| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
43.31 |
0.9325 |
0.3649 |
156 |
3 |
38.84 |
2008-11-04 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
39.62 |
1.1018 |
0.0837 |
220 |
1 |
39.62 |
2008-10-23 |
| 3. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
39.61 |
0.9316 |
0.2660 |
287 |
2 |
36.01 |
2008-11-03 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
39.04 |
1.0797 |
0.0889 |
210 |
2 |
36.47 |
2008-11-03 |
| 5. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
38.69 |
1.0214 |
0.1368 |
166 |
1 |
38.69 |
2008-10-28 |
| 6. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
38.65 |
1.0487 |
0.1087 |
231 |
3 |
37.18 |
2008-11-04 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.64 |
1.0711 |
0.0859 |
213 |
2 |
38.14 |
2008-10-27 |
| 8. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
38.59 |
1.0993 |
0.0592 |
265 |
1 |
38.59 |
2008-10-27 |
| 9. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
38.38 |
1.0053 |
0.1469 |
232 |
1 |
38.38 |
2008-11-03 |
| 10. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
37.76 |
1.0787 |
0.0553 |
237 |
1 |
37.76 |
2008-10-28 |
| 11. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.36 |
0.9633 |
0.1621 |
304 |
1 |
37.36 |
2008-11-03 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
37.25 |
1.0214 |
0.0967 |
269 |
1 |
37.25 |
2008-11-03 |
| 13. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
36.26 |
0.9772 |
0.1090 |
217 |
1 |
36.26 |
2008-10-27 |
| 14. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
36.23 |
1.0334 |
0.0489 |
131 |
2 |
32.40 |
2008-11-04 |
| 15. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
36.11 |
1.0528 |
0.0273 |
201 |
2 |
34.95 |
2008-10-29 |
| 16. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
36.02 |
1.0523 |
0.0258 |
256 |
1 |
36.02 |
2008-11-04 |
| 17. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
35.97 |
0.9863 |
0.0990 |
339 |
2 |
34.33 |
2008-10-29 |
| 18. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
35.91 |
0.8892 |
0.1959 |
207 |
1 |
35.91 |
2008-10-23 |
| 19. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
35.73 |
0.8956 |
0.1806 |
217 |
3 |
34.35 |
2008-10-29 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
35.67 |
1.0498 |
0.0172 |
180 |
1 |
35.67 |
2008-10-23 |
| 21. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
35.47 |
1.0714 |
-0.0146 |
129 |
1 |
35.47 |
2008-10-28 |
| 22. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
35.37 |
1.0666 |
-0.0039 |
297 |
1 |
35.37 |
2008-10-29 |
| 23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
35.09 |
1.0331 |
0.0188 |
234 |
1 |
35.09 |
2008-11-03 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
35.03 |
1.0013 |
0.0501 |
273 |
1 |
35.03 |
2008-11-03 |
| 25. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
35.01 |
0.8791 |
0.1717 |
190 |
1 |
35.01 |
2008-10-24 |
| 26. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.79 |
0.9966 |
0.0478 |
259 |
1 |
34.79 |
2008-10-23 |
| 27. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
34.70 |
1.0023 |
0.0381 |
211 |
1 |
34.70 |
2008-10-29 |
| 28. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
34.66 |
1.0389 |
0.0039 |
318 |
1 |
34.66 |
2008-11-04 |
| 29. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
34.62 |
1.0251 |
0.0125 |
261 |
1 |
34.62 |
2008-10-23 |
| 30. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
34.49 |
0.9763 |
0.0591 |
289 |
2 |
33.19 |
2008-11-05 |
| 31. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
34.44 |
1.0426 |
-0.0089 |
323 |
2 |
33.25 |
2008-10-29 |
| 32. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.35 |
1.0596 |
-0.0301 |
239 |
1 |
34.35 |
2008-10-27 |
| 33. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
34.29 |
1.0213 |
0.0053 |
240 |
1 |
34.29 |
2008-10-23 |
| 34. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
34.28 |
0.8037 |
0.2285 |
148 |
1 |
34.28 |
2008-10-28 |
| 35. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
34.27 |
0.9691 |
0.0596 |
