| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
47.80 |
1.0707 |
0.2309 |
150 |
3 |
41.55 |
2011-05-04 |
| 2. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
47.64 |
1.0647 |
0.2326 |
129 |
2 |
42.38 |
2011-04-12 |
| 3. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
46.89 |
1.0515 |
0.2254 |
176 |
1 |
46.89 |
2011-04-04 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
46.58 |
1.1481 |
0.1203 |
233 |
1 |
46.58 |
2011-05-10 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
46.11 |
1.0873 |
0.1683 |
226 |
2 |
41.08 |
2011-05-10 |
| 6. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
44.93 |
1.0812 |
0.1423 |
131 |
3 |
42.57 |
2011-04-29 |
| 7. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
44.93 |
1.0982 |
0.1253 |
200 |
2 |
41.21 |
2011-04-20 |
| 8. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
44.20 |
1.0986 |
0.1050 |
118 |
1 |
44.20 |
2011-02-14 |
| 9. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
44.01 |
1.0440 |
0.1544 |
244 |
1 |
44.01 |
2011-04-15 |
| 10. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
43.86 |
0.9878 |
0.2065 |
277 |
1 |
43.86 |
2011-05-18 |
| 11. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
43.71 |
1.1360 |
0.0543 |
220 |
1 |
43.71 |
2011-02-14 |
| 12. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
43.60 |
1.0675 |
0.1198 |
172 |
1 |
43.60 |
2011-02-23 |
| 13. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.28 |
1.0634 |
0.1152 |
269 |
1 |
43.28 |
2011-03-24 |
| 14. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.05 |
1.0452 |
0.1271 |
201 |
2 |
42.44 |
2011-05-10 |
| 15. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
42.90 |
1.0572 |
0.1110 |
73 |
1 |
42.90 |
2011-03-15 |
| 16. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
42.87 |
1.0513 |
0.1161 |
237 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-04-07 |
| 17. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
42.79 |
1.0990 |
0.0662 |
183 |
2 |
40.82 |
2011-05-10 |
| 18. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
42.75 |
1.0532 |
0.1109 |
177 |
1 |
42.75 |
2011-05-18 |
| 19. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
42.71 |
1.0450 |
0.1180 |
233 |
1 |
42.71 |
2011-05-10 |
| 20. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
42.51 |
1.0243 |
0.1333 |
134 |
1 |
42.51 |
2011-05-04 |
| 21. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.94 |
1.0966 |
0.0182 |
197 |
1 |
40.94 |
2011-05-04 |
| 22. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.65 |
1.0150 |
0.0919 |
304 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-03-03 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
40.52 |
1.0848 |
0.0186 |
225 |
1 |
40.52 |
2011-03-08 |
| 24. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.30 |
1.0187 |
0.0787 |
193 |
1 |
40.30 |
2011-04-15 |
| 25. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
39.83 |
1.0902 |
-0.0056 |
149 |
3 |
38.63 |
2011-04-04 |
| 26. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
39.70 |
0.9540 |
0.1271 |
202 |
2 |
33.65 |
2011-05-04 |
| 27. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
39.60 |
1.0253 |
0.0530 |
213 |
1 |
39.60 |
2011-03-24 |
| 28. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
39.37 |
0.9597 |
0.1124 |
110 |
2 |
35.11 |
2011-04-04 |
| 29. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
39.15 |
0.9206 |
0.1455 |
314 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-03-15 |
| 30. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
38.99 |
1.0910 |
-0.0293 |
217 |
1 |
38.99 |
2011-03-03 |
| 31. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
38.92 |
0.9960 |
0.0638 |
244 |
1 |
38.92 |
2011-03-08 |
| 32. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.81 |
1.0512 |
0.0056 |
269 |
1 |
38.81 |
2011-03-24 |
| 33. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.72 |
1.0697 |
-0.0153 |
246 |
1 |
38.72 |
2011-04-12 |
| 34. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
38.61 |
0.9778 |
0.0736 |
195 |
1 |
38.61 |
2011-03-08 |
| 35. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
38.53 |
1.0249 |
0.0243 |
209 |
1 |
38.53 |
2011-04-04 |
