| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
30.62 |
1.0799 |
0.0952 |
243 |
3 |
27.58 |
2008-12-24 |
| 2. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
30.55 |
0.8739 |
0.2982 |
136 |
3 |
27.69 |
2008-12-24 |
| 3. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
30.25 |
1.0023 |
0.1602 |
211 |
3 |
29.11 |
2008-12-24 |
| 4. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
29.96 |
0.8118 |
0.3462 |
109 |
2 |
29.32 |
2008-11-17 |
| 5. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
29.91 |
1.0528 |
0.0934 |
201 |
3 |
26.34 |
2009-02-20 |
| 6. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
29.54 |
0.8791 |
0.2568 |
190 |
1 |
29.54 |
2008-12-04 |
| 7. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
29.16 |
1.0349 |
0.0864 |
234 |
1 |
29.16 |
2008-12-02 |
| 8. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
29.12 |
1.0788 |
0.0361 |
171 |
2 |
24.18 |
2008-12-10 |
| 9. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
28.86 |
0.8145 |
0.2981 |
115 |
3 |
24.50 |
2008-11-14 |
| 10. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
28.65 |
1.0263 |
0.0751 |
267 |
1 |
28.65 |
2009-01-03 |
| 11. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
28.58 |
0.9866 |
0.1091 |
218 |
2 |
27.66 |
2008-12-04 |
| 12. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
28.31 |
1.0444 |
0.0379 |
197 |
2 |
25.76 |
2009-01-03 |
| 13. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
28.25 |
0.9226 |
0.1678 |
177 |
2 |
26.54 |
2008-11-13 |
| 14. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
28.08 |
0.7850 |
0.2914 |
154 |
2 |
27.28 |
2009-01-03 |
| 15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
28.06 |
1.0483 |
0.0279 |
227 |
1 |
28.06 |
2008-11-19 |
| 16. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.02 |
0.8422 |
0.2371 |
164 |
1 |
28.02 |
2008-12-16 |
| 17. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
27.92 |
0.9221 |
0.1502 |
244 |
3 |
26.45 |
2008-12-04 |
| 18. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
27.88 |
1.0214 |
0.0491 |
269 |
1 |
27.88 |
2008-12-04 |
| 19. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
27.85 |
0.9072 |
0.1621 |
237 |
2 |
26.80 |
2008-12-16 |
| 20. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
27.75 |
0.8628 |
0.2009 |
196 |
1 |
27.75 |
2009-02-09 |
| 21. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
27.71 |
1.0252 |
0.0339 |
176 |
2 |
27.11 |
2008-12-24 |
| 22. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
27.57 |
0.9633 |
0.0990 |
304 |
2 |
27.35 |
2008-12-05 |
| 23. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
27.55 |
0.9233 |
0.1278 |
168 |
3 |
25.89 |
2008-12-04 |
| 24. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
27.46 |
0.9710 |
0.0783 |
173 |
2 |
26.93 |
2008-11-27 |
| 25. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
27.43 |
1.0462 |
0.0024 |
184 |
4 |
26.20 |
2008-12-10 |
| 26. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
27.22 |
0.8936 |
0.1513 |
127 |
2 |
27.09 |
2009-01-27 |
| 27. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
27.16 |
0.8152 |
0.2292 |
163 |
1 |
27.16 |
2008-11-19 |
| 28. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
27.01 |
0.9048 |
0.1381 |
271 |
1 |
27.01 |
2008-11-24 |
| 29. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
26.96 |
1.0124 |
0.0216 |
204 |
1 |
26.96 |
2008-12-04 |
| 30. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
26.90 |
0.9691 |
0.0645 |
223 |
3 |
24.93 |
2008-12-10 |
| 31. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
26.89 |
0.8811 |
0.1572 |
239 |
1 |
26.89 |
2008-11-04 |
| 32. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
26.86 |
0.9128 |
0.1252 |
133 |
1 |
26.86 |
2008-11-05 |
| 33. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
26.83 |
0.8852 |
0.1482 |
201 |
1 |
26.83 |
2008-12-24 |
| 34. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
26.80 |
0.7852 |
0.2509 |
149 |
1 |
26.80 |
2008-11-14 |
| 35. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
