.52 |
2013-08-08 |
| 28. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
45.45 |
1.0881 |
0.0130 |
210 |
1 |
45.45 |
2013-08-07 |
| 29. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
45.18 |
0.8971 |
0.1983 |
100 |
2 |
40.14 |
2013-08-07 |
| 30. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
44.35 |
0.9948 |
0.0824 |
233 |
1 |
44.35 |
2014-06-03 |
| 31. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
44.32 |
1.0060 |
0.0778 |
244 |
1 |
44.32 |
2013-08-08 |
| 32. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
44.27 |
1.0197 |
0.0543 |
204 |
1 |
44.27 |
2013-08-07 |
| 33. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
44.24 |
1.0601 |
0.0120 |
256 |
2 |
40.41 |
2013-08-13 |
| 34. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
44.12 |
0.9597 |
0.1132 |
251 |
1 |
44.12 |
2013-08-08 |
| 35. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
44.07 |
1.0333 |
0.0327 |
176 |
1 |
44.07 |
2013-08-07 |
| 36. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
43.90 |
0.7920 |
0.2725 |
230 |
1 |
43.90 |
2013-08-08 |
| 37. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
43.81 |
0.9807 |
0.0723 |
129 |
3 |
41.62 |
2014-06-03 |
| 38. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
43.79 |
0.9270 |
0.1400 |
193 |
1 |
43.79 |
2013-08-13 |
| 39. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
43.73 |
0.9243 |
0.1408 |
240 |
2 |
37.57 |
2013-08-13 |
| 40. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
43.71 |
1.0060 |
0.0572 |
225 |
1 |
43.71 |
2014-06-03 |
| 41. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
43.66 |
0.9530 |
0.1041 |
193 |
2 |
42.00 |
2014-06-01 |
| 42. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
43.64 |
0.9260 |
0.1375 |
348 |
1 |
43.64 |
2013-08-08 |
| 43. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
43.40 |
0.9869 |
0.0643 |
193 |
1 |
43.40 |
2013-08-07 |
| 44. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.87 |
1.0288 |
0.0083 |
166 |
1 |
42.87 |
2013-08-08 |
| 45. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
42.78 |
0.9927 |
0.0486 |
262 |
1 |
42.78 |
2013-08-06 |
| 46. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
42.65 |
1.0654 |
-0.0319 |
247 |
1 |
42.65 |
2013-08-08 |
| 47. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
41.87 |
1.0462 |
-0.0258 |
340 |
1 |
41.87 |
2013-08-07 |
| 48. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.61 |
1.0615 |
-0.0533 |
201 |
1 |
41.61 |
2013-08-08 |
| 49. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
41.59 |
0.8925 |
0.1245 |
293 |
1 |
41.59 |
2013-08-08 |
| 50. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
41.56 |
1.0588 |
-0.0493 |
281 |
1 |
41.56 |
2013-08-07 |
| 51. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
41.46 |
0.9316 |
0.0776 |
188 |
1 |
41.46 |
2013-08-08 |
| 52. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.28 |
0.9931 |
0.0142 |
339 |
1 |
41.28 |
2013-08-08 |
| 53. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
40.99 |
0.9680 |
0.0281 |
256 |
2 |
39.05 |
2013-08-13 |
| 54. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
40.78 |
0.9213 |
0.0674 |
165 |
2 |
33.68 |
2013-08-13 |
| 55. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.68 |
0.9265 |
0.0612 |
254 |
2 |
39.65 |
2013-08-08 |
| 56. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
40.54 |
1.0042 |
-0.0231 |
168 |
1 |
40.54 |
2013-08-08 |
| 57. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
40.06 |
1.0472 |
-0.0804 |
149 |
2 |
39.62 |
2013-08-08 |
| 58. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
39.90 |
1.0399 |
-0.0655 |
257 |
1 |
39.90 |
2013-08-07 |
| 59. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
39.80 |
1.0165 |
-0.0509 |
316 |
1 |
39.80 |
2013-08-08 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
39.32 |
1.0267 |
-0.0687 |
261 |
1 |
39.32 |
2013-08-08 |
| 61. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
39.27 |
0.9485 |
0.0006 |
227 |
1 |
39.27 |
2013-08-08 |
| 62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
39.26 |
0.9809 |
-0.0315 |
209 |
1 |
39.26 |
2013-08-08 |
| 63. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
39.25 |
0.9380 |
0.0137 |
284 |
1 |
39.25 |
2013-08-07 |
| 64. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
38.72 |
1.0507 |
-0.1049 |
253 |
1 |
38.72 |
2013-08-07 |
| 65. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
38.65 |
0.9890 |
-0.0465 |
272 |
1 |
38.65 |
2013-08-16 |
| 66. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
38.61 |
1.0698 |
-0.1251 |
303 |
1 |
38.61 |
2013-08-08 |
| 67. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
38.59 |
0.8663 |
0.0665 |
172 |
1 |
38.59 |
2013-08-08 |
| 68. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.58 |
