| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
108.90 |
1.0487 |
0.3561 |
231 |
2 |
92.65 |
2012-06-16 |
| 2. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
102.10 |
1.0381 |
0.2729 |
170 |
1 |
102.10 |
2012-06-16 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
100.64 |
1.0796 |
0.2175 |
129 |
1 |
100.64 |
2012-06-16 |
| 4. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
100.36 |
1.0165 |
0.2857 |
392 |
1 |
100.36 |
2012-06-16 |
| 5. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
98.68 |
1.0486 |
0.2285 |
289 |
1 |
98.68 |
2011-10-28 |
| 6. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
98.43 |
1.0261 |
0.2863 |
410 |
1 |
98.43 |
2012-06-16 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
98.05 |
1.0799 |
0.1845 |
243 |
1 |
98.05 |
2011-10-26 |
| 8. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
97.68 |
1.0340 |
0.2345 |
406 |
1 |
97.68 |
2012-06-16 |
| 9. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
95.59 |
1.0740 |
0.2003 |
264 |
1 |
95.59 |
2011-10-28 |
| 10. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
94.70 |
0.9754 |
0.2550 |
362 |
1 |
94.70 |
2012-06-16 |
| 11. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
93.33 |
0.9942 |
0.2210 |
483 |
1 |
93.33 |
2012-06-16 |
| 12. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
92.13 |
1.0151 |
0.1671 |
152 |
1 |
92.13 |
2011-10-26 |
| 13. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
90.41 |
1.1068 |
0.1018 |
393 |
1 |
90.41 |
2011-10-26 |
| 14. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
90.38 |
0.9881 |
0.2204 |
424 |
1 |
90.38 |
2012-06-16 |
| 15. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
89.49 |
1.0445 |
0.1126 |
373 |
1 |
89.49 |
2012-06-16 |
| 16. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
88.59 |
1.0029 |
0.1353 |
209 |
1 |
88.59 |
2011-10-28 |
| 17. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
88.16 |
0.9852 |
0.1540 |
264 |
1 |
88.16 |
2012-06-16 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
87.61 |
1.0426 |
0.0884 |
323 |
1 |
87.61 |
2012-06-16 |
| 19. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
87.57 |
1.0109 |
0.1211 |
276 |
2 |
82.57 |
2011-10-28 |
| 20. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
87.57 |
1.0391 |
0.0982 |
358 |
1 |
87.57 |
2011-10-28 |
| 21. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
86.62 |
1.0141 |
0.1448 |
381 |
1 |
86.62 |
2012-06-16 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
86.42 |
1.0677 |
0.0788 |
284 |
1 |
86.42 |
2011-10-27 |
| 23. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
86.30 |
0.9593 |
0.1600 |
398 |
1 |
86.30 |
2012-06-16 |
| 24. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
86.12 |
1.0523 |
0.0556 |
256 |
1 |
86.12 |
2011-10-28 |
| 25. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
85.85 |
1.0545 |
0.0949 |
416 |
2 |
80.58 |
2012-06-16 |
| 26. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
85.43 |
0.9774 |
0.1249 |
196 |
1 |
85.43 |
2011-10-26 |
| 27. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
85.42 |
0.9798 |
0.1176 |
199 |
1 |
85.42 |
2011-10-31 |
| 28. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
84.78 |
1.0968 |
0.0352 |
365 |
1 |
84.78 |
2011-10-27 |
| 29. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
84.57 |
1.0719 |
0.0477 |
360 |
1 |
84.57 |
2011-10-27 |
| 30. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
84.45 |
1.0013 |
0.0883 |
273 |
1 |
84.45 |
2011-10-28 |
| 31. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
83.46 |
1.0272 |
0.0745 |
405 |
1 |
83.46 |
2012-06-16 |
| 32. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
83.33 |
0.9681 |
0.1160 |
378 |
2 |
77.54 |
2012-06-16 |
| 33. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
82.44 |
1.0385 |
0.0238 |
230 |
1 |
82.44 |
2012-06-16 |
| 34. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
82.44 |
1.1014 |
0.0005 |
273 |
1 |
82.44 |
2011-10-25 |
| 35. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
81.95 |
0.9965 |
0.0564 |
168 |
1 |
81.95 |
2011-11-07 |
| 36. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
81.89 |
1.0183 |
0.0331 |
191 |
1 |
81.89 |
2011-10-26 |