26.80 |
0.7916 |
0.2463 |
184 |
1 |
26.80 |
2008-12-02 |
| 36. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
26.66 |
0.9941 |
0.0282 |
217 |
1 |
26.66 |
2009-02-20 |
| 37. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
26.62 |
0.7352 |
0.2879 |
106 |
2 |
23.46 |
2009-01-27 |
| 38. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
26.46 |
1.0796 |
-0.0675 |
129 |
1 |
26.46 |
2008-11-05 |
| 39. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
26.39 |
0.9514 |
0.0631 |
237 |
1 |
26.39 |
2008-11-17 |
| 40. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.35 |
0.9325 |
0.0734 |
156 |
1 |
26.35 |
2008-12-24 |
| 41. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
26.30 |
0.9758 |
0.0356 |
314 |
1 |
26.30 |
2008-11-14 |
| 42. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.26 |
0.9769 |
0.0301 |
263 |
1 |
26.26 |
2008-12-05 |
| 43. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.24 |
0.8821 |
0.1258 |
176 |
2 |
25.07 |
2009-02-09 |
| 44. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
26.14 |
1.0025 |
0.0019 |
256 |
2 |
25.84 |
2008-11-27 |
| 45. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
26.07 |
0.8887 |
0.1270 |
128 |
1 |
26.07 |
2009-01-03 |
| 46. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
26.04 |
0.8666 |
0.1370 |
150 |
3 |
24.09 |
2008-12-05 |
| 47. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
25.98 |
1.0201 |
-0.0287 |
172 |
3 |
24.82 |
2009-01-03 |
| 48. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
25.88 |
0.9251 |
0.0743 |
177 |
2 |
24.90 |
2008-11-27 |
| 49. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
25.85 |
0.9697 |
0.0237 |
249 |
2 |
24.96 |
2008-12-16 |
| 50. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
25.81 |
0.7908 |
0.2055 |
127 |
1 |
25.81 |
2008-11-27 |
| 51. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
25.74 |
0.8544 |
0.1349 |
170 |
1 |
25.74 |
2009-01-27 |
| 52. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
25.74 |
1.1016 |
-0.1126 |
233 |
1 |
25.74 |
2008-12-24 |
| 53. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
25.66 |
0.9275 |
0.0550 |
211 |
1 |
25.66 |
2008-11-05 |
| 54. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
25.65 |
0.8747 |
0.1062 |
201 |
2 |
24.30 |
2009-02-20 |
| 55. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
25.62 |
1.0099 |
-0.0286 |
207 |
1 |
25.62 |
2008-11-27 |
| 56. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
25.61 |
0.8096 |
0.1821 |
209 |
1 |
25.61 |
2009-01-03 |
| 57. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
25.42 |
0.8951 |
0.0836 |
193 |
2 |
23.05 |
2008-11-27 |
| 58. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
25.42 |
0.8867 |
0.0957 |
163 |
1 |
25.42 |
2008-11-07 |
| 59. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
25.35 |
0.8961 |
0.0742 |
189 |
1 |
25.35 |
2009-02-20 |
| 60. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.34 |
0.9351 |
0.0327 |
190 |
3 |
23.66 |
2008-12-24 |
| 61. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
25.16 |
0.8323 |
0.1326 |
145 |
1 |
25.16 |
2009-02-20 |
| 62. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
25.08 |
0.8125 |
0.1532 |
197 |
1 |
25.08 |
2008-11-04 |
| 63. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
25.03 |
1.0565 |
-0.0978 |
247 |
1 |
25.03 |
2008-11-05 |
| 64. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
24.91 |
0.9798 |
-0.0289 |
199 |
2 |
24.43 |
2008-12-10 |
| 65. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
24.90 |
0.9682 |
-0.0139 |
143 |
2 |
23.35 |
2009-01-27 |
| 66. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
24.88 |
0.8295 |
0.1277 |
209 |
2 |
23.77 |
2008-11-19 |
| 67. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
24.81 |
0.7938 |
0.1599 |
176 |
1 |
24.81 |
2008-11-27 |
| 68. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
24.80 |
0.7826 |
0.1735 |
97 |
1 |
24.80 |
2009-02-20 |
| 69. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
24.80 |
0.9649 |
-0.0137 |
193 |
1 |
