| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
48.67 |
1.0498 |
0.2112 |
180 |
3 |
46.17 |
2009-02-26 |
| 2. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
47.63 |
1.0396 |
0.1930 |
149 |
1 |
47.63 |
2009-01-24 |
| 3. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
47.29 |
0.9251 |
0.3039 |
177 |
1 |
47.29 |
2009-01-24 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
45.91 |
1.0797 |
0.1087 |
210 |
1 |
45.91 |
2009-01-24 |
| 5. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
45.16 |
0.8910 |
0.2810 |
150 |
1 |
45.16 |
2009-02-26 |
| 6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.06 |
1.0799 |
0.0867 |
243 |
1 |
45.06 |
2009-01-24 |
| 7. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
44.97 |
1.0033 |
0.1604 |
189 |
1 |
44.97 |
2009-02-18 |
| 8. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
44.62 |
1.0483 |
0.1078 |
227 |
1 |
44.62 |
2009-01-24 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
44.41 |
1.0337 |
0.1174 |
214 |
2 |
41.94 |
2009-01-31 |
| 10. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.39 |
0.9866 |
0.1633 |
218 |
1 |
44.39 |
2009-02-09 |
| 11. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
44.28 |
0.9724 |
0.1768 |
237 |
2 |
42.96 |
2009-02-18 |
| 12. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
43.51 |
1.0251 |
0.1024 |
261 |
1 |
43.51 |
2009-01-24 |
| 13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
43.45 |
1.0197 |
0.1059 |
226 |
1 |
43.45 |
2009-01-24 |
| 14. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
42.90 |
0.9514 |
0.1617 |
237 |
1 |
42.90 |
2009-01-23 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.88 |
1.0263 |
0.0857 |
267 |
1 |
42.88 |
2009-01-23 |
| 16. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
42.88 |
1.0016 |
0.1088 |
218 |
1 |
42.88 |
2009-01-24 |
| 17. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
42.50 |
1.0389 |
0.0645 |
340 |
2 |
39.80 |
2009-02-09 |
| 18. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.43 |
0.9684 |
0.1335 |
388 |
1 |
42.43 |
2009-01-24 |
| 19. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
42.32 |
0.9221 |
0.1746 |
244 |
4 |
39.50 |
2009-02-09 |
| 20. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
42.10 |
0.9572 |
0.1333 |
201 |
1 |
42.10 |
2009-01-31 |
| 21. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
41.50 |
1.0529 |
0.0234 |
351 |
2 |
40.06 |
2009-02-11 |
| 22. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
41.24 |
1.0486 |
0.0210 |
289 |
1 |
41.24 |
2009-02-11 |
| 23. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
40.68 |
0.8892 |
0.1695 |
207 |
1 |
40.68 |
2009-01-24 |
| 24. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
40.59 |
1.0445 |
0.0085 |
373 |
1 |
40.59 |
2009-02-11 |
| 25. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.57 |
0.9286 |
0.1222 |
194 |
1 |
40.57 |
2009-01-24 |
| 26. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.02 |
1.0429 |
-0.0063 |
259 |
2 |
36.08 |
2009-01-29 |
| 27. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
40.00 |
0.8821 |
0.1533 |
176 |
1 |
40.00 |
2009-01-24 |
| 28. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
39.93 |
0.9910 |
0.0451 |
295 |
1 |
39.93 |
2009-01-23 |
| 29. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
39.87 |
1.0203 |
0.0156 |
261 |
1 |
39.87 |
2009-02-26 |
| 30. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
39.82 |
0.9863 |
0.0480 |
339 |
1 |
39.82 |
2009-01-24 |
| 31. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.81 |
0.9798 |
0.0488 |
199 |
1 |
39.81 |
2009-02-20 |
| 32. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
39.69 |
0.9786 |
0.0484 |
193 |
1 |
39.69 |
2009-01-23 |
| 33. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
39.62 |
0.8941 |
0.1340 |
216 |
1 |
39.62 |
2009-02-02 |
| 34. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
39.61 |
1.0666 |
-0.0410 |
297 |
1 |
39.61 |
2009-01-21 |
| 35. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
39.54 |
0.9710 |
