Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
68.55 |
1.0867 |
0.1348 |
171 |
1 |
68.55 |
2010-08-17 |
2. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
66.41 |
1.0125 |
0.1735 |
232 |
1 |
66.41 |
2011-01-30 |
3. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
66.30 |
1.0507 |
0.1404 |
253 |
1 |
66.30 |
2010-08-16 |
4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
66.12 |
1.0561 |
0.1241 |
227 |
1 |
66.12 |
2010-08-16 |
5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
65.97 |
1.0877 |
0.0881 |
129 |
1 |
65.97 |
2011-01-22 |
6. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
65.32 |
1.0960 |
0.0759 |
315 |
1 |
65.32 |
2010-08-15 |
7. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
65.04 |
0.9632 |
0.2009 |
287 |
1 |
65.04 |
2010-08-16 |
8. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
64.81 |
1.0682 |
0.0917 |
266 |
1 |
64.81 |
2010-08-20 |
9. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
64.76 |
1.0600 |
0.0982 |
351 |
1 |
64.76 |
2010-08-17 |
10. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
64.68 |
1.0334 |
0.1226 |
261 |
3 |
57.87 |
2011-01-30 |
11. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
63.50 |
1.0199 |
0.1116 |
225 |
1 |
63.50 |
2010-08-16 |
12. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
63.45 |
1.0576 |
0.0739 |
231 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-08-17 |
13. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
63.36 |
0.9841 |
0.1455 |
217 |
1 |
63.36 |
2010-08-16 |
14. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
63.18 |
0.9918 |
0.1447 |
400 |
1 |
63.18 |
2010-08-20 |
15. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
62.59 |
1.0755 |
0.0439 |
243 |
1 |
62.59 |
2010-08-16 |
16. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
62.52 |
0.9736 |
0.1512 |
378 |
1 |
62.52 |
2010-08-22 |
17. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
61.84 |
1.0759 |
0.0350 |
273 |
1 |
61.84 |
2010-08-16 |
18. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
60.79 |
1.1198 |
-0.0346 |
247 |
1 |
60.79 |
2010-01-06 |
19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
60.75 |
1.0332 |
0.0518 |
267 |
2 |
58.09 |
2010-08-22 |
20. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
60.55 |
0.9925 |
0.0851 |
155 |
1 |
60.55 |
2010-08-13 |
21. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
60.50 |
1.0086 |
0.0683 |
218 |
1 |
60.50 |
2010-05-13 |
22. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
60.41 |
0.9807 |
0.0872 |
129 |
1 |
60.41 |
2010-01-07 |
23. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
60.40 |
0.9374 |
0.1447 |
232 |
1 |
60.40 |
2010-08-16 |
24. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
60.16 |
1.0461 |
0.0339 |
286 |
1 |
60.16 |
2010-08-15 |
25. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
60.15 |
1.0432 |
0.0322 |
276 |
1 |
60.15 |
2010-08-17 |
26. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
59.76 |
0.9931 |
0.0794 |
339 |
1 |
59.76 |
2010-08-12 |
27. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
59.67 |
1.0139 |
0.0657 |
349 |
1 |
59.67 |
2010-08-16 |
28. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
59.62 |
1.0204 |
0.0367 |
143 |
1 |
59.62 |
2010-08-15 |
29. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
59.45 |
1.0615 |
-0.0019 |
201 |
1 |
59.45 |
2010-05-13 |
30. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
59.29 |
1.0411 |
0.0203 |
341 |
1 |
59.29 |
2011-01-28 |
31. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
59.24 |
0.9869 |
0.0684 |
193 |
1 |
59.24 |
2010-08-15 |
32. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
59.07 |
0.9519 |
0.1078 |
323 |
2 |
56.19 |
2011-01-27 |
33. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.90 |
1.0686 |
-0.0123 |
354 |
1 |
58.90 |
2010-08-16 |
34. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
58.51 |
0.9119 |
0.1377 |
396 |
1 |
58.51 |
2010-08-16 |
35. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
58.37 |
1.0018 |
0.0416 |
246 |
1 |
58.37 |
2010-08-16 |
36. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
58.31 |
1.0736 |
-0.0276 |
256 |
1 |
58.31 |
2011-01-21 |
37. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
58.15 |
1.0279 |
0.0058 |
172 |
1 |
58.15 |
2010-08-18 |
38. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
57.85 |
0.9564 |
0.0709 |
263 |
1 |
57.85 |
2010-08-16 |
39. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
57.72 |
0.9909 |
0.0445 |
334 |
1 |
57.72 |
2010-08-09 |
40. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.64 |
0.9650 |
0.0674 |
347 |
1 |
57.64 |
2010-08-16 |
41. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
57.62 |
1.0016 |
0.0265 |
217 |
1 |
57.62 |
2010-08-15 |
42. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
57.61 |
1.0130 |
0.0163 |
288 |
1 |
57.61 |
2010-08-12 |
43. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
57.54 |
0.9824 |
0.0588 |
352 |
1 |
57.54 |
2010-08-17 |
44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
57.49 |
0.9952 |
0.0343 |
220 |
1 |
57.49 |
2010-08-09 |
45. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
57.17 |
1.0304 |
-0.0123 |
256 |
1 |
57.17 |
2011-01-28 |
46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
56.99 |
0.9765 |
0.0408 |
269 |
1 |
56.99 |
2010-08-16 |
47. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
56.84 |
1.0060 |
0.0103 |
260 |
1 |
56.84 |
2010-01-08 |
48. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
56.71 |
1.0351 |
-0.0181 |
276 |
1 |
56.71 |
2010-08-14 |
49. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
56.61 |
0.9597 |
0.0521 |
251 |
1 |
56.61 |
2010-08-16 |
50. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
