| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.80 |
0.9164 |
0.5952 |
121 |
6 |
35.38 |
2009-01-20 |
| 2. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
40.11 |
0.8615 |
0.4875 |
110 |
4 |
28.71 |
2009-01-20 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
37.22 |
0.9729 |
0.2781 |
255 |
1 |
37.22 |
2009-01-08 |
| 4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
36.81 |
1.0596 |
0.1752 |
239 |
1 |
36.81 |
2008-12-16 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.60 |
0.8739 |
0.3518 |
136 |
4 |
32.32 |
2009-01-20 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
36.27 |
1.1016 |
0.1170 |
233 |
2 |
32.57 |
2008-12-24 |
| 7. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.08 |
0.9260 |
0.2965 |
243 |
3 |
33.32 |
2009-01-20 |
| 8. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
35.99 |
0.9710 |
0.2315 |
173 |
2 |
33.48 |
2009-01-14 |
| 9. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
35.81 |
0.9964 |
0.2066 |
203 |
1 |
35.81 |
2009-01-21 |
| 10. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
35.55 |
1.0528 |
0.1363 |
201 |
4 |
29.61 |
2009-01-21 |
| 11. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
35.10 |
1.0498 |
0.1242 |
180 |
2 |
33.56 |
2009-01-20 |
| 12. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
34.83 |
0.9866 |
0.1793 |
218 |
2 |
32.13 |
2009-01-21 |
| 13. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
34.81 |
1.0124 |
0.1541 |
204 |
2 |
31.91 |
2009-01-20 |
| 14. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
34.80 |
1.0463 |
0.1177 |
182 |
1 |
34.80 |
2009-01-20 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
34.77 |
1.0214 |
0.1408 |
166 |
2 |
27.59 |
2009-01-08 |
| 16. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
34.66 |
0.9910 |
0.1748 |
295 |
1 |
34.66 |
2009-01-21 |
| 17. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
34.49 |
0.9941 |
0.1616 |
217 |
2 |
33.26 |
2008-12-18 |
| 18. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
34.48 |
1.0796 |
0.0733 |
129 |
2 |
33.05 |
2008-12-18 |
| 19. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.45 |
0.9048 |
0.2565 |
271 |
1 |
34.45 |
2009-01-20 |
| 20. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
34.21 |
0.8190 |
0.3366 |
135 |
1 |
34.21 |
2008-12-18 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
34.12 |
1.0799 |
0.0619 |
243 |
2 |
33.95 |
2009-01-08 |
| 22. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
33.76 |
1.0787 |
0.0533 |
237 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-01-14 |
| 23. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
33.34 |
0.9846 |
0.1333 |
281 |
2 |
32.89 |
2009-01-09 |
| 24. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
33.23 |
0.8422 |
0.2748 |
164 |
2 |
30.94 |
2008-12-24 |
| 25. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
33.19 |
0.8747 |
0.2347 |
201 |
2 |
32.18 |
2008-12-24 |
| 26. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
33.10 |
1.0331 |
0.0756 |
234 |
2 |
32.10 |
2009-01-21 |
| 27. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
32.89 |
1.0349 |
0.0682 |
234 |
1 |
32.89 |
2008-12-30 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
32.82 |
1.0711 |
0.0252 |
213 |
1 |
32.82 |
2009-01-08 |
| 29. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.78 |
1.0444 |
0.0490 |
197 |
2 |
28.92 |
2009-01-05 |
| 30. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
32.76 |
0.8544 |
0.2453 |
170 |
1 |
32.76 |
2008-12-15 |
| 31. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
32.70 |
1.0214 |
0.0742 |
269 |
1 |
32.70 |
2008-12-15 |
| 32. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
32.66 |
1.0483 |
0.0447 |
227 |
2 |
32.51 |
2009-01-21 |
| 33. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.53 |
0.9286 |
0.1619 |
194 |
1 |
32.53 |
2008-12-10 |
| 34. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
32.48 |
