| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
91.31 |
1.0639 |
0.2174 |
303 |
2 |
82.24 |
2010-07-12 |
| 2. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
88.19 |
1.0672 |
0.1679 |
239 |
1 |
88.19 |
2010-07-26 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
87.38 |
1.0800 |
0.1379 |
129 |
2 |
79.27 |
2010-03-19 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
86.97 |
1.1070 |
0.1110 |
265 |
2 |
79.79 |
2010-07-11 |
| 5. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
84.92 |
1.0969 |
0.0955 |
303 |
1 |
84.92 |
2010-07-11 |
| 6. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
84.13 |
1.0192 |
0.1652 |
243 |
1 |
84.13 |
2010-07-12 |
| 7. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
84.11 |
1.0509 |
0.1420 |
430 |
1 |
84.11 |
2010-07-12 |
| 8. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
80.22 |
1.0387 |
0.0895 |
333 |
1 |
80.22 |
2010-07-12 |
| 9. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
80.20 |
1.0777 |
0.0439 |
226 |
3 |
73.38 |
2010-03-19 |
| 10. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
80.09 |
1.0028 |
0.1183 |
259 |
2 |
76.57 |
2009-03-04 |
| 11. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
79.80 |
0.9989 |
0.1263 |
282 |
1 |
79.80 |
2010-07-26 |
| 12. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
78.80 |
1.0601 |
0.0407 |
256 |
1 |
78.80 |
2008-11-20 |
| 13. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
78.46 |
0.9820 |
0.1256 |
297 |
1 |
78.46 |
2010-07-10 |
| 14. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
78.32 |
0.9952 |
0.1044 |
220 |
1 |
78.32 |
2010-07-12 |
| 15. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
77.67 |
1.1086 |
-0.0201 |
233 |
1 |
77.67 |
2008-11-25 |
| 16. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
77.39 |
1.0743 |
0.0109 |
297 |
1 |
77.39 |
2009-05-25 |
| 17. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
77.39 |
1.0638 |
0.0183 |
247 |
2 |
74.64 |
2010-07-10 |
| 18. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
77.37 |
1.0128 |
0.0778 |
369 |
2 |
72.55 |
2010-07-11 |
| 19. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
77.22 |
1.0600 |
0.0220 |
351 |
3 |
74.12 |
2009-05-26 |
| 20. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
77.06 |
1.0800 |
-0.0034 |
213 |
1 |
77.06 |
2008-11-25 |
| 21. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
76.64 |
0.9027 |
0.1674 |
189 |
3 |
67.60 |
2010-07-27 |
| 22. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.59 |
1.0543 |
0.0153 |
182 |
1 |
76.59 |
2009-03-04 |
| 23. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
76.53 |
1.0466 |
0.0250 |
230 |
1 |
76.53 |
2009-05-26 |
| 24. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
76.23 |
1.0301 |
0.0364 |
268 |
1 |
76.23 |
2009-05-25 |
| 25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
76.03 |
1.0333 |
0.0266 |
176 |
1 |
76.03 |
2008-11-21 |
| 26. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
76.00 |
1.0320 |
0.0385 |
401 |
1 |
76.00 |
2009-05-25 |
| 27. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
75.93 |
1.0540 |
0.0046 |
184 |
1 |
75.93 |
2008-11-22 |
| 28. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
75.77 |
0.9517 |
0.1177 |
397 |
1 |
75.77 |
2010-07-26 |
| 29. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
75.63 |
1.0178 |
0.0398 |
207 |
2 |
72.59 |
2008-12-23 |
| 30. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
75.61 |
1.0495 |
0.0090 |
323 |
1 |
75.61 |
2009-03-02 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
75.60 |
1.0676 |
-0.0041 |
456 |
2 |
74.11 |
2008-11-26 |
| 32. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
75.58 |
1.0877 |
-0.0325 |
129 |
1 |
75.58 |
2008-11-23 |
| 33. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
75.29 |
1.0576 |
-0.0059 |
231 |
1 |
