| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
113.27 |
1.0714 |
0.1006 |
129 |
1 |
113.27 |
2008-12-19 |
| 2. |
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and res... |
111.40 |
1.0843 |
0.0683 |
258 |
1 |
111.40 |
2024-07-11 |
| 3. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
110.82 |
1.0297 |
0.1169 |
249 |
1 |
110.82 |
2011-11-07 |
| 4. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
110.57 |
1.0595 |
0.0845 |
379 |
4 |
101.92 |
2009-08-21 |
| 5. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
108.88 |
1.0596 |
0.0669 |
239 |
1 |
108.88 |
2008-12-08 |
| 6. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
108.21 |
1.1323 |
-0.0127 |
341 |
1 |
108.21 |
2011-11-07 |
| 7. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
107.93 |
0.9936 |
0.1231 |
311 |
2 |
103.78 |
2009-08-21 |
| 8. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
107.84 |
1.0515 |
0.0643 |
250 |
1 |
107.84 |
2009-07-23 |
| 9. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
107.56 |
1.0483 |
0.0646 |
227 |
1 |
107.56 |
2008-12-08 |
| 10. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
107.10 |
1.0023 |
0.1058 |
211 |
2 |
101.86 |
2011-11-07 |
| 11. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
107.06 |
0.9772 |
0.1305 |
217 |
1 |
107.06 |
2009-07-23 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
106.26 |
1.0426 |
0.0568 |
323 |
1 |
106.26 |
2009-07-23 |
| 13. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
106.08 |
1.0398 |
0.0578 |
110 |
1 |
106.08 |
2009-02-09 |
| 14. |
Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the enti... |
105.73 |
1.0279 |
0.0660 |
253 |
1 |
105.73 |
2024-07-11 |
| 15. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
105.58 |
1.0666 |
0.0258 |
297 |
2 |
103.80 |
2009-02-09 |
| 16. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
105.39 |
0.9884 |
0.1020 |
233 |
1 |
105.39 |
2009-08-21 |
| 17. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
105.01 |
1.0496 |
0.0369 |
314 |
1 |
105.01 |
2008-12-03 |
| 18. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
104.63 |
0.9964 |
0.0862 |
203 |
2 |
99.85 |
2008-12-08 |
| 19. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
104.58 |
1.0399 |
0.0421 |
294 |
2 |
101.85 |
2009-08-21 |
| 20. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
104.33 |
1.0109 |
0.0686 |
276 |
1 |
104.33 |
2009-02-09 |
| 21. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
103.79 |
0.9710 |
0.1029 |
173 |
1 |
103.79 |
2009-07-23 |
| 22. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
103.57 |
1.0016 |
0.0700 |
218 |
1 |
103.57 |
2008-11-17 |
| 23. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
103.12 |
1.0498 |
0.0171 |
180 |
1 |
103.12 |
2009-07-23 |
| 24. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
103.07 |
1.0365 |
0.0299 |
162 |
1 |
103.07 |
2011-11-07 |
| 25. |
My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why ever... |
102.43 |
1.0149 |
0.0449 |
317 |
1 |
102.43 |
2024-07-11 |
| 26. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
102.42 |
1.0261 |
0.0336 |
273 |
1 |
102.42 |
2008-12-08 |
| 27. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
102.36 |
1.1016 |
-0.0425 |
233 |
1 |
102.36 |
2009-07-23 |
| 28. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
102.36 |
1.0334 |
0.0257 |
131 |
2 |
97.29 |
2009-03-17 |
| 29. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
102.11 |
1.0177 |
0.0388 |
392 |
1 |
102.11 |
2017-02-27 |
| 30. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
101.92 |
1.0993 |
-0.0448 |
265 |
1 |
101.92 |
2008-12-03 |
| 31. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
101.74 |
1.0684 |
-0.0157 |
253 |
1 |
101.74 |
2024-07-11 |
| 32. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
101.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0301 |
269 |
2 |
99.91 |
2009-07-23 |
| 33. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
101.17 |
1.0917 |
-0.0449 |
243 |
1 |
101.17 |
2011-11-07 |
| 34. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
101.11 |
1.0429 |
0.0032 |
259 |
3 |
99.19 |
2009-08-21 |
| 35. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
100.89 |
1.0787 |
-0.0348 |
237 |
1 |
100.89 |
2009-02-03 |
| 36. |
Well, a scavenger hunt is exactly like a treasure hunt, exce... |
100.70 |
1.0035 |
0.0384 |
186 |
1 |
100.70 |
2024-07-11 |
| 37. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
100.42 |
1.0677 |
-0.0287 |
284 |
1 |
100.42 |
2011-11-07 |
| 38. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
100.04 |
1.0150 |
0.0201 |
325 |
2 |
97.71 |
2011-11-07 |
| 39. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
99.90 |
1.0613 |
-0.0277 |
266 |
1 |
99.90 |
2008-11-16 |
| 40. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
99.84 |
1.0417 |