0.0508 |
173 |
2 |
37.99 |
2009-01-24 |
| 36. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.44 |
1.0120 |
0.0106 |
290 |
1 |
39.44 |
2009-01-23 |
| 37. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
39.17 |
1.0441 |
-0.0287 |
252 |
1 |
39.17 |
2009-01-23 |
| 38. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
38.96 |
1.0419 |
-0.0340 |
261 |
1 |
38.96 |
2009-02-09 |
| 39. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
38.87 |
0.9691 |
0.0391 |
223 |
1 |
38.87 |
2009-01-22 |
| 40. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
38.85 |
0.9365 |
0.0710 |
248 |
1 |
38.85 |
2009-02-02 |
| 41. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
38.56 |
0.8810 |
0.1194 |
282 |
2 |
37.68 |
2009-02-20 |
| 42. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
38.56 |
0.9763 |
0.0231 |
289 |
1 |
38.56 |
2009-01-29 |
| 43. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
38.51 |
0.9964 |
0.0013 |
203 |
1 |
38.51 |
2009-01-24 |
| 44. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
38.49 |
1.0596 |
-0.0632 |
239 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-01-23 |
| 45. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
38.37 |
0.9899 |
0.0017 |
163 |
1 |
38.37 |
2009-02-02 |
| 46. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
38.29 |
0.8573 |
0.1371 |
270 |
1 |
38.29 |
2009-02-11 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
38.26 |
1.0829 |
-0.0910 |
288 |
2 |
35.95 |
2009-01-24 |
| 48. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
38.14 |
1.0788 |
-0.0939 |
171 |
1 |
38.14 |
2009-02-11 |
| 49. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.12 |
0.9614 |
0.0271 |
292 |
1 |
38.12 |
2009-02-20 |
| 50. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
38.09 |
0.8996 |
0.0846 |
192 |
2 |
35.12 |
2009-01-24 |
| 51. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
38.07 |
0.9811 |
0.0063 |
272 |
1 |
38.07 |
2009-01-24 |
| 52. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
38.07 |
1.0109 |
-0.0243 |
276 |
1 |
38.07 |
2009-01-24 |
| 53. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.04 |
0.9646 |
0.0206 |
264 |
1 |
38.04 |
2009-01-29 |
| 54. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
37.83 |
1.0711 |
-0.0949 |
213 |
1 |
37.83 |
2009-01-22 |
| 55. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
37.80 |
0.9226 |
0.0585 |
177 |
1 |
37.80 |
2009-01-21 |
| 56. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
37.77 |
0.9965 |
-0.0176 |
277 |
1 |
37.77 |
2009-02-11 |
| 57. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
37.67 |
0.9567 |
0.0194 |
273 |
1 |
37.67 |
2009-02-09 |
| 58. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
37.62 |
1.0095 |
-0.0349 |
316 |
1 |
37.62 |
2009-02-26 |
| 59. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
37.30 |
1.0168 |
-0.0506 |
271 |
1 |
37.30 |
2009-01-24 |
| 60. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
37.04 |
0.9281 |
0.0340 |
273 |
1 |
37.04 |
2009-01-24 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
37.03 |
1.0331 |
-0.0762 |
234 |
1 |
37.03 |
2009-01-24 |
| 62. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
36.84 |
0.9991 |
-0.0451 |
225 |
1 |
36.84 |
2009-01-21 |
| 63. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
36.76 |
0.9884 |
-0.0372 |
233 |
1 |
36.76 |
2009-02-02 |
| 64. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
36.68 |
0.8919 |
0.0579 |
205 |
2 |
33.66 |
2009-02-26 |
| 65. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
36.54 |
1.0004 |
-0.0565 |
212 |
1 |
36.54 |
2009-02-11 |
| 66. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
36.53 |
1.0124 |
-0.0677 |
204 |
1 |
36.53 |
2009-01-23 |
| 67. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
36.22 |
0.9084 |
0.0308 |
300 |
1 |
36.22 |
2009-01-24 |
| 68. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.19 |
1.0521 |
-0.1172 |
171 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-01-23 |
| 69. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.16 |