75.29 |
2009-03-04 |
| 34. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
74.88 |
1.0334 |
0.0148 |
261 |
1 |
74.88 |
2008-11-23 |
| 35. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
74.82 |
1.0288 |
0.0144 |
166 |
2 |
64.76 |
2008-11-27 |
| 36. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
74.45 |
0.9836 |
0.0592 |
289 |
2 |
73.43 |
2009-05-26 |
| 37. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
74.23 |
0.9632 |
0.0776 |
287 |
2 |
70.91 |
2009-03-03 |
| 38. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
73.99 |
0.9515 |
0.0948 |
334 |
1 |
73.99 |
2010-07-12 |
| 39. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
73.97 |
1.0079 |
0.0270 |
273 |
2 |
72.89 |
2009-03-03 |
| 40. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
73.95 |
1.0476 |
-0.0213 |
110 |
1 |
73.95 |
2008-11-27 |
| 41. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
73.62 |
0.9801 |
0.0506 |
289 |
1 |
73.62 |
2009-03-04 |
| 42. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
73.40 |
0.9676 |
0.0654 |
247 |
1 |
73.40 |
2010-07-10 |
| 43. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
73.40 |
1.0125 |
0.0139 |
232 |
1 |
73.40 |
2009-03-04 |
| 44. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
73.33 |
0.9909 |
0.0399 |
334 |
1 |
73.33 |
2010-03-19 |
| 45. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.28 |
1.0197 |
0.0047 |
204 |
2 |
68.26 |
2010-03-19 |
| 46. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.00 |
1.0181 |
0.0055 |
276 |
1 |
73.00 |
2008-11-23 |
| 47. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
72.99 |
1.0095 |
0.0112 |
211 |
1 |
72.99 |
2009-05-26 |
| 48. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
72.91 |
0.9621 |
0.0560 |
201 |
1 |
72.91 |
2009-03-04 |
| 49. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
72.90 |
0.9597 |
0.0614 |
251 |
2 |
71.66 |
2010-07-11 |
| 50. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
72.69 |
1.0538 |
-0.0236 |
367 |
1 |
72.69 |
2010-07-13 |
| 51. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
72.68 |
1.0414 |
-0.0245 |
234 |
2 |
72.52 |
2008-11-26 |
| 52. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
72.45 |
0.9927 |
0.0185 |
234 |
1 |
72.45 |
2009-03-03 |
| 53. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
72.15 |
1.0867 |
-0.0808 |
171 |
1 |
72.15 |
2009-03-02 |
| 54. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
71.82 |
1.0132 |
-0.0069 |
371 |
1 |
71.82 |
2009-03-05 |
| 55. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
71.52 |
0.9719 |
0.0367 |
383 |
1 |
71.52 |
2010-07-11 |
| 56. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
71.46 |
0.9598 |
0.0430 |
209 |
1 |
71.46 |
2010-07-10 |
| 57. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
71.30 |
1.0264 |
-0.0323 |
191 |
1 |
71.30 |
2008-11-26 |
| 58. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
71.28 |
0.9933 |
0.0121 |
450 |
2 |
70.33 |
2008-11-24 |
| 59. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
71.15 |
1.0615 |
-0.0683 |
201 |
2 |
69.93 |
2008-11-26 |
| 60. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.07 |
1.0628 |
-0.0657 |
363 |
2 |
66.30 |
2008-11-26 |
| 61. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.95 |
1.0588 |
-0.0653 |
281 |
1 |
70.95 |
2008-11-26 |
| 62. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.94 |
1.0006 |
-0.0073 |
311 |
2 |
70.53 |
2009-05-25 |
| 63. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
70.93 |
0.9243 |
0.0709 |
240 |
3 |
68.07 |
2008-11-27 |
| 64. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
70.92 |
1.0199 |
-0.0307 |
225 |
1 |
70.92 |
2010-07-12 |
| 65. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
70.70 |
0.8913 |
0.1001 |
201 |
5 |
66.44 |
2010-07-13 |
| 66. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
