| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
154.03 |
1.0767 |
0.1478 |
212 |
1 |
154.03 |
2010-02-10 |
| 2. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
141.92 |
1.0004 |
0.1227 |
212 |
1 |
141.92 |
2009-10-21 |
| 3. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
141.91 |
1.0907 |
0.0407 |
303 |
1 |
141.91 |
2009-10-05 |
| 4. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
140.68 |
0.9786 |
0.1401 |
235 |
1 |
140.68 |
2009-10-21 |
| 5. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
140.16 |
0.9943 |
0.1238 |
373 |
1 |
140.16 |
2009-10-15 |
| 6. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
138.08 |
1.0829 |
0.0169 |
288 |
1 |
138.08 |
2009-10-05 |
| 7. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
137.78 |
1.0441 |
0.0531 |
252 |
1 |
137.78 |
2009-10-05 |
| 8. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
136.36 |
1.0419 |
0.0423 |
261 |
1 |
136.36 |
2009-11-20 |
| 9. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
136.13 |
0.9691 |
0.1130 |
223 |
1 |
136.13 |
2009-10-09 |
| 10. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
135.91 |
0.9905 |
0.0984 |
377 |
1 |
135.91 |
2009-11-20 |
| 11. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
135.90 |
1.0109 |
0.1027 |
400 |
1 |
135.90 |
2009-10-05 |
| 12. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
134.55 |
1.0521 |
0.0127 |
171 |
2 |
130.24 |
2010-03-02 |
| 13. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
134.34 |
0.9833 |
0.0866 |
355 |
2 |
132.80 |
2009-10-19 |
| 14. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
133.85 |
1.0316 |
0.0367 |
333 |
1 |
133.85 |
2009-10-09 |
| 15. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
133.47 |
1.0154 |
0.0956 |
351 |
2 |
123.04 |
2009-10-14 |
| 16. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
133.38 |
1.0477 |
0.0152 |
360 |
2 |
124.63 |
2010-03-24 |
| 17. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
133.28 |
0.9857 |
0.0730 |
293 |
1 |
133.28 |
2009-10-19 |
| 18. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
133.08 |
0.9513 |
0.1105 |
354 |
2 |
122.86 |
2009-11-11 |
| 19. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
133.04 |
0.9430 |
0.1075 |
211 |
1 |
133.04 |
2010-03-02 |
| 20. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
132.54 |
0.9831 |
0.0785 |
469 |
1 |
132.54 |
2009-10-09 |
| 21. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
132.47 |
1.0063 |
0.0470 |
371 |
1 |
132.47 |
2009-11-18 |
| 22. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
132.46 |
1.0203 |
0.0362 |
261 |
1 |
132.46 |
2010-02-10 |
| 23. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
132.15 |
1.0796 |
-0.0344 |
129 |
1 |
132.15 |
2009-10-05 |
| 24. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
129.83 |
1.0528 |
-0.0256 |
201 |
1 |
129.83 |
2010-03-02 |
| 25. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
129.43 |
0.9731 |
0.0430 |
129 |
2 |
128.74 |
2009-10-19 |
| 26. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
129.26 |
1.0165 |
0.0147 |
392 |
2 |
126.61 |
2009-10-19 |
| 27. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
128.96 |
1.0131 |
0.0080 |
225 |
1 |
128.96 |
2009-10-19 |
| 28. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
128.52 |
0.9411 |
0.0810 |
318 |
1 |
128.52 |
2009-10-30 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
125.95 |
1.0138 |
-0.0135 |
231 |
1 |
125.95 |
2009-11-18 |
| 30. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
125.74 |
0.9540 |
0.0430 |
285 |
2 |
114.07 |
2010-03-02 |
| 31. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
124.92 |
0.9772 |
0.0119 |
217 |
2 |
118.73 |
2010-01-14 |
| 32. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
123.93 |
1.0296 |
-0.0386 |
437 |
1 |
123.93 |
2009-10-19 |
| 33. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
123.44 |
1.0399 |
-0.0541 |
294 |
1 |
123.44 |
2010-03-24 |
