| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
48.67 |
0.9251 |
0.4667 |
177 |
2 |
40.87 |
2009-02-04 |
| 2. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
44.34 |
0.8887 |
0.3876 |
128 |
1 |
44.34 |
2008-10-15 |
| 3. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.98 |
1.0016 |
0.2457 |
218 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-05-10 |
| 4. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.29 |
1.0711 |
0.1559 |
213 |
1 |
43.29 |
2009-02-04 |
| 5. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
42.39 |
0.9196 |
0.2883 |
148 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-02-04 |
| 6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.08 |
1.0138 |
0.1831 |
231 |
1 |
42.08 |
2009-02-04 |
| 7. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.46 |
0.9128 |
0.2722 |
133 |
1 |
41.46 |
2008-10-09 |
| 8. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
41.12 |
0.9776 |
0.1923 |
308 |
1 |
41.12 |
2009-02-23 |
| 9. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
41.01 |
1.0529 |
0.1135 |
351 |
3 |
36.66 |
2009-03-06 |
| 10. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
41.00 |
1.0201 |
0.1465 |
303 |
2 |
40.33 |
2009-02-23 |
| 11. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
40.77 |
1.0263 |
0.1325 |
267 |
1 |
40.77 |
2008-10-22 |
| 12. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
40.14 |
1.0297 |
0.1106 |
249 |
1 |
40.14 |
2009-02-04 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
40.04 |
1.1114 |
0.0245 |
247 |
1 |
40.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 14. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
39.92 |
1.0063 |
0.1293 |
371 |
1 |
39.92 |
2009-02-23 |
| 15. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
39.90 |
1.0025 |
0.1320 |
256 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-02-04 |
| 16. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.81 |
0.8709 |
0.2690 |
202 |
1 |
39.81 |
2009-02-04 |
| 17. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
39.53 |
0.9910 |
0.1349 |
295 |
1 |
39.53 |
2008-10-15 |
| 18. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
39.48 |
0.9724 |
0.1537 |
237 |
1 |
39.48 |
2008-10-09 |
| 19. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
39.05 |
1.1016 |
0.0086 |
233 |
2 |
38.04 |
2009-02-05 |
| 20. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
39.03 |
1.0396 |
0.0628 |
149 |
1 |
39.03 |
2008-10-15 |
| 21. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
38.61 |
1.0013 |
0.0953 |
273 |
1 |
38.61 |
2008-10-15 |
| 22. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.56 |
1.0496 |
0.0458 |
314 |
1 |
38.56 |
2009-02-05 |
| 23. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
38.55 |
0.9084 |
0.1892 |
300 |
2 |
38.53 |
2009-02-04 |
| 24. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
38.53 |
0.9430 |
0.1449 |
211 |
2 |
35.35 |
2009-03-06 |
| 25. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
38.44 |
1.0331 |
0.0573 |
234 |
1 |
38.44 |
2008-10-15 |
| 26. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.87 |
0.9964 |
0.0799 |
203 |
1 |
37.87 |
2009-02-04 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
37.86 |
0.9316 |
0.1503 |
287 |
2 |
37.75 |
2009-02-07 |
| 28. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
37.83 |
0.8892 |
0.1919 |
207 |
1 |
37.83 |
2008-10-20 |
| 29. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
37.80 |
1.0214 |
0.0474 |
166 |
1 |
37.80 |
2009-02-05 |
| 30. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
37.74 |
0.9567 |
0.1156 |
273 |
1 |
37.74 |
2009-03-06 |
| 31. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
37.68 |
0.9886 |
0.0846 |
220 |
2 |
36.59 |
2009-11-19 |
| 32. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
37.61 |
0.9365 |
0.1336 |
248 |
2 |
34.30 |
2009-02-04 |
| 33. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
37.54 |
0.9213 |
0.1459 |
295 |
1 |
37.54 |
2009-02-04 |
| 34. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
36.89 |
0.8900 |