-0.0087 |
253 |
1 |
99.84 |
2008-12-08 |
| 41. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
99.80 |
1.0696 |
-0.0370 |
226 |
2 |
95.96 |
2009-02-09 |
| 42. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
99.54 |
1.0385 |
-0.0086 |
230 |
1 |
99.54 |
2009-08-21 |
| 43. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
99.44 |
1.0201 |
0.0088 |
375 |
1 |
99.44 |
2008-11-21 |
| 44. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
99.06 |
1.0340 |
-0.0091 |
406 |
2 |
97.73 |
2011-11-07 |
| 45. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
98.90 |
0.8958 |
0.1275 |
322 |
1 |
98.90 |
2009-02-03 |
| 46. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
98.73 |
1.0029 |
0.0186 |
209 |
1 |
98.73 |
2008-12-08 |
| 47. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
98.57 |
1.0567 |
-0.0368 |
303 |
1 |
98.57 |
2008-12-03 |
| 48. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
98.54 |
1.0214 |
-0.0019 |
166 |
1 |
98.54 |
2008-11-21 |
| 49. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
97.90 |
0.9754 |
0.0375 |
362 |
1 |
97.90 |
2009-02-03 |
| 50. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
97.73 |
1.0296 |
-0.0184 |
437 |
2 |
96.56 |
2008-11-21 |
| 51. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
97.70 |
0.9894 |
0.0215 |
323 |
1 |
97.70 |
2008-11-16 |
| 52. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
97.61 |
0.9649 |
0.0450 |
193 |
1 |
97.61 |
2008-12-08 |
| 53. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
97.51 |
1.0320 |
-0.0231 |
293 |
1 |
97.51 |
2011-11-07 |
| 54. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
97.06 |
1.0068 |
-0.0026 |
358 |
2 |
93.78 |
2008-12-19 |
| 55. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
96.97 |
1.0528 |
-0.0495 |
201 |
1 |
96.97 |
2008-12-03 |
| 56. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
96.75 |
0.9740 |
0.0270 |
209 |
1 |
96.75 |
2008-11-21 |
| 57. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
96.72 |
1.0124 |
-0.0117 |
204 |
1 |
96.72 |
2008-11-21 |
| 58. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
96.62 |
1.0487 |
-0.0490 |
231 |
1 |
96.62 |
2008-12-16 |
| 59. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
96.57 |
0.9831 |
0.0161 |
469 |
2 |
95.40 |
2008-11-17 |
| 60. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
96.46 |
0.9805 |
0.0175 |
292 |
1 |
96.46 |
2008-11-21 |
| 61. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
96.40 |
1.0396 |
-0.0422 |
149 |
1 |
96.40 |
2009-02-03 |
| 62. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
96.30 |
0.9684 |
0.0280 |
388 |
1 |
96.30 |
2008-12-03 |
| 63. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
96.05 |
0.9646 |
0.0292 |
264 |
1 |
96.05 |
2008-12-08 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
95.86 |
0.9910 |
0.0008 |
295 |
1 |
95.86 |
2008-12-03 |
| 65. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
95.67 |
1.0523 |
-0.0624 |
256 |
1 |
95.67 |
2008-12-08 |
| 66. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
95.59 |
1.0352 |
-0.0462 |
341 |
1 |
95.59 |
2009-02-03 |
| 67. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
95.54 |
0.8947 |
0.0938 |
366 |
1 |
95.54 |
2008-11-21 |
| 68. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
95.51 |
0.9893 |
-0.0011 |
323 |
1 |
95.51 |
2008-11-16 |
| 69. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
95.50 |
1.0060 |
-0.0179 |
171 |
1 |
95.50 |
2008-12-08 |
| 70. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
95.46 |
1.0361 |
-0.0484 |
269 |
1 |
95.46 |
2009-07-23 |
| 71. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
95.31 |
1.0349 |
-0.0488 |
234 |
1 |
95.31 |
2008-12-08 |
| 72. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
95.29 |
0.9578 |
0.0281 |
281 |
2 |
92.42 |
2008-12-03 |
| 73. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
94.92 |
0.9756 |
0.0065 |
229 |
1 |
94.92 |
2008-11-17 |
| 74. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
94.88 |
0.9485 |
0.0332 |
236 |
1 |
94.88 |
2008-11-21 |
| 75. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
94.53 |
0.9941 |
-0.0160 |
217 |
1 |
94.53 |
2008-11-17 |
| 76. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
94.44 |
0.9723 |
0.0048 |
364 |
1 |
94.44 |
2008-12-08 |
| 77. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
94.28 |
1.0462 |
-0.0707 |
184 |
1 |
94.28 |
2008-12-03 |
| 78. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
94.05 |
1.0565 |
-0.0834 |
247 |
1 |
94.05 |
2009-02-03 |
| 79. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
94.05 |
1.0331 |
-0.0600 |
234 |
1 |
94.05 |
2008-11-17 |
| 80. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
94.02 |
1.0477 |
-0.0749 |
360 |
1 |
94.02 |
2008-12-03 |
| 81. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
93.80 |