223 |
2 |
29.36 |
2008-10-24 |
| 36. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
34.26 |
1.0390 |
-0.0139 |
205 |
2 |
30.01 |
2008-10-29 |
| 37. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.23 |
0.9897 |
0.0360 |
274 |
1 |
34.23 |
2008-10-28 |
| 38. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
33.97 |
0.9048 |
0.1199 |
271 |
2 |
32.04 |
2008-10-24 |
| 39. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
33.95 |
0.9532 |
0.0650 |
258 |
1 |
33.95 |
2008-10-27 |
| 40. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.93 |
0.9251 |
0.0988 |
177 |
1 |
33.93 |
2008-10-27 |
| 41. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.91 |
0.9884 |
0.0290 |
233 |
1 |
33.91 |
2008-10-29 |
| 42. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
33.75 |
1.0252 |
-0.0183 |
176 |
1 |
33.75 |
2008-10-23 |
| 43. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
33.69 |
0.9567 |
0.0547 |
273 |
1 |
33.69 |
2008-10-28 |
| 44. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
33.60 |
0.9811 |
0.0304 |
272 |
2 |
32.47 |
2008-10-28 |
| 45. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
33.52 |
1.0034 |
0.0015 |
302 |
1 |
33.52 |
2008-11-04 |
| 46. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
33.20 |
1.0829 |
-0.0847 |
288 |
1 |
33.20 |
2008-10-28 |
| 47. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
33.12 |
1.0577 |
-0.0670 |
247 |
1 |
33.12 |
2008-10-29 |
| 48. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
32.82 |
0.9740 |
0.0070 |
209 |
1 |
32.82 |
2008-10-27 |
| 49. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
32.72 |
0.9886 |
-0.0040 |
220 |
1 |
32.72 |
2008-10-28 |
| 50. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
32.65 |
0.9342 |
0.0492 |
434 |
2 |
31.64 |
2008-10-23 |
| 51. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.61 |
0.9795 |
-0.0008 |
308 |
2 |
31.58 |
2008-10-27 |
| 52. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
32.59 |
0.9786 |
-0.0057 |
193 |
1 |
32.59 |
2008-10-28 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
32.47 |
0.8792 |
0.1046 |
296 |
1 |
32.47 |
2008-11-04 |
| 54. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.29 |
0.9513 |
0.0215 |
354 |
1 |
32.29 |
2008-10-27 |
| 55. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.27 |
0.9965 |
-0.0329 |
168 |
1 |
32.27 |
2008-10-28 |
| 56. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
32.25 |
0.8941 |
0.0757 |
216 |
1 |
32.25 |
2008-10-24 |
| 57. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
32.15 |
0.9226 |
0.0459 |
177 |
1 |
32.15 |
2008-10-27 |
| 58. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
32.02 |
1.0063 |
-0.0451 |
371 |
1 |
32.02 |
2008-10-27 |
| 59. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
32.00 |
0.9697 |
-0.0093 |
249 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-11-03 |
| 60. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
31.92 |
0.9084 |
0.0511 |
300 |
3 |
30.72 |
2008-10-28 |
| 61. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
31.90 |
0.9884 |
-0.0270 |
262 |
2 |
31.79 |
2008-11-04 |
| 62. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
31.88 |
0.8602 |
0.0941 |
206 |
3 |
28.94 |
2008-11-03 |
| 63. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
31.83 |
0.8653 |
0.1010 |
255 |
1 |
31.83 |
2008-10-23 |
| 64. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
31.66 |
0.9286 |
0.0202 |
194 |
2 |
30.28 |
2008-11-04 |
| 65. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
31.49 |
0.9756 |
-0.0322 |
229 |
2 |
29.56 |
2008-10-29 |
| 66. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
31.44 |
0.9936 |
-0.0508 |
311 |
1 |
31.44 |
2008-11-05 |
| 67. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
31.35 |
0.8615 |
0.0790 |
110 |
1 |
31.35 |
2008-10-28 |
| 68. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.28 |
0.8709 |
0.0753 |
202 |
1 |
31.28 |
2008-10-23 |
| 69. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
31.09 |
0.8152 |
0.1175 |
