| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
142.73 |
1.0252 |
0.2519 |
176 |
1 |
142.73 |
2008-12-11 |
| 2. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
140.43 |
1.0555 |
0.2010 |
363 |
2 |
137.71 |
2009-10-24 |
| 3. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
138.44 |
1.0463 |
0.1924 |
182 |
1 |
138.44 |
2009-10-24 |
| 4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
138.11 |
1.0596 |
0.1761 |
239 |
1 |
138.11 |
2008-12-17 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
135.37 |
1.0454 |
0.1658 |
255 |
1 |
135.37 |
2008-12-11 |
| 6. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
135.09 |
1.0419 |
0.1668 |
261 |
1 |
135.09 |
2008-12-16 |
| 7. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
134.36 |
1.0389 |
0.1633 |
340 |
2 |
126.68 |
2008-12-18 |
| 8. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
133.55 |
1.0577 |
0.1372 |
247 |
1 |
133.55 |
2008-12-11 |
| 9. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
130.87 |
0.9795 |
0.1915 |
308 |
4 |
116.35 |
2008-12-17 |
| 10. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
130.51 |
1.0619 |
0.1058 |
354 |
3 |
119.11 |
2009-10-25 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
130.43 |
1.0696 |
0.0974 |
226 |
2 |
127.25 |
2009-10-24 |
| 12. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
130.30 |
1.0907 |
0.0752 |
303 |
1 |
130.30 |
2011-03-08 |
| 13. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
130.01 |
1.0347 |
0.1286 |
550 |
1 |
130.01 |
2009-10-25 |
| 14. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
129.99 |
1.0257 |
0.1374 |
401 |
1 |
129.99 |
2008-12-11 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
129.51 |
1.0498 |
0.1090 |
180 |
2 |
123.41 |
2008-12-11 |
| 16. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
129.05 |
0.9946 |
0.1601 |
246 |
1 |
129.05 |
2008-12-12 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
128.58 |
1.0523 |
0.0982 |
256 |
1 |
128.58 |
2008-12-11 |
| 18. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
127.59 |
0.9376 |
0.2040 |
367 |
2 |
122.97 |
2010-05-30 |
| 19. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
126.74 |
0.9786 |
0.1554 |
235 |
1 |
126.74 |
2011-03-08 |
| 20. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
126.42 |
0.9907 |
0.1404 |
211 |
1 |
126.42 |
2008-12-09 |
| 21. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
126.34 |
1.0013 |
0.1291 |
273 |
1 |
126.34 |
2008-12-16 |
| 22. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
124.78 |
1.0124 |
0.1041 |
204 |
2 |
119.14 |
2008-12-11 |
| 23. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
123.93 |
1.0385 |
0.0704 |
230 |
1 |
123.93 |
2008-12-12 |
| 24. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
123.45 |
1.0090 |
0.0956 |
282 |
2 |
119.01 |
2009-10-25 |
| 25. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
123.20 |
1.0068 |
0.0955 |
358 |
1 |
123.20 |
2008-12-16 |
| 26. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
122.44 |
1.0788 |
0.0167 |
171 |
1 |
122.44 |
2008-12-10 |
| 27. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
122.16 |
1.0613 |
0.0317 |
456 |
1 |
122.16 |
2008-12-16 |
| 28. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
121.07 |
0.8890 |
0.1943 |
199 |
1 |
121.07 |
2008-12-14 |
| 29. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
120.90 |
1.0053 |
0.0765 |
232 |
1 |
120.90 |
2009-10-25 |
| 30. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
120.43 |
1.0073 |
0.0702 |
369 |
1 |
120.43 |
2008-12-16 |
| 31. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
119.65 |
0.9684 |
0.1022 |
388 |
1 |
119.65 |
2008-12-09 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
119.05 |
1.1114 |
-0.0462 |
247 |
2 |
118.85 |
2008-12-16 |
| 33. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
118.92 |
1.0714 |
-0.0074 |
129 |
1 |
118.92 |
2009-04-05 |
| 34. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
118.50 |
1.0025 |
0.0578 |
256 |
1 |
118.50 |
2008-12-11 |
| 35. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
118.41 |
0.9676 |
0.0919 |
442 |
1 |
118.41 |
2009-10-24 |
| 36. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
118.04 |
1.0429 |
0.0133 |
259 |
2 |
117.71 |
2009-03-07 |
| 37. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
117.03 |
0.9532 |
0.0939 |
258 |
1 |
117.03 |
2009-10-25 |
| 38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
116.69 |
0.9851 |
0.0590 |
317 |
1 |
116.69 |
