Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
55.53 |
1.0498 |
0.2242 |
261 |
1 |
55.53 |
2010-03-08 |
2. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
55.27 |
1.0561 |
0.2088 |
227 |
3 |
47.36 |
2010-03-08 |
3. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
52.97 |
1.0461 |
0.1700 |
318 |
2 |
47.47 |
2010-10-31 |
4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
52.17 |
1.0672 |
0.1270 |
239 |
3 |
47.71 |
2010-05-16 |
5. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
51.47 |
0.8775 |
0.2964 |
185 |
1 |
51.47 |
2011-03-24 |
6. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
50.96 |
1.1095 |
0.0604 |
252 |
1 |
50.96 |
2012-01-10 |
7. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
50.74 |
1.0640 |
0.1043 |
210 |
1 |
50.74 |
2010-06-15 |
8. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
50.59 |
1.0060 |
0.1597 |
244 |
1 |
50.59 |
2009-12-26 |
9. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
50.58 |
1.0836 |
0.0786 |
206 |
1 |
50.58 |
2011-03-24 |
10. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
50.45 |
0.8913 |
0.2660 |
201 |
2 |
43.76 |
2011-03-24 |
11. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
49.82 |
0.9917 |
0.1517 |
317 |
5 |
41.43 |
2011-03-24 |
12. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
49.68 |
1.0509 |
0.0947 |
295 |
2 |
45.71 |
2010-03-08 |
13. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
49.39 |
1.0268 |
0.0977 |
179 |
1 |
49.39 |
2010-03-08 |
14. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
49.19 |
0.9203 |
0.2093 |
350 |
1 |
49.19 |
2010-10-31 |
15. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.19 |
1.0333 |
0.0884 |
176 |
2 |
45.68 |
2011-03-24 |
16. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
49.07 |
0.9981 |
0.1250 |
211 |
1 |
49.07 |
2008-12-12 |
17. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
48.20 |
0.9927 |
0.1132 |
262 |
1 |
48.20 |
2008-12-13 |
18. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
48.17 |
0.9644 |
0.1420 |
398 |
2 |
46.30 |
2009-12-26 |
19. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
48.02 |
0.9269 |
0.1808 |
269 |
1 |
48.02 |
2010-05-16 |
20. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
47.72 |
1.0501 |
0.0435 |
263 |
1 |
47.72 |
2010-06-15 |
21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.70 |
1.0018 |
0.0910 |
246 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-03-24 |
22. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
47.70 |
1.0006 |
0.0919 |
311 |
2 |
46.27 |
2009-08-15 |
23. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
47.59 |
1.1198 |
-0.0309 |
247 |
1 |
47.59 |
2009-08-15 |
24. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
47.47 |
0.8988 |
0.1876 |
193 |
1 |
47.47 |
2011-03-24 |
25. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
47.44 |
0.9765 |
0.1093 |
269 |
1 |
47.44 |
2011-03-24 |
26. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
47.41 |
0.9713 |
0.1131 |
193 |
1 |
47.41 |
2009-12-26 |
27. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
47.36 |
1.0590 |
0.0245 |
250 |
1 |
47.36 |
2010-01-10 |
28. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
47.28 |
0.8965 |
0.1868 |
150 |
1 |
47.28 |
2008-10-25 |
29. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
47.25 |
1.0063 |
0.0807 |
293 |
1 |
47.25 |
2010-05-16 |
30. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
47.15 |
1.0759 |
0.0095 |
273 |
1 |
47.15 |
2010-06-15 |
31. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
46.95 |
0.9265 |
0.1476 |
254 |
2 |
40.45 |
2010-05-16 |
32. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
46.90 |
1.0411 |
0.0347 |
341 |
1 |
46.90 |
2008-12-13 |
33. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.83 |
1.0873 |
-0.0179 |
243 |
1 |
46.83 |
2010-01-21 |
34. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
46.82 |
0.8603 |
0.2118 |
270 |
2 |
43.05 |
2009-12-26 |
35. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
46.56 |
1.0036 |
0.0636 |
277 |
1 |
46.56 |
2010-01-21 |
36. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
46.56 |
0.9866 |
0.0800 |
308 |
2 |
42.47 |