163 |
1 |
31.09 |
2008-10-23 |
| 70. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
31.02 |
0.9820 |
-0.0488 |
267 |
1 |
31.02 |
2008-10-23 |
| 71. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
30.94 |
0.8077 |
0.1183 |
167 |
1 |
30.94 |
2008-10-27 |
| 72. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.83 |
0.9212 |
0.0067 |
323 |
1 |
30.83 |
2008-10-24 |
| 73. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
30.73 |
0.8153 |
0.1110 |
200 |
2 |
29.57 |
2008-10-29 |
| 74. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
30.69 |
0.9365 |
-0.0148 |
248 |
1 |
30.69 |
2008-10-27 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
30.62 |
0.9851 |
-0.0647 |
317 |
2 |
30.16 |
2008-10-29 |
| 76. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
30.56 |
0.8154 |
0.1028 |
193 |
1 |
30.56 |
2008-10-28 |
| 77. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
30.55 |
0.8916 |
0.0248 |
216 |
1 |
30.55 |
2008-10-28 |
| 78. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
30.46 |
0.8442 |
0.0731 |
265 |
1 |
30.46 |
2008-11-04 |
| 79. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
30.40 |
1.0025 |
-0.0901 |
336 |
1 |
30.40 |
2008-10-28 |
| 80. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.36 |
0.8890 |
0.0177 |
199 |
1 |
30.36 |
2008-10-28 |
| 81. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
30.29 |
0.9351 |
-0.0324 |
190 |
1 |
30.29 |
2008-11-05 |
| 82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
30.25 |
0.8910 |
0.0177 |
150 |
1 |
30.25 |
2008-10-28 |
| 83. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
30.05 |
0.9257 |
-0.0193 |
317 |
1 |
30.05 |
2008-10-28 |
| 84. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
29.96 |
0.9649 |
-0.0679 |
193 |
1 |
29.96 |
2008-10-28 |
| 85. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
29.96 |
0.8595 |
0.0404 |
242 |
1 |
29.96 |
2008-10-23 |
| 86. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
29.94 |
0.9339 |
-0.0379 |
310 |
1 |
29.94 |
2008-10-24 |
| 87. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
29.91 |
0.8899 |
0.0178 |
293 |
1 |
29.91 |
2008-10-23 |
| 88. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
29.87 |
0.9485 |
-0.0514 |
236 |
2 |
29.72 |
2008-10-29 |
| 89. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.85 |
0.9941 |
-0.1017 |
217 |
1 |
29.85 |
2008-11-05 |
| 90. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.61 |
0.8809 |
0.0044 |
127 |
1 |
29.61 |
2008-11-05 |
| 91. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
29.55 |
0.9005 |
-0.0163 |
212 |
1 |
29.55 |
2008-10-23 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
29.51 |
0.9309 |
-0.0484 |
284 |
1 |
29.51 |
2008-10-27 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
29.27 |
0.8810 |
-0.0030 |
282 |
1 |
29.27 |
2008-11-03 |
| 94. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
29.23 |
0.9578 |
-0.0824 |
281 |
1 |
29.23 |
2008-10-28 |
| 95. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
28.66 |
1.0004 |
-0.1479 |
212 |
2 |
28.49 |
2008-10-29 |
| 96. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
28.36 |
0.8958 |
-0.0417 |
322 |
1 |
28.36 |
2008-10-29 |
| 97. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
28.12 |
0.8573 |
-0.0115 |
270 |
1 |
28.12 |
2008-10-27 |
| 98. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
28.01 |
0.8919 |
-0.0548 |
205 |
1 |
28.01 |
2008-10-23 |
| 99. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
27.70 |
0.8382 |
-0.0083 |
268 |
2 |
26.82 |
2008-11-03 |
| 100. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
27.44 |
0.9125 |
-0.0892 |
308 |
1 |
27.44 |
2008-10-27 |
| 101. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.28 |
0.8961 |
-0.0829 |
189 |
1 |
27.28 |
2008-10-27 |
| 102. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.70 |
0.8996 |
-0.1061 |
192 |
1 |
26.70 |
2008-10-24 |
| 103. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
25.08 |
0.9682 |
-0.2204 |
143 |
1 |
25.08 |
2008-10-27 |