70.38 |
1.0403 |
-0.0566 |
234 |
1 |
70.38 |
2010-03-19 |
| 67. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
70.31 |
0.9917 |
-0.0052 |
317 |
1 |
70.31 |
2008-11-21 |
| 68. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
70.28 |
1.0267 |
-0.0396 |
261 |
1 |
70.28 |
2009-05-25 |
| 69. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
69.92 |
0.9864 |
-0.0037 |
292 |
1 |
69.92 |
2009-05-25 |
| 70. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
69.87 |
1.0287 |
-0.0516 |
269 |
1 |
69.87 |
2009-03-03 |
| 71. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
69.54 |
1.0557 |
-0.0810 |
289 |
1 |
69.54 |
2008-11-27 |
| 72. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
69.46 |
0.9400 |
0.0350 |
434 |
2 |
66.91 |
2009-03-04 |
| 73. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
69.44 |
0.9849 |
-0.0116 |
337 |
1 |
69.44 |
2010-03-19 |
| 74. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
69.39 |
0.9538 |
0.0174 |
276 |
3 |
64.76 |
2008-11-22 |
| 75. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
69.37 |
1.0103 |
-0.0449 |
209 |
1 |
69.37 |
2009-03-03 |
| 76. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
69.34 |
1.0057 |
-0.0321 |
382 |
1 |
69.34 |
2008-11-25 |
| 77. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
69.27 |
0.9468 |
0.0227 |
318 |
1 |
69.27 |
2010-07-19 |
| 78. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
69.14 |
0.9594 |
0.0067 |
258 |
1 |
69.14 |
2009-03-03 |
| 79. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
69.09 |
0.9957 |
-0.0245 |
323 |
1 |
69.09 |
2009-03-02 |
| 80. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
68.86 |
1.0341 |
-0.0708 |
273 |
1 |
68.86 |
2008-11-21 |
| 81. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
68.78 |
0.9402 |
0.0207 |
310 |
1 |
68.78 |
2009-03-04 |
| 82. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
68.71 |
0.9346 |
0.0243 |
211 |
2 |
67.28 |
2009-05-25 |
| 83. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
68.64 |
1.0487 |
-0.0901 |
253 |
1 |
68.64 |
2009-03-02 |
| 84. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
68.35 |
0.9974 |
-0.0445 |
163 |
1 |
68.35 |
2008-11-22 |
| 85. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
68.28 |
0.9869 |
-0.0347 |
193 |
1 |
68.28 |
2008-11-25 |
| 86. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
68.27 |
0.9299 |
0.0173 |
168 |
1 |
68.27 |
2009-03-03 |
| 87. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
67.97 |
0.9108 |
0.0405 |
235 |
2 |
65.86 |
2009-05-25 |
| 88. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
67.88 |
0.9857 |
-0.0297 |
268 |
1 |
67.88 |
2010-07-26 |
| 89. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
67.84 |
0.9866 |
-0.0366 |
308 |
1 |
67.84 |
2008-11-22 |
| 90. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
67.81 |
0.9657 |
-0.0051 |
424 |
1 |
67.81 |
2010-07-12 |
| 91. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
67.62 |
0.8974 |
0.0610 |
365 |
1 |
67.62 |
2010-07-13 |
| 92. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
67.55 |
1.0106 |
-0.0661 |
302 |
1 |
67.55 |
2009-03-02 |
| 93. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
67.44 |
0.8787 |
0.0633 |
443 |
1 |
67.44 |
2010-07-10 |
| 94. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
67.36 |
0.9541 |
-0.0107 |
236 |
2 |
65.05 |
2008-11-23 |
| 95. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
67.18 |
1.0511 |
-0.1090 |
252 |
1 |
67.18 |
2008-11-20 |
| 96. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
67.12 |
1.0227 |
-0.0772 |
378 |
1 |
67.12 |
2008-11-26 |
| 97. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
66.70 |
0.9673 |
-0.0316 |
292 |
1 |
66.70 |
2008-11-21 |
| 98. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
66.67 |
0.9309 |
0.0123 |
376 |
1 |
