| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
78.68 |
1.1018 |
0.2848 |
220 |
1 |
78.68 |
2008-11-14 |
| 2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
73.80 |
1.0462 |
0.2535 |
184 |
1 |
73.80 |
2008-11-14 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
71.83 |
1.0714 |
0.1903 |
129 |
1 |
71.83 |
2008-11-11 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
71.76 |
1.0331 |
0.2340 |
234 |
2 |
63.56 |
2008-11-14 |
| 5. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
69.34 |
1.0666 |
0.1596 |
297 |
1 |
69.34 |
2008-11-11 |
| 6. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
68.06 |
0.9468 |
0.2559 |
276 |
1 |
68.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
66.81 |
1.1016 |
0.0794 |
233 |
1 |
66.81 |
2008-11-11 |
| 8. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
66.41 |
1.0486 |
0.1259 |
289 |
1 |
66.41 |
2008-11-14 |
| 9. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
66.32 |
1.0796 |
0.0877 |
129 |
1 |
66.32 |
2008-11-13 |
| 10. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
66.11 |
1.0534 |
0.1172 |
357 |
1 |
66.11 |
2008-11-12 |
| 11. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
66.04 |
1.0787 |
0.0871 |
237 |
1 |
66.04 |
2008-11-11 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
66.03 |
1.0711 |
0.0907 |
213 |
1 |
66.03 |
2008-11-11 |
| 13. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
65.41 |
1.0060 |
0.1451 |
171 |
1 |
65.41 |
2008-11-14 |
| 14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
64.80 |
1.0349 |
0.1093 |
234 |
1 |
64.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 15. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
64.74 |
1.0429 |
0.0996 |
259 |
2 |
62.30 |
2008-11-14 |
| 16. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.18 |
0.9844 |
0.1543 |
293 |
1 |
64.18 |
2008-11-14 |
| 17. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
64.06 |
1.0426 |
0.0884 |
323 |
1 |
64.06 |
2008-11-14 |
| 18. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
63.40 |
0.9527 |
0.1671 |
251 |
2 |
59.56 |
2008-11-11 |
| 19. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
63.34 |
1.0498 |
0.0643 |
180 |
1 |
63.34 |
2008-11-14 |
| 20. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
63.10 |
1.0390 |
0.0718 |
205 |
1 |
63.10 |
2008-11-13 |
| 21. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
62.75 |
0.9941 |
0.1118 |
217 |
1 |
62.75 |
2008-11-12 |
| 22. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
62.51 |
1.0565 |
0.0449 |
247 |
1 |
62.51 |
2008-11-11 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
61.95 |
1.0340 |
0.0652 |
406 |
1 |
61.95 |
2008-11-11 |
| 24. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
61.75 |
1.0419 |
0.0486 |
261 |
1 |
61.75 |
2008-11-14 |
| 25. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
61.66 |
0.9965 |
0.0875 |
168 |
2 |
58.07 |
2008-11-14 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
61.60 |
1.0483 |
0.0365 |
227 |
1 |
61.60 |
2008-11-14 |
| 27. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
61.57 |
0.9430 |
0.1369 |
211 |
1 |
61.57 |
2008-11-13 |
| 28. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
61.35 |
1.0799 |
-0.0003 |
243 |
1 |
61.35 |
2008-11-13 |
| 29. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
61.27 |
1.0296 |
0.0587 |
437 |
1 |
61.27 |
2008-11-14 |
| 30. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
61.09 |
0.9682 |
0.1086 |
143 |
1 |
61.09 |
2008-11-12 |
| 31. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
61.07 |
0.9572 |
0.1200 |
201 |
1 |
61.07 |
2008-11-11 |
| 32. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
61.03 |
0.9865 |
0.0922 |
276 |
1 |
61.03 |
2008-11-14 |
| 33. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
60.32 |
0.9309 |
0.1321 |
284 |
2 |
58.86 |
2008-11-14 |
| 34. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.26 |
0.9376 |
0.1316 |
367 |
1 |
60.26 |
2008-11-11 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
59.02 |
1.0399 |
0.0070 |
294 |
1 |
59.02 |
2008-11-14 |
| 36. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
58.37 |
1.0668 |
-0.0342 |
350 |
1 |
58.37 |
2008-11-12 |
| 37. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.26 |
1.0619 |
-0.0302 |
354 |
1 |
58.26 |
2008-11-14 |
| 38. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
58.01 |
0.9676 |
0.0643 |
442 |
1 |
58.01 |
2008-11-11 |
| 39. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
57.91 |
1.0023 |
0.0176 |
211 |
1 |
57.91 |
2008-11-12 |
| 40. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
57.47 |
0.9633 |
0.0529 |
304 |
1 |
57.47 |
2008-11-11 |
| 41. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
57.45 |
0.9910 |
0.0245 |
295 |
2 |
53.68 |
2008-11-13 |
| 42. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
57.43 |
0.8810 |
0.1331 |
282 |
1 |
57.43 |
2008-11-12 |
| 43. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
57.33 |
1.0053 |
0.0042 |
232 |
2 |
55.28 |
2008-11-14 |
| 44. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
57.20 |
0.9893 |
0.0200 |
323 |
1 |
57.20 |
2008-11-14 |
| 45. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
56.99 |
0.9805 |
0.0295 |
292 |
1 |
56.99 |
2008-11-12 |
| 46. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
56.78 |
1.0257 |
-0.0177 |
401 |
1 |
56.78 |
2008-11-12 |
| 47. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
56.11 |
1.0797 |
-0.0956 |
210 |
1 |
56.11 |
2008-11-12 |
| 48. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