24.80 |
2008-11-04 |
| 70. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
24.79 |
1.0417 |
-0.0923 |
253 |
1 |
24.79 |
2008-11-04 |
| 71. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
24.75 |
0.7690 |
0.1830 |
142 |
1 |
24.75 |
2008-12-24 |
| 72. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
24.65 |
1.0390 |
-0.0963 |
205 |
2 |
24.61 |
2009-01-03 |
| 73. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
24.62 |
0.8188 |
0.1276 |
183 |
2 |
23.99 |
2008-11-07 |
| 74. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
24.61 |
0.8826 |
0.0637 |
296 |
1 |
24.61 |
2008-11-07 |
| 75. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
24.53 |
0.8153 |
0.1313 |
200 |
1 |
24.53 |
2009-02-20 |
| 76. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
24.53 |
0.8890 |
0.0492 |
199 |
1 |
24.53 |
2008-12-10 |
| 77. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
24.28 |
0.9731 |
-0.0535 |
129 |
2 |
23.93 |
2009-02-09 |
| 78. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
24.06 |
0.8615 |
0.0621 |
110 |
2 |
21.86 |
2009-02-20 |
| 79. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
24.05 |
1.0004 |
-0.0834 |
212 |
1 |
24.05 |
2008-11-05 |
| 80. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
24.02 |
0.9772 |
-0.0587 |
217 |
2 |
23.96 |
2008-11-07 |
| 81. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
23.78 |
0.8996 |
0.0075 |
192 |
3 |
21.70 |
2009-01-27 |
| 82. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
23.78 |
1.0487 |
-0.1411 |
231 |
1 |
23.78 |
2008-11-24 |
| 83. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
23.75 |
0.9168 |
-0.0040 |
240 |
2 |
22.58 |
2008-12-05 |
| 84. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
23.69 |
1.0787 |
-0.1709 |
237 |
1 |
23.69 |
2008-12-16 |
| 85. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
23.68 |
0.8442 |
0.0685 |
265 |
1 |
23.68 |
2008-11-17 |
| 86. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
23.60 |
1.0029 |
-0.1037 |
209 |
2 |
23.14 |
2008-11-07 |
| 87. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
23.34 |
1.0214 |
-0.1313 |
166 |
1 |
23.34 |
2008-12-24 |
| 88. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
23.25 |
0.7375 |
0.1577 |
148 |
2 |
21.72 |
2008-11-13 |
| 89. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
23.02 |
0.9572 |
-0.0753 |
201 |
2 |
22.84 |
2008-11-07 |
| 90. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
22.91 |
0.8573 |
0.0251 |
270 |
1 |
22.91 |
2009-01-03 |
| 91. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
22.91 |
0.9846 |
-0.1069 |
281 |
1 |
22.91 |
2008-11-04 |
| 92. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
22.81 |
0.8263 |
0.0465 |
162 |
1 |
22.81 |
2008-11-14 |
| 93. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
22.60 |
0.8602 |
0.0043 |
206 |
1 |
22.60 |
2008-12-24 |
| 94. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
22.58 |
0.8077 |
0.0563 |
167 |
1 |
22.58 |
2009-02-20 |
| 95. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
22.56 |
0.8975 |
-0.0319 |
268 |
1 |
22.56 |
2009-02-20 |
| 96. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
22.39 |
0.8533 |
0.0063 |
232 |
1 |
22.39 |
2008-11-05 |
| 97. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
22.32 |
0.8595 |
-0.0019 |
242 |
1 |
22.32 |
2008-12-05 |
| 98. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
22.24 |
0.8899 |
-0.0261 |
293 |
1 |
22.24 |
2008-12-16 |
| 99. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
22.14 |
0.7259 |
0.1288 |
186 |
1 |
22.14 |
2008-11-17 |
| 100. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
22.00 |
0.9884 |
-0.1459 |
233 |
1 |
22.00 |
2008-12-10 |
| 101. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
21.20 |
0.8070 |
0.0077 |
137 |
1 |
21.20 |
2008-11-04 |
| 102. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
21.11 |
0.8360 |
-0.0281 |
170 |
1 |
21.11 |
2008-12-02 |
| 103. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
18.45 |
0.8715 |
-0.1702 |
130 |
1 |
18.45 |
2009-02-20 |