| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
144.70 |
1.0787 |
0.1909 |
237 |
1 |
144.70 |
2008-12-19 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
143.81 |
1.0666 |
0.1965 |
297 |
1 |
143.81 |
2009-04-02 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
142.88 |
1.0799 |
0.1712 |
243 |
1 |
142.88 |
2009-04-02 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
139.59 |
1.1016 |
0.1241 |
233 |
2 |
123.12 |
2009-04-02 |
| 5. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
138.73 |
1.0445 |
0.1743 |
373 |
2 |
123.93 |
2009-04-02 |
| 6. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
137.95 |
0.8890 |
0.3184 |
199 |
1 |
137.95 |
2009-04-02 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
137.69 |
1.0619 |
0.1504 |
354 |
1 |
137.69 |
2009-04-02 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
136.48 |
1.0696 |
0.1249 |
226 |
1 |
136.48 |
2008-11-24 |
| 9. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
132.97 |
0.9857 |
0.1801 |
293 |
1 |
132.97 |
2009-04-02 |
| 10. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
132.46 |
1.0183 |
0.1384 |
191 |
1 |
132.46 |
2008-12-19 |
| 11. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
130.45 |
1.0523 |
0.0879 |
256 |
3 |
116.60 |
2009-04-01 |
| 12. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
130.37 |
1.0668 |
0.0795 |
350 |
1 |
130.37 |
2009-04-02 |
| 13. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
130.30 |
1.0829 |
0.0617 |
288 |
2 |
127.17 |
2009-04-01 |
| 14. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
129.67 |
0.9965 |
0.1363 |
168 |
2 |
129.18 |
2009-04-02 |
| 15. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
128.79 |
1.0389 |
0.0932 |
340 |
1 |
128.79 |
2009-04-02 |
| 16. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
128.08 |
1.0390 |
0.0806 |
205 |
1 |
128.08 |
2009-04-01 |
| 17. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
127.27 |
1.0441 |
0.0737 |
252 |
2 |
124.46 |
2009-04-05 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
127.00 |
1.0885 |
0.0287 |
315 |
1 |
127.00 |
2009-01-09 |
| 19. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
126.53 |
1.0368 |
0.0738 |
276 |
2 |
120.21 |
2008-11-24 |
| 20. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
126.52 |
1.0331 |
0.0743 |
234 |
1 |
126.52 |
2008-11-24 |
| 21. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
125.57 |
0.9710 |
0.1237 |
173 |
1 |
125.57 |
2009-04-02 |
| 22. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
125.54 |
1.0062 |
0.0947 |
288 |
3 |
116.51 |
2009-04-02 |
| 23. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
125.13 |
0.9468 |
0.1500 |
276 |
2 |
119.21 |
2009-01-09 |
| 24. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
125.04 |
1.0201 |
0.0768 |
303 |
2 |
120.20 |
2009-04-02 |
| 25. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
124.85 |
0.9330 |
0.1684 |
360 |
2 |
120.50 |
2009-04-02 |
| 26. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.60 |
1.0613 |
0.0322 |
266 |
2 |
108.48 |
2009-04-02 |
| 27. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
124.47 |
1.0023 |
0.0872 |
211 |
2 |
114.33 |
2009-04-02 |
| 28. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
124.05 |
1.0201 |
0.0608 |
172 |
1 |
124.05 |
2008-12-19 |
| 29. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
123.83 |
1.0496 |
0.0354 |
314 |
1 |
123.83 |
2009-04-02 |
| 30. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
123.35 |
1.0334 |
0.0416 |
131 |
1 |
123.35 |
2009-04-02 |
| 31. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
123.32 |
1.0099 |
0.0684 |
207 |
1 |
123.32 |
2009-04-05 |
| 32. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
123.15 |
1.0252 |
0.0480 |
176 |
1 |
123.15 |
2008-11-24 |
| 33. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
122.38 |
0.9798 |
0.0874 |
199 |
2 |
98.08 |
2009-04-02 |
| 34. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
122.03 |
1.0596 |
0.0081 |
239 |
2 |
113.93 |
2008-11-24 |
| 35. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
121.37 |
1.0214 |
0.0371 |
166 |
1 |
121.37 |
2009-04-02 |
| 36. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
121.09 |
0.9941 |
0.0649 |
217 |
2 |
110.64 |
2009-04-02 |
| 37. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
120.87 |
1.0124 |
0.0447 |
204 |
1 |
120.87 |
2009-04-05 |
| 38. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
120.85 |
0.9843 |
0.0700 |
234 |
1 |
120.85 |
2009-04-02 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
120.66 |
1.0131 |
0.0406 |
225 |
1 |
120.66 |
2009-04-02 |
| 40. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
120.21 |
1.0213 |
0.0291 |
240 |
1 |
120.21 |
2009-04-05 |
| 41. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
119.88 |
0.9286 |
0.1211 |
194 |
1 |
119.88 |
2009-04-01 |
| 42. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
119.54 |
0.9986 |
0.0497 |
283 |
2 |
109.56 |
2009-04-02 |