66.67 |
2010-07-10 |
| 99. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
66.39 |
0.9352 |
-0.0072 |
194 |
1 |
66.39 |
2009-03-03 |
| 100. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
66.36 |
0.9809 |
-0.0561 |
209 |
1 |
66.36 |
2008-11-21 |
| 101. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
66.30 |
0.8845 |
0.0447 |
239 |
1 |
66.30 |
2009-03-02 |
| 102. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
66.09 |
0.9136 |
0.0146 |
348 |
1 |
66.09 |
2008-11-25 |
| 103. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
66.09 |
0.9162 |
0.0099 |
401 |
1 |
66.09 |
2008-11-25 |
| 104. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
65.90 |
1.0101 |
-0.0861 |
336 |
1 |
65.90 |
2008-11-23 |
| 105. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
65.51 |
0.9503 |
-0.0402 |
211 |
1 |
65.51 |
2008-11-22 |
| 106. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
65.48 |
1.0481 |
-0.1395 |
255 |
1 |
65.48 |
2008-11-26 |
| 107. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
65.45 |
0.9673 |
-0.0475 |
393 |
1 |
65.45 |
2009-03-03 |
| 108. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
65.26 |
0.9658 |
-0.0489 |
308 |
1 |
65.26 |
2008-12-23 |
| 109. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
65.19 |
0.9948 |
-0.0837 |
233 |
1 |
65.19 |
2009-05-26 |
| 110. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
64.79 |
0.8986 |
0.0086 |
216 |
2 |
64.59 |
2009-03-04 |
| 111. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
64.72 |
0.9644 |
-0.0557 |
398 |
1 |
64.72 |
2008-11-22 |
| 112. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
64.70 |
0.9709 |
-0.0669 |
264 |
1 |
64.70 |
2008-11-23 |
| 113. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
64.66 |
0.9145 |
-0.0062 |
404 |
1 |
64.66 |
2008-11-27 |
| 114. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
64.56 |
0.9084 |
-0.0035 |
271 |
1 |
64.56 |
2009-03-04 |
| 115. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
64.48 |
0.9392 |
-0.0309 |
360 |
2 |
63.26 |
2010-03-19 |
| 116. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
64.44 |
0.9885 |
-0.0801 |
469 |
1 |
64.44 |
2008-11-22 |
| 117. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
62.93 |
0.8887 |
0.0056 |
464 |
1 |
62.93 |
2008-11-26 |
| 118. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
62.83 |
0.8830 |
-0.0015 |
300 |
1 |
62.83 |
2009-03-03 |
| 119. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
62.64 |
0.9101 |
-0.0299 |
351 |
1 |
62.64 |
2008-11-24 |
| 120. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
62.47 |
0.9029 |
-0.0263 |
393 |
1 |
62.47 |
2009-05-25 |
| 121. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
62.44 |
0.9922 |
-0.1181 |
264 |
1 |
62.44 |
2009-05-26 |
| 122. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
62.17 |
0.9011 |
-0.0282 |
322 |
4 |
60.62 |
2010-03-19 |
| 123. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
61.58 |
0.8656 |
-0.0030 |
242 |
2 |
58.61 |
2009-03-04 |
| 124. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.54 |
1.0461 |
-0.1831 |
318 |
1 |
61.54 |
2009-05-25 |
| 125. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
61.53 |
0.8603 |
0.0003 |
270 |
1 |
61.53 |
2009-03-04 |
| 126. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
61.44 |
0.9271 |
-0.0681 |
295 |
1 |
61.44 |
2008-11-23 |
| 127. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
60.96 |
0.8666 |
-0.0165 |
206 |
1 |
60.96 |
2008-11-21 |
| 128. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.88 |
0.9332 |
-0.0817 |
267 |
1 |
60.88 |
2008-11-25 |
| 129. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
60.48 |
0.8993 |
-0.0506 |
366 |
2 |
59.84 |
2009-03-03 |
| 130. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
45.60 |
0.9827 |
-0.3456 |
314 |
1 |
45.60 |
2009-03-03 |