| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
99.80 |
1.0796 |
0.1308 |
129 |
1 |
99.80 |
2009-08-20 |
| 2. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
95.51 |
1.0907 |
0.0744 |
303 |
1 |
95.51 |
2009-08-30 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
93.81 |
1.0829 |
0.0601 |
288 |
1 |
93.81 |
2009-08-30 |
| 4. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
93.59 |
0.9884 |
0.1496 |
233 |
2 |
84.02 |
2009-09-22 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
93.33 |
1.1068 |
0.0691 |
393 |
1 |
93.33 |
2009-09-16 |
| 6. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
93.23 |
1.0412 |
0.0926 |
225 |
1 |
93.23 |
2009-08-29 |
| 7. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
93.18 |
1.0534 |
0.0825 |
357 |
1 |
93.18 |
2009-09-08 |
| 8. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
93.03 |
0.9682 |
0.1618 |
143 |
2 |
88.30 |
2009-08-18 |
| 9. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
92.45 |
1.0528 |
0.0670 |
201 |
2 |
84.87 |
2009-09-07 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
92.43 |
1.0444 |
0.0735 |
197 |
3 |
84.92 |
2009-09-13 |
| 11. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
91.65 |
1.0993 |
0.0135 |
265 |
3 |
85.89 |
2009-09-04 |
| 12. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
91.64 |
1.0120 |
0.1020 |
290 |
2 |
84.38 |
2009-08-27 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
89.93 |
1.0714 |
0.0135 |
129 |
1 |
89.93 |
2009-08-20 |
| 14. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
89.31 |
1.0025 |
0.0835 |
256 |
2 |
86.09 |
2009-09-12 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
89.21 |
1.0515 |
0.0315 |
250 |
1 |
89.21 |
2009-09-20 |
| 16. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
88.41 |
1.0516 |
0.0230 |
281 |
1 |
88.41 |
2009-09-23 |
| 17. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
88.27 |
1.0454 |
0.0242 |
255 |
1 |
88.27 |
2009-08-19 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
87.90 |
1.0138 |
0.0546 |
231 |
2 |
85.55 |
2009-08-29 |
| 19. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
87.88 |
1.0331 |
0.0332 |
234 |
1 |
87.88 |
2009-08-20 |
| 20. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
87.83 |
0.9941 |
0.0714 |
217 |
1 |
87.83 |
2009-08-20 |
| 21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
87.80 |
1.0390 |
0.0247 |
205 |
2 |
85.64 |
2009-09-20 |
| 22. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
87.79 |
1.0060 |
0.0567 |
171 |
1 |
87.79 |
2009-08-18 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
87.29 |
1.0567 |
0.0052 |
303 |
1 |
87.29 |
2009-08-27 |
| 24. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
87.09 |
0.9601 |
0.1034 |
308 |
1 |
87.09 |
2009-09-16 |
| 25. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
86.90 |
0.9907 |
0.0642 |
211 |
1 |
86.90 |
2009-08-20 |
| 26. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
86.24 |
0.9820 |
0.0665 |
274 |
3 |
82.23 |
2009-09-23 |
| 27. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
86.24 |
0.9527 |
0.0955 |
251 |
2 |
84.90 |
2009-09-04 |
| 28. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
85.97 |
1.0613 |
-0.0113 |
456 |
2 |
83.77 |
2009-09-08 |
| 29. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
85.96 |
1.0385 |
0.0046 |
230 |
2 |
84.58 |
2009-09-13 |
| 30. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
85.88 |
1.0711 |
-0.0323 |
213 |
1 |
85.88 |
2009-09-10 |
| 31. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
85.74 |
1.0391 |
0.0092 |
358 |
2 |
84.76 |
2009-08-30 |
| 32. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
85.53 |
1.0218 |
0.0149 |
268 |
1 |
85.53 |
2009-09-22 |
| 33. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
85.48 |
0.9942 |
0.0536 |
483 |
2 |
79.65 |
2009-08-30 |
| 34. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
85.14 |
1.0316 |
0.0070 |
333 |
2 |
80.19 |
2009-08-17 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
85.05 |
0.9897 |
0.0417 |
274 |
1 |
85.05 |
2009-08-20 |
| 36. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
85.05 |
1.0487 |
-0.0200 |
231 |
1 |
85.05 |
2009-08-30 |
| 37. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
84.94 |
0.9351 |
0.0917 |
190 |
1 |
84.94 |
2009-09-20 |
| 38. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
84.93 |
0.9786 |
0.0531 |
235 |
1 |
84.93 |
2009-09-07 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
84.75 |
1.0417 |
-0.0142 |
253 |
1 |
84.75 |
2009-08-29 |
| 40. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
84.70 |