2009-08-15 |
37. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
46.44 |
0.9829 |
0.0799 |
229 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-05-16 |
38. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
46.29 |
0.9931 |
0.0630 |
218 |
1 |
46.29 |
2009-03-23 |
39. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.92 |
0.9650 |
0.0892 |
347 |
1 |
45.92 |
2009-08-15 |
40. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.89 |
1.0208 |
0.0299 |
231 |
1 |
45.89 |
2009-05-14 |
41. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.72 |
1.0287 |
0.0171 |
269 |
1 |
45.72 |
2008-12-12 |
42. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
45.66 |
0.9768 |
0.0700 |
237 |
3 |
40.56 |
2009-05-14 |
43. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
45.59 |
0.9434 |
0.1050 |
367 |
1 |
45.59 |
2009-12-26 |
44. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
45.53 |
1.0016 |
0.0393 |
217 |
1 |
45.53 |
2009-07-14 |
45. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
45.48 |
0.9922 |
0.0497 |
264 |
1 |
45.48 |
2008-12-13 |
46. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
45.44 |
0.9332 |
0.1086 |
295 |
1 |
45.44 |
2009-12-26 |
47. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
45.44 |
1.0800 |
-0.0425 |
213 |
1 |
45.44 |
2009-08-15 |
48. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
45.43 |
0.8669 |
0.1795 |
255 |
1 |
45.43 |
2008-12-12 |
49. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
45.37 |
1.0079 |
0.0299 |
273 |
2 |
40.73 |
2009-12-26 |
50. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
45.27 |
0.9271 |
0.1119 |
323 |
1 |
45.27 |
2010-06-15 |
51. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
45.18 |
0.9704 |
0.0640 |
254 |
1 |
45.18 |
2008-10-25 |
52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
45.12 |
1.0267 |
0.0094 |
261 |
1 |
45.12 |
2008-12-13 |
53. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.03 |
0.9001 |
0.1313 |
217 |
1 |
45.03 |
2008-10-25 |
54. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
44.90 |
0.9621 |
0.0630 |
201 |
2 |
39.74 |
2008-10-25 |
55. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
44.89 |
1.0165 |
0.0105 |
316 |
1 |
44.89 |
2008-10-25 |
56. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.84 |
0.9594 |
0.0654 |
258 |
2 |
43.32 |
2009-07-14 |
57. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
44.74 |
1.0181 |
0.0075 |
276 |
2 |
41.65 |
2008-12-13 |
58. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
44.73 |
1.0341 |
-0.0106 |
273 |
2 |
42.96 |
2008-12-12 |
59. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
44.71 |
1.0472 |
-0.0299 |
149 |
1 |
44.71 |
2008-10-24 |
60. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
44.52 |
0.9183 |
0.1018 |
308 |
1 |
44.52 |
2008-12-12 |
61. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
44.50 |
1.0585 |
-0.0369 |
226 |
1 |
44.50 |
2009-12-26 |
62. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
44.28 |
1.0194 |
-0.0078 |
224 |
1 |
44.28 |
2010-03-08 |
63. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
44.24 |
1.0521 |
-0.0449 |
197 |
1 |
44.24 |
2008-10-25 |
64. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
44.23 |
1.0132 |
-0.0001 |
371 |
1 |
44.23 |
2008-11-04 |
65. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
44.21 |
0.9780 |
0.0279 |
173 |
1 |
44.21 |
2008-12-13 |
66. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
44.19 |
1.0370 |
-0.0256 |
262 |
1 |
44.19 |
2009-05-14 |
67. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
44.17 |
0.8993 |
0.1147 |
366 |
1 |
44.17 |
2009-08-15 |
68. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
44.11 |
1.0059 |
0.0051 |
283 |
1 |
44.11 |
2008-11-04 |
69. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
44.02 |
1.0529 |
-0.0426 |
373 |
3 |
41.31 |
2011-11-04 |
70. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
43.89 |
0.9963 |
0.0060 |
274 |
2 |
40.54 |
2008-10-25 |
71. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
43.72 |
1.0588 |
-0.0579 |
281 |
1 |
43.72 |
2008-10-25 |
72. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
43.72 |
0.9685 |
