| 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 ... |
42.64 |
1.0787 |
-1.0905 |
237 |
3 |
36.61 |
2009-05-26 |
| 2. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
41.23 |
1.0463 |
-1.0608 |
182 |
2 |
37.46 |
2009-05-26 |
| 3. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
41.09 |
1.0577 |
-1.0718 |
247 |
1 |
41.09 |
2009-05-26 |
| 4. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
39.48 |
0.9316 |
-0.9423 |
287 |
1 |
39.48 |
2009-05-25 |
| 5. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
39.42 |
0.9128 |
-0.9229 |
133 |
1 |
39.42 |
2009-05-26 |
| 6. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
39.35 |
0.8975 |
-0.9104 |
268 |
2 |
37.31 |
2009-05-26 |
| 7. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
39.32 |
1.0419 |
-1.0534 |
261 |
1 |
39.32 |
2009-05-25 |
| 8. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
39.23 |
1.0797 |
-1.0946 |
210 |
1 |
39.23 |
2009-05-25 |
| 9. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
39.16 |
1.0109 |
-1.0215 |
276 |
1 |
39.16 |
2009-05-26 |
| 10. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
37.74 |
1.0417 |
-1.0548 |
253 |
2 |
34.83 |
2010-04-22 |
| 11. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
37.61 |
0.8615 |
-0.8754 |
110 |
1 |
37.61 |
2009-06-28 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.50 |
1.0390 |
-1.0523 |
205 |
2 |
33.15 |
2009-06-28 |
| 13. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
37.37 |
1.0528 |
-1.0674 |
201 |
3 |
34.74 |
2009-05-26 |
| 14. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
37.23 |
1.0521 |
-1.0653 |
171 |
2 |
36.08 |
2009-05-25 |
| 15. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
37.23 |
0.9164 |
-0.9266 |
121 |
1 |
37.23 |
2009-05-21 |
| 16. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
37.16 |
0.9281 |
-0.9371 |
273 |
2 |
32.69 |
2010-04-19 |
| 17. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
37.12 |
1.0263 |
-1.0376 |
267 |
1 |
37.12 |
2009-05-26 |
| 18. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
36.91 |
0.9125 |
-0.9232 |
308 |
1 |
36.91 |
2009-05-26 |
| 19. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
36.82 |
0.9884 |
-0.9977 |
262 |
2 |
34.43 |
2009-05-21 |
| 20. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
36.68 |
1.1018 |
-1.1182 |
220 |
1 |
36.68 |
2009-06-28 |
| 21. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.65 |
0.8739 |
-0.8909 |
136 |
1 |
36.65 |
2009-05-21 |
| 22. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
36.63 |
0.8941 |
-0.9062 |
216 |
4 |
33.24 |
2009-05-26 |
| 23. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
36.48 |
0.8792 |
-0.8848 |
296 |
2 |
33.40 |
2009-05-25 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
36.47 |
1.0796 |
-1.0947 |
129 |
1 |
36.47 |
2009-05-21 |
| 25. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
36.44 |
0.9266 |
-0.9383 |
267 |
1 |
36.44 |
2009-05-25 |
| 26. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.43 |
0.9612 |
-0.9718 |
256 |
1 |
36.43 |
2009-05-26 |
| 27. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
36.30 |
1.0799 |
-1.0933 |
243 |
1 |
36.30 |
2009-05-25 |
| 28. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.29 |
1.0385 |
-1.0503 |
230 |
2 |
36.08 |
2009-05-26 |
| 29. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
36.21 |
0.9684 |
-0.9783 |
388 |
1 |
36.21 |
2009-05-26 |
| 30. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
36.02 |
0.9986 |
-1.0093 |
283 |
1 |
36.02 |
2009-05-26 |
| 31. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
35.94 |
1.0767 |
-1.0893 |
212 |
2 |
35.09 |
2010-04-19 |
| 32. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
35.84 |
0.9597 |
-0.9686 |
347 |
1 |
35.84 |
2009-05-25 |
| 33. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
35.83 |
0.9729 |
-0.9873 |
255 |
1 |
35.83 |
2009-06-28 |
| 34. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
35.70 |
1.1114 |
-1.1245 |
247 |
1 |
35.70 |
2010-04-22 |
| 35. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
35.63 |
1.0444 |
-1.0613 |
197 |
2 |
33.99 |
2009-05-21 |
| 36. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
35.35 |
1.0441 |
-1.0544 |
252 |
1 |
35.35 |
2010-04-19 |
| 37. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.34 |
1.0483 |
-1.0610 |
227 |
3 |
32.34 |
2009-06-28 |
| 38. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
35.28 |
1.0004 |
-1.0147 |
212 |
3 |
32.83 |
2009-05-21 |
| 39. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
35.18 |
0.9226 |
-0.9318 |
348 |
1 |
35.18 |
2009-05-26 |
| 40. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
35.14 |
0.9485 |
-0.9587 |
236 |
1 |
35.14 |
2009-05-25 |
| 41. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.89 |
1.0596 |
-1.0726 |
239 |
1 |
34.89 |
2009-05-26 |
| 42. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
