| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
45.88 |
0.9263 |
0.4543 |
188 |
1 |
45.88 |
2010-01-01 |
| 2. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
45.61 |
0.9820 |
0.3871 |
274 |
1 |
45.61 |
2010-01-01 |
| 3. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
42.20 |
1.0419 |
0.2237 |
261 |
2 |
36.23 |
2009-12-26 |
| 4. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
41.71 |
1.0203 |
0.2339 |
261 |
2 |
38.47 |
2009-12-26 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.41 |
0.9316 |
0.3161 |
287 |
1 |
41.41 |
2008-12-12 |
| 6. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
40.62 |
1.0767 |
0.1388 |
212 |
1 |
40.62 |
2009-12-26 |
| 7. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
40.34 |
0.8348 |
0.3807 |
219 |
1 |
40.34 |
2009-12-26 |
| 8. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
39.85 |
0.8544 |
0.3404 |
170 |
1 |
39.85 |
2008-12-05 |
| 9. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
39.82 |
0.9729 |
0.2208 |
255 |
4 |
37.09 |
2009-01-20 |
| 10. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
39.72 |
0.9724 |
0.2217 |
237 |
3 |
36.20 |
2009-03-07 |
| 11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.65 |
0.9257 |
0.2681 |
317 |
1 |
39.65 |
2009-12-26 |
| 12. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.48 |
0.8070 |
0.3731 |
167 |
1 |
39.48 |
2009-12-29 |
| 13. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.14 |
1.0292 |
0.1424 |
262 |
2 |
36.08 |
2010-01-01 |
| 14. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
39.00 |
1.0346 |
0.1761 |
244 |
1 |
39.00 |
2009-12-26 |
| 15. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.74 |
1.0197 |
0.1382 |
226 |
2 |
33.75 |
2009-12-26 |
| 16. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
38.73 |
0.9941 |
0.1640 |
217 |
2 |
32.16 |
2008-12-12 |
| 17. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
38.62 |
1.0013 |
0.1549 |
273 |
1 |
38.62 |
2009-01-20 |
| 18. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
38.38 |
1.0799 |
0.0663 |
243 |
1 |
38.38 |
2009-01-20 |
| 19. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
37.98 |
0.8936 |
0.2426 |
127 |
1 |
37.98 |
2008-12-05 |
| 20. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
37.59 |
0.8867 |
0.2451 |
163 |
1 |
37.59 |
2008-12-06 |
| 21. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
37.47 |
0.9966 |
0.1251 |
259 |
2 |
33.95 |
2009-03-07 |
| 22. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.29 |
0.9964 |
0.1205 |
203 |
1 |
37.29 |
2008-12-07 |
| 23. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
37.23 |
1.0496 |
0.0647 |
314 |
1 |
37.23 |
2009-12-26 |
| 24. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.01 |
0.9740 |
0.1303 |
209 |
2 |
32.71 |
2010-01-01 |
| 25. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
36.72 |
0.9213 |
0.1788 |
295 |
1 |
36.72 |
2010-01-15 |
| 26. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
36.69 |
0.9726 |
0.1197 |
154 |
1 |
36.69 |
2009-12-26 |
| 27. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
36.58 |
1.0596 |
0.0336 |
239 |
2 |
33.25 |
2008-12-08 |
| 28. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
36.43 |
0.8996 |
0.1857 |
192 |
1 |
36.43 |
2010-01-01 |
| 29. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
36.31 |
1.0120 |
0.0744 |
290 |
1 |
36.31 |
2009-03-07 |
| 30. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
36.10 |
0.9852 |
0.0959 |
264 |
1 |
36.10 |
2009-12-26 |
| 31. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.02 |
1.0521 |
0.0215 |
171 |
1 |
36.02 |
2009-12-29 |
| 32. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.89 |
0.9251 |
0.1543 |
177 |
1 |
35.89 |
2008-12-12 |
| 33. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.88 |
0.9682 |
0.1040 |
143 |
4 |
31.35 |
2008-12-09 |
| 34. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
35.86 |
1.0565 |
0.0144 |
247 |
4 |
34.02 |
2009-01-30 |
| 35. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
35.49 |
0.9325 |
0.1231 |
156 |
1 |
35.49 |
2008-12-08 |
| 36. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
35.43 |
1.0252 |
0.0288 |
176 |
2 |
32.14 |
2009-03-07 |
| 37. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
35.34 |
0.9772 |
0.0771 |
217 |
3 |
31.93 |
2009-12-26 |
| 38. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
35.33 |
1.0095 |
0.0469 |
316 |
1 |
35.33 |
2009-01-20 |
| 39. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
35.12 |
0.9527 |
0.0983 |
251 |
1 |
35.12 |
2008-12-13 |
