| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
145.66 |
1.1016 |
0.0550 |
233 |
1 |
145.66 |
2008-12-27 |
| 2. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
139.83 |
1.0417 |
0.0655 |
253 |
2 |
133.17 |
2008-10-10 |
| 3. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
139.58 |
0.9691 |
0.1381 |
223 |
1 |
139.58 |
2008-10-09 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
139.15 |
1.0496 |
0.0540 |
314 |
1 |
139.15 |
2008-10-10 |
| 5. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
137.05 |
0.9723 |
0.1188 |
364 |
1 |
137.05 |
2008-12-27 |
| 6. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
136.05 |
0.9843 |
0.0901 |
234 |
1 |
136.05 |
2008-10-09 |
| 7. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
135.46 |
1.0167 |
0.0647 |
378 |
1 |
135.46 |
2008-10-09 |
| 8. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
133.49 |
1.0095 |
0.0482 |
316 |
1 |
133.49 |
2008-10-10 |
| 9. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
133.36 |
0.9857 |
0.0711 |
293 |
2 |
131.13 |
2008-12-27 |
| 10. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
133.09 |
0.9622 |
0.0998 |
392 |
1 |
133.09 |
2008-12-27 |
| 11. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
133.08 |
0.9936 |
0.0616 |
311 |
2 |
128.48 |
2009-02-07 |
| 12. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
132.27 |
0.9820 |
0.0698 |
267 |
1 |
132.27 |
2009-02-06 |
| 13. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
131.68 |
1.0666 |
-0.0222 |
297 |
1 |
131.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 14. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
131.18 |
0.9886 |
0.0542 |
220 |
1 |
131.18 |
2008-12-27 |
| 15. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
130.81 |
0.9899 |
0.0427 |
163 |
2 |
121.65 |
2008-12-27 |
| 16. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
130.68 |
1.0619 |
-0.0220 |
354 |
1 |
130.68 |
2009-02-06 |
| 17. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
129.60 |
0.9844 |
0.0480 |
293 |
3 |
123.92 |
2009-02-06 |
| 18. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
128.13 |
1.0993 |
-0.0856 |
265 |
1 |
128.13 |
2008-10-09 |
| 19. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
127.46 |
0.9780 |
0.0334 |
337 |
2 |
123.77 |
2008-10-09 |
| 20. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
127.44 |
1.0361 |
-0.0249 |
269 |
1 |
127.44 |
2009-02-06 |
| 21. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
127.40 |
1.0029 |
0.0006 |
209 |
1 |
127.40 |
2009-02-06 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
127.12 |
0.9697 |
0.0382 |
249 |
1 |
127.12 |
2008-12-27 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
127.00 |
1.0567 |
-0.0494 |
303 |
1 |
127.00 |
2009-02-06 |
| 24. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
127.00 |
1.0486 |
-0.0411 |
289 |
1 |
127.00 |
2009-02-07 |
| 25. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
126.88 |
0.9681 |
0.0459 |
378 |
1 |
126.88 |
2009-02-06 |
| 26. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
126.86 |
0.9593 |
0.0510 |
398 |
1 |
126.86 |
2009-02-06 |
| 27. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
126.09 |
0.9567 |
0.0425 |
273 |
2 |
123.16 |
2008-10-10 |
| 28. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
124.95 |
1.0454 |
-0.0588 |
255 |
1 |
124.95 |
2009-02-06 |
| 29. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
124.77 |
1.0201 |
-0.0273 |
375 |
1 |
124.77 |
2008-10-09 |
| 30. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
124.29 |
1.0426 |
-0.0583 |
323 |
1 |
124.29 |
2008-10-09 |
| 31. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
124.28 |
0.8722 |
0.1156 |
285 |
2 |
116.33 |
2008-10-10 |
| 32. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
123.91 |
0.9266 |
0.0554 |
267 |
2 |
119.71 |
2008-10-09 |
| 33. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
123.58 |
1.0334 |
-0.0606 |
131 |
1 |
123.58 |
2008-10-09 |
| 34. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
123.37 |
1.0124 |
