| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
116.77 |
1.0829 |
0.1547 |
288 |
3 |
105.15 |
2008-11-02 |
| 2. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
111.52 |
1.0486 |
0.1321 |
289 |
4 |
100.23 |
2008-11-04 |
| 3. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
108.97 |
0.9886 |
0.1665 |
220 |
2 |
98.07 |
2008-11-05 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
108.44 |
1.1016 |
0.0455 |
233 |
1 |
108.44 |
2008-11-05 |
| 5. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
107.81 |
1.0787 |
0.0602 |
237 |
1 |
107.81 |
2008-11-02 |
| 6. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
107.14 |
1.0477 |
0.0878 |
360 |
2 |
98.80 |
2008-11-05 |
| 7. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
106.59 |
1.0454 |
0.0781 |
255 |
1 |
106.59 |
2008-11-05 |
| 8. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
105.72 |
1.0396 |
0.0711 |
149 |
1 |
105.72 |
2008-11-03 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
105.38 |
1.0337 |
0.0799 |
214 |
4 |
97.15 |
2008-11-05 |
| 10. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
105.36 |
1.0352 |
0.0814 |
341 |
2 |
104.43 |
2008-11-05 |
| 11. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
105.33 |
1.0261 |
0.0857 |
273 |
2 |
99.14 |
2008-11-04 |
| 12. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
105.18 |
1.0197 |
0.0895 |
226 |
1 |
105.18 |
2008-11-02 |
| 13. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
105.16 |
0.9213 |
0.1911 |
295 |
4 |
96.90 |
2008-11-05 |
| 14. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
105.09 |
1.0368 |
0.0752 |
276 |
2 |
99.62 |
2008-11-05 |
| 15. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
104.67 |
0.9351 |
0.1660 |
190 |
3 |
91.00 |
2008-11-05 |
| 16. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
103.97 |
1.0523 |
0.0426 |
256 |
3 |
101.84 |
2008-11-04 |
| 17. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
103.46 |
0.9005 |
0.1917 |
212 |
5 |
93.82 |
2008-11-05 |
| 18. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
103.20 |
0.9675 |
0.1329 |
383 |
1 |
103.20 |
2008-11-02 |
| 19. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
101.14 |
0.9740 |
0.0908 |
209 |
2 |
96.54 |
2008-11-05 |
| 20. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
101.10 |
0.9946 |
0.0737 |
246 |
1 |
101.10 |
2008-11-02 |
| 21. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
100.82 |
1.0619 |
0.0072 |
354 |
1 |
100.82 |
2008-11-04 |
| 22. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
100.77 |
0.9966 |
0.0677 |
259 |
3 |
95.46 |
2008-11-03 |
| 23. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
100.75 |
0.9846 |
0.0790 |
281 |
2 |
99.06 |
2008-11-05 |
| 24. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
100.54 |
1.0025 |
0.0599 |
256 |
1 |
100.54 |
2008-11-02 |
| 25. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
100.14 |
1.0095 |
0.0476 |
316 |
4 |
93.51 |
2008-11-05 |
| 26. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
100.00 |
1.0613 |
-0.0037 |
266 |
2 |
99.75 |
2008-11-05 |
| 27. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
99.92 |
0.9997 |
0.0597 |
382 |
1 |
99.92 |
2008-11-02 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
99.62 |
0.9820 |
0.0734 |
267 |
1 |
99.62 |
2008-11-02 |
| 29. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
98.93 |
1.1114 |
-0.0688 |
247 |
1 |
98.93 |
2008-11-04 |
| 30. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
98.90 |
1.0120 |
0.0321 |
290 |
1 |
98.90 |
2008-11-02 |
| 31. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
98.41 |
1.0168 |
0.0243 |
271 |
1 |
98.41 |
2008-11-03 |
| 32. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
98.26 |
0.8852 |
0.1550 |
201 |
1 |
98.26 |
2008-11-05 |
| 33. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
98.13 |
1.0788 |
-0.0477 |
171 |
1 |
98.13 |
2008-11-04 |
| 34. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
98.12 |
0.9532 |
0.0821 |
258 |
1 |
98.12 |
2008-11-05 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
98.05 |
1.0063 |
0.0299 |
371 |
1 |
98.05 |
2008-11-02 |
| 36. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
97.85 |
0.9894 |
0.0487 |
323 |
1 |
97.85 |
2008-11-05 |
| 37. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
97.84 |
1.0385 |
-0.0067 |
230 |
1 |
97.84 |
2008-11-03 |
| 38. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
97.66 |
0.9636 |
0.0680 |
254 |
1 |
97.66 |
2008-11-05 |
| 39. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
97.65 |
0.9863 |
0.0497 |
339 |
1 |
97.65 |
2008-11-05 |
| 40. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
97.65 |
1.0203 |
0.0147 |
261 |
2 |
97.51 |
2008-11-05 |
| 41. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
96.85 |
1.0124 |
0.0082 |
204 |
1 |
96.85 |
2008-10-31 |
| 42. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
96.54 |