0.9649 |
0.0634 |
193 |
1 |
84.70 |
2009-09-22 |
| 41. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
84.61 |
1.0165 |
0.0157 |
392 |
2 |
81.79 |
2009-08-20 |
| 42. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
84.41 |
0.9411 |
0.0855 |
318 |
2 |
80.29 |
2009-09-07 |
| 43. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
84.19 |
0.9266 |
0.0966 |
267 |
2 |
79.28 |
2009-09-07 |
| 44. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
84.19 |
0.9532 |
0.0686 |
258 |
2 |
83.06 |
2009-08-17 |
| 45. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
84.02 |
1.0099 |
0.0082 |
207 |
1 |
84.02 |
2009-08-18 |
| 46. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
83.76 |
1.0109 |
0.0077 |
276 |
2 |
78.74 |
2009-08-20 |
| 47. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
83.71 |
1.0669 |
-0.0174 |
286 |
1 |
83.71 |
2009-08-29 |
| 48. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
83.39 |
0.9612 |
0.0521 |
256 |
1 |
83.39 |
2009-08-29 |
| 49. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
83.29 |
0.9691 |
0.0424 |
223 |
2 |
79.65 |
2009-08-30 |
| 50. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
83.00 |
1.0347 |
-0.0008 |
550 |
1 |
83.00 |
2009-09-13 |
| 51. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
82.88 |
0.9785 |
0.0317 |
335 |
2 |
82.70 |
2009-09-15 |
| 52. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
82.88 |
1.0429 |
-0.0373 |
259 |
2 |
82.86 |
2009-09-20 |
| 53. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
82.74 |
1.0944 |
-0.0443 |
308 |
1 |
82.74 |
2009-08-29 |
| 54. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
82.51 |
1.0254 |
0.0178 |
217 |
1 |
82.51 |
2009-09-07 |
| 55. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
82.37 |
0.9426 |
0.0612 |
317 |
2 |
81.05 |
2009-09-07 |
| 56. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
82.34 |
0.9578 |
0.0421 |
281 |
1 |
82.34 |
2009-09-23 |
| 57. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
81.95 |
1.0168 |
-0.0198 |
271 |
1 |
81.95 |
2009-09-20 |
| 58. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
81.85 |
0.9709 |
0.0644 |
397 |
2 |
76.86 |
2009-08-20 |
| 59. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
81.70 |
1.0016 |
-0.0137 |
218 |
1 |
81.70 |
2009-09-23 |
| 60. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.30 |
0.9899 |
-0.0070 |
163 |
1 |
81.30 |
2009-09-23 |
| 61. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
81.26 |
1.0795 |
-0.0619 |
226 |
1 |
81.26 |
2009-08-29 |
| 62. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
81.21 |
0.9798 |
0.0009 |
199 |
1 |
81.21 |
2009-08-30 |
| 63. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
80.90 |
1.0252 |
-0.0491 |
176 |
2 |
80.17 |
2009-08-23 |
| 64. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
80.42 |
0.9646 |
0.0112 |
264 |
2 |
74.41 |
2009-08-24 |
| 65. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
80.17 |
1.0797 |
-0.1117 |
210 |
1 |
80.17 |
2009-08-17 |
| 66. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
80.04 |
0.9597 |
0.0164 |
347 |
1 |
80.04 |
2009-09-13 |
| 67. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
79.84 |
1.0197 |
-0.0530 |
226 |
1 |
79.84 |
2009-08-23 |
| 68. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
79.27 |
1.0013 |
-0.0396 |
273 |
1 |
79.27 |
2009-09-13 |
| 69. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
79.17 |
0.9910 |
-0.0278 |
295 |
2 |
77.64 |
2009-08-23 |
| 70. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.88 |
1.0025 |
-0.0438 |
336 |
2 |
76.39 |
2009-08-30 |
| 71. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
78.79 |
0.9330 |
0.0303 |
360 |
3 |
75.03 |
2009-08-20 |
| 72. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
78.76 |
1.0125 |
-0.0585 |
224 |
1 |
78.76 |
2009-08-20 |
| 73. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
78.72 |
0.9278 |
0.0307 |
295 |
2 |
74.41 |
2009-08-17 |
| 74. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
78.49 |
1.0885 |
-0.1322 |
315 |
1 |
78.49 |
2009-09-13 |
| 75. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
77.82 |
0.9164 |
0.0331 |
305 |
1 |
77.82 |
2009-08-29 |
| 76. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
77.69 |
0.9851 |
-0.0398 |
317 |
1 |
77.69 |
2009-08-16 |
| 77. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
77.51 |
0.9894 |
-0.0441 |
323 |
1 |
77.51 |
2009-08-17 |
| 78. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
77.49 |
0.9485 |
-0.0054 |
291 |
1 |
77.49 |
2009-08-23 |
| 79. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