| 36. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
38.50 |
1.0318 |
0.0166 |
278 |
1 |
38.50 |
2011-02-14 |
| 37. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
38.49 |
0.9815 |
0.0666 |
218 |
1 |
38.49 |
2011-04-29 |
| 38. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
38.31 |
1.0737 |
-0.0305 |
303 |
2 |
37.38 |
2011-04-12 |
| 39. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
38.30 |
1.0619 |
-0.0190 |
268 |
1 |
38.30 |
2011-04-20 |
| 40. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.09 |
0.9526 |
0.0846 |
268 |
1 |
38.09 |
2011-05-18 |
| 41. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
38.04 |
1.1445 |
-0.1086 |
389 |
1 |
38.04 |
2011-01-24 |
| 42. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
38.02 |
1.0276 |
0.0077 |
267 |
1 |
38.02 |
2011-02-28 |
| 43. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.70 |
0.9560 |
0.0706 |
263 |
1 |
37.70 |
2011-02-28 |
| 44. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
37.63 |
1.0782 |
-0.0535 |
243 |
1 |
37.63 |
2011-02-14 |
| 45. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
37.61 |
0.9832 |
0.0410 |
217 |
2 |
36.97 |
2011-02-14 |
| 46. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
37.54 |
1.0727 |
-0.0505 |
129 |
1 |
37.54 |
2011-02-04 |
| 47. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
37.34 |
0.9717 |
0.0451 |
264 |
1 |
37.34 |
2011-03-15 |
| 48. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
37.31 |
1.0048 |
0.0112 |
302 |
1 |
37.31 |
2011-02-23 |
| 49. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
37.30 |
1.0564 |
-0.0407 |
249 |
1 |
37.30 |
2011-03-08 |
| 50. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
37.17 |
1.1075 |
-0.0953 |
265 |
1 |
37.17 |
2011-04-15 |
| 51. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
37.03 |
1.0112 |
-0.0028 |
253 |
1 |
37.03 |
2011-02-23 |
| 52. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
36.84 |
0.9692 |
0.0340 |
350 |
1 |
36.84 |
2011-05-18 |
| 53. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
36.81 |
1.0599 |
-0.0575 |
212 |
1 |
36.81 |
2011-03-08 |
| 54. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
36.75 |
1.0908 |
-0.0901 |
303 |
1 |
36.75 |
2011-02-09 |
| 55. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
36.74 |
0.9582 |
0.0423 |
295 |
1 |
36.74 |
2011-04-12 |
| 56. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
36.64 |
0.9840 |
0.0137 |
135 |
1 |
36.64 |
2011-04-20 |
| 57. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
36.49 |
0.9684 |
0.0253 |
196 |
1 |
36.49 |
2011-02-09 |
| 58. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
36.31 |
0.9816 |
0.0072 |
246 |
1 |
36.31 |
2011-04-04 |
| 59. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
36.26 |
0.9199 |
0.0675 |
209 |
1 |
36.26 |
2011-04-15 |
| 60. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
36.22 |
0.9913 |
-0.0050 |
263 |
1 |
36.22 |
2011-02-04 |
| 61. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
36.14 |
0.9606 |
0.0235 |
202 |
1 |
36.14 |
2011-04-07 |
| 62. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
36.13 |
1.0129 |
-0.0290 |
188 |
1 |
36.13 |
2011-03-24 |
| 63. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
36.09 |
0.9565 |
0.0263 |
225 |
1 |
36.09 |
2011-02-14 |
| 64. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.06 |
1.0381 |
-0.0562 |
165 |
1 |
36.06 |
2011-03-24 |
| 65. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.94 |
1.0598 |
-0.0811 |
271 |
2 |
35.49 |
2011-02-28 |
| 66. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
35.72 |
1.0201 |
-0.0474 |
285 |
1 |
35.72 |
2011-04-04 |
| 67. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.67 |
0.9673 |
0.0040 |
235 |
1 |
35.67 |
2011-05-04 |
| 68. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
35.40 |
1.0284 |
-0.0644 |
261 |
1 |
35.40 |
2011-04-15 |
| 69. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
35.21 |
1.1185 |
-0.1597 |
242 |
1 |
35.21 |
2011-02-04 |
| 70. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
35.18 |
0.8885 |
0.0695 |
158 |
1 |
35.18 |
2011-02-09 |
| 71. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
34.95 |
1.0328 |