| 40. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
35.02 |
0.9266 |
0.1216 |
267 |
1 |
35.02 |
2008-12-06 |
| 41. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
34.99 |
0.9164 |
0.1356 |
305 |
1 |
34.99 |
2009-12-26 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
34.92 |
1.0063 |
0.0391 |
371 |
1 |
34.92 |
2009-12-26 |
| 43. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
34.87 |
0.8941 |
0.1514 |
216 |
2 |
31.57 |
2009-01-20 |
| 44. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
34.83 |
0.8190 |
0.2303 |
135 |
1 |
34.83 |
2008-12-04 |
| 45. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
34.75 |
0.9758 |
0.0648 |
314 |
2 |
31.68 |
2008-12-07 |
| 46. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
34.58 |
1.0090 |
0.0695 |
282 |
1 |
34.58 |
2009-12-26 |
| 47. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
34.43 |
1.0218 |
0.0055 |
268 |
1 |
34.43 |
2009-12-26 |
| 48. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.35 |
1.0165 |
0.0152 |
392 |
1 |
34.35 |
2009-03-07 |
| 49. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
34.34 |
1.1016 |
-0.0740 |
233 |
3 |
32.30 |
2008-12-08 |
| 50. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
34.28 |
1.0349 |
-0.0099 |
234 |
1 |
34.28 |
2008-12-07 |
| 51. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
34.17 |
0.8745 |
0.1456 |
169 |
1 |
34.17 |
2008-12-05 |
| 52. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
34.07 |
0.9567 |
0.0624 |
273 |
1 |
34.07 |
2008-12-09 |
| 53. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.06 |
0.8533 |
0.1668 |
232 |
2 |
31.18 |
2009-01-20 |
| 54. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
34.03 |
0.9461 |
0.0718 |
276 |
1 |
34.03 |
2010-01-21 |
| 55. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.57 |
0.8295 |
0.1764 |
209 |
1 |
33.57 |
2008-12-06 |
| 56. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
32.84 |
0.8739 |
0.1041 |
136 |
1 |
32.84 |
2008-12-07 |
| 57. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
32.82 |
0.9811 |
0.0030 |
272 |
1 |
32.82 |
2008-12-08 |
| 58. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
32.82 |
0.9633 |
0.0203 |
304 |
1 |
32.82 |
2008-12-06 |
| 59. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
32.69 |
1.0023 |
-0.0267 |
211 |
2 |
31.63 |
2008-12-08 |
| 60. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
32.61 |
0.9289 |
0.0439 |
204 |
1 |
32.61 |
2008-12-08 |
| 61. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
32.49 |
1.0214 |
-0.0517 |
269 |
1 |
32.49 |
2008-12-09 |
| 62. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
32.47 |
1.0498 |
-0.0838 |
180 |
2 |
29.17 |
2009-03-07 |
| 63. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
32.42 |
1.0131 |
-0.0477 |
225 |
2 |
30.96 |
2009-01-07 |
| 64. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.94 |
0.8145 |
0.1426 |
115 |
1 |
31.94 |
2008-12-05 |
| 65. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
31.80 |
1.0251 |
-0.0768 |
261 |
1 |
31.80 |
2008-12-07 |
| 66. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
31.67 |
0.9266 |
0.0218 |
278 |
1 |
31.67 |
2008-12-04 |
| 67. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
31.63 |
1.0696 |
-0.1277 |
226 |
1 |
31.63 |
2008-12-06 |
| 68. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
31.42 |
1.0334 |
-0.1009 |
131 |
1 |
31.42 |
2008-12-12 |
| 69. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
31.37 |
0.9851 |
-0.0454 |
317 |
1 |
31.37 |
2009-01-20 |
| 70. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
31.30 |
1.0016 |
-0.0708 |
218 |
1 |
31.30 |
2008-12-11 |
| 71. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
31.03 |
0.9846 |
-0.0585 |
281 |
4 |
27.59 |
2009-03-07 |
| 72. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
31.02 |
0.8811 |
0.0504 |
239 |
3 |
28.24 |
2008-12-05 |
| 73. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
30.82 |
1.0515 |
-0.1326 |
250 |
1 |
30.82 |
2009-03-12 |
| 74. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
30.74 |
0.8919 |
0.0248 |
205 |
2 |
29.14 |
2008-12-08 |
| 75. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
30.71 |
1.0261 |
-0.1105 |
273 |
1 |
30.71 |
2009-03-07 |
| 76. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
30.41 |
1.0711 |
-0.1678 |
213 |
1 |
30.41 |
2008-12-06 |
| 77. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
30.38 |
0.9275 |
-0.0233 |
211 |
1 |
30.38 |
2008-12-05 |
| 78. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
30.38 |
0.9084 |
0.0009 |
