| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
60.22 |
1.0334 |
0.2299 |
131 |
3 |
53.69 |
2008-11-16 |
| 2. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
58.82 |
1.0398 |
0.1897 |
110 |
1 |
58.82 |
2008-10-08 |
| 3. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
55.93 |
1.0666 |
0.1120 |
297 |
2 |
52.02 |
2008-10-12 |
| 4. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
55.12 |
1.0060 |
0.1505 |
171 |
1 |
55.12 |
2008-10-13 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
55.02 |
1.1018 |
0.0509 |
220 |
2 |
48.00 |
2008-10-11 |
| 6. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
54.90 |
1.0063 |
0.1506 |
371 |
5 |
48.89 |
2008-11-17 |
| 7. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.51 |
1.0577 |
0.0870 |
247 |
1 |
54.51 |
2008-11-16 |
| 8. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
54.44 |
1.0486 |
0.0989 |
289 |
2 |
53.21 |
2008-11-16 |
| 9. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
54.28 |
1.0124 |
0.1285 |
204 |
3 |
50.42 |
2008-11-22 |
| 10. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
54.23 |
0.9527 |
0.1895 |
251 |
5 |
47.26 |
2008-11-16 |
| 11. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
53.77 |
0.9991 |
0.1339 |
225 |
1 |
53.77 |
2008-10-13 |
| 12. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
53.63 |
1.0993 |
0.0281 |
265 |
1 |
53.63 |
2008-10-12 |
| 13. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.62 |
0.9729 |
0.1566 |
255 |
1 |
53.62 |
2008-10-12 |
| 14. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.39 |
1.0429 |
0.0801 |
259 |
1 |
53.39 |
2008-11-02 |
| 15. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
52.66 |
1.0025 |
0.1062 |
256 |
1 |
52.66 |
2008-10-12 |
| 16. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
52.46 |
1.0352 |
0.0719 |
341 |
1 |
52.46 |
2008-10-13 |
| 17. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
52.37 |
1.0390 |
0.0598 |
205 |
2 |
50.02 |
2008-11-02 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
52.33 |
1.0252 |
0.0701 |
176 |
1 |
52.33 |
2008-10-08 |
| 19. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
52.22 |
1.0013 |
0.0972 |
273 |
4 |
49.82 |
2008-11-02 |
| 20. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
52.14 |
1.0796 |
0.0133 |
129 |
2 |
51.78 |
2008-10-12 |
| 21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
52.12 |
0.9843 |
0.1080 |
234 |
2 |
51.87 |
2008-11-16 |
| 22. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
52.03 |
1.0483 |
0.0441 |
227 |
2 |
51.22 |
2008-10-10 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
51.92 |
1.0567 |
0.0369 |
303 |
1 |
51.92 |
2008-11-16 |
| 24. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
51.87 |
1.0534 |
0.0408 |
357 |
1 |
51.87 |
2008-10-13 |
| 25. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
51.71 |
1.0201 |
0.0725 |
375 |
2 |
49.34 |
2008-10-13 |
| 26. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
51.70 |
1.0016 |
0.0822 |
218 |
1 |
51.70 |
2008-11-02 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
51.48 |
1.0444 |
0.0327 |
197 |
1 |
51.48 |
2008-11-01 |
| 28. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
51.35 |
0.9281 |
0.1579 |
273 |
2 |
48.86 |
2008-10-12 |
| 29. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
51.24 |
1.0417 |
0.0344 |
253 |
3 |
47.08 |
2008-10-12 |
| 30. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
51.09 |
1.0696 |
0.0023 |
226 |
1 |
51.09 |
2008-10-07 |
| 31. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
51.08 |
1.0197 |
0.0526 |
226 |
4 |
47.73 |
2008-12-28 |
| 32. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
50.74 |
1.0565 |
0.0088 |
247 |
1 |
50.74 |
2008-10-11 |
| 33. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
50.59 |
1.0331 |
0.0294 |
234 |
1 |
50.59 |
2008-10-09 |
| 34. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
50.53 |
1.0168 |
0.0480 |
271 |
1 |
50.53 |
2008-10-12 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
50.46 |
1.0053 |
0.0546 |
232 |
2 |
49.57 |
2008-10-12 |
| 36. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
50.28 |
1.0203 |
0.0412 |
261 |
1 |
50.28 |
2008-11-16 |
