| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.78 |
1.0103 |
0.1515 |
209 |
1 |
57.78 |
2009-12-03 |
| 2. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
57.25 |
1.0418 |
0.1158 |
214 |
2 |
49.31 |
2009-12-08 |
| 3. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.42 |
1.0208 |
0.1190 |
231 |
1 |
56.42 |
2009-11-30 |
| 4. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
56.14 |
1.0476 |
0.0772 |
110 |
1 |
56.14 |
2009-12-03 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
55.60 |
1.0777 |
0.0434 |
226 |
1 |
55.60 |
2009-12-17 |
| 6. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
55.60 |
1.0561 |
0.0652 |
227 |
1 |
55.60 |
2009-12-03 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.14 |
1.1086 |
0.0057 |
233 |
1 |
55.14 |
2009-12-17 |
| 8. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
54.82 |
1.0063 |
0.1060 |
293 |
2 |
52.85 |
2009-12-11 |
| 9. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.71 |
0.9650 |
0.1429 |
347 |
1 |
54.71 |
2009-12-04 |
| 10. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
54.17 |
1.0743 |
0.0210 |
297 |
1 |
54.17 |
2009-12-13 |
| 11. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
53.84 |
1.0511 |
0.0382 |
252 |
1 |
53.84 |
2009-12-11 |
| 12. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
53.77 |
0.9604 |
0.1236 |
285 |
2 |
51.50 |
2009-12-17 |
| 13. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
53.49 |
1.0338 |
0.0519 |
277 |
1 |
53.49 |
2009-11-30 |
| 14. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
52.67 |
0.9103 |
0.1532 |
269 |
2 |
51.28 |
2009-12-04 |
| 15. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
52.61 |
0.9917 |
0.0729 |
317 |
2 |
51.08 |
2009-12-17 |
| 16. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
52.21 |
0.8837 |
0.1700 |
157 |
1 |
52.21 |
2009-12-13 |
| 17. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
52.01 |
0.9258 |
0.1291 |
184 |
1 |
52.01 |
2009-12-17 |
| 18. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
51.82 |
0.9422 |
0.0992 |
190 |
1 |
51.82 |
2009-12-01 |
| 19. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
51.60 |
0.9299 |
0.1037 |
168 |
2 |
49.66 |
2009-12-16 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
51.39 |
1.0600 |
-0.0220 |
351 |
1 |
51.39 |
2009-12-16 |
| 21. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
51.32 |
1.0094 |
0.0270 |
256 |
1 |
51.32 |
2009-12-01 |
| 22. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
50.88 |
0.9842 |
0.0454 |
335 |
1 |
50.88 |
2009-11-30 |
| 23. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
50.85 |
0.8572 |
0.1679 |
232 |
1 |
50.85 |
2009-12-01 |
| 24. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
50.82 |
0.9873 |
0.0376 |
274 |
1 |
50.82 |
2009-12-03 |
| 25. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
50.74 |
0.9935 |
0.0332 |
217 |
1 |
50.74 |
2009-12-04 |
| 26. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
50.61 |
0.9809 |
0.0371 |
209 |
1 |
50.61 |
2009-12-03 |
| 27. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
50.57 |
1.0332 |
-0.0127 |
267 |
1 |
50.57 |
2009-12-04 |
| 28. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
50.53 |
1.0010 |
0.0232 |
213 |
1 |
50.53 |
2009-12-03 |
| 29. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
50.38 |
0.8847 |
0.1303 |
282 |
1 |
50.38 |
2009-11-30 |
| 30. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
50.30 |
0.9963 |
0.0169 |
274 |
1 |
50.30 |
2009-12-20 |
| 31. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
50.28 |
0.9809 |
0.0421 |
250 |
1 |
50.28 |
2009-12-17 |
| 32. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
50.21 |
0.9574 |
0.0595 |
354 |
1 |
50.21 |
2009-11-30 |
| 33. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
50.06 |
0.9346 |
0.0732 |
211 |
1 |
50.06 |
2009-12-03 |
| 34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
49.82 |
1.0288 |
-0.0277 |
166 |
1 |
49.82 |
2009-12-04 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
49.77 |
1.0287 |
-0.0250 |
269 |
1 |
49.77 |
2009-12-13 |
| 36. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
49.75 |
0.9974 |
0.0031 |
163 |
1 |
49.75 |
2009-12-13 |
