| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
83.35 |
1.0577 |
0.1497 |
247 |
5 |
74.83 |
2009-05-06 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
81.56 |
1.0797 |
0.0993 |
210 |
1 |
81.56 |
2009-05-06 |
| 3. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
81.53 |
1.0060 |
0.1734 |
171 |
3 |
78.54 |
2009-05-07 |
| 4. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.24 |
1.0396 |
0.1331 |
149 |
1 |
81.24 |
2009-05-06 |
| 5. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
79.51 |
1.0441 |
0.1119 |
252 |
3 |
77.19 |
2009-05-07 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
77.75 |
1.0567 |
0.0725 |
303 |
2 |
77.62 |
2009-05-05 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.13 |
1.0214 |
0.0964 |
269 |
1 |
77.13 |
2009-05-05 |
| 8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
76.36 |
1.0138 |
0.0940 |
231 |
1 |
76.36 |
2009-05-05 |
| 9. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
75.68 |
1.0829 |
0.0169 |
288 |
1 |
75.68 |
2009-05-06 |
| 10. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
75.39 |
0.9646 |
0.1285 |
264 |
3 |
70.95 |
2009-05-06 |
| 11. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
74.99 |
1.0788 |
0.0037 |
171 |
1 |
74.99 |
2009-05-07 |
| 12. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
74.54 |
1.0696 |
0.0084 |
226 |
1 |
74.54 |
2009-05-06 |
| 13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
74.23 |
1.0197 |
0.0544 |
226 |
1 |
74.23 |
2009-05-07 |
| 14. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
73.91 |
0.9805 |
0.0964 |
292 |
1 |
73.91 |
2009-05-06 |
| 15. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
73.79 |
0.9866 |
0.0802 |
218 |
1 |
73.79 |
2009-05-05 |
| 16. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
73.65 |
0.9682 |
0.0984 |
143 |
1 |
73.65 |
2009-05-06 |
| 17. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.43 |
0.9731 |
0.0796 |
129 |
2 |
68.90 |
2009-05-07 |
| 18. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
73.33 |
0.9841 |
0.0835 |
334 |
1 |
73.33 |
2009-05-06 |
| 19. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
73.26 |
1.0331 |
0.0274 |
234 |
1 |
73.26 |
2009-05-07 |
| 20. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
72.63 |
0.9532 |
0.0990 |
258 |
3 |
67.29 |
2009-05-07 |
| 21. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
72.51 |
0.9965 |
0.0504 |
168 |
1 |
72.51 |
2009-05-06 |
| 22. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
72.20 |
0.9740 |
0.0691 |
209 |
3 |
69.44 |
2009-05-06 |
| 23. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
72.10 |
1.0337 |
0.0114 |
214 |
1 |
72.10 |
2009-05-05 |
| 24. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
72.06 |
0.9894 |
0.0601 |
323 |
1 |
72.06 |
2009-05-04 |
| 25. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
72.04 |
1.0454 |
-0.0043 |
255 |
1 |
72.04 |
2009-05-06 |
| 26. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
71.94 |
1.0334 |
0.0034 |
131 |
1 |
71.94 |
2009-05-06 |
| 27. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
71.54 |
0.9946 |
0.0427 |
246 |
2 |
70.63 |
2009-05-05 |
| 28. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
71.53 |
1.0183 |
0.0134 |
191 |
1 |
71.53 |
2009-05-04 |
| 29. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
71.48 |
1.0496 |
-0.0137 |
314 |
1 |
71.48 |
2009-05-06 |
| 30. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
71.47 |
1.0213 |
0.0119 |
240 |
2 |
66.60 |
2009-05-06 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
71.36 |
0.9485 |
0.0880 |
236 |
1 |
71.36 |
2009-05-05 |
| 32. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
71.08 |
1.0521 |
-0.0262 |
171 |
1 |
71.08 |
2009-05-04 |
| 33. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
70.93 |
0.9570 |
0.0732 |
287 |
1 |
70.93 |
2009-05-05 |
| 34. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.84 |
1.0516 |
-0.0248 |
281 |
1 |
70.84 |
2009-05-05 |
| 35. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
70.83 |
0.9865 |
0.0416 |
276 |
1 |
70.83 |
2009-05-05 |
| 36. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
70.69 |
1.0340 |
-0.0038 |
406 |
1 |
70.69 |
2009-05-04 |
| 37. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
70.67 |
1.0029 |
0.0154 |
209 |
1 |
70.67 |
2009-05-05 |
| 38. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
70.58 |
1.0596 |
-0.0383 |