| 43. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
119.52 |
0.9965 |
0.0513 |
310 |
1 |
119.52 |
2008-11-07 |
| 44. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
119.37 |
1.0429 |
0.0019 |
259 |
2 |
117.71 |
2009-04-01 |
| 45. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
118.73 |
1.0033 |
0.0305 |
189 |
1 |
118.73 |
2009-04-01 |
| 46. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
118.68 |
0.9500 |
0.0923 |
362 |
1 |
118.68 |
2008-11-07 |
| 47. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
118.34 |
1.0352 |
0.0044 |
341 |
1 |
118.34 |
2008-11-24 |
| 48. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
118.30 |
1.0257 |
0.0174 |
401 |
1 |
118.30 |
2009-04-05 |
| 49. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
118.29 |
1.0567 |
-0.0195 |
303 |
2 |
108.68 |
2009-04-01 |
| 50. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
117.56 |
0.9084 |
0.1258 |
404 |
1 |
117.56 |
2008-11-07 |
| 51. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
116.91 |
0.9852 |
0.0394 |
264 |
1 |
116.91 |
2008-12-19 |
| 52. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
116.81 |
0.9672 |
0.0628 |
396 |
1 |
116.81 |
2008-11-13 |
| 53. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
116.75 |
1.0483 |
-0.0284 |
227 |
1 |
116.75 |
2009-04-02 |
| 54. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
116.51 |
0.9513 |
0.0733 |
354 |
2 |
114.79 |
2009-04-05 |
| 55. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
116.26 |
1.0263 |
-0.0085 |
267 |
2 |
115.69 |
2009-04-05 |
| 56. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
116.02 |
1.0385 |
-0.0238 |
230 |
3 |
104.02 |
2009-04-01 |
| 57. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
115.40 |
0.9430 |
0.0607 |
211 |
2 |
97.55 |
2009-04-05 |
| 58. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
115.28 |
0.9965 |
0.0140 |
277 |
2 |
108.64 |
2009-04-05 |
| 59. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
113.27 |
0.9899 |
-0.0025 |
163 |
2 |
106.91 |
2009-04-05 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
112.76 |
1.0063 |
-0.0184 |
371 |
2 |
103.10 |
2009-04-02 |
| 61. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
112.47 |
0.9697 |
0.0155 |
249 |
1 |
112.47 |
2009-04-02 |
| 62. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
112.14 |
1.0396 |
-0.0648 |
149 |
2 |
104.00 |
2009-04-01 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
112.08 |
0.9851 |
-0.0014 |
317 |
3 |
108.12 |
2009-04-02 |
| 64. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
111.95 |
0.9309 |
0.0475 |
284 |
1 |
111.95 |
2008-11-24 |
| 65. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
111.91 |
1.0529 |
-0.0730 |
351 |
1 |
111.91 |
2009-04-01 |
| 66. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
111.87 |
0.9879 |
0.0004 |
450 |
2 |
109.05 |
2009-04-01 |
| 67. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
111.72 |
1.0487 |
-0.0754 |
231 |
1 |
111.72 |
2009-04-05 |
| 68. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
111.68 |
0.8958 |
0.0867 |
322 |
3 |
100.59 |
2009-04-02 |
| 69. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
111.37 |
0.9213 |
0.0544 |
295 |
1 |
111.37 |
2009-04-05 |
| 70. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
111.18 |
0.9763 |
-0.0033 |
289 |
1 |
111.18 |
2009-01-09 |
| 71. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
111.10 |
0.8996 |
0.0677 |
192 |
1 |
111.10 |
2009-04-05 |
| 72. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
110.98 |
1.0068 |
-0.0318 |
358 |
2 |
109.80 |
2009-04-05 |
| 73. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
110.90 |
1.0352 |
-0.0611 |
341 |
1 |
110.90 |
2008-11-24 |
| 74. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
109.39 |
0.9072 |
0.0487 |
237 |
2 |
102.35 |
2009-01-09 |
| 75. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
109.11 |
1.0013 |
-0.0471 |
273 |
1 |
109.11 |
2009-04-05 |
| 76. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
108.74 |
0.8602 |
0.0895 |
206 |
1 |
108.74 |
2009-01-09 |
| 77. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
108.69 |
0.8770 |
0.0776 |
300 |
1 |
108.69 |
2009-04-02 |
| 78. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
108.61 |
0.9811 |
-0.0277 |
272 |
1 |
108.61 |
2009-04-02 |
| 79. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
108.38 |
1.0337 |
-0.0856 |
214 |
1 |
108.38 |
2009-04-05 |
| 80. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
108.35 |
0.9527 |
-0.0044 |
251 |
1 |
108.35 |
2008-12-19 |
| 81. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
107.41 |
0.8981 |
0.0466 |
393 |
3 |
98.81 |
2009-04-05 |
| 82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
106.74 |
1.0165 |
-0.0785 |
392 |
1 |
106.74 |
2009-04-05 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
106.55 |
0.9831 |
-0.0427 |
469 |
2 |
106.26 |
2009-04-05 |
| 84. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