| 37. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
49.75 |
1.0498 |
-0.0442 |
261 |
1 |
49.75 |
2009-12-13 |
| 38. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
49.73 |
0.9768 |
0.0285 |
237 |
1 |
49.73 |
2009-12-16 |
| 39. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
49.58 |
0.8988 |
0.1014 |
193 |
1 |
49.58 |
2009-12-13 |
| 40. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
49.50 |
1.0082 |
-0.0139 |
212 |
1 |
49.50 |
2009-12-01 |
| 41. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
49.43 |
1.0039 |
0.0002 |
255 |
1 |
49.43 |
2009-12-03 |
| 42. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
49.41 |
1.0404 |
-0.0380 |
406 |
1 |
49.41 |
2009-12-11 |
| 43. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
49.37 |
1.0112 |
-0.0155 |
242 |
1 |
49.37 |
2009-11-30 |
| 44. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
48.81 |
0.8959 |
0.0948 |
328 |
1 |
48.81 |
2009-11-30 |
| 45. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
48.53 |
1.0135 |
-0.0306 |
358 |
1 |
48.53 |
2009-12-01 |
| 46. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
48.39 |
1.0059 |
-0.0279 |
283 |
1 |
48.39 |
2009-12-01 |
| 47. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.20 |
0.9068 |
0.0642 |
212 |
1 |
48.20 |
2009-12-04 |
| 48. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
48.01 |
0.9010 |
0.0706 |
266 |
1 |
48.01 |
2009-12-16 |
| 49. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.96 |
0.9332 |
0.0348 |
267 |
1 |
47.96 |
2009-12-01 |
| 50. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
47.76 |
1.0291 |
-0.0672 |
240 |
1 |
47.76 |
2009-12-11 |
| 51. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.63 |
0.9852 |
-0.0245 |
235 |
1 |
47.63 |
2009-12-03 |
| 52. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
47.49 |
0.9244 |
0.0393 |
225 |
1 |
47.49 |
2009-12-04 |
| 53. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
46.36 |
0.8666 |
0.0664 |
206 |
1 |
46.36 |
2009-12-01 |
| 54. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
46.35 |
0.8824 |
0.0546 |
202 |
1 |
46.35 |
2009-12-01 |
| 55. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
46.05 |
1.0736 |
-0.1418 |
350 |
1 |
46.05 |
2009-12-05 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
46.04 |
0.9885 |
-0.0594 |
355 |
1 |
46.04 |
2009-12-07 |
| 57. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
45.90 |
0.9123 |
0.0232 |
351 |
2 |
45.62 |
2009-12-08 |
| 58. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
45.56 |
0.9157 |
0.0162 |
353 |
1 |
45.56 |
2009-12-04 |
| 59. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
45.53 |
0.9357 |
-0.0192 |
204 |
1 |
45.53 |
2009-12-01 |
| 60. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
45.08 |
1.0069 |
-0.0941 |
242 |
1 |
45.08 |
2009-12-04 |
| 61. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
44.54 |
1.0111 |
-0.1003 |
452 |
1 |
44.54 |
2009-12-13 |
| 62. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.12 |
0.8964 |
-0.0093 |
199 |
1 |
44.12 |
2009-12-01 |
| 63. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
43.83 |
0.8437 |
0.0397 |
268 |
1 |
43.83 |
2009-12-03 |
| 64. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
43.76 |
0.9137 |
-0.0290 |
342 |
1 |
43.76 |
2009-12-01 |
| 65. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
43.25 |
0.9561 |
-0.0804 |
291 |
1 |
43.25 |
2009-12-01 |
| 66. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
42.89 |
0.8845 |
-0.0181 |
239 |
1 |
42.89 |
2009-12-04 |
| 67. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
42.84 |
0.8936 |
-0.0307 |
346 |
1 |
42.84 |
2009-12-03 |
| 68. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
41.33 |
1.0250 |
-0.1887 |
271 |
1 |
41.33 |
2009-12-20 |
| 69. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
40.63 |
0.8913 |
-0.0707 |
201 |
1 |
40.63 |
2009-12-08 |
| 70. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.42 |
0.9869 |
-0.1756 |
193 |
1 |
40.42 |
2009-12-11 |
| 71. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
40.30 |
0.8778 |
-0.0636 |
285 |
1 |
40.30 |
2009-12-01 |
| 72. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
40.15 |
0.9866 |
-0.1768 |
308 |
1 |
40.15 |
2009-12-17 |