Below you will find a set of texts used on TypeRacer. Certain texts only appear on certain difficulties.
| Rank |
ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
Top Score |
Top 100 |
Average |
Active Since |
| 1. |
#3800002 |
Pony realizes something important about himself - the desire to help others is another thing that cuts across social and class divisions. |
137 |
18 |
1.109 |
209.29 — Kathy (florentine) |
161.99 |
161.99 |
March 21, 2017 |
| 2. |
#3800010 |
There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand, a brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now, you run on home to your mother and tell her, tell her everything's alright, and there aren't any more guns in the valley. |
265 |
39 |
1.097 |
188.86 — Kathy (florentine) |
122.55 |
122.55 |
April 17, 2017 |
| 3. |
#3800000 |
It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. |
205 |
18 |
1.090 |
196.64 — Kathy (florentine) |
160.98 |
160.98 |
March 21, 2017 |
| 4. |
#3800017 |
steak salad death basis shirt scene heart truth blood paper honey night thing cheek entry union skill river woman media child pizza phone movie event drama topic uncle guest youth chest story photo |
197 |
593 |
1.083 |
221.16 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
179.39 |
133.06 |
September 12, 2018 |
| 5. |
#3800005 |
What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is. |
478 |
64 |
1.067 |
204.71 — Kathy (florentine) |
123.34 |
123.34 |
April 2, 2017 |
| 6. |
#3800009 |
Remember the tale of Icarus, whose father gave him wax wings to fly. But he flew too close to the sun, and his wings melted, and he fell into the sea. But our wings are not made of wax, but Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt. |
233 |
38 |
1.048 |
179.44 — Kathy (florentine) |
120.61 |
120.61 |
April 17, 2017 |
| 7. |
#3800003 |
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous - or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all - why then you're beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down. |
429 |
50 |
1.003 |
191.12 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) |
113.51 |
113.51 |
April 2, 2017 |
| 8. |
#3800019 |
The great Charlemagne, my Father, from the Saracens liberated me, and from heaven he gave me life of Meritxell the great mother. I was born a princess, a maiden neutral between two nations. I am the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire believing and free for eleven centuries, believing and free I will be. The laws of the land be my tutors, and my defender Princess! |
380 |
358 |
0.993 |
219.04 — 2049 races... goodbye every... |
160.87 |
124.89 |
September 12, 2018 |
| 9. |
#3800007 |
There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries. |
549 |
28 |
0.993 |
175.64 — Kathy (florentine) |
129.38 |
129.38 |
April 10, 2017 |
| 10. |
#3800001 |
Ponyboy's actual situation isn't that awful, all things considered. He grew up in a loving family and has always had a warm bed. But the Socials are getting away with terrorizing him and the Greasers because they have money for lawyers, etc. This culture of fear intensifies all the economic issues that Pony's family and all of his friends face. |
346 |
25 |
0.988 |
177.62 — Kathy (florentine) |
133.43 |
133.43 |
March 21, 2017 |
| 11. |
#3800013 |
The goal a reader seeks determines the way he reads. The effectiveness with which he reads is determined by the amount of effort and skill he puts into his reading. In general, the rule is: the more effort the better, at least in the case of books that are initially beyond our powers as readers and are therefore capable of raising us from a condition of understanding less to one of understanding more. Finally, the distinction between instruction and discovery (or between aided and unaided discovery) is important because most of us, most of the time, have to read without anyone to help us. Reading, like unaided discovery, is learning from an absent teacher. We can only do that successfully if we know how. |
713 |
11 |
0.984 |
200.22 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
155.41 |
155.41 |
April 29, 2017 |
| 12. |
#3800015 |
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who, above all else, desire power. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all! |
747 |
13 |
0.971 |
176.14 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
117.08 |
117.08 |
May 9, 2017 |
| 13. |
#3800004 |
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home - only the millions of last moments... no more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. |
359 |
42 |
0.967 |
188.02 — Kathy (florentine) |
113.56 |
113.56 |
April 2, 2017 |
| 14. |
#3800011 |
You know what I say? I say one down, a couple hundred thousand to go. I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling you I do not like the deer, I'm sick of it, they're taking over, they're like rats, they're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road and I think, "That's a start." |
314 |
46 |
0.962 |
175.31 — Kathy (florentine) |
119.63 |
119.63 |
April 17, 2017 |
| 15. |
#3800016 |
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship. |
395 |
14 |
0.951 |
154.54 — Kathy (florentine) |
114.22 |
114.22 |
May 8, 2017 |
| 16. |
#3800018 |
Rubber Ducky, you're the one! You make bath time lots of fun! Rubber Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you. Rubber Ducky, joy of joys! When I squeeze you, you make noise! Rubber Ducky, you're my very best friend, it's true! |
216 |
434 |
0.949 |
250.63 — 2049 races... goodbye every... |
155.27 |
116.10 |
September 12, 2018 |
| 17. |
#3800006 |
The study of material properties on the atomic level is a complicated problem because it involves complex interactions between the basic constituents (nuclei and electrons). Nowadays, it is possible to deal with this problem using computational simulation. In this process a computer is used to numerically solve the equations that describe a particular situation. Simulations are used in all fields of sciences: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc. Computational methods are very useful when experiments are impossible or extremely difficult, for example, to study materials at very high pressure or to analyze metastable phases. |
649 |
21 |
0.940 |
154.08 — Kathy (florentine) |
121.73 |
121.73 |
April 10, 2017 |
| 18. |
#3800008 |
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. And as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his 21st year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? |
1352 |
14 |
0.930 |
159.82 — r (deroche1) |
126.63 |
126.63 |
April 10, 2017 |
| 19. |
#3800014 |
I thought using genetically modified soldiers was prohibited by international law. Yes, but those are just declarations not actual treaties. |
140 |
7 |
0.901 |
181.64 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
154.64 |
154.64 |
April 29, 2017 |
| 20. |
#3800012 |
The bunkhouse was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. |
654 |
10 |
0.891 |
186.32 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) |
151.60 |
151.60 |
April 29, 2017 |