2008-12-11 |
| 39. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
116.35 |
0.9865 |
0.0545 |
276 |
2 |
105.30 |
2009-10-25 |
| 40. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
116.02 |
0.9772 |
0.0609 |
217 |
3 |
108.65 |
2009-10-25 |
| 41. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
115.98 |
0.9612 |
0.0765 |
256 |
1 |
115.98 |
2008-12-16 |
| 42. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
115.84 |
1.0477 |
-0.0112 |
360 |
1 |
115.84 |
2008-12-11 |
| 43. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
115.69 |
1.1018 |
-0.0667 |
220 |
1 |
115.69 |
2009-10-24 |
| 44. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
115.53 |
1.0165 |
0.0172 |
392 |
1 |
115.53 |
2008-12-09 |
| 45. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
115.40 |
1.0213 |
0.0112 |
240 |
2 |
114.45 |
2008-12-17 |
| 46. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
114.94 |
0.9578 |
0.0706 |
281 |
1 |
114.94 |
2008-12-12 |
| 47. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
114.87 |
0.9570 |
0.0708 |
287 |
1 |
114.87 |
2008-12-11 |
| 48. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
114.82 |
0.9846 |
0.0428 |
281 |
2 |
111.81 |
2008-12-13 |
| 49. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
114.63 |
0.9852 |
0.0405 |
264 |
1 |
114.63 |
2008-12-16 |
| 50. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
114.33 |
0.9330 |
0.0900 |
360 |
2 |
98.96 |
2009-10-24 |
| 51. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
114.10 |
0.9168 |
0.1041 |
240 |
2 |
107.74 |
2008-12-17 |
| 52. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
113.98 |
1.0167 |
0.0031 |
378 |
1 |
113.98 |
2008-12-11 |
| 53. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
113.97 |
1.0390 |
-0.0193 |
205 |
1 |
113.97 |
2008-12-09 |
| 54. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
113.32 |
0.9468 |
0.0671 |
276 |
2 |
107.65 |
2008-12-11 |
| 55. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
113.14 |
0.9763 |
0.0360 |
289 |
2 |
106.08 |
2008-12-09 |
| 56. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
112.90 |
1.0029 |
0.0073 |
209 |
1 |
112.90 |
2008-12-25 |
| 57. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
112.82 |
1.0885 |
-0.0790 |
341 |
1 |
112.82 |
2011-03-08 |
| 58. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
112.75 |
0.8956 |
0.1132 |
322 |
1 |
112.75 |
2008-12-25 |
| 59. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
112.19 |
0.9966 |
0.0072 |
259 |
1 |
112.19 |
2008-12-11 |
| 60. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
111.94 |
1.0795 |
-0.0779 |
226 |
1 |
111.94 |
2011-03-08 |
| 61. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
111.49 |
0.9275 |
0.0701 |
211 |
1 |
111.49 |
2008-12-17 |
| 62. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
110.12 |
0.9567 |
0.0286 |
273 |
1 |
110.12 |
2009-10-24 |
| 63. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
110.01 |
1.0528 |
-0.0685 |
201 |
1 |
110.01 |
2008-12-16 |
| 64. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
109.74 |
0.9805 |
0.0014 |
292 |
1 |
109.74 |
2009-10-25 |
| 65. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
108.41 |
1.0349 |
-0.0649 |
234 |
1 |
108.41 |
2009-06-30 |
| 66. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
108.29 |
0.8961 |
0.0728 |
189 |
1 |
108.29 |
2008-12-16 |
| 67. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
108.22 |
0.9513 |
0.0170 |
354 |
1 |
108.22 |
2008-12-13 |
| 68. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
108.15 |
0.9553 |
0.0124 |
430 |
1 |
108.15 |
2008-12-10 |
| 69. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
107.28 |
1.1016 |
-0.1417 |
233 |
1 |
107.28 |
2008-12-12 |
| 70. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
107.27 |
0.9844 |
-0.0246 |
293 |
1 |
107.27 |
2008-12-08 |
| 71. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
106.93 |
0.9997 |
-0.0429 |
382 |
1 |
106.93 |
2008-12-10 |
| 72. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
106.85 |
1.0109 |
-0.0549 |
276 |
2 |
100.87 |
2008-12-16 |
| 73. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
106.79 |
0.9365 |
0.0190 |
248 |
1 |
106.79 |
2008-12-11 |
| 74. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
106.32 |
1.0201 |
-0.0688 |
303 |
2 |
104.19 |
2011-03-08 |
| 75. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
106.01 |
0.9785 |
-0.0300 |
335 |
1 |
106.01 |
2008-12-11 |
| 76. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