0.0330 |
304 |
2 |
40.69 |
2010-02-04 |
73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
43.62 |
0.9503 |
0.0415 |
211 |
1 |
43.62 |
2008-11-04 |
74. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
43.59 |
0.9991 |
-0.0019 |
339 |
1 |
43.59 |
2010-01-10 |
75. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
43.59 |
0.8988 |
0.0990 |
216 |
2 |
42.63 |
2010-02-04 |
76. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
43.52 |
0.9310 |
0.0647 |
278 |
1 |
43.52 |
2009-03-23 |
77. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.38 |
1.0464 |
-0.0484 |
294 |
1 |
43.38 |
2008-12-12 |
78. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
43.30 |
1.0234 |
-0.0282 |
392 |
1 |
43.30 |
2008-12-13 |
79. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
43.28 |
0.9841 |
0.0033 |
217 |
1 |
43.28 |
2009-08-15 |
80. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
43.27 |
0.8339 |
0.1560 |
209 |
1 |
43.27 |
2009-08-15 |
81. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
43.24 |
1.1093 |
-0.1252 |
220 |
2 |
42.30 |
2008-11-04 |
82. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
42.98 |
0.9779 |
0.0044 |
255 |
1 |
42.98 |
2008-11-04 |
83. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
42.90 |
0.9680 |
0.0140 |
256 |
1 |
42.90 |
2009-05-14 |
84. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
42.89 |
1.0227 |
-0.0349 |
378 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-02-04 |
85. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
42.78 |
0.8624 |
0.1121 |
174 |
3 |
39.53 |
2009-12-26 |
86. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.70 |
0.9974 |
-0.0240 |
163 |
1 |
42.70 |
2009-07-14 |
87. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
42.69 |
0.9271 |
0.0496 |
295 |
1 |
42.69 |
2009-12-26 |
88. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
42.62 |
0.9880 |
-0.0167 |
199 |
1 |
42.62 |
2008-10-25 |
89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
42.42 |
0.9357 |
0.0330 |
204 |
2 |
42.21 |
2008-12-12 |
90. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.40 |
1.0881 |
-0.1216 |
210 |
1 |
42.40 |
2009-05-14 |
91. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.32 |
0.9166 |
0.0546 |
133 |
2 |
39.19 |
2009-12-26 |
92. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
42.31 |
0.9762 |
-0.0079 |
249 |
1 |
42.31 |
2009-08-15 |
93. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.18 |
0.9422 |
0.0180 |
190 |
2 |
38.44 |
2008-11-04 |
94. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
42.16 |
1.0638 |
-0.1009 |
247 |
1 |
42.16 |
2008-10-24 |
95. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
41.98 |
1.0197 |
-0.0608 |
204 |
1 |
41.98 |
2008-12-12 |
96. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
41.77 |
1.0270 |
-0.0705 |
303 |
1 |
41.77 |
2009-03-23 |
97. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
41.72 |
1.0111 |
-0.0442 |
452 |
1 |
41.72 |
2010-01-10 |
98. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
41.54 |
0.8986 |
0.0570 |
363 |
1 |
41.54 |
2010-01-10 |
99. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
41.50 |
1.0686 |
-0.1153 |
354 |
1 |
41.50 |
2010-03-08 |
100. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.46 |
0.9909 |
-0.0376 |
293 |
2 |
35.74 |
2008-12-13 |
101. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.24 |
0.9597 |
-0.0158 |
251 |
2 |
40.12 |
2008-12-13 |
102. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
41.19 |
0.9068 |
0.0338 |
212 |
3 |
38.84 |
2010-01-10 |
103. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
40.94 |
1.0639 |
-0.1260 |
303 |
1 |
40.94 |
2008-10-25 |
104. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.81 |
0.8815 |
0.0572 |
296 |
1 |
40.81 |
2009-03-23 |
105. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
40.72 |
1.0777 |
-0.1481 |
226 |
1 |
40.72 |
2008-11-04 |
106. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
40.59 |
0.8845 |
0.0455 |
239 |
1 |
40.59 |
2009-07-14 |
107. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
40.58 |
1.0372 |
-0.1091 |
249 |
1 |
40.58 |
2010-01-10 |
108. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
