| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
104.44 |
1.0787 |
0.4093 |
237 |
1 |
104.44 |
2009-02-08 |
| 2. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
99.45 |
0.9636 |
0.4539 |
254 |
1 |
99.45 |
2009-02-12 |
| 3. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
99.32 |
0.9710 |
0.4382 |
173 |
1 |
99.32 |
2009-02-08 |
| 4. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
95.07 |
1.0025 |
0.3520 |
256 |
1 |
95.07 |
2009-02-08 |
| 5. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
94.84 |
0.8105 |
0.5364 |
204 |
1 |
94.84 |
2009-02-12 |
| 6. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
93.50 |
1.0252 |
0.3003 |
176 |
2 |
78.31 |
2009-02-08 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
92.93 |
1.0426 |
0.2805 |
323 |
1 |
92.93 |
2009-02-08 |
| 8. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
91.99 |
1.0251 |
0.2830 |
261 |
2 |
76.36 |
2009-02-08 |
| 9. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
90.63 |
1.0799 |
0.2071 |
243 |
2 |
73.22 |
2009-02-08 |
| 10. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
85.65 |
0.9754 |
0.2498 |
362 |
1 |
85.65 |
2009-02-08 |
| 11. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
81.21 |
1.0334 |
0.1153 |
131 |
1 |
81.21 |
2009-02-08 |
| 12. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
80.63 |
0.9731 |
0.1613 |
129 |
1 |
80.63 |
2009-02-08 |
| 13. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
80.51 |
1.0201 |
0.1182 |
172 |
3 |
72.24 |
2009-02-08 |
| 14. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
79.28 |
1.0885 |
0.0422 |
315 |
1 |
79.28 |
2009-02-06 |
| 15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
77.88 |
1.0390 |
0.0645 |
205 |
1 |
77.88 |
2009-02-06 |
| 16. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
77.80 |
1.0788 |
0.0218 |
171 |
1 |
77.80 |
2009-02-06 |
| 17. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
77.21 |
1.0417 |
0.0535 |
253 |
1 |
77.21 |
2009-02-08 |
| 18. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
75.69 |
0.9798 |
0.0903 |
199 |
1 |
75.69 |
2009-02-06 |
| 19. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
75.54 |
1.0389 |
0.0364 |
318 |
1 |
75.54 |
2009-02-08 |
| 20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
75.21 |
0.9899 |
0.0743 |
163 |
1 |
75.21 |
2009-02-08 |
| 21. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
75.15 |
1.0516 |
0.0160 |
281 |
1 |
75.15 |
2009-02-07 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.90 |
1.0797 |
-0.0209 |
210 |
1 |
74.90 |
2009-02-08 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.86 |
1.0131 |
0.0325 |
225 |
1 |
73.86 |
2009-02-05 |
| 24. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
73.73 |
1.0385 |
0.0073 |
230 |
2 |
71.42 |
2009-02-07 |
| 25. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
73.55 |
1.0263 |
0.0179 |
267 |
2 |
68.56 |
2009-02-06 |
| 26. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
73.01 |
0.9697 |
0.0678 |
249 |
1 |
73.01 |
2009-02-08 |
| 27. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
72.61 |
1.0523 |
-0.0251 |
256 |
1 |
72.61 |
2009-02-06 |
| 28. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
72.02 |
0.9897 |
0.0310 |
274 |
1 |
72.02 |
2009-02-06 |
| 29. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
71.75 |
0.9756 |
0.0422 |
229 |
2 |
68.31 |
2009-02-08 |
| 30. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
71.21 |
1.0993 |
-0.0900 |
265 |
1 |
71.21 |
2009-02-08 |
| 31. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
71.13 |
0.9776 |
0.0328 |
308 |
2 |
68.98 |
2009-02-08 |
| 32. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.04 |
1.0368 |
-0.0270 |
276 |
1 |
71.04 |
2009-02-06 |
| 33. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
70.71 |
0.9676 |
0.0449 |
442 |
3 |
64.72 |
2009-02-07 |
| 34. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
70.61 |
1.0577 |
-0.0585 |
247 |
1 |
70.61 |
2009-02-07 |
| 35. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
69.86 |
1.0257 |
-0.0274 |
401 |
2 |
67.91 |
2009-02-08 |
| 36. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
69.36 |
1.0487 |
-0.0689 |
231 |
1 |
69.36 |
2009-02-06 |
| 37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
68.60 |
0.9723 |
0.0052 |
364 |
2 |
64.01 |
2009-02-06 |
| 38. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
68.52 |
0.9966 |
-0.0245 |
259 |
1 |
68.52 |
2009-02-08 |
| 39. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
68.38 |
0.9942 |
-0.0147 |
483 |
2 |
67.24 |
2009-02-08 |
| 40. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
68.18 |
1.0025 |
-0.0338 |
336 |
1 |
68.18 |
2009-02-06 |
| 41. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
68.02 |
0.9946 |
-0.0293 |
246 |
1 |
68.02 |
2009-02-06 |
| 42. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
67.47 |
1.0201 |
-0.0585 |
375 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-02-06 |
| 43. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
67.03 |
1.0496 |
-0.0991 |
314 |
1 |
67.03 |
2009-02-06 |
| 44. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
66.58 |
1.0419 |
-0.0971 |
261 |
1 |
66.58 |
2009-02-05 |