| 37. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
81.88 |
1.0349 |
0.0212 |
234 |
1 |
81.88 |
2011-10-27 |
| 38. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
81.67 |
1.0379 |
0.0511 |
245 |
1 |
81.67 |
2011-10-26 |
| 39. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.43 |
1.0138 |
0.0368 |
231 |
1 |
81.43 |
2011-10-28 |
| 40. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
81.41 |
1.0462 |
-0.0016 |
184 |
1 |
81.41 |
2011-10-25 |
| 41. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
81.00 |
0.9739 |
0.1073 |
412 |
1 |
81.00 |
2011-10-28 |
| 42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
80.49 |
1.0396 |
-0.0081 |
149 |
1 |
80.49 |
2011-10-25 |
| 43. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
80.48 |
1.0944 |
-0.0110 |
308 |
1 |
80.48 |
2011-10-25 |
| 44. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
80.37 |
0.9709 |
0.1072 |
397 |
1 |
80.37 |
2012-06-16 |
| 45. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
80.25 |
0.9855 |
0.0832 |
258 |
1 |
80.25 |
2012-06-16 |
| 46. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
79.38 |
0.9943 |
0.0331 |
373 |
1 |
79.38 |
2011-10-26 |
| 47. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
79.22 |
0.9485 |
0.0760 |
291 |
1 |
79.22 |
2012-06-16 |
| 48. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
79.21 |
1.0905 |
-0.0367 |
210 |
1 |
79.21 |
2011-11-07 |
| 49. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
78.92 |
0.9572 |
0.1041 |
376 |
1 |
78.92 |
2011-10-26 |
| 50. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
78.82 |
1.0352 |
-0.0153 |
341 |
1 |
78.82 |
2011-10-28 |
| 51. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.81 |
0.9899 |
0.0221 |
163 |
1 |
78.81 |
2011-10-26 |
| 52. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
78.79 |
1.0083 |
0.0523 |
273 |
1 |
78.79 |
2011-10-28 |
| 53. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
77.68 |
1.0016 |
-0.0042 |
218 |
1 |
77.68 |
2011-10-26 |
| 54. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
77.21 |
1.0399 |
-0.0389 |
294 |
1 |
77.21 |
2011-10-25 |
| 55. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
77.11 |
1.0684 |
-0.0441 |
253 |
1 |
77.11 |
2011-10-26 |
| 56. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
76.03 |
0.9684 |
0.0147 |
388 |
3 |
71.78 |
2011-11-07 |
| 57. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
75.78 |
1.0251 |
-0.0501 |
261 |
1 |
75.78 |
2011-10-28 |
| 58. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
75.68 |
0.9965 |
-0.0201 |
277 |
1 |
75.68 |
2011-10-26 |
| 59. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
74.97 |
1.0483 |
-0.0848 |
227 |
1 |
74.97 |
2011-10-27 |
| 60. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
74.72 |
1.0088 |
-0.0068 |
396 |
1 |
74.72 |
2011-10-26 |
| 61. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
74.55 |
0.9691 |
-0.0085 |
223 |
1 |
74.55 |
2011-10-26 |
| 62. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
74.07 |
0.8890 |
0.0622 |
199 |
1 |
74.07 |
2011-10-28 |
| 63. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.14 |
1.0343 |
-0.0543 |
242 |
1 |
73.14 |
2011-10-26 |
| 64. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
73.00 |
0.8961 |
0.0413 |
189 |
1 |
73.00 |
2011-10-25 |
| 65. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
72.93 |
0.9776 |
-0.0375 |
308 |
1 |
72.93 |
2011-10-25 |
| 66. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
72.86 |
0.9699 |
-0.0315 |
269 |
1 |
72.86 |
2011-11-07 |
| 67. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
72.81 |
0.9786 |
-0.0455 |
193 |
2 |
72.02 |
2011-10-25 |
| 68. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
72.30 |
0.9176 |
0.0528 |
365 |
1 |
72.30 |
2011-11-07 |
| 69. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
72.23 |
1.0254 |
-0.0538 |
217 |
1 |
72.23 |
2011-10-26 |
| 70. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
72.11 |
0.9279 |
0.0078 |
317 |
1 |
72.11 |
2011-10-26 |
| 71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
71.38 |
0.9614 |
-0.0388 |
292 |
1 |
71.38 |
2011-10-25 |
| 72. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
71.06 |
0.9365 |
-0.0196 |
248 |
1 |
71.06 |
2011-10-26 |