0.9468 |
0.0237 |
276 |
2 |
92.21 |
2008-11-21 |
| 82. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
93.71 |
1.0257 |
-0.0561 |
401 |
1 |
93.71 |
2008-11-17 |
| 83. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
93.71 |
1.0073 |
-0.0377 |
369 |
1 |
93.71 |
2008-11-16 |
| 84. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
93.49 |
1.0167 |
-0.0494 |
378 |
1 |
93.49 |
2008-11-21 |
| 85. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
93.48 |
1.0529 |
-0.0857 |
351 |
1 |
93.48 |
2008-11-21 |
| 86. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
93.47 |
0.9897 |
-0.0226 |
274 |
2 |
91.35 |
2008-12-16 |
| 87. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
93.13 |
0.9064 |
0.0572 |
399 |
1 |
93.13 |
2008-11-21 |
| 88. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
93.11 |
0.9844 |
-0.0210 |
293 |
1 |
93.11 |
2008-11-17 |
| 89. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
93.06 |
1.0095 |
-0.0467 |
316 |
2 |
92.68 |
2009-03-17 |
| 90. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
92.74 |
1.0033 |
-0.0438 |
189 |
1 |
92.74 |
2011-11-07 |
| 91. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
92.69 |
1.0004 |
-0.0414 |
212 |
1 |
92.69 |
2009-02-03 |
| 92. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
92.64 |
0.9675 |
-0.0090 |
383 |
1 |
92.64 |
2008-12-16 |
| 93. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
92.37 |
0.9965 |
-0.0408 |
168 |
1 |
92.37 |
2008-12-16 |
| 94. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
92.21 |
0.9697 |
-0.0156 |
249 |
1 |
92.21 |
2008-12-20 |
| 95. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
92.16 |
0.9672 |
-0.0137 |
396 |
1 |
92.16 |
2008-12-08 |
| 96. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
92.12 |
0.8595 |
0.0936 |
242 |
1 |
92.12 |
2009-02-03 |
| 97. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
92.12 |
0.9734 |
-0.0203 |
289 |
2 |
91.56 |
2009-02-09 |
| 98. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
91.92 |
0.9653 |
-0.0142 |
394 |
1 |
91.92 |
2008-12-09 |
| 99. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
91.91 |
1.0168 |
-0.0659 |
271 |
1 |
91.91 |
2008-11-17 |
| 100. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
91.73 |
0.9005 |
0.0486 |
212 |
2 |
86.36 |
2009-02-03 |
| 101. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
91.46 |
0.9309 |
0.0154 |
284 |
1 |
91.46 |
2011-11-07 |
| 102. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
91.20 |
1.0203 |
-0.0767 |
261 |
1 |
91.20 |
2008-11-21 |
| 103. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
90.92 |
0.9593 |
-0.0186 |
398 |
1 |
90.92 |
2008-11-17 |
| 104. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
90.64 |
0.9851 |
-0.0473 |
317 |
1 |
90.64 |
2008-11-16 |
| 105. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
90.29 |
0.9532 |
-0.0190 |
258 |
1 |
90.29 |
2008-12-03 |
| 106. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
90.20 |
0.9632 |
-0.0299 |
392 |
1 |
90.20 |
2008-11-17 |
| 107. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
90.08 |
0.9780 |
-0.0460 |
337 |
1 |
90.08 |
2009-02-03 |
| 108. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
89.82 |
0.9795 |
-0.0502 |
308 |
1 |
89.82 |
2008-11-16 |
| 109. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
89.50 |
0.9339 |
-0.0079 |
310 |
1 |
89.50 |
2008-12-08 |
| 110. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
89.24 |
0.9364 |
-0.0131 |
351 |
1 |
89.24 |
2011-11-07 |
| 111. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
89.24 |
0.9635 |
-0.0402 |
389 |
2 |
88.27 |
2008-12-08 |
| 112. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
89.22 |
0.9997 |
-0.0766 |
382 |
1 |
89.22 |
2008-11-16 |
| 113. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
88.69 |
0.9500 |
-0.0324 |
362 |
1 |
88.69 |
2008-11-21 |
| 114. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
88.66 |
0.8753 |
0.0420 |
427 |
1 |
88.66 |
2011-11-07 |
| 115. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
87.70 |
1.0944 |
-0.1870 |
308 |
1 |
87.70 |
2011-11-07 |
| 116. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
87.59 |
0.9168 |
-0.0105 |
240 |
1 |
87.59 |
2008-11-21 |
| 117. |
Abnormally rapid speculative enhancement of prices for exist... |
87.19 |
0.9507 |
-0.0486 |
196 |
1 |
87.19 |
2024-07-12 |
| 118. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
84.66 |
0.9097 |
-0.0338 |
464 |
1 |
84.66 |
2008-11-21 |
| 119. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
83.56 |
0.9376 |
-0.0730 |
367 |
1 |
83.56 |
2008-12-03 |
| 120. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
81.14 |
0.8722 |
-0.0327 |
285 |
1 |
81.14 |
2008-11-16 |
| 121. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
78.54 |
0.9330 |
-0.1204 |
360 |
1 |
78.54 |
2008-11-17 |