77.38 |
0.9233 |
0.0077 |
168 |
1 |
77.38 |
2009-09-16 |
| 80. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
77.24 |
0.9089 |
0.0326 |
342 |
1 |
77.24 |
2009-09-13 |
| 81. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
77.07 |
1.0173 |
-0.0376 |
268 |
1 |
77.07 |
2009-08-29 |
| 82. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
77.07 |
0.9376 |
0.0033 |
367 |
1 |
77.07 |
2009-08-18 |
| 83. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
76.84 |
0.9546 |
0.0094 |
198 |
1 |
76.84 |
2009-09-07 |
| 84. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
76.77 |
1.0023 |
-0.0724 |
211 |
1 |
76.77 |
2009-08-20 |
| 85. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
76.76 |
0.9758 |
-0.0434 |
314 |
1 |
76.76 |
2009-08-20 |
| 86. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
76.59 |
0.8919 |
0.0360 |
205 |
1 |
76.59 |
2009-08-30 |
| 87. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
76.35 |
0.9127 |
0.0116 |
252 |
1 |
76.35 |
2009-08-20 |
| 88. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
76.20 |
1.0396 |
-0.1220 |
149 |
1 |
76.20 |
2009-09-07 |
| 89. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
76.02 |
0.9468 |
-0.0247 |
276 |
1 |
76.02 |
2009-09-07 |
| 90. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
75.88 |
0.9697 |
-0.0486 |
249 |
1 |
75.88 |
2009-08-20 |
| 91. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
75.49 |
0.9893 |
-0.0731 |
323 |
1 |
75.49 |
2009-08-30 |
| 92. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
75.43 |
1.0419 |
-0.1266 |
261 |
1 |
75.43 |
2009-08-29 |
| 93. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
75.25 |
1.0124 |
-0.1017 |
204 |
1 |
75.25 |
2009-08-18 |
| 94. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
75.10 |
0.9731 |
-0.0743 |
129 |
1 |
75.10 |
2009-08-16 |
| 95. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
74.84 |
0.9756 |
-0.0688 |
229 |
1 |
74.84 |
2009-08-17 |
| 96. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
74.39 |
0.9723 |
-0.0661 |
364 |
1 |
74.39 |
2009-08-20 |
| 97. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
74.34 |
0.8753 |
0.0358 |
427 |
2 |
70.26 |
2009-08-30 |
| 98. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
74.16 |
0.9339 |
-0.0357 |
310 |
1 |
74.16 |
2009-08-17 |
| 99. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
74.13 |
1.0062 |
-0.1069 |
288 |
1 |
74.13 |
2009-08-16 |
| 100. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
74.12 |
0.9754 |
-0.0701 |
362 |
1 |
74.12 |
2009-09-07 |
| 101. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
73.78 |
0.9148 |
-0.0184 |
317 |
1 |
73.78 |
2009-08-30 |
| 102. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
73.70 |
0.9342 |
-0.0367 |
434 |
1 |
73.70 |
2009-08-20 |
| 103. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
73.70 |
0.9964 |
-0.1023 |
203 |
2 |
70.65 |
2009-08-17 |
| 104. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
72.90 |
0.9780 |
-0.0928 |
337 |
1 |
72.90 |
2009-08-16 |
| 105. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
72.82 |
0.9593 |
-0.0714 |
398 |
1 |
72.82 |
2009-08-19 |
| 106. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
71.97 |
0.9614 |
-0.0857 |
292 |
1 |
71.97 |
2009-08-19 |
| 107. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
71.35 |
1.0109 |
-0.1129 |
400 |
1 |
71.35 |
2009-08-27 |
| 108. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
71.12 |
0.8722 |
-0.0070 |
285 |
2 |
70.48 |
2009-08-20 |
| 109. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
70.97 |
0.9212 |
-0.0575 |
323 |
1 |
70.97 |
2009-08-20 |
| 110. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
70.84 |
0.9087 |
-0.0392 |
393 |
1 |
70.84 |
2009-08-20 |
| 111. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
70.66 |
0.9672 |
-0.1041 |
396 |
1 |
70.66 |
2009-08-16 |
| 112. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
69.90 |
0.9109 |
-0.0610 |
401 |
1 |
69.90 |
2009-08-16 |
| 113. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
69.72 |
0.9675 |
-0.1129 |
383 |
1 |
69.72 |
2009-08-16 |
| 114. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
68.90 |
1.0577 |
-0.2262 |
247 |
1 |
68.90 |
2009-08-16 |
| 115. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
67.98 |
0.8996 |
-0.0815 |
192 |
1 |
67.98 |
2009-08-29 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
65.94 |
0.7876 |
0.0135 |
316 |
1 |
65.94 |
2009-08-25 |
| 117. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
65.74 |
0.9805 |
-0.1798 |
292 |
1 |
65.74 |
2009-08-16 |