| 34. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
123.02 |
1.0214 |
-0.0457 |
269 |
1 |
123.02 |
2009-10-21 |
| 35. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
122.69 |
0.9879 |
-0.0044 |
450 |
1 |
122.69 |
2009-11-20 |
| 36. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
122.37 |
1.0251 |
-0.0553 |
261 |
1 |
122.37 |
2009-10-09 |
| 37. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
122.32 |
0.9426 |
0.0319 |
317 |
1 |
122.32 |
2009-11-18 |
| 38. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
122.30 |
0.9684 |
0.0054 |
388 |
1 |
122.30 |
2010-03-09 |
| 39. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
122.19 |
0.9330 |
0.0442 |
360 |
1 |
122.19 |
2009-10-09 |
| 40. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
121.20 |
0.9672 |
0.0018 |
396 |
1 |
121.20 |
2009-12-11 |
| 41. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
120.29 |
0.8996 |
0.0500 |
192 |
1 |
120.29 |
2009-11-18 |
| 42. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
120.28 |
1.0795 |
-0.0941 |
226 |
1 |
120.28 |
2010-01-14 |
| 43. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
119.75 |
0.9986 |
-0.0473 |
283 |
1 |
119.75 |
2009-10-05 |
| 44. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
119.35 |
1.0025 |
-0.0539 |
336 |
1 |
119.35 |
2009-10-30 |
| 45. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
118.74 |
0.9168 |
0.0274 |
240 |
1 |
118.74 |
2010-02-11 |
| 46. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
118.71 |
0.8845 |
0.0580 |
273 |
1 |
118.71 |
2009-10-05 |
| 47. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
117.99 |
0.8933 |
0.0498 |
363 |
1 |
117.99 |
2010-03-02 |
| 48. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
117.74 |
0.9351 |
-0.0060 |
190 |
1 |
117.74 |
2009-10-05 |
| 49. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
117.34 |
0.9769 |
-0.0474 |
263 |
1 |
117.34 |
2009-10-09 |
| 50. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
116.37 |
0.8553 |
0.0633 |
174 |
1 |
116.37 |
2010-03-09 |
| 51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
115.00 |
0.9907 |
-0.0796 |
211 |
1 |
115.00 |
2009-10-05 |
| 52. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
114.35 |
0.9097 |
0.0396 |
464 |
1 |
114.35 |
2009-10-19 |
| 53. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
114.02 |
0.9164 |
-0.0066 |
305 |
1 |
114.02 |
2009-10-05 |
| 54. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
113.93 |
1.0197 |
-0.1186 |
226 |
1 |
113.93 |
2009-11-20 |
| 55. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
113.68 |
0.9614 |
-0.0562 |
292 |
1 |
113.68 |
2010-01-14 |
| 56. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
113.55 |
1.0679 |
-0.1471 |
177 |
1 |
113.55 |
2010-01-14 |
| 57. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
112.35 |
0.9045 |
-0.0126 |
235 |
1 |
112.35 |
2009-10-05 |
| 58. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
110.82 |
0.9612 |
-0.0820 |
256 |
1 |
110.82 |
2010-03-02 |
| 59. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
110.44 |
1.0177 |
-0.1036 |
392 |
1 |
110.44 |
2009-10-05 |
| 60. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
109.60 |
0.9665 |
-0.0481 |
326 |
1 |
109.60 |
2010-03-09 |
| 61. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
109.30 |
0.9372 |
-0.0660 |
320 |
1 |
109.30 |
2009-10-16 |
| 62. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
108.96 |
0.9846 |
-0.1223 |
281 |
1 |
108.96 |
2009-10-05 |
| 63. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
106.83 |
1.0352 |
-0.1851 |
341 |
1 |
106.83 |
2010-01-14 |
| 64. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
100.86 |
0.9622 |
-0.1569 |
392 |
1 |
100.86 |
2009-10-09 |
| 65. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
98.83 |
0.8826 |
-0.0986 |
296 |
1 |
98.83 |
2009-10-05 |
| 66. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
96.52 |
0.7876 |
-0.0212 |
316 |
1 |
96.52 |
2010-03-09 |