0.9649 |
-0.0289 |
193 |
1 |
36.16 |
2009-02-02 |
| 70. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
36.12 |
1.0252 |
-0.0928 |
176 |
1 |
36.12 |
2009-02-26 |
| 71. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
36.01 |
0.8852 |
0.0480 |
201 |
1 |
36.01 |
2009-01-23 |
| 72. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
35.92 |
0.9202 |
0.0105 |
254 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-01-31 |
| 73. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.88 |
0.9168 |
0.0126 |
240 |
1 |
35.88 |
2009-01-22 |
| 74. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
35.85 |
0.9740 |
-0.0474 |
209 |
1 |
35.85 |
2009-02-26 |
| 75. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.85 |
1.0213 |
-0.0944 |
240 |
1 |
35.85 |
2009-01-20 |
| 76. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.71 |
0.8792 |
0.0503 |
296 |
1 |
35.71 |
2009-02-26 |
| 77. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
35.70 |
0.8887 |
0.0460 |
128 |
1 |
35.70 |
2009-01-24 |
| 78. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.58 |
0.9852 |
-0.0640 |
264 |
1 |
35.58 |
2009-01-24 |
| 79. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.42 |
0.9786 |
-0.0616 |
235 |
1 |
35.42 |
2009-02-02 |
| 80. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
35.37 |
1.0389 |
-0.1229 |
318 |
1 |
35.37 |
2009-01-22 |
| 81. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
35.10 |
0.9965 |
-0.0898 |
168 |
1 |
35.10 |
2009-01-24 |
| 82. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
34.90 |
1.0297 |
-0.1272 |
249 |
1 |
34.90 |
2009-01-23 |
| 83. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
34.84 |
0.9164 |
-0.0125 |
305 |
2 |
33.01 |
2009-01-24 |
| 84. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
34.76 |
0.8653 |
0.0395 |
255 |
1 |
34.76 |
2009-01-24 |
| 85. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
34.57 |
1.0516 |
-0.1570 |
281 |
1 |
34.57 |
2009-01-22 |
| 86. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
34.42 |
0.8295 |
0.0636 |
209 |
1 |
34.42 |
2009-01-24 |
| 87. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
34.24 |
0.9731 |
-0.0928 |
129 |
2 |
33.98 |
2009-02-09 |
| 88. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
33.76 |
0.8899 |
-0.0115 |
293 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-02-11 |
| 89. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
33.66 |
1.0218 |
-0.1526 |
268 |
1 |
33.66 |
2009-01-24 |
| 90. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
33.65 |
0.9795 |
-0.1086 |
308 |
1 |
33.65 |
2009-01-24 |
| 91. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
33.50 |
0.9213 |
-0.0537 |
295 |
1 |
33.50 |
2009-01-23 |
| 92. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.36 |
0.8602 |
0.0024 |
206 |
2 |
31.00 |
2009-02-20 |
| 93. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
33.30 |
0.8152 |
0.0478 |
163 |
1 |
33.30 |
2009-01-20 |
| 94. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
32.85 |
0.8890 |
-0.0407 |
199 |
2 |
31.63 |
2009-01-23 |
| 95. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
32.85 |
0.8442 |
0.0078 |
265 |
1 |
32.85 |
2009-01-21 |
| 96. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
32.82 |
0.9865 |
-0.1371 |
276 |
1 |
32.82 |
2009-02-26 |
| 97. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
32.42 |
0.9275 |
-0.0903 |
211 |
1 |
32.42 |
2009-01-20 |
| 98. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
32.04 |
0.9233 |
-0.0980 |
168 |
1 |
32.04 |
2009-02-09 |
| 99. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
31.00 |
0.9339 |
-0.1332 |
310 |
1 |
31.00 |
2009-01-23 |
| 100. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
30.96 |
1.0528 |
-0.2548 |
201 |
1 |
30.96 |
2009-01-23 |
| 101. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.38 |
0.9429 |
-0.1836 |
287 |
1 |
29.38 |
2009-01-23 |
| 102. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
29.10 |
0.8770 |
-0.1236 |
300 |
1 |
29.10 |
2009-01-20 |