| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
43.48 |
1.0462 |
0.2173 |
184 |
2 |
37.17 |
2009-09-22 |
| 2. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.94 |
1.0788 |
0.1693 |
171 |
3 |
37.57 |
2009-09-24 |
| 3. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.23 |
1.0214 |
0.2059 |
166 |
1 |
42.23 |
2009-09-23 |
| 4. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
42.22 |
1.0787 |
0.1524 |
237 |
2 |
37.65 |
2009-09-22 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.35 |
1.0796 |
0.1224 |
129 |
1 |
41.35 |
2009-09-11 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
40.94 |
1.0529 |
0.1417 |
351 |
1 |
40.94 |
2009-09-22 |
| 7. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
39.84 |
0.8910 |
0.2729 |
150 |
3 |
38.69 |
2009-09-23 |
| 8. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
39.68 |
1.0389 |
0.1203 |
318 |
3 |
38.27 |
2009-09-10 |
| 9. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.15 |
1.0528 |
0.0841 |
201 |
1 |
39.15 |
2009-09-18 |
| 10. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
38.69 |
0.8125 |
0.3183 |
197 |
4 |
32.70 |
2009-09-09 |
| 11. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
38.61 |
1.0795 |
0.0770 |
226 |
2 |
38.15 |
2009-09-18 |
| 12. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
38.21 |
0.8745 |
0.2375 |
169 |
1 |
38.21 |
2009-09-11 |
| 13. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
38.11 |
0.9772 |
0.1305 |
217 |
1 |
38.11 |
2009-09-14 |
| 14. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
37.98 |
1.0214 |
0.0843 |
269 |
3 |
32.37 |
2009-09-10 |
| 15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.94 |
1.0390 |
0.0634 |
205 |
3 |
33.57 |
2009-09-09 |
| 16. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
37.90 |
1.0016 |
0.0988 |
218 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-09-08 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
37.89 |
1.0711 |
0.0285 |
213 |
2 |
35.77 |
2009-09-23 |
| 18. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
37.78 |
0.9884 |
0.1174 |
262 |
1 |
37.78 |
2009-09-21 |
| 19. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
37.53 |
1.0521 |
0.0372 |
171 |
1 |
37.53 |
2009-09-07 |
| 20. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
37.52 |
0.9866 |
0.1035 |
218 |
1 |
37.52 |
2009-09-18 |
| 21. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
37.27 |
0.8731 |
0.2203 |
199 |
1 |
37.27 |
2009-09-10 |
| 22. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
37.27 |
1.0385 |
0.0461 |
230 |
2 |
36.79 |
2009-09-18 |
| 23. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
37.19 |
1.0023 |
0.0799 |
211 |
3 |
30.51 |
2009-09-21 |
| 24. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
37.17 |
0.8295 |
0.2558 |
209 |
2 |
34.19 |
2009-09-07 |
| 25. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
37.17 |
1.0483 |
0.0322 |
227 |
1 |
37.17 |
2009-09-11 |
| 26. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.10 |
0.9710 |
0.1039 |
173 |
2 |
36.97 |
2009-09-18 |
| 27. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
37.06 |
0.9572 |
0.1219 |
201 |
2 |
35.58 |
2009-09-07 |
| 28. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
36.99 |
1.0799 |
-0.0054 |
243 |
1 |
36.99 |
2009-09-08 |
| 29. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
36.94 |
0.8892 |
0.1935 |
207 |
3 |
32.19 |
2009-09-07 |
| 30. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
36.81 |
0.8788 |
0.1906 |
134 |
3 |
36.42 |
2009-09-14 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.75 |
1.0213 |
0.0466 |
240 |
4 |
35.62 |
2009-09-21 |
| 32. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
36.67 |
0.9309 |
0.1359 |
284 |
2 |
36.60 |
2009-09-14 |
| 33. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
36.53 |
0.9943 |
0.0735 |
373 |
2 |
35.83 |
2009-09-10 |
| 34. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
36.43 |
1.0331 |
0.0264 |
234 |
2 |
36.16 |
2009-09-18 |
| 35. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
36.42 |
1.0074 |
0.0559 |
242 |
3 |
34.57 |
2009-09-07 |
| 36. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
36.23 |
1.0441 |
0.0132 |
252 |
1 |
36.23 |
2009-09-10 |
| 37. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
36.19 |
0.7981 |
0.2541 |
126 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-09-06 |
| 38. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
36.18 |
0.9820 |
0.0725 |
274 |
3 |
32.83 |
2009-09-11 |
| 39. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
36.17 |
1.0516 |
0.0020 |
281 |
2 |
35.25 |
2009-09-10 |
| 40. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
36.02 |
1.0523 |
-0.0070 |
256 |
1 |
36.02 |
2009-09-07 |
| 41. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
35.90 |
0.8919 |
0.1563 |
152 |
1 |
35.90 |
2009-09-10 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
