| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
52.39 |
0.8821 |
0.7118 |
176 |
1 |
52.39 |
2011-10-03 |
| 2. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
50.63 |
1.0029 |
0.5306 |
209 |
1 |
50.63 |
2011-10-03 |
| 3. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
49.93 |
0.8912 |
0.6292 |
186 |
3 |
34.01 |
2011-10-03 |
| 4. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
47.86 |
1.0013 |
0.4528 |
273 |
1 |
47.86 |
2011-11-07 |
| 5. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
47.81 |
1.0444 |
0.4026 |
197 |
2 |
37.92 |
2011-10-03 |
| 6. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
47.53 |
0.8562 |
0.5889 |
170 |
1 |
47.53 |
2011-10-03 |
| 7. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
47.38 |
1.0232 |
0.4630 |
350 |
1 |
47.38 |
2011-10-03 |
| 8. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
47.17 |
0.9938 |
0.4404 |
339 |
1 |
47.17 |
2011-11-07 |
| 9. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.69 |
1.0016 |
0.4128 |
218 |
1 |
46.69 |
2011-10-03 |
| 10. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
46.54 |
1.1162 |
0.3396 |
189 |
1 |
46.54 |
2011-10-03 |
| 11. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
46.42 |
0.9310 |
0.4752 |
188 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-10-03 |
| 12. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
46.41 |
0.9711 |
0.4380 |
176 |
2 |
46.13 |
2011-10-03 |
| 13. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
44.76 |
1.0403 |
0.3595 |
275 |
1 |
44.76 |
2011-10-03 |
| 14. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
44.61 |
0.9846 |
0.3691 |
281 |
1 |
44.61 |
2011-10-03 |
| 15. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
44.55 |
0.8975 |
0.4566 |
268 |
1 |
44.55 |
2011-10-03 |
| 16. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
43.80 |
1.0883 |
0.2744 |
303 |
1 |
43.80 |
2011-10-03 |
| 17. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
43.55 |
0.9505 |
0.3721 |
204 |
1 |
43.55 |
2011-10-03 |
| 18. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.50 |
0.9798 |
0.3360 |
199 |
1 |
43.50 |
2011-09-29 |
| 19. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
41.95 |
0.9350 |
0.3392 |
195 |
1 |
41.95 |
2011-10-03 |
| 20. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
41.89 |
0.9598 |
0.3191 |
220 |
1 |
41.89 |
2011-10-03 |
| 21. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
41.88 |
0.9216 |
0.3894 |
255 |
1 |
41.88 |
2011-10-03 |
| 22. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
41.60 |
0.9665 |
0.3459 |
326 |
1 |
41.60 |
2011-10-03 |
| 23. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
41.50 |
1.0426 |
0.2167 |
323 |
1 |
41.50 |
2011-10-03 |
| 24. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
41.48 |
1.0485 |
0.2453 |
153 |
1 |
41.48 |
2011-10-03 |
| 25. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
40.58 |
1.1215 |
0.1341 |
200 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-10-03 |
| 26. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
40.24 |
0.8022 |
0.4218 |
215 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-10-03 |
| 27. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.04 |
0.9865 |
0.2298 |
276 |
1 |
40.04 |
2011-10-03 |
| 28. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
38.58 |
0.9763 |
0.1935 |
289 |
1 |
38.58 |
2011-09-29 |
| 29. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
35.33 |
1.0155 |
0.0561 |
232 |
1 |
35.33 |
2011-10-14 |
| 30. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
35.27 |
0.9160 |
0.1493 |
112 |
2 |
31.97 |
2011-10-03 |
| 31. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
33.74 |
1.0907 |
-0.0666 |
303 |
1 |
33.74 |
2011-09-29 |
| 32. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
32.31 |
0.9325 |
0.0387 |
156 |
1 |
32.31 |
2011-09-29 |
| 33. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
31.83 |
0.8788 |
0.0817 |
134 |
1 |
31.83 |
2011-10-03 |
| 34. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
31.78 |
0.9226 |
0.0431 |
177 |
1 |
31.78 |
2011-09-29 |
| 35. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
31.56 |
0.9820 |
-0.0271 |
274 |
2 |
30.63 |
2011-10-03 |
| 36. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
31.04 |
1.0214 |
-0.0838 |
269 |
1 |
31.04 |
2011-09-29 |
| 37. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
30.70 |
1.0240 |
-0.0983 |
256 |
1 |
30.70 |
2011-09-29 |
| 38. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
30.30 |
0.8628 |
0.0506 |
196 |
1 |
30.30 |
2011-10-01 |
| 39. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
30.24 |
1.0384 |
-0.1339 |
183 |
1 |
30.24 |
2011-09-29 |
| 40. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
30.13 |
0.9164 |
-0.0010 |
121 |
1 |
30.13 |
2011-09-29 |
| 41. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
29.90 |
0.8725 |
0.0338 |
163 |
1 |
29.90 |
2011-11-04 |
| 42. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
29.90 |
0.9260 |
-0.0111 |
243 |
1 |
29.90 |
2011-10-03 |
| 43. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
29.85 |
0.8231 |
0.0829 |
180 |
1 |
29.85 |
2011-09-29 |
| 44. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
29.44 |
1.0487 |
-0.1638 |
231 |
1 |
29.44 |
2011-10-14 |
| 45. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.00 |