| 37. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
50.05 |
1.0167 |
0.0433 |
378 |
2 |
47.89 |
2008-11-16 |
| 38. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
50.03 |
0.9684 |
0.0871 |
388 |
5 |
47.39 |
2008-11-02 |
| 39. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.79 |
0.9986 |
0.0497 |
283 |
1 |
49.79 |
2008-11-23 |
| 40. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
49.59 |
1.0385 |
0.0031 |
230 |
2 |
47.78 |
2008-11-01 |
| 41. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
49.42 |
1.0487 |
-0.0139 |
231 |
1 |
49.42 |
2008-10-08 |
| 42. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
49.33 |
1.0498 |
-0.0167 |
180 |
1 |
49.33 |
2008-10-07 |
| 43. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
49.01 |
0.8533 |
0.1789 |
232 |
3 |
45.95 |
2008-11-02 |
| 44. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
48.94 |
0.9597 |
0.0740 |
347 |
1 |
48.94 |
2008-10-12 |
| 45. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.93 |
0.9884 |
0.0402 |
233 |
1 |
48.93 |
2008-10-07 |
| 46. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
48.75 |
1.0496 |
-0.0248 |
314 |
1 |
48.75 |
2008-11-16 |
| 47. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
48.70 |
0.9266 |
0.0997 |
278 |
1 |
48.70 |
2008-11-10 |
| 48. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
48.67 |
0.9769 |
0.0448 |
263 |
2 |
47.42 |
2008-11-02 |
| 49. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
48.66 |
0.8941 |
0.1315 |
216 |
1 |
48.66 |
2008-10-09 |
| 50. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.63 |
1.0419 |
-0.0189 |
261 |
1 |
48.63 |
2008-10-08 |
| 51. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
48.44 |
1.0368 |
-0.0170 |
276 |
1 |
48.44 |
2008-11-16 |
| 52. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
48.44 |
1.0613 |
-0.0415 |
266 |
1 |
48.44 |
2008-11-17 |
| 53. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.44 |
0.8916 |
0.1276 |
216 |
1 |
48.44 |
2008-10-12 |
| 54. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.32 |
1.0297 |
-0.0145 |
249 |
2 |
44.20 |
2008-12-28 |
| 55. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
48.22 |
1.0263 |
-0.0129 |
267 |
1 |
48.22 |
2008-11-02 |
| 56. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
48.04 |
0.9429 |
0.0688 |
287 |
1 |
48.04 |
2008-10-07 |
| 57. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
48.03 |
0.9578 |
0.0519 |
281 |
2 |
45.71 |
2008-11-02 |
| 58. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
47.92 |
1.0668 |
-0.0565 |
350 |
2 |
46.62 |
2008-11-22 |
| 59. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
47.86 |
1.0477 |
-0.0387 |
360 |
1 |
47.86 |
2008-10-12 |
| 60. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
47.85 |
0.9485 |
0.0596 |
236 |
1 |
47.85 |
2008-10-11 |
| 61. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
47.79 |
0.9964 |
0.0088 |
203 |
1 |
47.79 |
2008-10-13 |
| 62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
47.70 |
0.9740 |
0.0251 |
209 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-10-12 |
| 63. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
47.70 |
1.0214 |
-0.0199 |
269 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-10-07 |
| 64. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
47.64 |
1.0004 |
-0.0046 |
212 |
1 |
47.64 |
2008-10-10 |
| 65. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
47.63 |
0.9865 |
0.0163 |
276 |
1 |
47.63 |
2008-10-08 |
| 66. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
47.50 |
1.0062 |
-0.0073 |
288 |
1 |
47.50 |
2008-11-02 |
| 67. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.46 |
1.0399 |
-0.0367 |
294 |
1 |
47.46 |
2008-11-01 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
47.44 |
1.0529 |
-0.0554 |
351 |
1 |
47.44 |
2008-10-08 |
| 69. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
47.28 |
1.0619 |
-0.0641 |
354 |
1 |
47.28 |
2008-10-08 |
| 70. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
47.24 |
1.0516 |
-0.0586 |
281 |
1 |
47.24 |
2008-10-07 |
| 71. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
47.21 |
1.0523 |
-0.0639 |
256 |
1 |
47.21 |