-0.0811 |
340 |
1 |
34.95 |
2011-02-04 |
| 72. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
34.78 |
0.9820 |
-0.0349 |
276 |
1 |
34.78 |
2011-03-08 |
| 73. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
34.60 |
0.9977 |
-0.0555 |
262 |
1 |
34.60 |
2011-05-10 |
| 74. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.31 |
1.0664 |
-0.1321 |
127 |
1 |
34.31 |
2011-05-10 |
| 75. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
34.29 |
0.9105 |
0.0232 |
326 |
1 |
34.29 |
2011-04-07 |
| 76. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
34.26 |
1.0688 |
-0.1359 |
231 |
1 |
34.26 |
2011-03-24 |
| 77. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.23 |
1.0320 |
-0.0999 |
239 |
1 |
34.23 |
2011-04-29 |
| 78. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
34.20 |
0.9999 |
-0.0686 |
289 |
1 |
34.20 |
2011-05-04 |
| 79. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
33.76 |
0.9368 |
-0.0175 |
282 |
1 |
33.76 |
2011-02-23 |
| 80. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
33.64 |
1.0189 |
-0.1029 |
240 |
1 |
33.64 |
2011-04-15 |
| 81. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
33.53 |
0.9420 |
-0.0289 |
134 |
1 |
33.53 |
2011-02-09 |
| 82. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
33.15 |
0.9297 |
-0.0270 |
194 |
1 |
33.15 |
2011-02-28 |
| 83. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
32.82 |
1.0016 |
-0.1079 |
281 |
1 |
32.82 |
2011-03-03 |
| 84. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
32.55 |
1.0205 |
-0.1341 |
225 |
1 |
32.55 |
2011-02-14 |
| 85. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
31.76 |
1.0060 |
-0.1411 |
308 |
1 |
31.76 |
2011-02-14 |
| 86. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
31.73 |
0.8600 |
0.0040 |
346 |
1 |
31.73 |
2011-04-29 |
| 87. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
31.30 |
0.9073 |
-0.0550 |
205 |
2 |
30.76 |
2011-02-28 |
| 88. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
31.28 |
1.0024 |
-0.1506 |
264 |
1 |
31.28 |
2011-04-29 |
| 89. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.12 |
0.8842 |
-0.0368 |
192 |
2 |
27.86 |
2011-03-24 |
| 90. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
31.01 |
0.8814 |
-0.0370 |
317 |
1 |
31.01 |
2011-05-04 |
| 91. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
30.71 |
0.9195 |
-0.0832 |
185 |
1 |
30.71 |
2011-02-14 |
| 92. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
30.59 |
0.8554 |
-0.0224 |
219 |
1 |
30.59 |
2011-02-09 |
| 93. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
30.50 |
1.0436 |
-0.2131 |
195 |
1 |
30.50 |
2011-02-09 |
| 94. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
30.37 |
0.9274 |
-0.1004 |
293 |
1 |
30.37 |
2011-01-24 |
| 95. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
29.99 |
0.9248 |
-0.1081 |
209 |
1 |
29.99 |
2011-04-20 |
| 96. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
29.97 |
0.8832 |
-0.0671 |
291 |
1 |
29.97 |
2011-04-04 |
| 97. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
29.96 |
0.8822 |
-0.0664 |
284 |
1 |
29.96 |
2011-02-14 |
| 98. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.75 |
0.8726 |
-0.0625 |
265 |
1 |
29.75 |
2011-01-24 |
| 99. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
28.68 |
0.8657 |
-0.0847 |
346 |
1 |
28.68 |
2011-02-04 |
| 100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
28.64 |
0.8307 |
-0.0508 |
206 |
1 |
28.64 |
2011-05-10 |
| 101. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
28.04 |
0.8461 |
-0.0825 |
297 |
1 |
28.04 |
2011-02-14 |
| 102. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
27.93 |
0.9380 |
-0.1774 |
261 |
1 |
27.93 |
2011-02-09 |
| 103. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
27.39 |
0.8857 |
-0.1398 |
142 |
1 |
27.39 |
2011-02-14 |
| 104. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
25.95 |
0.8899 |
-0.1833 |
216 |
1 |
25.95 |
2011-02-04 |
| 105. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
25.56 |
0.9350 |
-0.2390 |
212 |
1 |
25.56 |
2011-02-04 |
| 106. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
24.59 |
0.9067 |
-0.2371 |
115 |
1 |
24.59 |
2011-02-14 |