56.50 |
0.9070 |
0.0975 |
192 |
1 |
56.50 |
2010-08-13 |
51. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
56.40 |
0.9068 |
0.0990 |
212 |
1 |
56.40 |
2010-03-16 |
52. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.30 |
1.0033 |
0.0027 |
203 |
2 |
56.20 |
2010-08-17 |
53. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
56.16 |
0.9658 |
0.0412 |
308 |
1 |
56.16 |
2011-02-02 |
54. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
56.12 |
1.0132 |
-0.0103 |
371 |
2 |
49.50 |
2011-02-02 |
55. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
56.05 |
1.0341 |
-0.0335 |
273 |
1 |
56.05 |
2010-05-13 |
56. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
55.68 |
0.8988 |
0.0951 |
193 |
1 |
55.68 |
2010-08-14 |
57. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
55.63 |
1.0124 |
-0.0134 |
275 |
1 |
55.63 |
2010-08-13 |
58. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
55.63 |
0.9763 |
0.0168 |
283 |
2 |
55.16 |
2011-01-21 |
59. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
55.57 |
0.8572 |
0.1335 |
232 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-01-06 |
60. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
55.57 |
1.0197 |
-0.0290 |
204 |
2 |
50.70 |
2010-08-16 |
61. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
55.53 |
0.9258 |
0.0708 |
184 |
1 |
55.53 |
2010-08-17 |
62. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.34 |
0.9842 |
0.0063 |
335 |
1 |
55.34 |
2010-08-15 |
63. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
55.22 |
1.0234 |
-0.0331 |
392 |
1 |
55.22 |
2010-03-16 |
64. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
55.08 |
0.9561 |
0.0352 |
364 |
1 |
55.08 |
2010-08-15 |
65. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
54.97 |
1.0543 |
-0.0759 |
182 |
1 |
54.97 |
2010-01-06 |
66. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
54.89 |
1.0487 |
-0.0707 |
253 |
1 |
54.89 |
2010-08-13 |
67. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
54.72 |
0.8959 |
0.0870 |
328 |
1 |
54.72 |
2010-08-14 |
68. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
54.50 |
1.0529 |
-0.0767 |
373 |
1 |
54.50 |
2010-03-16 |
69. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
54.07 |
1.0010 |
-0.0315 |
213 |
1 |
54.07 |
2010-01-08 |
70. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
53.75 |
0.9749 |
-0.0056 |
337 |
1 |
53.75 |
2010-08-20 |
71. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
53.72 |
0.8721 |
0.0933 |
231 |
1 |
53.72 |
2011-01-22 |
72. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.70 |
1.0506 |
-0.0921 |
259 |
1 |
53.70 |
2010-01-06 |
73. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.60 |
0.9143 |
0.0438 |
300 |
1 |
53.60 |
2010-01-06 |
74. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
53.30 |
1.0135 |
-0.0584 |
358 |
1 |
53.30 |
2010-08-16 |
75. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
53.02 |
1.0466 |
-0.1001 |
230 |
1 |
53.02 |
2011-01-21 |
76. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
52.92 |
0.9762 |
-0.0314 |
249 |
2 |
45.84 |
2011-02-02 |
77. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
52.78 |
0.9948 |
-0.0529 |
233 |
1 |
52.78 |
2010-03-16 |
78. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.71 |
0.9011 |
0.0436 |
322 |
1 |
52.71 |
2010-08-13 |
79. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
52.63 |
0.9359 |
0.0051 |
355 |
1 |
52.63 |
2010-01-06 |
80. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
52.52 |
0.9779 |
-0.0417 |
255 |
1 |
52.52 |
2010-01-06 |
81. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
52.20 |
0.9680 |
-0.0355 |
256 |
1 |
52.20 |
2010-08-09 |
82. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
51.83 |
0.9604 |
-0.0374 |
285 |
1 |
51.83 |
2010-01-06 |
83. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
51.27 |
0.9354 |
-0.0088 |
384 |
1 |
51.27 |
2010-08-17 |
84. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
51.07 |
0.9880 |
-0.0804 |
199 |
1 |
51.07 |
2010-08-14 |
85. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
50.59 |
0.9136 |
-0.0072 |
348 |
1 |
50.59 |
2011-01-30 |
86. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
49.53 |
1.0504 |
-0.1645 |
225 |
1 |
49.53 |
2010-01-06 |
87. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
48.80 |
0.9631 |
-0.0923 |
273 |
1 |
48.80 |
2010-08-14 |
88. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
48.64 |
0.9745 |
-0.1046 |
388 |
1 |
48.64 |
2010-01-06 |
89. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
45.04 |
0.9543 |
-0.1443 |
265 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-01-06 |
90. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.87 |
0.9027 |
-0.1239 |
189 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-03-16 |
91. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
42.84 |
0.9933 |
-0.2219 |
450 |
1 |
42.84 |
2011-01-30 |
92. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
40.66 |
1.0370 |
-0.3127 |
262 |
1 |
40.66 |
2011-02-02 |
93. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
35.58 |
0.9851 |
-0.3470 |
237 |
1 |
35.58 |
2010-08-12 |
94. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
35.05 |
0.9957 |
-0.3679 |
323 |
1 |
35.05 |
2011-02-02 |
95. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
34.96 |
0.8194 |
-0.1982 |
193 |
1 |
34.96 |
2011-02-02 |
96. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.62 |
0.8656 |
-0.2841 |
242 |
1 |
32.62 |
2011-02-02 |
97. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
32.31 |
0.8988 |
-0.3247 |
216 |
1 |
32.31 |
2011-02-02 |
98. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
30.94 |
0.8666 |
-0.3190 |
206 |
1 |
30.94 |
2011-02-02 |