2008-11-02 |
| 72. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
47.20 |
0.9851 |
0.0096 |
317 |
1 |
47.20 |
2008-10-11 |
| 73. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
47.19 |
1.0138 |
-0.0219 |
231 |
1 |
47.19 |
2008-11-16 |
| 74. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.98 |
0.9786 |
0.0040 |
193 |
1 |
46.98 |
2008-10-12 |
| 75. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
46.76 |
0.9997 |
-0.0130 |
382 |
1 |
46.76 |
2008-10-10 |
| 76. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
46.76 |
1.0034 |
-0.0218 |
302 |
2 |
46.07 |
2008-11-10 |
| 77. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
46.69 |
1.0885 |
-0.1036 |
315 |
1 |
46.69 |
2008-10-09 |
| 78. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
46.66 |
0.9612 |
0.0198 |
256 |
2 |
46.21 |
2008-11-16 |
| 79. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
46.56 |
0.9844 |
-0.0007 |
293 |
2 |
44.31 |
2008-10-12 |
| 80. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
46.51 |
0.9785 |
0.0025 |
335 |
1 |
46.51 |
2008-10-08 |
| 81. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.44 |
0.9798 |
-0.0092 |
199 |
1 |
46.44 |
2008-12-27 |
| 82. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
46.32 |
1.0289 |
-0.0507 |
276 |
2 |
43.18 |
2008-10-13 |
| 83. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
46.21 |
0.9532 |
0.0169 |
258 |
1 |
46.21 |
2008-10-07 |
| 84. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
46.09 |
0.9635 |
0.0108 |
389 |
1 |
46.09 |
2008-10-09 |
| 85. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
46.07 |
0.9330 |
0.0420 |
360 |
2 |
44.94 |
2008-10-08 |
| 86. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
45.80 |
1.0555 |
-0.0914 |
363 |
2 |
44.22 |
2008-10-08 |
| 87. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.78 |
1.0595 |
-0.0947 |
379 |
2 |
45.10 |
2008-11-26 |
| 88. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
45.70 |
0.9513 |
0.0131 |
354 |
2 |
43.04 |
2008-12-27 |
| 89. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
45.34 |
0.9811 |
-0.0255 |
272 |
1 |
45.34 |
2008-10-07 |
| 90. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
45.24 |
0.9910 |
-0.0383 |
295 |
1 |
45.24 |
2008-10-10 |
| 91. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
45.11 |
0.9682 |
-0.0221 |
143 |
1 |
45.11 |
2008-10-12 |
| 92. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
45.09 |
0.9619 |
-0.0091 |
393 |
2 |
40.81 |
2008-11-16 |
| 93. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
45.06 |
0.8935 |
0.0631 |
328 |
1 |
45.06 |
2008-11-23 |
| 94. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
45.03 |
1.0025 |
-0.0553 |
336 |
1 |
45.03 |
2008-10-07 |
| 95. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
45.01 |
1.0261 |
-0.0821 |
273 |
1 |
45.01 |
2008-10-13 |
| 96. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
44.96 |
1.0095 |
-0.0658 |
316 |
1 |
44.96 |
2008-11-21 |
| 97. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
44.71 |
0.9653 |
-0.0175 |
394 |
2 |
44.41 |
2008-11-16 |
| 98. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.70 |
1.0352 |
-0.0928 |
341 |
1 |
44.70 |
2008-11-16 |
| 99. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
44.66 |
0.8951 |
0.0455 |
193 |
1 |
44.66 |
2008-12-28 |
| 100. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.60 |
0.9286 |
0.0075 |
194 |
1 |
44.60 |
2008-10-11 |
| 101. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
44.32 |
1.0023 |
-0.0730 |
211 |
1 |
44.32 |
2008-12-27 |
| 102. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
44.29 |
0.9820 |
-0.0487 |
267 |
2 |
43.79 |
2008-11-01 |
| 103. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
44.26 |
0.9068 |
0.0261 |
269 |
2 |
41.30 |
2008-12-28 |
| 104. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
44.21 |
0.9339 |
-0.0066 |
310 |
1 |
44.21 |
2008-10-13 |
| 105. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
44.03 |
0.9965 |
-0.0712 |
310 |
1 |
44.03 |
2008-11-01 |
| 106. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.78 |
0.9863 |
-0.0622 |
339 |
2 |
38.50 |
2008-11-16 |
| 107. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