0.9786 |
0.1060 |
193 |
3 |
27.26 |
2009-01-14 |
| 35. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
32.32 |
1.0023 |
0.0802 |
211 |
2 |
27.72 |
2009-01-15 |
| 36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
32.28 |
1.0462 |
0.0308 |
184 |
3 |
29.22 |
2009-01-12 |
| 37. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
32.19 |
0.9514 |
0.1289 |
237 |
1 |
32.19 |
2009-01-14 |
| 38. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
32.10 |
1.0334 |
0.0370 |
131 |
1 |
32.10 |
2009-01-14 |
| 39. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
32.06 |
0.9884 |
0.0915 |
262 |
1 |
32.06 |
2009-01-21 |
| 40. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
31.96 |
0.9233 |
0.1406 |
168 |
2 |
31.00 |
2009-01-05 |
| 41. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
31.95 |
0.8900 |
0.1830 |
164 |
1 |
31.95 |
2009-01-21 |
| 42. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.91 |
0.8709 |
0.2075 |
202 |
2 |
31.73 |
2009-01-08 |
| 43. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
31.85 |
1.0025 |
0.0659 |
256 |
2 |
30.26 |
2009-01-08 |
| 44. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
31.79 |
0.8125 |
0.2564 |
197 |
1 |
31.79 |
2009-01-08 |
| 45. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
31.36 |
0.8152 |
0.2368 |
163 |
3 |
28.54 |
2008-12-18 |
| 46. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.30 |
1.0029 |
0.0405 |
209 |
4 |
29.17 |
2009-01-21 |
| 47. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
31.26 |
0.8360 |
0.2116 |
170 |
1 |
31.26 |
2009-01-07 |
| 48. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
31.21 |
0.8852 |
0.1619 |
158 |
2 |
30.37 |
2009-01-08 |
| 49. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
31.08 |
0.9731 |
0.0567 |
129 |
1 |
31.08 |
2008-12-24 |
| 50. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
31.08 |
0.8070 |
0.2378 |
137 |
2 |
30.12 |
2008-12-29 |
| 51. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
31.06 |
1.0577 |
-0.0196 |
247 |
1 |
31.06 |
2008-12-18 |
| 52. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
30.71 |
0.8700 |
0.1590 |
127 |
1 |
30.71 |
2009-01-08 |
| 53. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
30.66 |
0.8887 |
0.1534 |
128 |
1 |
30.66 |
2008-12-15 |
| 54. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
30.54 |
0.9307 |
0.1013 |
246 |
2 |
28.54 |
2009-01-20 |
| 55. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
30.54 |
0.9202 |
0.1031 |
254 |
1 |
30.54 |
2009-01-21 |
| 56. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.53 |
0.8791 |
0.1436 |
190 |
2 |
28.76 |
2009-01-15 |
| 57. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
30.39 |
0.9226 |
0.1001 |
177 |
1 |
30.39 |
2009-01-20 |
| 58. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
30.39 |
1.0016 |
0.0127 |
218 |
1 |
30.39 |
2009-01-08 |
| 59. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
30.25 |
0.9851 |
0.0312 |
317 |
3 |
28.01 |
2009-01-08 |
| 60. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
30.24 |
0.9884 |
0.0246 |
233 |
2 |
26.89 |
2008-12-16 |
| 61. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
30.24 |
1.0797 |
-0.0715 |
210 |
2 |
28.52 |
2009-01-08 |
| 62. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
30.24 |
0.8070 |
0.2037 |
167 |
1 |
30.24 |
2008-12-15 |
| 63. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.11 |
0.8096 |
0.2077 |
209 |
2 |
29.85 |
2009-01-20 |
| 64. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
30.04 |
1.0004 |
0.0005 |
212 |
3 |
27.09 |
2009-01-12 |
| 65. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
29.86 |
1.0201 |
-0.0260 |
172 |
1 |
29.86 |
2008-12-09 |
| 66. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
29.78 |
0.8295 |
0.1705 |
209 |
3 |
28.21 |
2009-01-21 |
| 67. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
29.61 |
0.9805 |
0.0165 |
292 |
1 |
29.61 |