1.0555 |
-0.0344 |
363 |
2 |
96.11 |
2008-11-04 |
| 43. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
96.37 |
1.0289 |
-0.0066 |
276 |
1 |
96.37 |
2008-10-31 |
| 44. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
96.27 |
1.0885 |
-0.0684 |
315 |
2 |
93.44 |
2008-11-04 |
| 45. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
96.14 |
1.0214 |
-0.0114 |
166 |
1 |
96.14 |
2008-11-05 |
| 46. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
96.09 |
1.0496 |
-0.0354 |
314 |
1 |
96.09 |
2008-11-01 |
| 47. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
95.95 |
1.0515 |
-0.0400 |
250 |
1 |
95.95 |
2008-11-03 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
95.86 |
0.9212 |
0.0945 |
323 |
3 |
88.20 |
2008-11-02 |
| 49. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
95.82 |
0.9464 |
0.0707 |
323 |
5 |
90.48 |
2008-11-05 |
| 50. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
95.53 |
0.9676 |
0.0496 |
442 |
1 |
95.53 |
2008-11-05 |
| 51. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
95.49 |
1.0796 |
-0.0759 |
129 |
1 |
95.49 |
2008-11-02 |
| 52. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
95.19 |
0.9907 |
0.0129 |
211 |
1 |
95.19 |
2008-11-05 |
| 53. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
95.11 |
1.0391 |
-0.0286 |
358 |
1 |
95.11 |
2008-11-05 |
| 54. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
94.83 |
0.9844 |
0.0218 |
293 |
2 |
92.25 |
2008-11-02 |
| 55. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
94.56 |
1.0004 |
-0.0080 |
212 |
1 |
94.56 |
2008-11-02 |
| 56. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
94.48 |
1.0487 |
-0.0560 |
231 |
2 |
93.88 |
2008-11-02 |
| 57. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
94.34 |
1.0516 |
-0.0558 |
281 |
1 |
94.34 |
2008-11-02 |
| 58. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
93.93 |
1.0251 |
-0.0355 |
261 |
3 |
90.86 |
2008-11-05 |
| 59. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
93.86 |
1.0389 |
-0.0455 |
340 |
1 |
93.86 |
2008-11-02 |
| 60. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
93.61 |
0.9097 |
0.1202 |
464 |
2 |
85.92 |
2008-11-05 |
| 61. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
93.45 |
0.9540 |
0.0308 |
285 |
1 |
93.45 |
2008-11-03 |
| 62. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
93.42 |
1.0201 |
-0.0298 |
375 |
1 |
93.42 |
2008-11-02 |
| 63. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
93.14 |
0.9879 |
0.0041 |
450 |
2 |
91.93 |
2008-11-02 |
| 64. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
92.75 |
0.9905 |
-0.0035 |
377 |
2 |
91.70 |
2008-11-02 |
| 65. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
92.73 |
0.9339 |
0.0435 |
310 |
2 |
92.36 |
2008-11-03 |
| 66. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
92.58 |
1.0419 |
-0.0646 |
261 |
2 |
92.38 |
2008-11-04 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
92.56 |
0.9723 |
0.0085 |
364 |
2 |
86.44 |
2008-11-05 |
| 68. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
92.43 |
0.9941 |
-0.0208 |
217 |
1 |
92.43 |
2008-11-02 |
| 69. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
92.30 |
1.0109 |
-0.0358 |
276 |
1 |
92.30 |
2008-11-02 |
| 70. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
92.24 |
1.0099 |
-0.0391 |
207 |
1 |
92.24 |
2008-11-02 |
| 71. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
92.12 |
1.0053 |
-0.0349 |
232 |
2 |
90.03 |
2008-11-05 |
| 72. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
91.90 |
0.9045 |
0.0659 |
235 |
2 |
88.27 |
2008-11-03 |
| 73. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
91.86 |
0.9429 |
0.0280 |
287 |
2 |
91.64 |
2008-11-02 |
| 74. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
91.81 |
0.9910 |
-0.0200 |
295 |
1 |
91.81 |
2008-11-05 |
| 75. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
91.71 |
0.9681 |
0.0082 |
378 |
2 |
84.15 |
2008-11-02 |
| 76. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
91.36 |
0.9266 |
0.0378 |
267 |
2 |
89.62 |
2008-11-05 |
| 77. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
91.26 |
0.9275 |
0.0324 |
211 |
1 |
91.26 |
2008-11-01 |
| 78. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
91.06 |
0.9330 |
0.0347 |
360 |
1 |
91.06 |
2008-11-05 |
| 79. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
91.05 |
0.9088 |
0.0574 |
348 |
2 |
86.25 |
2008-11-02 |
| 80. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
90.91 |
0.9991 |
-0.0391 |
225 |
2 |
89.71 |
2008-11-04 |
| 81. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
90.52 |
1.0213 |
-0.0692 |
240 |
1 |
90.52 |
2008-11-05 |
| 82. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
90.45 |
1.0201 |
-0.0724 |
172 |
2 |
85.48 |
2008-11-04 |
| 83. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
89.55 |
0.9795 |
-0.0346 |
308 |
1 |
89.55 |
2008-11-02 |