105.13 |
0.9339 |
-0.0156 |
310 |
1 |
105.13 |
2009-04-01 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
105.04 |
0.9833 |
-0.0627 |
355 |
1 |
105.04 |
2008-11-24 |
| 86. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
105.02 |
0.9234 |
0.0009 |
346 |
3 |
94.21 |
2009-04-05 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
104.93 |
0.9293 |
-0.0104 |
355 |
1 |
104.93 |
2009-04-01 |
| 88. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
104.83 |
1.0109 |
-0.0929 |
276 |
2 |
102.13 |
2009-04-05 |
| 89. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
104.41 |
0.9966 |
-0.0838 |
259 |
1 |
104.41 |
2009-04-02 |
| 90. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
104.31 |
0.9557 |
-0.0368 |
331 |
1 |
104.31 |
2009-04-02 |
| 91. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
103.84 |
0.9649 |
-0.0576 |
193 |
1 |
103.84 |
2009-04-05 |
| 92. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
103.70 |
0.9894 |
-0.0779 |
323 |
1 |
103.70 |
2009-04-01 |
| 93. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
103.61 |
1.0025 |
-0.0963 |
256 |
2 |
93.39 |
2009-04-05 |
| 94. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
103.17 |
0.9464 |
-0.0389 |
323 |
2 |
99.31 |
2009-04-02 |
| 95. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
102.83 |
0.9636 |
-0.0643 |
254 |
1 |
102.83 |
2008-11-24 |
| 96. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
102.67 |
0.8595 |
0.0403 |
242 |
3 |
95.02 |
2009-04-05 |
| 97. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
101.99 |
0.9805 |
-0.0839 |
292 |
1 |
101.99 |
2009-04-01 |
| 98. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
101.96 |
1.0120 |
-0.1211 |
290 |
1 |
101.96 |
2009-04-01 |
| 99. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
101.30 |
1.0218 |
-0.1388 |
268 |
1 |
101.30 |
2009-04-05 |
| 100. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
101.25 |
0.9795 |
-0.0941 |
308 |
1 |
101.25 |
2009-04-02 |
| 101. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
100.73 |
0.9372 |
-0.0524 |
320 |
1 |
100.73 |
2009-04-02 |
| 102. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
100.11 |
0.9429 |
-0.0663 |
287 |
2 |
99.64 |
2009-04-05 |
| 103. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
99.65 |
0.9426 |
-0.0683 |
317 |
1 |
99.65 |
2009-04-01 |
| 104. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
99.63 |
1.0251 |
-0.1563 |
261 |
1 |
99.63 |
2009-04-05 |
| 105. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
98.71 |
0.9233 |
-0.0687 |
168 |
1 |
98.71 |
2009-04-02 |
| 106. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
97.64 |
0.9540 |
-0.1024 |
285 |
1 |
97.64 |
2008-11-24 |
| 107. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
97.40 |
0.9886 |
-0.1348 |
220 |
2 |
95.47 |
2009-04-01 |
| 108. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
96.64 |
0.9275 |
-0.0863 |
211 |
2 |
94.74 |
2009-04-05 |
| 109. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
95.83 |
0.9846 |
-0.1484 |
281 |
1 |
95.83 |
2009-04-02 |
| 110. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
95.64 |
0.8753 |
-0.0305 |
427 |
3 |
91.37 |
2009-04-05 |
| 111. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
95.01 |
0.9005 |
-0.0720 |
212 |
1 |
95.01 |
2009-04-01 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
93.73 |
0.8382 |
-0.0190 |
268 |
1 |
93.73 |
2008-11-24 |
| 113. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
93.52 |
1.0498 |
-0.2378 |
180 |
1 |
93.52 |
2009-04-05 |
| 114. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
93.20 |
0.9786 |
-0.1651 |
235 |
1 |
93.20 |
2009-04-01 |
| 115. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
93.11 |
0.9148 |
-0.1002 |
317 |
1 |
93.11 |
2009-04-01 |
| 116. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
92.56 |
0.8961 |
-0.0912 |
189 |
1 |
92.56 |
2009-04-02 |
| 117. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
92.33 |
0.9088 |
-0.0973 |
348 |
1 |
92.33 |
2008-11-07 |
| 118. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
92.19 |
0.9691 |
-0.1646 |
223 |
1 |
92.19 |
2009-04-01 |
| 119. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
92.03 |
0.9212 |
-0.1143 |
323 |
2 |
91.17 |
2008-11-24 |
| 120. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
91.87 |
0.8826 |
-0.0790 |
296 |
1 |
91.87 |
2008-11-24 |
| 121. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
88.85 |
0.8916 |
-0.1159 |
216 |
1 |
88.85 |
2009-04-02 |
| 122. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
86.58 |
0.9699 |
-0.2152 |
269 |
1 |
86.58 |
2009-04-05 |
| 123. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
86.47 |
0.7876 |
-0.0307 |
316 |
2 |
83.33 |
2009-04-05 |
| 124. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
72.41 |
0.9485 |
-0.3173 |
236 |
1 |
72.41 |
2009-04-01 |
| 125. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
71.04 |
0.9266 |
-0.3091 |
267 |
1 |
71.04 |
2009-04-01 |