| 45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
66.45 |
0.9768 |
-0.0313 |
387 |
1 |
66.45 |
2009-02-06 |
| 46. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.08 |
0.9202 |
0.0167 |
254 |
1 |
66.08 |
2009-02-08 |
| 47. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
66.08 |
0.8996 |
0.0325 |
192 |
1 |
66.08 |
2009-02-08 |
| 48. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
65.89 |
0.9886 |
-0.0513 |
220 |
1 |
65.89 |
2009-02-08 |
| 49. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
65.78 |
0.9785 |
-0.0420 |
335 |
1 |
65.78 |
2009-02-06 |
| 50. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
65.70 |
1.0189 |
-0.0835 |
337 |
1 |
65.70 |
2009-02-12 |
| 51. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
65.43 |
1.0398 |
-0.1221 |
110 |
1 |
65.43 |
2009-02-05 |
| 52. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
65.41 |
0.9893 |
-0.0613 |
323 |
1 |
65.41 |
2009-02-06 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
65.33 |
0.9833 |
-0.0549 |
355 |
1 |
65.33 |
2009-02-05 |
| 54. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.32 |
0.9429 |
-0.0150 |
287 |
1 |
65.32 |
2009-02-07 |
| 55. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
65.25 |
0.9653 |
-0.0314 |
394 |
1 |
65.25 |
2009-02-08 |
| 56. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
64.80 |
1.0567 |
-0.1369 |
303 |
1 |
64.80 |
2009-02-05 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
64.38 |
1.0214 |
-0.1137 |
166 |
1 |
64.38 |
2009-02-06 |
| 58. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
64.28 |
0.9884 |
-0.0775 |
233 |
1 |
64.28 |
2009-02-05 |
| 59. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.87 |
0.9740 |
-0.0723 |
209 |
1 |
63.87 |
2009-02-05 |
| 60. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
63.87 |
1.0331 |
-0.1295 |
234 |
1 |
63.87 |
2009-02-07 |
| 61. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
63.58 |
0.9820 |
-0.0776 |
267 |
2 |
63.35 |
2009-02-06 |
| 62. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
63.54 |
0.9905 |
-0.0817 |
377 |
2 |
62.19 |
2009-02-06 |
| 63. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
63.25 |
1.0029 |
-0.1124 |
209 |
1 |
63.25 |
2009-02-06 |
| 64. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
62.81 |
1.0023 |
-0.1137 |
211 |
1 |
62.81 |
2009-02-05 |
| 65. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
62.69 |
0.9964 |
-0.1075 |
203 |
1 |
62.69 |
2009-02-06 |
| 66. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
62.64 |
1.0125 |
-0.1267 |
224 |
1 |
62.64 |
2009-02-05 |
| 67. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
62.10 |
0.9846 |
-0.1054 |
281 |
1 |
62.10 |
2009-02-05 |
| 68. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
61.71 |
0.9865 |
-0.1107 |
276 |
1 |
61.71 |
2009-02-06 |
| 69. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
61.35 |
1.0515 |
-0.1839 |
250 |
1 |
61.35 |
2009-02-05 |
| 70. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
61.25 |
1.0203 |
-0.1488 |
261 |
1 |
61.25 |
2009-02-05 |
| 71. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
60.66 |
1.0218 |
-0.1651 |
268 |
1 |
60.66 |
2009-02-05 |
| 72. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
60.26 |
1.0767 |
-0.2250 |
212 |
1 |
60.26 |
2009-02-06 |
| 73. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.24 |
0.9514 |
-0.0975 |
237 |
1 |
60.24 |
2009-02-05 |
| 74. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
60.13 |
0.9786 |
-0.1271 |
235 |
1 |
60.13 |
2009-02-05 |
| 75. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
59.47 |
0.9811 |
-0.1359 |
272 |
1 |
59.47 |
2009-02-05 |
| 76. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
59.36 |
0.8753 |
-0.0252 |
427 |
1 |
59.36 |
2009-02-06 |
| 77. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
58.97 |
1.0016 |
-0.1709 |
218 |
1 |
58.97 |
2009-02-05 |
| 78. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
58.96 |
0.8553 |
-0.0252 |
174 |
1 |
58.96 |
2009-02-06 |
| 79. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
58.96 |
0.9570 |
-0.1201 |
287 |
1 |
58.96 |
2009-02-06 |
| 80. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
58.91 |
0.9857 |
-0.1523 |
293 |
1 |
58.91 |
2009-02-06 |
| 81. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
58.58 |
0.9234 |
-0.0883 |
346 |
1 |
58.58 |
2009-02-06 |
| 82. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
58.24 |
0.9758 |
-0.1503 |
314 |
1 |
58.24 |
2009-02-08 |
| 83. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
57.76 |
1.0483 |
-0.2334 |
227 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-02-07 |
| 84. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
52.65 |
0.9500 |
-0.2034 |
362 |
1 |
52.65 |
2009-02-05 |
| 85. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
52.41 |
0.8602 |
-0.1215 |
206 |
1 |
52.41 |
2009-02-05 |
| 86. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
51.25 |
0.7876 |
-0.0607 |
316 |
1 |
51.25 |
2009-02-08 |
| 87. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.41 |
0.9005 |
-0.2186 |
212 |
2 |
48.20 |
2009-02-05 |
| 88. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
47.92 |
0.8956 |
-0.2146 |
322 |
1 |
47.92 |
2009-02-05 |