| 84. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
89.48 |
0.9965 |
-0.0571 |
168 |
2 |
88.69 |
2008-11-04 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
89.38 |
1.0131 |
-0.0739 |
225 |
2 |
84.82 |
2008-11-05 |
| 86. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
89.30 |
1.0799 |
-0.1414 |
243 |
1 |
89.30 |
2008-11-02 |
| 87. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
88.85 |
0.8595 |
0.0797 |
242 |
2 |
84.90 |
2008-11-04 |
| 88. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
88.64 |
1.0331 |
-0.1001 |
234 |
2 |
87.13 |
2008-11-04 |
| 89. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
88.63 |
0.9074 |
0.0342 |
396 |
2 |
83.53 |
2008-11-05 |
| 90. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
88.62 |
1.0441 |
-0.1076 |
252 |
1 |
88.62 |
2008-11-01 |
| 91. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
88.38 |
1.0399 |
-0.1023 |
294 |
1 |
88.38 |
2008-11-05 |
| 92. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
88.35 |
0.8916 |
0.0408 |
216 |
3 |
82.06 |
2008-11-05 |
| 93. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
88.20 |
0.9500 |
-0.0173 |
362 |
1 |
88.20 |
2008-11-04 |
| 94. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
87.94 |
0.8981 |
0.0342 |
393 |
1 |
87.94 |
2008-11-02 |
| 95. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
87.54 |
0.9632 |
-0.0334 |
392 |
1 |
87.54 |
2008-11-05 |
| 96. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
87.51 |
0.9684 |
-0.0426 |
388 |
1 |
87.51 |
2008-11-02 |
| 97. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
87.22 |
0.9342 |
-0.0107 |
434 |
1 |
87.22 |
2008-11-05 |
| 98. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
87.08 |
0.9899 |
-0.0761 |
163 |
1 |
87.08 |
2008-11-05 |
| 99. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
86.71 |
0.8947 |
0.0247 |
366 |
1 |
86.71 |
2008-11-03 |
| 100. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
86.42 |
0.9612 |
-0.0498 |
256 |
1 |
86.42 |
2008-11-04 |
| 101. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.01 |
1.0613 |
-0.1492 |
456 |
1 |
86.01 |
2008-10-31 |
| 102. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
85.83 |
0.9942 |
-0.0803 |
483 |
1 |
85.83 |
2008-11-05 |
| 103. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
85.13 |
0.9893 |
-0.0916 |
323 |
1 |
85.13 |
2008-11-05 |
| 104. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
85.06 |
0.8722 |
0.0276 |
285 |
1 |
85.06 |
2008-11-05 |
| 105. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
84.89 |
0.9309 |
-0.0377 |
284 |
2 |
81.97 |
2008-11-05 |
| 106. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
84.65 |
1.0034 |
-0.1124 |
302 |
1 |
84.65 |
2008-10-31 |
| 107. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
84.63 |
0.8753 |
0.0262 |
427 |
1 |
84.63 |
2008-11-02 |
| 108. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
84.37 |
0.9513 |
-0.0580 |
354 |
2 |
82.37 |
2008-11-05 |
| 109. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
84.26 |
0.9635 |
-0.0698 |
389 |
1 |
84.26 |
2008-10-31 |
| 110. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
83.89 |
0.9601 |
-0.0710 |
308 |
1 |
83.89 |
2008-10-31 |
| 111. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
83.81 |
0.9084 |
-0.0231 |
300 |
2 |
82.27 |
2008-11-02 |
| 112. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
83.78 |
1.0711 |
-0.1930 |
213 |
1 |
83.78 |
2008-11-05 |
| 113. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
83.76 |
0.9786 |
-0.1008 |
193 |
1 |
83.76 |
2008-11-04 |
| 114. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
83.14 |
0.9234 |
-0.0416 |
346 |
1 |
83.14 |
2008-11-04 |
| 115. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
83.05 |
1.0165 |
-0.1372 |
392 |
1 |
83.05 |
2008-11-05 |
| 116. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
82.90 |
0.9965 |
-0.1224 |
310 |
1 |
82.90 |
2008-11-03 |
| 117. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
81.57 |
0.9411 |
-0.0807 |
318 |
1 |
81.57 |
2008-11-05 |
| 118. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
80.66 |
0.9164 |
-0.0618 |
305 |
1 |
80.66 |
2008-11-05 |
| 119. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
79.81 |
0.9064 |
-0.0565 |
399 |
1 |
79.81 |
2008-10-31 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
78.57 |
0.7876 |
0.0425 |
316 |
2 |
73.21 |
2008-11-02 |
| 121. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.50 |
1.0025 |
-0.1749 |
336 |
1 |
78.50 |
2008-11-05 |
| 122. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
77.89 |
0.9468 |
-0.1271 |
276 |
1 |
77.89 |
2008-11-04 |
| 123. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
75.43 |
0.8077 |
-0.0157 |
167 |
1 |
75.43 |
2008-10-31 |
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Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
71.33 |
0.8105 |
-0.0648 |
204 |
1 |
71.33 |
2008-11-02 |