300 |
1 |
30.38 |
2008-12-06 |
| 79. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
30.30 |
0.9196 |
-0.0128 |
148 |
1 |
30.30 |
2008-12-05 |
| 80. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
30.23 |
0.8852 |
0.0182 |
158 |
1 |
30.23 |
2008-12-05 |
| 81. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
30.21 |
0.9514 |
-0.0488 |
237 |
1 |
30.21 |
2008-12-08 |
| 82. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
30.11 |
0.9221 |
-0.0243 |
244 |
2 |
28.02 |
2008-12-09 |
| 83. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
30.02 |
0.8956 |
0.0036 |
217 |
1 |
30.02 |
2008-12-08 |
| 84. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.95 |
0.9168 |
-0.0210 |
240 |
1 |
29.95 |
2008-12-05 |
| 85. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
29.70 |
0.9866 |
-0.1034 |
218 |
1 |
29.70 |
2008-12-08 |
| 86. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
29.61 |
0.9756 |
-0.0927 |
229 |
1 |
29.61 |
2008-12-12 |
| 87. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
29.52 |
1.0528 |
-0.1764 |
201 |
2 |
25.93 |
2008-12-04 |
| 88. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.46 |
0.9731 |
-0.1060 |
129 |
1 |
29.46 |
2008-12-07 |
| 89. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
29.39 |
1.0263 |
-0.1496 |
267 |
4 |
26.86 |
2008-12-04 |
| 90. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
29.10 |
0.8747 |
-0.0105 |
201 |
1 |
29.10 |
2008-12-04 |
| 91. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
29.04 |
0.9365 |
-0.0682 |
248 |
1 |
29.04 |
2009-03-07 |
| 92. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
28.94 |
1.0004 |
-0.1426 |
212 |
1 |
28.94 |
2008-12-12 |
| 93. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.93 |
0.9907 |
-0.1287 |
211 |
2 |
27.95 |
2008-12-07 |
| 94. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
28.56 |
0.8826 |
-0.0288 |
296 |
1 |
28.56 |
2008-12-07 |
| 95. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
28.55 |
0.9005 |
-0.0499 |
212 |
1 |
28.55 |
2008-12-12 |
| 96. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
28.49 |
0.7375 |
0.1159 |
148 |
1 |
28.49 |
2008-12-05 |
| 97. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
28.42 |
0.9260 |
-0.0675 |
243 |
1 |
28.42 |
2008-12-04 |
| 98. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
28.25 |
0.8791 |
-0.0370 |
190 |
1 |
28.25 |
2008-12-12 |
| 99. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
28.08 |
0.8595 |
-0.0199 |
242 |
1 |
28.08 |
2008-12-12 |
| 100. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
28.02 |
0.9691 |
-0.1336 |
223 |
1 |
28.02 |
2008-12-04 |
| 101. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
27.68 |
1.0462 |
-0.2266 |
184 |
1 |
27.68 |
2008-12-18 |
| 102. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
27.65 |
0.9780 |
-0.1522 |
337 |
1 |
27.65 |
2009-03-07 |
| 103. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
27.18 |
1.0385 |
-0.2297 |
230 |
1 |
27.18 |
2008-12-06 |
| 104. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
27.09 |
0.8573 |
-0.0459 |
270 |
2 |
25.58 |
2008-12-07 |
| 105. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
27.07 |
0.8792 |
-0.0627 |
296 |
1 |
27.07 |
2008-12-08 |
| 106. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
26.94 |
1.0138 |
-0.2109 |
231 |
1 |
26.94 |
2008-12-07 |
| 107. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
26.80 |
0.8154 |
-0.0146 |
193 |
1 |
26.80 |
2008-12-05 |
| 108. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
26.10 |
0.8709 |
-0.0852 |
202 |
1 |
26.10 |
2008-12-04 |
| 109. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
25.79 |
0.9786 |
-0.2154 |
193 |
1 |
25.79 |
2008-12-04 |
| 110. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
25.70 |
0.9697 |
-0.2038 |
249 |
1 |
25.70 |
2008-12-06 |
| 111. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.20 |
0.9351 |
-0.1900 |
190 |
1 |
25.20 |
2008-12-05 |
| 112. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
25.09 |
0.8422 |
-0.0933 |
164 |
1 |
25.09 |
2008-12-05 |
| 113. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
24.94 |
0.9468 |
-0.2046 |
276 |
1 |
24.94 |
2008-12-08 |
| 114. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
24.76 |
0.7690 |
-0.0302 |
142 |
1 |
24.76 |
2008-12-06 |
| 115. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
24.49 |
0.7352 |
-0.0062 |
106 |
1 |
24.49 |
2008-12-04 |
| 116. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
21.80 |
0.8118 |
-0.1593 |
109 |
1 |
21.80 |
2008-12-05 |