| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
74.91 |
1.1114 |
0.1210 |
247 |
2 |
72.39 |
2009-06-20 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
72.11 |
1.0666 |
0.1220 |
297 |
2 |
71.86 |
2009-06-20 |
| 3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.84 |
1.0797 |
0.0820 |
210 |
1 |
70.84 |
2009-06-20 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
70.41 |
1.0993 |
0.0587 |
265 |
2 |
68.54 |
2009-06-20 |
| 5. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
69.67 |
1.0565 |
0.0887 |
247 |
1 |
69.67 |
2009-06-20 |
| 6. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
68.54 |
1.0496 |
0.0787 |
314 |
2 |
64.70 |
2009-06-20 |
| 7. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
68.11 |
1.0767 |
0.0429 |
212 |
1 |
68.11 |
2009-06-20 |
| 8. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
66.78 |
1.0368 |
0.0638 |
276 |
1 |
66.78 |
2009-06-20 |
| 9. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
66.77 |
1.0016 |
0.0933 |
218 |
1 |
66.77 |
2009-06-20 |
| 10. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.67 |
0.9852 |
0.1129 |
264 |
1 |
66.67 |
2009-06-20 |
| 11. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
66.59 |
1.0419 |
0.0546 |
261 |
3 |
65.06 |
2009-06-20 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
66.58 |
1.0214 |
0.0732 |
269 |
3 |
59.19 |
2009-06-20 |
| 13. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.54 |
1.0487 |
0.0420 |
231 |
2 |
63.51 |
2009-06-25 |
| 14. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
66.41 |
0.9893 |
0.1043 |
323 |
3 |
63.48 |
2009-06-25 |
| 15. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
66.01 |
1.0462 |
0.0345 |
184 |
1 |
66.01 |
2009-06-20 |
| 16. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
66.00 |
1.0257 |
0.0674 |
401 |
1 |
66.00 |
2009-06-20 |
| 17. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
65.97 |
1.0201 |
0.0593 |
172 |
1 |
65.97 |
2009-06-19 |
| 18. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
65.82 |
1.0441 |
0.0411 |
252 |
1 |
65.82 |
2009-06-20 |
| 19. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
65.71 |
1.0529 |
0.0288 |
351 |
1 |
65.71 |
2009-06-20 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
65.70 |
1.0498 |
0.0271 |
180 |
1 |
65.70 |
2009-06-20 |
| 21. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
65.54 |
1.0389 |
0.0418 |
318 |
3 |
61.32 |
2009-06-20 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
64.95 |
1.0444 |
0.0182 |
197 |
1 |
64.95 |
2009-06-20 |
| 23. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
64.80 |
1.0668 |
0.0024 |
350 |
2 |
64.54 |
2009-06-20 |
| 24. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
64.50 |
0.9768 |
0.0875 |
387 |
2 |
63.21 |
2009-06-20 |
| 25. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
64.35 |
1.0095 |
0.0486 |
316 |
2 |
61.10 |
2009-06-20 |
| 26. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
63.98 |
1.0033 |
0.0430 |
189 |
1 |
63.98 |
2009-06-20 |
| 27. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
63.94 |
1.0201 |
0.0326 |
303 |
1 |
63.94 |
2009-06-19 |
| 28. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
63.82 |
1.0577 |
-0.0109 |
247 |
1 |
63.82 |
2009-06-20 |
| 29. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
63.72 |
1.0125 |
0.0339 |
224 |
2 |
62.67 |
2009-06-20 |
| 30. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
63.71 |
1.0787 |
-0.0315 |
237 |
1 |
63.71 |
2009-06-20 |
| 31. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
63.29 |
0.9233 |
0.1099 |
168 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-06-19 |
| 32. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
63.21 |
0.9866 |
0.0499 |
218 |
3 |
62.22 |
2009-06-20 |
| 33. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
63.17 |
0.9865 |
0.0541 |
276 |
2 |
63.00 |
2009-06-20 |
| 34. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
63.01 |
1.0454 |
-0.0122 |
255 |
1 |
63.01 |
2009-06-20 |
| 35. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
63.00 |
0.9553 |
0.0886 |
430 |
1 |
63.00 |
2009-06-20 |
| 36. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
62.93 |
1.0023 |
0.0313 |
211 |
2 |
62.29 |
2009-06-20 |
| 37. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
62.93 |
1.0390 |
-0.0073 |
205 |
1 |
62.93 |
2009-06-20 |
| 38. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
62.80 |
1.0613 |
-0.0270 |
266 |
2 |
62.32 |
2009-06-20 |
| 39. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.72 |
1.0034 |
0.0271 |
302 |
2 |
60.38 |
2009-06-20 |
| 40. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
62.14 |
0.9578 |
0.0641 |
281 |
1 |
62.14 |
2009-06-20 |
| 41. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
62.06 |
0.9986 |
0.0230 |
283 |
1 |
62.06 |
2009-06-19 |
| 42. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
61.49 |
1.0062 |
0.0053 |
288 |
1 |
61.49 |
2009-06-19 |
| 43. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
61.32 |
0.9910 |
0.0196 |
295 |
2 |
60.35 |
2009-06-20 |
| 44. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
61.14 |
0.9997 |
0.0096 |
382 |
1 |
61.14 |
2009-06-20 |
| 45. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
61.00 |
0.9567 |
0.0465 |
273 |
1 |
61.00 |
2009-06-25 |
| 46. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
60.75 |
1.0483 |
-0.0521 |
227 |
1 |
60.75 |
2009-06-20 |
| 47. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
60.72 |
1.0165 |