239 |
1 |
70.58 |
2009-05-05 |
| 39. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
70.49 |
1.0201 |
0.0060 |
375 |
2 |
69.85 |
2009-05-06 |
| 40. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
70.36 |
0.9811 |
0.0417 |
272 |
1 |
70.36 |
2009-05-04 |
| 41. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
70.24 |
0.9635 |
0.0603 |
389 |
2 |
67.13 |
2009-05-06 |
| 42. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
70.10 |
0.9411 |
0.0760 |
318 |
2 |
67.55 |
2009-05-05 |
| 43. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
70.02 |
0.9468 |
0.0679 |
276 |
2 |
69.81 |
2009-05-04 |
| 44. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.00 |
1.0498 |
-0.0397 |
180 |
1 |
70.00 |
2009-05-05 |
| 45. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
69.93 |
1.0528 |
-0.0440 |
201 |
1 |
69.93 |
2009-05-05 |
| 46. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
69.91 |
1.0023 |
0.0093 |
211 |
3 |
68.80 |
2009-05-06 |
| 47. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
69.73 |
0.9884 |
0.0217 |
233 |
1 |
69.73 |
2009-05-07 |
| 48. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
69.56 |
0.9653 |
0.0514 |
394 |
1 |
69.56 |
2009-05-04 |
| 49. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
69.42 |
1.0125 |
-0.0085 |
224 |
2 |
68.17 |
2009-05-07 |
| 50. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.10 |
1.0053 |
-0.0057 |
232 |
1 |
69.10 |
2009-05-05 |
| 51. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
69.07 |
1.0613 |
-0.0592 |
266 |
1 |
69.07 |
2009-05-04 |
| 52. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
68.87 |
1.0391 |
-0.0347 |
358 |
2 |
68.23 |
2009-05-06 |
| 53. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.77 |
1.0034 |
-0.0081 |
302 |
1 |
68.77 |
2009-05-04 |
| 54. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
68.51 |
0.9429 |
0.0514 |
287 |
1 |
68.51 |
2009-05-06 |
| 55. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
68.46 |
1.0796 |
-0.0922 |
129 |
1 |
68.46 |
2009-05-05 |
| 56. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
68.41 |
1.0201 |
-0.0354 |
172 |
1 |
68.41 |
2009-05-05 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
68.35 |
0.9851 |
0.0077 |
317 |
1 |
68.35 |
2009-05-04 |
| 58. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
68.35 |
0.9612 |
0.0294 |
256 |
1 |
68.35 |
2009-05-07 |
| 59. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
68.11 |
0.9614 |
0.0287 |
292 |
3 |
65.31 |
2009-05-06 |
| 60. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
68.10 |
0.9857 |
0.0003 |
293 |
1 |
68.10 |
2009-05-04 |
| 61. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
68.06 |
1.0462 |
-0.0659 |
184 |
1 |
68.06 |
2009-05-07 |
| 62. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
67.92 |
0.9233 |
0.0527 |
168 |
1 |
67.92 |
2009-05-04 |
| 63. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
67.91 |
1.0565 |
-0.0749 |
247 |
2 |
67.16 |
2009-05-07 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
67.90 |
0.9910 |
-0.0051 |
295 |
1 |
67.90 |
2009-05-05 |
| 65. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
67.78 |
1.0352 |
-0.0503 |
341 |
1 |
67.78 |
2009-05-06 |
| 66. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
67.74 |
1.0073 |
-0.0176 |
369 |
1 |
67.74 |
2009-05-06 |
| 67. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
67.67 |
0.9514 |
0.0296 |
237 |
2 |
65.88 |
2009-05-07 |
| 68. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
67.61 |
1.0487 |
-0.0739 |
231 |
2 |
67.52 |
2009-05-07 |
| 69. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
67.34 |
0.9309 |
0.0430 |
284 |
1 |
67.34 |
2009-05-06 |
| 70. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
67.25 |
1.0201 |
-0.0452 |
303 |
2 |
66.06 |
2009-05-05 |
| 71. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
67.22 |
0.9553 |
0.0259 |
430 |
1 |
67.22 |
2009-05-04 |
| 72. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
67.17 |
0.9464 |
0.0320 |
323 |
3 |
65.05 |
2009-05-04 |
| 73. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
66.92 |
0.9097 |
0.1015 |
464 |
1 |
66.92 |
2009-05-04 |
| 74. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
66.88 |
0.9697 |
-0.0004 |
249 |
1 |
66.88 |
2009-05-07 |
| 75. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
66.86 |
0.9997 |
-0.0273 |
382 |
1 |
66.86 |
2009-05-05 |