0.8809 |
-0.0067 |
127 |
1 |
29.00 |
2011-10-03 |
| 46. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
28.85 |
1.0684 |
-0.1665 |
253 |
1 |
28.85 |
2011-09-30 |
| 47. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
28.65 |
0.9697 |
-0.1040 |
249 |
1 |
28.65 |
2011-09-29 |
| 48. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
28.60 |
0.9340 |
-0.0704 |
296 |
1 |
28.60 |
2011-10-03 |
| 49. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
28.55 |
1.0042 |
-0.0998 |
352 |
1 |
28.55 |
2011-10-14 |
| 50. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
28.43 |
0.8811 |
-0.0178 |
239 |
1 |
28.43 |
2011-09-29 |
| 51. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
28.37 |
0.9976 |
-0.1201 |
174 |
1 |
28.37 |
2011-09-29 |
| 52. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.36 |
0.9907 |
-0.1352 |
211 |
1 |
28.36 |
2011-09-30 |
| 53. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
28.34 |
0.9649 |
-0.1095 |
193 |
1 |
28.34 |
2011-10-01 |
| 54. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
28.14 |
0.7389 |
0.1129 |
145 |
1 |
28.14 |
2011-09-29 |
| 55. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
27.92 |
0.8082 |
0.0437 |
186 |
1 |
27.92 |
2011-09-29 |
| 56. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
27.84 |
0.7996 |
0.0433 |
177 |
1 |
27.84 |
2011-09-29 |
| 57. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
27.80 |
0.9307 |
-0.0833 |
246 |
1 |
27.80 |
2011-09-29 |
| 58. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
27.38 |
1.0053 |
-0.1804 |
232 |
2 |
26.38 |
2011-09-30 |
| 59. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
27.08 |
1.0528 |
-0.2399 |
201 |
1 |
27.08 |
2011-10-03 |
| 60. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
26.93 |
0.9758 |
-0.1621 |
314 |
1 |
26.93 |
2011-09-29 |
| 61. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
26.92 |
0.7938 |
0.0199 |
176 |
1 |
26.92 |
2011-09-29 |
| 62. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
26.77 |
0.9045 |
-0.0958 |
235 |
1 |
26.77 |
2011-10-03 |
| 63. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
26.68 |
1.0004 |
-0.2012 |
212 |
1 |
26.68 |
2011-09-29 |
| 64. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
26.52 |
0.8178 |
-0.0168 |
159 |
1 |
26.52 |
2011-09-29 |
| 65. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
26.45 |
1.0740 |
-0.2375 |
264 |
1 |
26.45 |
2011-09-29 |
| 66. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
26.38 |
0.9342 |
-0.1343 |
434 |
1 |
26.38 |
2011-09-29 |
| 67. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
26.00 |
1.1016 |
-0.3174 |
233 |
1 |
26.00 |
2011-09-29 |
| 68. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
25.64 |
0.9851 |
-0.2091 |
317 |
1 |
25.64 |
2011-09-29 |
| 69. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
25.64 |
0.9772 |
-0.2071 |
217 |
1 |
25.64 |
2011-10-03 |
| 70. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
25.26 |
1.0574 |
-0.2676 |
205 |
1 |
25.26 |
2011-09-29 |
| 71. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
24.93 |
0.9097 |
-0.1581 |
153 |
1 |
24.93 |
2011-09-29 |
| 72. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
24.93 |
0.8900 |
-0.1371 |
164 |
1 |
24.93 |
2011-09-30 |
| 73. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
24.67 |
0.9128 |
-0.1276 |
369 |
1 |
24.67 |
2011-10-01 |
| 74. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
24.36 |
0.9941 |
-0.2623 |
217 |
1 |
24.36 |
2011-10-03 |
| 75. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
23.60 |
1.0515 |
-0.3487 |
166 |
1 |
23.60 |
2011-10-03 |
| 76. |
It's usually best to run as quick as you can for the first f... |
23.57 |
0.8508 |
-0.1450 |
117 |
1 |
23.57 |
2011-10-03 |
| 77. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
23.54 |
1.0083 |
-0.2550 |
273 |
1 |
23.54 |
2011-10-14 |
| 78. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
23.38 |
0.9281 |
-0.2192 |
273 |
1 |
23.38 |
2011-10-03 |
| 79. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
23.37 |
0.7375 |
-0.0293 |
148 |
1 |
23.37 |
2011-09-29 |
| 80. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
23.13 |
0.8089 |
-0.1142 |
158 |
1 |
23.13 |
2011-10-03 |
| 81. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
23.12 |
0.9485 |
-0.2506 |
236 |
1 |
23.12 |
2011-10-03 |
| 82. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
23.03 |
1.0365 |
-0.3136 |
162 |
1 |
23.03 |
2011-09-29 |
| 83. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
22.97 |
0.8890 |
-0.2011 |
199 |
1 |
22.97 |
2011-10-01 |
| 84. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
22.92 |
0.9904 |
-0.2600 |
203 |
1 |
22.92 |
2011-09-29 |
| 85. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
22.66 |
0.9567 |
-0.2324 |
184 |
1 |
22.66 |
2011-09-29 |
| 86. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
22.05 |
1.0767 |
-0.4157 |
212 |
1 |
22.05 |
2011-09-29 |
| 87. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
21.02 |
0.8602 |
-0.2306 |
206 |
1 |
21.02 |
2011-09-29 |
| 88. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
19.09 |
1.0396 |
-0.4744 |
149 |
1 |
19.09 |
2011-10-01 |
| 89. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
17.76 |
0.7805 |
-0.2534 |
154 |
1 |
17.76 |
2011-10-03 |