2009-01-20 |
| 68. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
29.49 |
1.1018 |
-0.1199 |
220 |
2 |
28.78 |
2008-12-18 |
| 69. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
29.48 |
1.0696 |
-0.0851 |
226 |
2 |
26.80 |
2009-01-14 |
| 70. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
29.43 |
0.8323 |
0.1544 |
203 |
2 |
27.34 |
2008-12-16 |
| 71. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
29.41 |
0.9221 |
0.0620 |
244 |
2 |
25.96 |
2008-12-16 |
| 72. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
29.26 |
0.9691 |
0.0109 |
223 |
1 |
29.26 |
2008-12-24 |
| 73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
29.24 |
0.7259 |
0.2598 |
186 |
1 |
29.24 |
2009-01-08 |
| 74. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
29.14 |
1.0131 |
-0.0406 |
225 |
3 |
26.86 |
2009-01-09 |
| 75. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
29.14 |
0.8666 |
0.1128 |
150 |
1 |
29.14 |
2008-12-08 |
| 76. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
29.00 |
0.9325 |
0.0325 |
156 |
4 |
25.52 |
2009-01-07 |
| 77. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
28.86 |
1.0523 |
-0.0897 |
256 |
4 |
27.20 |
2009-01-09 |
| 78. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
28.82 |
0.9649 |
-0.0004 |
193 |
3 |
27.08 |
2009-01-05 |
| 79. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
28.80 |
0.8533 |
0.1127 |
232 |
4 |
27.23 |
2009-01-15 |
| 80. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
28.62 |
0.9811 |
-0.0196 |
272 |
1 |
28.62 |
2009-01-20 |
| 81. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
28.56 |
0.8892 |
0.0736 |
207 |
2 |
28.35 |
2009-01-20 |
| 82. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.32 |
0.9907 |
-0.0437 |
211 |
2 |
26.55 |
2009-01-05 |
| 83. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.28 |
1.0213 |
-0.0773 |
240 |
1 |
28.28 |
2008-12-24 |
| 84. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
28.18 |
0.8936 |
0.0487 |
127 |
1 |
28.18 |
2008-12-24 |
| 85. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
27.91 |
0.9316 |
0.0091 |
287 |
1 |
27.91 |
2009-01-07 |
| 86. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
27.79 |
1.0565 |
-0.1285 |
247 |
2 |
26.60 |
2009-01-07 |
| 87. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
27.78 |
0.8323 |
0.0966 |
145 |
2 |
26.52 |
2009-01-14 |
| 88. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
27.58 |
0.9772 |
-0.0572 |
217 |
4 |
23.18 |
2008-12-24 |
| 89. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
27.41 |
0.8792 |
0.0478 |
296 |
1 |
27.41 |
2009-01-12 |
| 90. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.21 |
0.8037 |
0.1099 |
148 |
3 |
24.48 |
2008-12-10 |
| 91. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.12 |
0.9614 |
-0.0505 |
292 |
1 |
27.12 |
2009-01-20 |
| 92. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
27.07 |
0.9991 |
-0.0924 |
225 |
1 |
27.07 |
2008-12-24 |
| 93. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
26.96 |
0.7352 |
0.1671 |
106 |
3 |
23.42 |
2008-12-10 |
| 94. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
26.93 |
0.8852 |
0.0183 |
201 |
1 |
26.93 |
2009-01-08 |
| 95. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
26.77 |
0.9266 |
-0.0288 |
278 |
1 |
26.77 |
2008-12-24 |
| 96. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.76 |
0.8821 |
0.0130 |
176 |
1 |
26.76 |
2008-12-09 |
| 97. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
26.73 |
0.9612 |
-0.0666 |
256 |
1 |
26.73 |
2009-01-08 |
| 98. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
26.59 |
0.9257 |
-0.0303 |
317 |
1 |
26.59 |
2008-12-08 |
| 99. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
26.50 |
1.0263 |
-0.1403 |
267 |
1 |
26.50 |
2008-12-18 |
| 100. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
26.47 |
0.9019 |
-0.0109 |
204 |
1 |
26.47 |
2009-01-14 |