| 73. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
71.02 |
0.9894 |
-0.0701 |
323 |
1 |
71.02 |
2011-10-25 |
| 74. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
70.47 |
0.9646 |
-0.0577 |
264 |
1 |
70.47 |
2011-10-28 |
| 75. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
70.47 |
0.8919 |
0.0141 |
205 |
1 |
70.47 |
2011-10-26 |
| 76. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
70.23 |
0.9540 |
-0.0512 |
285 |
1 |
70.23 |
2011-10-25 |
| 77. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
70.05 |
0.9792 |
-0.0385 |
265 |
1 |
70.05 |
2011-11-07 |
| 78. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
69.78 |
0.9965 |
-0.0975 |
310 |
1 |
69.78 |
2011-10-25 |
| 79. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
69.73 |
0.8775 |
0.0242 |
443 |
1 |
69.73 |
2011-11-07 |
| 80. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
69.40 |
1.0203 |
-0.0934 |
400 |
1 |
69.40 |
2011-10-26 |
| 81. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
69.08 |
0.9216 |
0.0069 |
255 |
1 |
69.08 |
2012-06-16 |
| 82. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
68.71 |
0.8852 |
0.0017 |
201 |
1 |
68.71 |
2011-10-31 |
| 83. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
68.44 |
0.9049 |
-0.0182 |
351 |
1 |
68.44 |
2011-10-28 |
| 84. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
68.06 |
1.0531 |
-0.1387 |
272 |
1 |
68.06 |
2011-10-27 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
67.13 |
0.9045 |
-0.0400 |
235 |
1 |
67.13 |
2011-10-26 |
| 86. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
66.52 |
1.0390 |
-0.1865 |
205 |
1 |
66.52 |
2011-10-25 |
| 87. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.51 |
0.9278 |
-0.0690 |
295 |
1 |
66.51 |
2011-10-25 |
| 88. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
66.18 |
1.0314 |
-0.1405 |
452 |
1 |
66.18 |
2011-10-25 |
| 89. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
66.01 |
0.9622 |
-0.1063 |
392 |
1 |
66.01 |
2011-10-25 |
| 90. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
64.55 |
0.9632 |
-0.1265 |
392 |
1 |
64.55 |
2011-10-26 |
| 91. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
63.86 |
0.9785 |
-0.1539 |
335 |
1 |
63.86 |
2011-10-26 |
| 92. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
63.81 |
1.0042 |
-0.1420 |
352 |
1 |
63.81 |
2011-10-25 |
| 93. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
63.74 |
0.9289 |
-0.1114 |
204 |
1 |
63.74 |
2011-10-31 |
| 94. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
62.86 |
0.9097 |
-0.0598 |
464 |
1 |
62.86 |
2011-10-26 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
62.83 |
0.9649 |
-0.1581 |
193 |
1 |
62.83 |
2011-10-25 |
| 96. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
62.66 |
1.0417 |
-0.2385 |
253 |
1 |
62.66 |
2011-10-26 |
| 97. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
62.47 |
0.8996 |
-0.1019 |
192 |
1 |
62.47 |
2011-11-21 |
| 98. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.56 |
0.9740 |
-0.1997 |
209 |
1 |
60.56 |
2011-10-31 |
| 99. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
60.26 |
0.9925 |
-0.1814 |
247 |
1 |
60.26 |
2011-10-26 |
| 100. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
59.95 |
0.9309 |
-0.1625 |
284 |
1 |
59.95 |
2011-10-25 |
| 101. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
59.37 |
0.9886 |
-0.2233 |
220 |
1 |
59.37 |
2011-10-25 |
| 102. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.90 |
0.9087 |
-0.1544 |
393 |
1 |
57.90 |
2011-10-25 |
| 103. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
53.93 |
1.0060 |
-0.3190 |
171 |
1 |
53.93 |
2011-10-26 |
| 104. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
52.89 |
0.9176 |
-0.2057 |
267 |
1 |
52.89 |
2011-10-25 |
| 105. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.95 |
0.9871 |
-0.2851 |
209 |
1 |
51.95 |
2011-10-25 |
| 106. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
46.02 |
0.8553 |
-0.2721 |
174 |
1 |
46.02 |
2011-10-31 |
| 107. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
43.97 |
0.9247 |
-0.3584 |
253 |
1 |
43.97 |
2011-11-21 |
| 108. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
39.69 |
0.9964 |
-0.4907 |
203 |
1 |
39.69 |
2011-11-21 |