| 76. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
66.46 |
1.0025 |
-0.0387 |
336 |
1 |
66.46 |
2009-05-07 |
| 77. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.31 |
0.9795 |
-0.0188 |
308 |
1 |
66.31 |
2009-05-05 |
| 78. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
65.75 |
1.0296 |
-0.0707 |
437 |
1 |
65.75 |
2009-05-04 |
| 79. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
65.62 |
0.9372 |
0.0174 |
320 |
1 |
65.62 |
2009-05-04 |
| 80. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
65.43 |
0.9893 |
-0.0414 |
323 |
1 |
65.43 |
2009-05-04 |
| 81. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
65.40 |
0.9084 |
0.0430 |
404 |
1 |
65.40 |
2009-05-04 |
| 82. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
64.77 |
0.9266 |
0.0116 |
267 |
1 |
64.77 |
2009-05-04 |
| 83. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
64.74 |
0.9684 |
-0.0281 |
388 |
1 |
64.74 |
2009-05-03 |
| 84. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
64.62 |
1.0419 |
-0.1060 |
261 |
1 |
64.62 |
2009-05-05 |
| 85. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
64.54 |
0.9687 |
-0.0293 |
371 |
1 |
64.54 |
2009-05-05 |
| 86. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.48 |
0.9557 |
-0.0156 |
331 |
1 |
64.48 |
2009-05-03 |
| 87. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
63.85 |
0.9279 |
0.0032 |
317 |
2 |
62.81 |
2009-05-06 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.82 |
0.9852 |
-0.0608 |
264 |
1 |
63.82 |
2009-05-05 |
| 89. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
63.81 |
0.9005 |
0.0220 |
212 |
1 |
63.81 |
2009-05-07 |
| 90. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
63.79 |
0.8958 |
0.0325 |
322 |
1 |
63.79 |
2009-05-06 |
| 91. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
63.72 |
0.9723 |
-0.0459 |
364 |
1 |
63.72 |
2009-05-05 |
| 92. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
63.54 |
0.8981 |
0.0265 |
393 |
1 |
63.54 |
2009-05-07 |
| 93. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
63.34 |
0.9905 |
-0.0656 |
377 |
1 |
63.34 |
2009-05-07 |
| 94. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
63.28 |
1.0016 |
-0.0900 |
218 |
1 |
63.28 |
2009-05-05 |
| 95. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.11 |
0.8852 |
0.0306 |
201 |
2 |
61.33 |
2009-05-05 |
| 96. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
62.53 |
0.8916 |
0.0139 |
216 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-05-06 |
| 97. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
62.45 |
0.9844 |
-0.0756 |
293 |
1 |
62.45 |
2009-05-05 |
| 98. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
62.09 |
0.9398 |
-0.0318 |
419 |
1 |
62.09 |
2009-05-07 |
| 99. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
61.81 |
0.9846 |
-0.0911 |
281 |
1 |
61.81 |
2009-05-05 |
| 100. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
61.47 |
0.9619 |
-0.0671 |
393 |
1 |
61.47 |
2009-05-04 |
| 101. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
61.33 |
0.9330 |
-0.0388 |
360 |
1 |
61.33 |
2009-05-04 |
| 102. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
61.03 |
0.9430 |
-0.0671 |
211 |
1 |
61.03 |
2009-05-05 |
| 103. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
60.54 |
0.9500 |
-0.0718 |
362 |
1 |
60.54 |
2009-05-03 |
| 104. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
60.51 |
0.8933 |
-0.0114 |
363 |
1 |
60.51 |
2009-05-06 |
| 105. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
60.26 |
0.8878 |
-0.0161 |
346 |
1 |
60.26 |
2009-05-05 |
| 106. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
59.59 |
0.9820 |
-0.1172 |
267 |
1 |
59.59 |
2009-05-03 |
| 107. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
57.55 |
0.9376 |
-0.1001 |
367 |
1 |
57.55 |
2009-05-05 |
| 108. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
56.72 |
0.9212 |
-0.0980 |
323 |
1 |
56.72 |
2009-05-05 |
| 109. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
56.52 |
0.9772 |
-0.1638 |
217 |
1 |
56.52 |
2009-05-05 |
| 110. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
54.48 |
0.8770 |
-0.0868 |
300 |
1 |
54.48 |
2009-05-07 |
| 111. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.74 |
1.0398 |
-0.3623 |
110 |
1 |
47.74 |
2009-05-05 |
| 112. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.04 |
0.9734 |
-0.3694 |
289 |
1 |
42.04 |
2009-05-05 |