34.83 |
1.0679 |
-1.0561 |
177 |
1 |
34.83 |
2010-04-19 |
| 43. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
34.80 |
0.9266 |
-0.9388 |
278 |
2 |
34.20 |
2009-05-26 |
| 44. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
34.72 |
1.0297 |
-1.0425 |
249 |
1 |
34.72 |
2009-05-26 |
| 45. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
34.70 |
1.0788 |
-1.0944 |
171 |
2 |
31.27 |
2009-05-21 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
34.68 |
1.0331 |
-1.0469 |
234 |
1 |
34.68 |
2009-06-28 |
| 47. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.66 |
0.8910 |
-0.9030 |
150 |
1 |
34.66 |
2009-05-25 |
| 48. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
34.54 |
0.9307 |
-0.9375 |
246 |
1 |
34.54 |
2010-04-22 |
| 49. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
34.51 |
1.0213 |
-1.0344 |
240 |
4 |
33.06 |
2009-05-26 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
34.49 |
0.9710 |
-0.9876 |
173 |
2 |
34.14 |
2009-05-26 |
| 51. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.49 |
0.9897 |
-1.0026 |
274 |
1 |
34.49 |
2009-05-26 |
| 52. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
34.48 |
0.8653 |
-0.8702 |
255 |
2 |
34.06 |
2009-05-26 |
| 53. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
34.44 |
0.9946 |
-1.0065 |
246 |
1 |
34.44 |
2009-05-25 |
| 54. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
34.44 |
1.0218 |
-1.0348 |
268 |
2 |
30.80 |
2009-05-25 |
| 55. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
34.41 |
1.0349 |
-1.0470 |
234 |
1 |
34.41 |
2009-05-26 |
| 56. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
34.24 |
1.0053 |
-1.0175 |
232 |
1 |
34.24 |
2009-05-21 |
| 57. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
34.23 |
0.9233 |
-0.9403 |
168 |
1 |
34.23 |
2009-05-26 |
| 58. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
34.19 |
1.0201 |
-1.0278 |
375 |
1 |
34.19 |
2009-05-21 |
| 59. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.03 |
1.0138 |
-1.0253 |
231 |
1 |
34.03 |
2009-05-26 |
| 60. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
33.87 |
0.9852 |
-0.9962 |
264 |
1 |
33.87 |
2009-06-28 |
| 61. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.80 |
1.0124 |
-1.0249 |
204 |
2 |
29.93 |
2009-05-26 |
| 62. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.73 |
1.0389 |
-1.0482 |
340 |
1 |
33.73 |
2009-05-26 |
| 63. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.62 |
0.9649 |
-0.9769 |
193 |
1 |
33.62 |
2009-05-25 |
| 64. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
33.57 |
1.0203 |
-1.0282 |
261 |
3 |
31.88 |
2010-04-19 |
| 65. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
33.49 |
1.0516 |
-1.0625 |
281 |
1 |
33.49 |
2009-06-28 |
| 66. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
33.39 |
0.9221 |
-0.9378 |
244 |
2 |
30.88 |
2009-05-26 |
| 67. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
33.36 |
1.0023 |
-1.0154 |
211 |
2 |
31.61 |
2009-05-26 |
| 68. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.32 |
0.9884 |
-1.0008 |
233 |
1 |
33.32 |
2009-05-25 |
| 69. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.99 |
0.9614 |
-0.9709 |
292 |
2 |
31.72 |
2009-05-26 |
| 70. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
32.96 |
1.0714 |
-1.0876 |
129 |
2 |
32.77 |
2009-05-25 |
| 71. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
32.66 |
1.0993 |
-1.1117 |
265 |
1 |
32.66 |
2009-05-21 |
| 72. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
32.66 |
0.8900 |
-0.9000 |
164 |
2 |
28.40 |
2009-05-25 |
| 73. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
32.65 |
1.0063 |
-1.0170 |
371 |
1 |
32.65 |
2009-05-26 |
| 74. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
32.61 |
0.9019 |
-0.9100 |
204 |
2 |
30.50 |
2009-05-21 |
| 75. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
32.56 |
0.8951 |
-0.9071 |
193 |
1 |
32.56 |
2009-05-25 |
| 76. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
32.47 |
0.9339 |
-0.9468 |
310 |
3 |
30.95 |
2009-06-28 |
| 77. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
32.38 |
0.9429 |
-0.9535 |
287 |
2 |
31.97 |
2009-05-26 |
| 78. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.31 |
0.8810 |
-0.8931 |
282 |
2 |
28.60 |
2009-05-26 |
| 79. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
32.27 |
0.8295 |
-0.8405 |
209 |
1 |
32.27 |
2009-05-25 |
| 80. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
32.15 |
1.0498 |
-1.0642 |
180 |
1 |
32.15 |
2009-06-28 |
| 81. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.98 |
0.8145 |
-0.8244 |
115 |
1 |
31.98 |
2009-06-28 |
| 82. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.96 |
0.8709 |
-0.8784 |
202 |
1 |
31.96 |
2009-05-26 |
| 83. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
31.94 |
0.9769 |
-0.9898 |
263 |
2 |
30.56 |
2010-04-19 |