40.52 |
0.8925 |
0.0416 |
293 |
1 |
40.52 |
2008-11-04 |
109. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.50 |
0.9084 |
0.0197 |
271 |
1 |
40.50 |
2008-10-24 |
110. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
40.35 |
0.9583 |
-0.0346 |
237 |
1 |
40.35 |
2008-12-12 |
111. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
40.29 |
1.0414 |
-0.1205 |
234 |
1 |
40.29 |
2008-10-24 |
112. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
40.18 |
1.0291 |
-0.1119 |
240 |
1 |
40.18 |
2008-10-24 |
113. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
40.15 |
0.9162 |
0.0036 |
401 |
1 |
40.15 |
2011-03-24 |
114. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
40.09 |
1.0426 |
-0.1294 |
131 |
1 |
40.09 |
2008-12-12 |
115. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
40.04 |
1.0418 |
-0.1250 |
214 |
1 |
40.04 |
2008-10-24 |
116. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
40.03 |
1.0130 |
-0.0971 |
288 |
1 |
40.03 |
2009-07-14 |
117. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
39.91 |
1.0800 |
-0.1740 |
129 |
1 |
39.91 |
2008-10-24 |
118. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
39.74 |
1.0086 |
-0.1038 |
218 |
1 |
39.74 |
2011-03-24 |
119. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
39.68 |
0.9324 |
-0.0217 |
246 |
1 |
39.68 |
2008-12-12 |
120. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
39.60 |
0.9873 |
-0.0826 |
274 |
1 |
39.60 |
2009-12-26 |
121. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
39.55 |
1.0125 |
-0.1092 |
232 |
1 |
39.55 |
2008-10-25 |
122. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
39.43 |
1.0250 |
-0.1201 |
271 |
1 |
39.43 |
2008-10-24 |
123. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
38.92 |
0.9392 |
-0.0429 |
360 |
2 |
38.27 |
2009-12-26 |
124. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.82 |
1.0567 |
-0.1691 |
314 |
1 |
38.82 |
2008-12-13 |
125. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
38.81 |
0.8837 |
0.0033 |
157 |
1 |
38.81 |
2009-12-26 |
126. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
37.76 |
0.9836 |
-0.1200 |
289 |
1 |
37.76 |
2009-03-23 |
127. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
37.69 |
0.9807 |
-0.1304 |
129 |
1 |
37.69 |
2008-10-25 |
128. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
37.45 |
0.9869 |
-0.1341 |
193 |
2 |
35.63 |
2008-10-25 |
129. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
37.16 |
0.9927 |
-0.1463 |
234 |
1 |
37.16 |
2008-10-24 |
130. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.55 |
0.9425 |
-0.1061 |
248 |
1 |
36.55 |
2008-11-04 |
131. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
36.46 |
1.0272 |
-0.1957 |
226 |
1 |
36.46 |
2008-10-24 |
132. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
36.39 |
0.8847 |
-0.0549 |
282 |
1 |
36.39 |
2009-03-23 |
133. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
36.09 |
0.8656 |
-0.0393 |
242 |
1 |
36.09 |
2008-10-24 |
134. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
36.05 |
0.8381 |
-0.0104 |
283 |
2 |
35.73 |
2008-11-04 |
135. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
35.36 |
0.9538 |
-0.1458 |
276 |
1 |
35.36 |
2008-10-24 |
136. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
34.67 |
0.9023 |
-0.1113 |
268 |
1 |
34.67 |
2008-11-04 |
137. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
34.65 |
0.9380 |
-0.1476 |
284 |
1 |
34.65 |
2008-10-25 |
138. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
34.45 |
0.9103 |
-0.1232 |
269 |
1 |
34.45 |
2008-11-04 |
139. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.29 |
0.8127 |
-0.0327 |
167 |
1 |
34.29 |
2008-10-25 |
140. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.98 |
1.0682 |
-0.2906 |
266 |
1 |
33.98 |
2009-12-26 |
141. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
33.22 |
0.9243 |
-0.1651 |
231 |
1 |
33.22 |
2010-05-16 |
142. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.16 |
0.9931 |
-0.2310 |
339 |
1 |
33.16 |
2008-10-25 |
143. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
24.76 |
1.0042 |
-0.4439 |
168 |
1 |
24.76 |
2008-11-04 |