-0.0372 |
204 |
1 |
123.37 |
2008-10-10 |
| 35. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
123.34 |
0.9811 |
-0.0011 |
272 |
2 |
120.63 |
2008-10-10 |
| 36. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
123.27 |
1.0013 |
-0.0254 |
273 |
1 |
123.27 |
2009-02-06 |
| 37. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.02 |
0.9601 |
0.0194 |
308 |
1 |
123.02 |
2008-10-09 |
| 38. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
122.84 |
1.0034 |
-0.0316 |
302 |
1 |
122.84 |
2008-10-09 |
| 39. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
122.15 |
1.0165 |
-0.0448 |
392 |
1 |
122.15 |
2008-10-09 |
| 40. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
121.95 |
1.0131 |
-0.0508 |
225 |
1 |
121.95 |
2008-10-09 |
| 41. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
121.79 |
1.0389 |
-0.0723 |
318 |
1 |
121.79 |
2009-02-06 |
| 42. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
121.08 |
0.9372 |
0.0260 |
320 |
1 |
121.08 |
2008-10-09 |
| 43. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
120.68 |
0.9941 |
-0.0405 |
217 |
1 |
120.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 44. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
120.41 |
0.9309 |
0.0210 |
284 |
1 |
120.41 |
2008-10-10 |
| 45. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
120.38 |
1.0340 |
-0.0752 |
406 |
1 |
120.38 |
2008-10-09 |
| 46. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
120.25 |
0.9614 |
-0.0059 |
292 |
1 |
120.25 |
2009-02-06 |
| 47. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
120.24 |
0.9841 |
-0.0279 |
334 |
1 |
120.24 |
2008-10-09 |
| 48. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
120.04 |
1.0668 |
-0.1135 |
350 |
2 |
118.93 |
2009-02-06 |
| 49. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
119.78 |
0.9468 |
0.0014 |
276 |
1 |
119.78 |
2008-10-09 |
| 50. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
119.69 |
0.9831 |
-0.0271 |
469 |
1 |
119.69 |
2008-10-09 |
| 51. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
118.67 |
0.9734 |
-0.0339 |
289 |
1 |
118.67 |
2008-10-09 |
| 52. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.52 |
1.0201 |
-0.0883 |
172 |
1 |
118.52 |
2008-10-09 |
| 53. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
118.19 |
0.9687 |
-0.0280 |
371 |
1 |
118.19 |
2008-10-09 |
| 54. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
117.61 |
0.9776 |
-0.0461 |
308 |
1 |
117.61 |
2008-10-09 |
| 55. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
117.60 |
0.9612 |
-0.0300 |
256 |
1 |
117.60 |
2008-10-09 |
| 56. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
117.53 |
0.9942 |
-0.0547 |
483 |
1 |
117.53 |
2009-02-06 |
| 57. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
116.66 |
0.9754 |
-0.0456 |
362 |
1 |
116.66 |
2008-10-09 |
| 58. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
116.52 |
0.9557 |
-0.0268 |
331 |
1 |
116.52 |
2008-12-27 |
| 59. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
115.58 |
0.9532 |
-0.0395 |
258 |
1 |
115.58 |
2008-10-10 |
| 60. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
115.25 |
0.8595 |
0.0547 |
242 |
1 |
115.25 |
2008-10-10 |
| 61. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
115.03 |
0.8981 |
0.0171 |
393 |
2 |
112.24 |
2008-10-10 |
| 62. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
114.93 |
1.0797 |
-0.1755 |
210 |
1 |
114.93 |
2008-10-09 |
| 63. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
114.88 |
0.9910 |
-0.0797 |
295 |
1 |
114.88 |
2008-10-09 |
| 64. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
114.88 |
1.0477 |
-0.1359 |
360 |
2 |
114.26 |
2008-10-09 |
| 65. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
114.27 |
1.0073 |
-0.0948 |
369 |
1 |
114.27 |
2008-10-09 |
| 66. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
113.16 |
0.9553 |
-0.0525 |
430 |
1 |
113.16 |
2008-10-09 |
| 67. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
112.59 |
0.9164 |
-0.0206 |
305 |
1 |
112.59 |
2008-10-09 |