| 101. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
26.45 |
0.9289 |
-0.0461 |
204 |
1 |
26.45 |
2008-12-18 |
| 102. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
26.35 |
1.0419 |
-0.1602 |
261 |
1 |
26.35 |
2008-12-16 |
| 103. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
26.32 |
0.8442 |
0.0405 |
265 |
1 |
26.32 |
2009-01-21 |
| 104. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
25.99 |
0.8956 |
-0.0235 |
217 |
2 |
23.95 |
2009-01-07 |
| 105. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
25.99 |
0.8263 |
0.0411 |
162 |
1 |
25.99 |
2008-12-24 |
| 106. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
25.82 |
1.0390 |
-0.1791 |
205 |
1 |
25.82 |
2008-12-08 |
| 107. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
25.65 |
1.0183 |
-0.1659 |
191 |
2 |
21.24 |
2009-01-05 |
| 108. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
25.47 |
0.9965 |
-0.1495 |
168 |
2 |
23.80 |
2008-12-24 |
| 109. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
25.05 |
0.8941 |
-0.0545 |
216 |
2 |
24.80 |
2009-01-05 |
| 110. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
24.93 |
0.9633 |
-0.1276 |
304 |
3 |
24.27 |
2008-12-15 |
| 111. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
24.89 |
0.8890 |
-0.0604 |
199 |
3 |
23.81 |
2008-12-29 |
| 112. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
24.60 |
0.8951 |
-0.0706 |
193 |
2 |
24.54 |
2008-12-24 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
24.22 |
0.8105 |
-0.0054 |
204 |
2 |
23.85 |
2009-01-05 |
| 114. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
24.13 |
0.8628 |
-0.0599 |
196 |
1 |
24.13 |
2009-01-20 |
| 115. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
23.96 |
0.9756 |
-0.1763 |
229 |
1 |
23.96 |
2009-01-20 |
| 116. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
23.90 |
0.8145 |
-0.0137 |
115 |
2 |
21.79 |
2008-12-10 |
| 117. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
23.76 |
1.0396 |
-0.2530 |
149 |
1 |
23.76 |
2008-12-29 |
| 118. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
23.69 |
0.8910 |
-0.0979 |
150 |
1 |
23.69 |
2009-01-07 |
| 119. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
23.63 |
0.8996 |
-0.1157 |
192 |
1 |
23.63 |
2009-01-08 |
| 120. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
23.54 |
0.7938 |
-0.0065 |
176 |
1 |
23.54 |
2008-12-18 |
| 121. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
23.50 |
0.8810 |
-0.0952 |
282 |
1 |
23.50 |
2009-01-08 |
| 122. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
23.45 |
0.7375 |
0.0490 |
148 |
2 |
22.39 |
2009-01-12 |
| 123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
23.42 |
0.8553 |
-0.0782 |
174 |
3 |
20.14 |
2009-01-08 |
| 124. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
23.06 |
0.8602 |
-0.0924 |
206 |
1 |
23.06 |
2009-01-09 |
| 125. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
22.56 |
0.8715 |
-0.1224 |
130 |
1 |
22.56 |
2008-12-09 |
| 126. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
22.17 |
0.8961 |
-0.1597 |
189 |
1 |
22.17 |
2009-01-09 |
| 127. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
22.10 |
1.0033 |
-0.2726 |
189 |
1 |
22.10 |
2009-01-14 |
| 128. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
21.75 |
0.8153 |
-0.0850 |
200 |
1 |
21.75 |
2008-12-09 |
| 129. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
21.59 |
1.0261 |
-0.3079 |
273 |
1 |
21.59 |
2008-12-08 |
| 130. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
21.48 |
1.0337 |
-0.3179 |
214 |
1 |
21.48 |
2009-01-07 |
| 131. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
21.43 |
0.7934 |
-0.0795 |
134 |
1 |
21.43 |
2008-12-09 |
| 132. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
19.95 |
0.8154 |
-0.1492 |
193 |
1 |
19.95 |
2009-01-12 |
| 133. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
19.86 |
0.7852 |
-0.1179 |
149 |
1 |
19.86 |
2008-12-10 |