0.1592 |
164 |
1 |
36.89 |
2009-02-04 |
| 35. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
36.85 |
0.8975 |
0.1499 |
268 |
1 |
36.85 |
2009-02-05 |
| 36. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
36.68 |
0.8722 |
0.1727 |
285 |
1 |
36.68 |
2009-02-07 |
| 37. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
36.27 |
0.9907 |
0.0379 |
211 |
1 |
36.27 |
2009-07-16 |
| 38. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
36.20 |
0.9068 |
0.1244 |
269 |
1 |
36.20 |
2009-02-04 |
| 39. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
36.01 |
0.9740 |
0.0446 |
209 |
1 |
36.01 |
2009-02-04 |
| 40. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
36.00 |
0.9646 |
0.0569 |
264 |
1 |
36.00 |
2008-10-15 |
| 41. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
35.87 |
0.9468 |
0.0714 |
276 |
2 |
32.98 |
2009-02-04 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
35.85 |
1.0993 |
-0.0833 |
265 |
1 |
35.85 |
2008-10-20 |
| 43. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
35.77 |
0.9729 |
0.0431 |
255 |
1 |
35.77 |
2008-10-15 |
| 44. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.74 |
0.9500 |
0.0672 |
362 |
1 |
35.74 |
2009-02-04 |
| 45. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
35.63 |
0.8770 |
0.1380 |
300 |
1 |
35.63 |
2009-02-04 |
| 46. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.44 |
0.9866 |
0.0160 |
218 |
1 |
35.44 |
2008-10-09 |
| 47. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
35.44 |
0.9307 |
0.0836 |
246 |
1 |
35.44 |
2009-02-06 |
| 48. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
35.38 |
1.0197 |
-0.0180 |
226 |
2 |
35.25 |
2009-02-04 |
| 49. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.29 |
0.8971 |
0.1102 |
266 |
1 |
35.29 |
2009-02-04 |
| 50. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
35.10 |
0.8153 |
0.1860 |
200 |
1 |
35.10 |
2008-10-22 |
| 51. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
35.01 |
0.8422 |
0.1535 |
164 |
1 |
35.01 |
2008-10-09 |
| 52. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
34.66 |
1.0523 |
-0.0727 |
256 |
1 |
34.66 |
2008-10-15 |
| 53. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
34.56 |
0.9684 |
0.0153 |
388 |
1 |
34.56 |
2009-02-04 |
| 54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
34.46 |
0.9843 |
-0.0112 |
234 |
1 |
34.46 |
2009-02-04 |
| 55. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
34.45 |
0.9893 |
-0.0113 |
323 |
1 |
34.45 |
2009-02-07 |
| 56. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
34.34 |
0.8791 |
0.0947 |
190 |
1 |
34.34 |
2009-02-04 |
| 57. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
34.31 |
0.8595 |
0.1161 |
242 |
2 |
33.10 |
2008-10-20 |
| 58. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
34.00 |
1.0445 |
-0.0787 |
373 |
1 |
34.00 |
2008-10-15 |
| 59. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
33.91 |
1.0131 |
-0.0547 |
225 |
1 |
33.91 |
2008-10-22 |
| 60. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
33.81 |
0.8154 |
0.1458 |
193 |
2 |
32.68 |
2009-03-06 |
| 61. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.77 |
1.0261 |
-0.0697 |
273 |
1 |
33.77 |
2009-02-04 |
| 62. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
33.70 |
0.9572 |
-0.0020 |
201 |
1 |
33.70 |
2008-10-22 |
| 63. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.64 |
0.8602 |
0.0922 |
206 |
1 |
33.64 |
2010-05-10 |
| 64. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.61 |
0.9863 |
-0.0282 |
339 |
1 |
33.61 |
2009-02-04 |
| 65. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
33.58 |
1.0567 |
-0.1033 |
303 |
1 |
33.58 |
2008-10-15 |
| 66. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
33.21 |
0.8961 |
0.0427 |
189 |
1 |
33.21 |
2008-10-09 |
| 67. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
33.18 |
0.8382 |
0.1036 |
268 |
1 |
33.18 |
2009-02-04 |
| 68. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
33.11 |
0.9281 |
0.0163 |
273 |
1 |
33.11 |
2008-10-22 |