105.93 |
1.0796 |
-0.1318 |
129 |
1 |
105.93 |
2008-12-11 |
| 77. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
105.82 |
0.8826 |
0.0642 |
296 |
3 |
103.77 |
2009-10-24 |
| 78. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
105.52 |
0.9074 |
0.0367 |
396 |
1 |
105.52 |
2008-12-11 |
| 79. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
105.25 |
0.9527 |
-0.0110 |
251 |
1 |
105.25 |
2008-12-11 |
| 80. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
104.94 |
0.8878 |
0.0512 |
346 |
2 |
104.81 |
2009-10-24 |
| 81. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
102.96 |
0.9572 |
-0.0360 |
376 |
1 |
102.96 |
2010-05-30 |
| 82. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
101.59 |
0.9756 |
-0.0666 |
229 |
1 |
101.59 |
2008-12-14 |
| 83. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
101.19 |
1.0062 |
-0.1008 |
288 |
1 |
101.19 |
2008-12-12 |
| 84. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
100.65 |
0.9857 |
-0.0851 |
293 |
1 |
100.65 |
2008-12-17 |
| 85. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
100.46 |
0.9632 |
-0.0643 |
392 |
1 |
100.46 |
2008-12-12 |
| 86. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
99.80 |
0.9398 |
-0.0468 |
419 |
1 |
99.80 |
2008-12-12 |
| 87. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
99.28 |
0.9636 |
-0.0753 |
254 |
1 |
99.28 |
2008-12-16 |
| 88. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
99.20 |
0.9965 |
-0.1089 |
168 |
1 |
99.20 |
2011-03-08 |
| 89. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
99.14 |
0.9309 |
-0.0438 |
284 |
1 |
99.14 |
2008-12-11 |
| 90. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
98.69 |
0.9351 |
-0.0521 |
190 |
2 |
86.70 |
2009-10-25 |
| 91. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
98.54 |
1.0150 |
-0.1333 |
325 |
1 |
98.54 |
2009-10-25 |
| 92. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
98.22 |
1.0515 |
-0.1727 |
250 |
1 |
98.22 |
2008-12-09 |
| 93. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
98.19 |
1.0201 |
-0.1415 |
172 |
1 |
98.19 |
2009-10-25 |
| 94. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
98.16 |
0.9559 |
-0.0776 |
195 |
1 |
98.16 |
2011-03-08 |
| 95. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
98.06 |
0.9941 |
-0.1167 |
217 |
2 |
95.31 |
2008-12-11 |
| 96. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
97.74 |
0.9691 |
-0.0946 |
223 |
2 |
93.35 |
2008-12-18 |
| 97. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
96.33 |
0.9710 |
-0.1091 |
173 |
1 |
96.33 |
2011-03-08 |
| 98. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
96.31 |
0.9289 |
-0.0672 |
204 |
1 |
96.31 |
2008-12-12 |
| 99. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
95.65 |
0.9279 |
-0.0721 |
317 |
1 |
95.65 |
2008-12-12 |
| 100. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
95.15 |
0.9064 |
-0.0550 |
399 |
1 |
95.15 |
2008-12-08 |
| 101. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
94.13 |
0.8382 |
0.0040 |
268 |
2 |
92.28 |
2009-10-24 |
| 102. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
93.35 |
0.9212 |
-0.0859 |
323 |
1 |
93.35 |
2008-12-11 |
| 103. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
92.83 |
0.9087 |
-0.0781 |
393 |
1 |
92.83 |
2008-12-11 |
| 104. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
91.13 |
0.7876 |
0.0278 |
316 |
1 |
91.13 |
2008-12-11 |
| 105. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
90.70 |
1.0060 |
-0.1945 |
171 |
1 |
90.70 |
2008-12-13 |
| 106. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
90.31 |
0.9234 |
-0.1153 |
346 |
1 |
90.31 |
2008-12-09 |
| 107. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
90.30 |
0.9426 |
-0.1346 |
317 |
1 |
90.30 |
2008-12-13 |
| 108. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
90.10 |
0.9342 |
-0.1280 |
434 |
1 |
90.10 |
2008-12-11 |
| 109. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
89.50 |
0.9790 |
-0.1782 |
311 |
1 |
89.50 |
2010-06-29 |
| 110. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
87.70 |
0.9893 |
-0.2046 |
323 |
1 |
87.70 |
2008-12-08 |
| 111. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
87.48 |
0.9164 |
-0.1337 |
305 |
1 |
87.48 |
2008-12-08 |
| 112. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
84.88 |
0.9649 |
-0.2054 |
193 |
1 |
84.88 |
2008-12-08 |
| 113. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
83.56 |
1.0214 |
-0.2737 |
166 |
1 |
83.56 |
2008-12-17 |