0.8192 |
0.1195 |
200 |
2 |
34.38 |
2013-08-08 |
| 69. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
38.48 |
0.9339 |
-0.0080 |
108 |
1 |
38.48 |
2013-08-08 |
| 70. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
38.11 |
1.0264 |
-0.1051 |
191 |
1 |
38.11 |
2013-08-07 |
| 71. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
38.05 |
0.9644 |
-0.0373 |
398 |
1 |
38.05 |
2013-08-08 |
| 72. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
38.01 |
1.0189 |
-0.0966 |
290 |
1 |
38.01 |
2013-08-07 |
| 73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.95 |
0.8381 |
0.0868 |
283 |
1 |
37.95 |
2013-08-07 |
| 74. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
37.79 |
1.0304 |
-0.1091 |
257 |
1 |
37.79 |
2013-08-07 |
| 75. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
37.40 |
0.9143 |
-0.0053 |
300 |
1 |
37.40 |
2013-08-08 |
| 76. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
37.31 |
0.9976 |
-0.0956 |
212 |
1 |
37.31 |
2013-08-07 |
| 77. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
37.19 |
0.9745 |
-0.0698 |
388 |
1 |
37.19 |
2013-08-06 |
| 78. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.14 |
1.0079 |
-0.1073 |
273 |
1 |
37.14 |
2013-08-08 |
| 79. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
36.90 |
0.9144 |
-0.0247 |
167 |
1 |
36.90 |
2013-08-07 |
| 80. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
36.71 |
0.8911 |
0.0028 |
241 |
1 |
36.71 |
2013-08-07 |
| 81. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.62 |
0.7923 |
0.0973 |
316 |
1 |
36.62 |
2013-08-08 |
| 82. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
36.45 |
0.9917 |
-0.1045 |
317 |
1 |
36.45 |
2013-08-08 |
| 83. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
36.20 |
1.0204 |
-0.1501 |
143 |
1 |
36.20 |
2013-08-08 |
| 84. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
36.00 |
1.0426 |
-0.1729 |
131 |
1 |
36.00 |
2013-08-16 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
35.72 |
0.9108 |
-0.0436 |
235 |
1 |
35.72 |
2013-08-07 |
| 86. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
35.69 |
1.0877 |
-0.2255 |
129 |
1 |
35.69 |
2013-08-07 |
| 87. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.12 |
0.9128 |
-0.0637 |
237 |
1 |
35.12 |
2013-08-07 |
| 88. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
34.97 |
0.8721 |
-0.0173 |
231 |
1 |
34.97 |
2013-08-08 |
| 89. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
34.37 |
0.9854 |
-0.1500 |
174 |
1 |
34.37 |
2013-08-07 |
| 90. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
34.34 |
0.9271 |
-0.0942 |
295 |
1 |
34.34 |
2014-06-01 |
| 91. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
33.61 |
0.8936 |
-0.0797 |
135 |
1 |
33.61 |
2013-08-08 |
| 92. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
33.52 |
0.9103 |
-0.0976 |
269 |
1 |
33.52 |
2013-08-08 |
| 93. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
33.50 |
0.8948 |
-0.0827 |
164 |
1 |
33.50 |
2013-08-07 |
| 94. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
33.47 |
0.9183 |
-0.1102 |
252 |
1 |
33.47 |
2013-08-08 |
| 95. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
32.91 |
0.8880 |
-0.0894 |
296 |
1 |
32.91 |
2013-08-07 |
| 96. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
32.68 |
0.9332 |
-0.1408 |
267 |
1 |
32.68 |
2013-08-06 |
| 97. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
32.55 |
0.9561 |
-0.1632 |
291 |
1 |
32.55 |
2013-08-07 |
| 98. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
32.26 |
0.7915 |
-0.0074 |
142 |
1 |
32.26 |
2013-08-08 |
| 99. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.89 |
1.0103 |
-0.2429 |
209 |
1 |
31.89 |
2013-08-06 |
| 100. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
31.83 |
0.9425 |
-0.1698 |
248 |
1 |
31.83 |
2014-06-01 |
| 101. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
31.43 |
0.9852 |
-0.2238 |
235 |
1 |
31.43 |
2013-08-07 |
| 102. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
31.40 |
1.0188 |
-0.2480 |
316 |
1 |
31.40 |
2013-08-08 |
| 103. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
31.31 |
0.8656 |
-0.1048 |
242 |
1 |
31.31 |
2013-08-08 |
| 104. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
30.24 |
0.9804 |
-0.2472 |
227 |
1 |
30.24 |
2013-08-07 |
| 105. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
29.34 |
0.9839 |
-0.2743 |
196 |
1 |
29.34 |
2013-08-07 |
| 106. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
29.19 |
1.0125 |
-0.3067 |
232 |
1 |
29.19 |
2013-08-07 |
| 107. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
29.15 |
0.8901 |
-0.1849 |
273 |
1 |
29.15 |
2013-08-06 |
| 108. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
28.65 |
0.8988 |
-0.2053 |
193 |
1 |
28.65 |
2013-08-07 |