-0.0139 |
392 |
1 |
60.72 |
2009-06-19 |
| 48. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
60.72 |
0.9897 |
0.0067 |
274 |
1 |
60.72 |
2009-06-20 |
| 49. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
60.47 |
1.0124 |
-0.0203 |
204 |
1 |
60.47 |
2009-06-19 |
| 50. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.13 |
0.9293 |
0.0604 |
355 |
1 |
60.13 |
2009-06-19 |
| 51. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
60.09 |
1.0203 |
-0.0287 |
261 |
1 |
60.09 |
2009-06-20 |
| 52. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
60.03 |
0.9772 |
0.0065 |
217 |
1 |
60.03 |
2009-06-19 |
| 53. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
59.99 |
0.9697 |
0.0170 |
249 |
1 |
59.99 |
2009-06-19 |
| 54. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
59.96 |
0.9279 |
0.0646 |
317 |
1 |
59.96 |
2009-06-20 |
| 55. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
59.95 |
0.9309 |
0.0531 |
284 |
1 |
59.95 |
2009-06-20 |
| 56. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
59.53 |
0.9756 |
0.0020 |
229 |
1 |
59.53 |
2009-06-20 |
| 57. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
59.23 |
0.9965 |
-0.0223 |
310 |
1 |
59.23 |
2009-06-20 |
| 58. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
58.91 |
0.9941 |
-0.0280 |
217 |
1 |
58.91 |
2009-06-20 |
| 59. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
58.89 |
1.0218 |
-0.0565 |
268 |
1 |
58.89 |
2009-06-19 |
| 60. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
58.70 |
0.9734 |
-0.0087 |
289 |
1 |
58.70 |
2009-06-20 |
| 61. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
58.68 |
0.9820 |
-0.0145 |
267 |
1 |
58.68 |
2009-06-20 |
| 62. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
58.05 |
0.9863 |
-0.0277 |
339 |
2 |
57.66 |
2009-06-20 |
| 63. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
57.92 |
0.9275 |
0.0213 |
211 |
1 |
57.92 |
2009-06-20 |
| 64. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.65 |
0.9597 |
-0.0080 |
347 |
1 |
57.65 |
2009-06-20 |
| 65. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
57.46 |
0.9780 |
-0.0326 |
337 |
1 |
57.46 |
2009-06-20 |
| 66. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
57.24 |
0.9653 |
-0.0163 |
394 |
2 |
56.86 |
2009-06-20 |
| 67. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
57.15 |
0.9426 |
-0.0003 |
317 |
1 |
57.15 |
2009-06-20 |
| 68. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
57.12 |
1.0396 |
-0.1081 |
149 |
1 |
57.12 |
2009-06-19 |
| 69. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.03 |
0.9084 |
0.0306 |
300 |
1 |
57.03 |
2009-06-19 |
| 70. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
56.96 |
0.9632 |
-0.0207 |
392 |
1 |
56.96 |
2009-06-20 |
| 71. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
56.17 |
0.8852 |
0.0398 |
201 |
1 |
56.17 |
2009-06-20 |
| 72. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
56.16 |
0.8933 |
0.0358 |
363 |
1 |
56.16 |
2009-06-20 |
| 73. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.10 |
0.9365 |
-0.0134 |
248 |
1 |
56.10 |
2009-06-20 |
| 74. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
55.81 |
0.9213 |
-0.0039 |
295 |
1 |
55.81 |
2009-06-20 |
| 75. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
55.66 |
0.9351 |
-0.0262 |
190 |
1 |
55.66 |
2009-06-20 |
| 76. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
55.28 |
0.8947 |
0.0183 |
366 |
1 |
55.28 |
2009-06-19 |
| 77. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
55.14 |
0.9278 |
-0.0194 |
295 |
1 |
55.14 |
2009-06-20 |
| 78. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.01 |
0.8961 |
0.0041 |
189 |
1 |
55.01 |
2009-06-25 |
| 79. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
54.46 |
0.8382 |
0.0567 |
268 |
2 |
50.98 |
2009-06-20 |
| 80. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
53.25 |
0.9339 |
-0.0611 |
310 |
1 |
53.25 |
2009-06-20 |
| 81. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
53.18 |
0.9430 |
-0.0772 |
211 |
1 |
53.18 |
2009-06-20 |
| 82. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
53.10 |
0.9088 |
-0.0318 |
348 |
1 |
53.10 |
2009-06-20 |
| 83. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
52.62 |
0.8919 |
-0.0298 |
205 |
1 |
52.62 |
2009-06-25 |
| 84. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
51.56 |
0.9513 |
-0.1014 |
354 |
1 |
51.56 |
2009-06-19 |
| 85. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
51.35 |
0.8553 |
-0.0178 |
174 |
1 |
51.35 |
2009-06-20 |
| 86. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
49.70 |
0.9612 |
-0.1461 |
256 |
1 |
49.70 |
2009-06-19 |
| 87. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
49.52 |
0.8916 |
-0.0792 |
216 |
1 |
49.52 |
2009-06-19 |
| 88. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
47.81 |
0.8602 |
-0.0788 |
206 |
1 |
47.81 |
2009-06-19 |
| 89. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
47.51 |
0.8956 |
-0.1124 |
322 |
1 |
47.51 |
2009-06-19 |
| 90. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
47.17 |
0.9844 |
-0.2066 |
293 |
1 |
47.17 |
2009-06-19 |
| 91. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
46.86 |
0.9857 |
-0.2189 |
293 |
1 |
46.86 |
2009-06-19 |
| 92. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
42.61 |
0.9289 |
-0.2342 |
204 |
1 |
42.61 |
2009-06-20 |
| 93. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
27.18 |
0.9851 |
-0.5430 |
317 |
1 |
27.18 |
2009-06-25 |