35.83 |
1.0063 |
0.0381 |
371 |
1 |
35.83 |
2009-09-07 |
| 43. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
35.82 |
1.0211 |
0.0533 |
213 |
2 |
32.35 |
2009-09-07 |
| 44. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
35.70 |
1.1014 |
-0.0235 |
273 |
1 |
35.70 |
2009-09-08 |
| 45. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
35.53 |
0.9612 |
0.0739 |
256 |
2 |
32.73 |
2009-09-08 |
| 46. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
35.52 |
0.8811 |
0.1583 |
239 |
2 |
32.60 |
2009-09-24 |
| 47. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
35.47 |
0.8666 |
0.1697 |
150 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-09-08 |
| 48. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
35.45 |
0.8533 |
0.1805 |
232 |
1 |
35.45 |
2009-09-07 |
| 49. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
35.36 |
0.9350 |
0.0959 |
195 |
2 |
33.23 |
2009-09-07 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
35.21 |
1.0334 |
-0.0142 |
131 |
1 |
35.21 |
2009-09-07 |
| 51. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
35.16 |
0.8506 |
0.1694 |
132 |
1 |
35.16 |
2009-09-10 |
| 52. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
35.14 |
0.8615 |
0.1622 |
110 |
2 |
31.76 |
2009-09-18 |
| 53. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
34.92 |
0.9795 |
0.0376 |
308 |
2 |
34.46 |
2009-09-18 |
| 54. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.81 |
1.0138 |
-0.0003 |
231 |
1 |
34.81 |
2009-09-09 |
| 55. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.67 |
0.8809 |
0.1266 |
127 |
1 |
34.67 |
2009-09-09 |
| 56. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
34.66 |
0.9019 |
0.1127 |
204 |
2 |
33.70 |
2009-09-18 |
| 57. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.61 |
1.0125 |
-0.0068 |
224 |
1 |
34.61 |
2009-09-10 |
| 58. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
34.48 |
1.0577 |
-0.0571 |
247 |
1 |
34.48 |
2009-09-08 |
| 59. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.40 |
0.9128 |
0.0945 |
133 |
1 |
34.40 |
2009-09-08 |
| 60. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
34.37 |
1.0349 |
-0.0347 |
234 |
2 |
33.24 |
2009-09-08 |
| 61. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
34.31 |
0.9068 |
0.0953 |
269 |
1 |
34.31 |
2009-09-08 |
| 62. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
34.28 |
0.9339 |
0.0628 |
310 |
1 |
34.28 |
2009-09-10 |
| 63. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
34.20 |
1.0251 |
-0.0314 |
261 |
2 |
33.73 |
2009-09-07 |
| 64. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
34.18 |
1.0696 |
-0.0778 |
226 |
1 |
34.18 |
2009-09-08 |
| 65. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
34.18 |
0.9212 |
0.0779 |
231 |
1 |
34.18 |
2009-09-06 |
| 66. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
34.14 |
1.0767 |
-0.0848 |
212 |
1 |
34.14 |
2009-09-07 |
| 67. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
33.76 |
0.8936 |
0.0877 |
127 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-09-07 |
| 68. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
33.68 |
0.8739 |
0.1026 |
136 |
1 |
33.68 |
2009-09-08 |
| 69. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
33.62 |
0.8792 |
0.1089 |
296 |
2 |
33.12 |
2009-09-07 |
| 70. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.61 |
0.9776 |
0.0011 |
308 |
1 |
33.61 |
2009-09-11 |
| 71. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
33.19 |
0.8700 |
0.0954 |
127 |
1 |
33.19 |
2009-09-03 |
| 72. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.09 |
0.9863 |
-0.0188 |
339 |
2 |
31.10 |
2009-09-07 |
| 73. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.08 |
0.9351 |
0.0222 |
190 |
1 |
33.08 |
2009-09-08 |
| 74. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
32.80 |
1.0669 |
-0.0800 |
286 |
1 |
32.80 |
2009-09-09 |
| 75. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
32.72 |
1.0004 |
-0.0543 |
212 |
1 |
32.72 |
2009-09-09 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
32.71 |
0.9342 |
0.0212 |
434 |
1 |
32.71 |
2009-09-08 |
| 77. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
32.46 |
0.7850 |
0.1560 |
154 |
1 |
32.46 |
2009-09-03 |
| 78. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.34 |
0.9965 |
-0.0603 |
168 |
2 |
32.05 |
2009-09-08 |
| 79. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
32.20 |
0.9325 |
-0.0023 |
156 |
3 |
31.12 |
2009-09-06 |
| 80. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
32.14 |
0.9786 |
-0.0440 |
235 |
1 |
32.14 |
2009-09-07 |
| 81. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
32.12 |
0.9884 |
-0.0547 |
233 |
1 |
32.12 |
2009-09-08 |
| 82. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
32.08 |
0.8070 |
0.1232 |
167 |
2 |
29.15 |
2009-09-07 |
| 83. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