| 84. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.71 |
1.0462 |
-1.0618 |
184 |
1 |
31.71 |
2009-05-21 |
| 85. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
31.61 |
1.0214 |
-1.0365 |
166 |
2 |
31.23 |
2010-04-19 |
| 86. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
31.56 |
0.9532 |
-0.9657 |
258 |
1 |
31.56 |
2009-05-26 |
| 87. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
31.25 |
1.0352 |
-1.0431 |
341 |
1 |
31.25 |
2009-05-21 |
| 88. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
31.23 |
0.9646 |
-0.9762 |
264 |
1 |
31.23 |
2009-05-25 |
| 89. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
31.14 |
1.0257 |
-1.0328 |
401 |
1 |
31.14 |
2009-05-21 |
| 90. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
31.12 |
0.9325 |
-0.9496 |
156 |
2 |
30.38 |
2009-05-21 |
| 91. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
31.11 |
1.0340 |
-1.0418 |
406 |
1 |
31.11 |
2010-04-19 |
| 92. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
31.00 |
0.9500 |
-0.9592 |
362 |
2 |
30.43 |
2009-05-21 |
| 93. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
31.00 |
1.0095 |
-1.0207 |
316 |
1 |
31.00 |
2009-05-21 |
| 94. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
30.96 |
0.9907 |
-1.0028 |
211 |
1 |
30.96 |
2009-05-21 |
| 95. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
30.79 |
0.8956 |
-0.9059 |
217 |
1 |
30.79 |
2009-05-25 |
| 96. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
30.74 |
0.9045 |
-0.9156 |
235 |
1 |
30.74 |
2009-05-26 |
| 97. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
30.73 |
1.0696 |
-1.0832 |
226 |
1 |
30.73 |
2009-05-21 |
| 98. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
30.56 |
1.0396 |
-1.0559 |
149 |
2 |
29.04 |
2009-05-21 |
| 99. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
30.35 |
0.8323 |
-0.8460 |
145 |
2 |
27.46 |
2009-06-28 |
| 100. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.30 |
0.9740 |
-0.9878 |
209 |
1 |
30.30 |
2009-05-26 |
| 101. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
30.20 |
0.9865 |
-0.9969 |
276 |
1 |
30.20 |
2009-05-26 |
| 102. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
30.14 |
0.9756 |
-0.9878 |
229 |
1 |
30.14 |
2009-05-21 |
| 103. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.09 |
1.0334 |
-1.0486 |
131 |
1 |
30.09 |
2009-05-21 |
| 104. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
30.02 |
0.8899 |
-0.8975 |
293 |
1 |
30.02 |
2009-05-21 |
| 105. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.01 |
0.8096 |
-0.8158 |
209 |
1 |
30.01 |
2009-05-26 |
| 106. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.01 |
0.9212 |
-0.9305 |
323 |
2 |
29.50 |
2009-06-28 |
| 107. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
29.86 |
0.8070 |
-0.8204 |
167 |
2 |
28.75 |
2009-05-21 |
| 108. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.86 |
0.9941 |
-1.0072 |
217 |
3 |
28.92 |
2009-05-21 |
| 109. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
29.72 |
1.0261 |
-1.0385 |
273 |
2 |
29.10 |
2009-05-21 |
| 110. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.70 |
0.9731 |
-0.9935 |
129 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-05-26 |
| 111. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
29.25 |
0.8826 |
-0.8929 |
296 |
1 |
29.25 |
2009-05-25 |
| 112. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
28.78 |
1.0033 |
-1.0189 |
189 |
1 |
28.78 |
2009-05-26 |
| 113. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
28.56 |
1.0567 |
-1.0673 |
303 |
1 |
28.56 |
2009-05-21 |
| 114. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
28.54 |
0.9772 |
-0.9903 |
217 |
1 |
28.54 |
2009-05-21 |
| 115. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
28.04 |
1.0829 |
-1.0930 |
288 |
1 |
28.04 |
2009-05-21 |
| 116. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
27.59 |
0.9164 |
-0.9241 |
305 |
1 |
27.59 |
2009-05-26 |
| 117. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
27.02 |
0.9682 |
-0.9814 |
143 |
2 |
26.29 |
2009-05-21 |
| 118. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
27.01 |
0.8890 |
-0.9024 |
199 |
1 |
27.01 |
2009-05-26 |
| 119. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
26.92 |
0.9514 |
-0.9622 |
237 |
1 |
26.92 |
2009-05-26 |
| 120. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
25.54 |
0.8142 |
-0.8295 |
187 |
1 |
25.54 |
2009-05-21 |
| 121. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
25.33 |
0.8821 |
-0.8965 |
176 |
1 |
25.33 |
2010-04-19 |
| 122. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
25.28 |
0.8961 |
-0.9087 |
189 |
1 |
25.28 |
2009-05-21 |
| 123. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
24.60 |
0.9213 |
-0.9317 |
295 |
1 |
24.60 |
2009-05-21 |
| 124. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
23.76 |
0.8809 |
-0.8960 |
127 |
1 |
23.76 |
2009-05-21 |