43.64 |
1.0099 |
-0.0961 |
207 |
1 |
43.64 |
2008-10-09 |
| 108. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
43.57 |
1.0396 |
-0.1316 |
149 |
1 |
43.57 |
2008-10-08 |
| 109. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
43.56 |
0.9936 |
-0.0789 |
311 |
2 |
43.12 |
2008-11-01 |
| 110. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
43.28 |
0.9289 |
-0.0222 |
204 |
1 |
43.28 |
2008-10-08 |
| 111. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
43.21 |
1.1114 |
-0.2066 |
247 |
1 |
43.21 |
2008-10-31 |
| 112. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
43.02 |
1.0340 |
-0.1253 |
406 |
1 |
43.02 |
2008-12-28 |
| 113. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
42.99 |
0.8553 |
0.0424 |
174 |
2 |
40.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 114. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
42.63 |
0.9049 |
-0.0043 |
351 |
1 |
42.63 |
2008-10-12 |
| 115. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
42.56 |
0.8958 |
0.0025 |
322 |
1 |
42.56 |
2008-10-07 |
| 116. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
42.44 |
0.9464 |
-0.0502 |
323 |
1 |
42.44 |
2008-10-07 |
| 117. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
42.03 |
0.9841 |
-0.0979 |
334 |
1 |
42.03 |
2008-11-16 |
| 118. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
42.01 |
0.9576 |
-0.0710 |
212 |
1 |
42.01 |
2008-10-07 |
| 119. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
41.95 |
0.9691 |
-0.0889 |
223 |
1 |
41.95 |
2008-11-01 |
| 120. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.93 |
0.8442 |
0.0400 |
265 |
2 |
41.46 |
2008-10-10 |
| 121. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
41.78 |
0.9886 |
-0.1090 |
220 |
1 |
41.78 |
2008-10-07 |
| 122. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
41.40 |
0.9164 |
-0.0426 |
305 |
2 |
41.32 |
2008-12-28 |
| 123. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
41.38 |
0.9614 |
-0.0899 |
292 |
1 |
41.38 |
2008-11-22 |
| 124. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.31 |
0.9866 |
-0.1233 |
218 |
1 |
41.31 |
2008-11-01 |
| 125. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
41.16 |
0.9672 |
-0.0969 |
396 |
1 |
41.16 |
2008-10-07 |
| 126. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.13 |
0.9128 |
-0.0441 |
133 |
1 |
41.13 |
2008-10-05 |
| 127. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
40.61 |
0.8956 |
-0.0389 |
322 |
1 |
40.61 |
2008-10-12 |
| 128. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
40.51 |
0.8105 |
0.0352 |
204 |
1 |
40.51 |
2008-10-11 |
| 129. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
40.21 |
0.8722 |
-0.0257 |
285 |
1 |
40.21 |
2008-10-07 |
| 130. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
39.83 |
0.9213 |
-0.0853 |
295 |
1 |
39.83 |
2008-10-07 |
| 131. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
39.79 |
0.9125 |
-0.0760 |
308 |
1 |
39.79 |
2008-11-01 |
| 132. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
39.79 |
0.9279 |
-0.0867 |
317 |
1 |
39.79 |
2008-10-10 |
| 133. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
39.78 |
0.9233 |
-0.0971 |
168 |
1 |
39.78 |
2008-10-12 |
| 134. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
39.77 |
0.9567 |
-0.1227 |
273 |
1 |
39.77 |
2008-11-01 |
| 135. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
39.54 |
0.8971 |
-0.0625 |
266 |
1 |
39.54 |
2008-10-31 |
| 136. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
38.13 |
0.9351 |
-0.1413 |
190 |
1 |
38.13 |
2008-10-11 |
| 137. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
37.85 |
0.8852 |
-0.0898 |
201 |
1 |
37.85 |
2008-10-07 |
| 138. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
37.05 |
0.9411 |
-0.1640 |
318 |
1 |
37.05 |
2008-12-28 |
| 139. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
36.84 |
0.8602 |
-0.0906 |
206 |
1 |
36.84 |
2008-10-09 |
| 140. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
34.90 |
0.8890 |
-0.1621 |
199 |
1 |
34.90 |
2008-10-05 |
| 141. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
34.82 |
0.9168 |
-0.1867 |
240 |
1 |
34.82 |
2008-10-07 |