31.91 |
0.8852 |
0.0435 |
158 |
1 |
31.91 |
2009-09-06 |
| 84. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
31.87 |
1.0120 |
-0.0857 |
290 |
1 |
31.87 |
2009-09-10 |
| 85. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
31.69 |
0.9084 |
0.0152 |
300 |
1 |
31.69 |
2009-09-08 |
| 86. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
31.65 |
0.9429 |
-0.0209 |
287 |
1 |
31.65 |
2009-09-07 |
| 87. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
31.58 |
0.8559 |
0.0635 |
191 |
1 |
31.58 |
2009-09-07 |
| 88. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
31.56 |
1.0053 |
-0.0893 |
232 |
1 |
31.56 |
2009-09-09 |
| 89. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
31.45 |
0.9164 |
0.0019 |
121 |
1 |
31.45 |
2009-09-06 |
| 90. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.38 |
0.8709 |
0.0497 |
202 |
1 |
31.38 |
2009-09-09 |
| 91. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
31.28 |
1.0346 |
-0.0829 |
244 |
1 |
31.28 |
2009-09-06 |
| 92. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
31.22 |
0.8890 |
0.0154 |
199 |
2 |
29.63 |
2009-09-07 |
| 93. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
31.14 |
0.8821 |
0.0230 |
176 |
1 |
31.14 |
2009-09-06 |
| 94. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
30.87 |
0.8442 |
0.0575 |
265 |
1 |
30.87 |
2009-09-07 |
| 95. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
30.79 |
0.8105 |
0.0805 |
204 |
1 |
30.79 |
2009-09-09 |
| 96. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
30.73 |
0.8810 |
0.0133 |
282 |
1 |
30.73 |
2009-09-06 |
| 97. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
30.69 |
1.0252 |
-0.1394 |
176 |
1 |
30.69 |
2009-09-03 |
| 98. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
30.55 |
1.0666 |
-0.1783 |
297 |
1 |
30.55 |
2009-09-06 |
| 99. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.46 |
1.0168 |
-0.1298 |
271 |
1 |
30.46 |
2009-09-03 |
| 100. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
30.19 |
0.8153 |
0.0671 |
200 |
1 |
30.19 |
2009-09-09 |
| 101. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
30.16 |
0.8793 |
-0.0010 |
157 |
1 |
30.16 |
2009-09-06 |
| 102. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
30.13 |
0.9161 |
-0.0423 |
200 |
1 |
30.13 |
2009-09-06 |
| 103. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
30.10 |
0.9263 |
-0.0479 |
188 |
1 |
30.10 |
2009-09-06 |
| 104. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
30.06 |
0.9063 |
-0.0245 |
239 |
1 |
30.06 |
2009-09-06 |
| 105. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
29.95 |
1.0444 |
-0.1805 |
197 |
1 |
29.95 |
2009-09-03 |
| 106. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.79 |
0.9731 |
-0.1198 |
129 |
1 |
29.79 |
2009-09-06 |
| 107. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
29.77 |
0.7259 |
0.1452 |
186 |
1 |
29.77 |
2009-09-07 |
| 108. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
29.52 |
0.7818 |
0.0753 |
195 |
2 |
28.74 |
2009-09-06 |
| 109. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
29.33 |
1.0496 |
-0.1981 |
314 |
1 |
29.33 |
2009-09-06 |
| 110. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
29.04 |
1.0183 |
-0.1802 |
191 |
1 |
29.04 |
2009-09-06 |
| 111. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
28.76 |
0.8971 |
-0.0564 |
266 |
1 |
28.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 112. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
28.44 |
0.9221 |
-0.0976 |
244 |
1 |
28.44 |
2009-09-06 |
| 113. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
28.27 |
0.9769 |
-0.1580 |
263 |
1 |
28.27 |
2009-09-06 |
| 114. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
27.92 |
0.9226 |
-0.1082 |
177 |
1 |
27.92 |
2009-09-03 |
| 115. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
27.80 |
0.9684 |
-0.1586 |
388 |
1 |
27.80 |
2009-09-03 |
| 116. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
27.68 |
0.9729 |
-0.1691 |
255 |
1 |
27.68 |
2009-09-03 |
| 117. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
27.12 |
0.9127 |
-0.1280 |
252 |
1 |
27.12 |
2009-09-03 |
| 118. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
27.03 |
0.8096 |
-0.0173 |
209 |
1 |
27.03 |
2009-09-06 |
| 119. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
26.54 |
0.9756 |
-0.2070 |
229 |
1 |
26.54 |
2009-09-03 |
| 120. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
26.18 |
0.8975 |
-0.1377 |
268 |
1 |
26.18 |
2009-09-03 |
| 121. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
26.13 |
0.8162 |
-0.0533 |
149 |
1 |
26.13 |
2009-09-03 |
| 122. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
25.44 |
0.8037 |
-0.0635 |
148 |
1 |
25.44 |
2009-09-03 |
| 123. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
25.39 |
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