56.06 |
1.0025 |
-0.0138 |
256 |
1 |
56.06 |
2008-11-11 |
| 49. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.95 |
0.9635 |
0.0287 |
389 |
1 |
55.95 |
2008-11-14 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
55.89 |
1.0109 |
-0.0244 |
276 |
1 |
55.89 |
2008-11-13 |
| 51. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
55.42 |
1.0389 |
-0.0592 |
340 |
1 |
55.42 |
2008-11-11 |
| 52. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
54.68 |
0.9907 |
-0.0282 |
211 |
3 |
48.95 |
2008-11-14 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.07 |
0.9597 |
-0.0024 |
347 |
1 |
54.07 |
2008-11-14 |
| 54. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
53.91 |
0.9653 |
-0.0066 |
394 |
1 |
53.91 |
2008-11-14 |
| 55. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
53.88 |
0.9646 |
-0.0157 |
264 |
1 |
53.88 |
2008-11-14 |
| 56. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
53.69 |
0.9897 |
-0.0456 |
274 |
1 |
53.69 |
2008-11-11 |
| 57. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.55 |
0.9068 |
0.0401 |
269 |
1 |
53.55 |
2008-11-11 |
| 58. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.53 |
0.9886 |
-0.0425 |
220 |
1 |
53.53 |
2008-11-13 |
| 59. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
53.43 |
0.9072 |
0.0329 |
237 |
1 |
53.43 |
2008-11-11 |
| 60. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
53.01 |
0.9769 |
-0.0447 |
263 |
2 |
50.82 |
2008-11-11 |
| 61. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
52.69 |
0.9464 |
-0.0127 |
323 |
1 |
52.69 |
2008-11-14 |
| 62. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
52.14 |
0.9088 |
0.0151 |
348 |
1 |
52.14 |
2008-11-12 |
| 63. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
51.76 |
0.9500 |
-0.0359 |
362 |
1 |
51.76 |
2008-11-12 |
| 64. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
51.71 |
0.9795 |
-0.0684 |
308 |
1 |
51.71 |
2008-11-14 |
| 65. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
51.63 |
0.9846 |
-0.0761 |
281 |
1 |
51.63 |
2008-11-11 |
| 66. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
51.56 |
0.9048 |
0.0082 |
271 |
1 |
51.56 |
2008-11-11 |
| 67. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
51.09 |
0.9164 |
-0.0116 |
305 |
1 |
51.09 |
2008-11-12 |
| 68. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
51.08 |
1.0337 |
-0.1345 |
214 |
1 |
51.08 |
2008-11-11 |
| 69. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
50.86 |
0.9266 |
-0.0289 |
278 |
1 |
50.86 |
2008-11-11 |
| 70. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
50.57 |
0.8996 |
-0.0144 |
192 |
1 |
50.57 |
2008-11-11 |
| 71. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
50.38 |
1.0062 |
-0.1189 |
288 |
1 |
50.38 |
2008-11-11 |
| 72. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
50.16 |
1.0165 |
-0.1292 |
392 |
1 |
50.16 |
2008-11-11 |
| 73. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
50.01 |
0.8770 |
0.0069 |
300 |
1 |
50.01 |
2008-11-11 |
| 74. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
49.79 |
0.9601 |
-0.0787 |
308 |
1 |
49.79 |
2008-11-14 |
| 75. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
49.63 |
1.0487 |
-0.1798 |
231 |
1 |
49.63 |
2008-11-14 |
| 76. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
49.54 |
0.9758 |
-0.1028 |
314 |
1 |
49.54 |
2008-11-11 |
| 77. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
49.30 |
0.8878 |
-0.0200 |
346 |
2 |
46.85 |
2008-11-13 |
| 78. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
48.65 |
0.9879 |
-0.1228 |
450 |
1 |
48.65 |
2008-11-14 |
| 79. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
48.06 |
0.8935 |
-0.0380 |
328 |
1 |
48.06 |
2008-11-11 |
| 80. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
47.99 |
0.9851 |
-0.1383 |
317 |
1 |
47.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 81. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
47.84 |
0.9168 |
-0.0736 |
240 |
1 |
47.84 |
2008-11-13 |
| 82. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
46.98 |
1.0183 |
-0.1974 |
191 |
1 |
46.98 |
2008-11-11 |
| 83. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
46.94 |
0.8958 |
-0.0654 |
322 |
1 |
46.94 |
2008-11-11 |
| 84. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
46.14 |
0.8961 |
-0.0880 |
189 |
1 |
46.14 |
2008-11-11 |
| 85. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
45.83 |
0.8919 |
-0.0876 |
205 |
1 |
45.83 |
2008-11-12 |
| 86. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
44.55 |
0.8533 |
-0.0691 |
232 |
2 |
41.95 |
2008-11-13 |
| 87. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
44.01 |
0.8595 |
-0.0842 |
242 |
1 |
44.01 |
2008-11-12 |
| 88. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.67 |
0.9351 |
-0.1732 |
190 |
1 |
43.67 |
2008-11-14 |
| 89. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
42.61 |
0.9514 |
-0.2026 |
237 |
1 |
42.61 |
2008-11-12 |
| 90. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.43 |
0.9084 |
-0.1769 |
404 |
1 |
41.43 |
2008-11-11 |
| 91. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
37.39 |
0.7876 |
-0.1298 |
316 |
1 |
37.39 |
2008-11-11 |
| 92. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
36.55 |
0.9278 |
-0.2849 |
295 |
1 |
36.55 |
2008-11-11 |
| 93. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
35.69 |
0.9289 |
-0.3064 |
204 |
1 |
35.69 |
2008-11-11 |
| 94. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
32.76 |
0.8971 |
-0.3193 |
266 |
1 |
32.76 |
2008-11-11 |