| 69. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.87 |
0.9682 |
-0.0377 |
143 |
1 |
32.87 |
2008-10-15 |
| 70. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
32.85 |
0.9339 |
-0.0036 |
310 |
1 |
32.85 |
2009-02-07 |
| 71. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
32.75 |
1.0029 |
-0.0803 |
209 |
1 |
32.75 |
2008-10-09 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
32.71 |
0.9636 |
-0.0359 |
254 |
1 |
32.71 |
2008-10-15 |
| 73. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.68 |
1.0337 |
-0.1073 |
214 |
1 |
32.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 74. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
32.29 |
1.0696 |
-0.1574 |
226 |
2 |
30.62 |
2008-10-09 |
| 75. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
31.99 |
0.9266 |
-0.0194 |
267 |
1 |
31.99 |
2008-10-15 |
| 76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.91 |
1.0252 |
-0.1269 |
176 |
1 |
31.91 |
2008-10-09 |
| 77. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
31.78 |
1.0334 |
-0.1388 |
131 |
1 |
31.78 |
2009-02-04 |
| 78. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
31.61 |
0.9266 |
-0.0286 |
278 |
1 |
31.61 |
2008-10-15 |
| 79. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
31.23 |
1.0521 |
-0.1716 |
171 |
1 |
31.23 |
2009-02-04 |
| 80. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
30.80 |
0.8958 |
-0.0183 |
322 |
1 |
30.80 |
2008-10-15 |
| 81. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
30.77 |
0.8295 |
0.0443 |
209 |
1 |
30.77 |
2008-10-15 |
| 82. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
30.62 |
0.8442 |
0.0275 |
265 |
1 |
30.62 |
2008-10-09 |
| 83. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
30.52 |
1.0462 |
-0.1875 |
184 |
2 |
27.84 |
2008-10-09 |
| 84. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
30.41 |
0.8105 |
0.0469 |
204 |
1 |
30.41 |
2009-02-06 |
| 85. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
30.09 |
0.8810 |
-0.0277 |
282 |
1 |
30.09 |
2008-10-09 |
| 86. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
29.84 |
0.9986 |
-0.1527 |
283 |
1 |
29.84 |
2008-10-15 |
| 87. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.74 |
0.9786 |
-0.1414 |
193 |
1 |
29.74 |
2008-10-09 |
| 88. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.58 |
0.9844 |
-0.1418 |
293 |
1 |
29.58 |
2009-02-04 |
| 89. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
29.54 |
0.9221 |
-0.0870 |
244 |
1 |
29.54 |
2008-10-09 |
| 90. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
29.49 |
0.9811 |
-0.1432 |
272 |
1 |
29.49 |
2008-10-15 |
| 91. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
29.27 |
0.9697 |
-0.1406 |
249 |
1 |
29.27 |
2009-02-04 |
| 92. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
29.26 |
0.9540 |
-0.1272 |
285 |
1 |
29.26 |
2008-10-20 |
| 93. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
28.44 |
1.0390 |
-0.2378 |
205 |
1 |
28.44 |
2008-10-09 |
| 94. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
28.23 |
0.8890 |
-0.0936 |
199 |
1 |
28.23 |
2009-02-04 |
| 95. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
28.07 |
0.9309 |
-0.1384 |
284 |
1 |
28.07 |
2008-10-09 |
| 96. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
27.99 |
0.8951 |
-0.1008 |
193 |
1 |
27.99 |
2008-10-09 |
| 97. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
27.04 |
0.9851 |
-0.2182 |
317 |
1 |
27.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 98. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.36 |
0.8553 |
-0.1152 |
174 |
2 |
25.49 |
2008-10-15 |
| 99. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
24.29 |
0.9899 |
-0.3089 |
163 |
1 |
24.29 |
2009-02-06 |
| 100. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
24.25 |
0.9202 |
-0.2364 |
254 |
1 |
24.25 |
2008-10-14 |
| 101. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
22.87 |
1.0124 |
-0.3700 |
204 |
1 |
22.87 |
2008-10-09 |
| 102. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
21.20 |
0.8360 |
-0.2400 |
170 |
1 |
21.20 |
2008-10-09 |