| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
75.20 |
1.0993 |
0.1655 |
265 |
1 |
75.20 |
2009-03-30 |
| 2. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
72.70 |
1.0361 |
0.1893 |
269 |
2 |
67.18 |
2009-04-07 |
| 3. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
71.71 |
1.0567 |
0.1515 |
303 |
1 |
71.71 |
2009-04-02 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
70.70 |
1.0565 |
0.1313 |
247 |
2 |
66.76 |
2009-04-09 |
| 5. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
70.40 |
1.0016 |
0.1791 |
218 |
2 |
65.29 |
2009-04-06 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
70.34 |
1.0396 |
0.1374 |
149 |
1 |
70.34 |
2009-03-30 |
| 7. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
70.00 |
1.0529 |
0.1254 |
351 |
1 |
70.00 |
2009-03-30 |
| 8. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
69.37 |
1.0125 |
0.1529 |
224 |
1 |
69.37 |
2009-04-01 |
| 9. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
67.62 |
0.9785 |
0.1626 |
335 |
1 |
67.62 |
2009-03-31 |
| 10. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
66.79 |
1.0004 |
0.1173 |
212 |
2 |
62.84 |
2009-04-09 |
| 11. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
66.67 |
0.9893 |
0.1326 |
323 |
2 |
61.22 |
2009-04-09 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
66.52 |
1.0787 |
0.0392 |
237 |
1 |
66.52 |
2009-04-09 |
| 13. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
65.85 |
0.9084 |
0.2035 |
404 |
1 |
65.85 |
2009-04-09 |
| 14. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
65.62 |
1.1114 |
-0.0102 |
247 |
1 |
65.62 |
2009-03-31 |
| 15. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
65.58 |
1.0214 |
0.0801 |
269 |
2 |
56.46 |
2009-04-09 |
| 16. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
65.58 |
0.9697 |
0.1337 |
249 |
1 |
65.58 |
2009-03-30 |
| 17. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
65.30 |
1.0596 |
0.0368 |
239 |
3 |
61.81 |
2009-04-09 |
| 18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
65.00 |
1.0711 |
0.0172 |
213 |
1 |
65.00 |
2009-04-09 |
| 19. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
64.78 |
1.0029 |
0.0803 |
209 |
2 |
63.36 |
2009-04-02 |
| 20. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
64.74 |
1.0213 |
0.0644 |
240 |
1 |
64.74 |
2009-04-09 |
| 21. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
64.67 |
1.0183 |
0.0638 |
191 |
2 |
58.19 |
2009-04-09 |
| 22. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
64.29 |
0.9339 |
0.1459 |
310 |
1 |
64.29 |
2009-03-30 |
| 23. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
64.24 |
0.9866 |
0.0901 |
218 |
3 |
56.19 |
2009-04-09 |
| 24. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
63.81 |
1.0109 |
0.0630 |
276 |
1 |
63.81 |
2009-03-30 |
| 25. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
63.60 |
1.0120 |
0.0567 |
290 |
1 |
63.60 |
2009-04-06 |
| 26. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
63.58 |
1.0197 |
0.0466 |
226 |
2 |
62.73 |
2009-04-01 |
| 27. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
63.50 |
0.9468 |
0.1205 |
276 |
2 |
59.67 |
2009-04-09 |
| 28. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
63.37 |
0.9723 |
0.0970 |
364 |
1 |
63.37 |
2009-03-30 |
| 29. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
62.71 |
1.0426 |
0.0111 |
323 |
1 |
62.71 |
2009-03-30 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.38 |
0.9936 |
0.0549 |
311 |
1 |
62.38 |
2009-04-01 |
| 31. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
62.35 |
1.0445 |
0.0047 |
373 |
2 |
58.63 |
2009-04-09 |
| 32. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.31 |
1.0528 |
-0.0102 |
201 |
1 |
62.31 |
2009-04-04 |
| 33. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
62.06 |
1.0331 |
0.0080 |
234 |
1 |
62.06 |
2009-04-01 |
| 34. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
61.96 |
1.0352 |
0.0095 |
341 |
1 |
61.96 |
2009-04-09 |
| 35. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.50 |
1.0796 |
-0.0506 |
129 |
1 |
61.50 |
2009-03-30 |
| 36. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
61.32 |
1.0696 |
-0.0424 |
226 |
2 |
58.64 |
2009-04-09 |
| 37. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
61.24 |
0.9527 |
0.0766 |
251 |
1 |
61.24 |
2009-04-09 |
| 38. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
61.21 |
1.0013 |
0.0266 |
273 |
1 |
61.21 |
2009-03-30 |
| 39. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
61.16 |
1.0368 |
-0.0079 |
276 |
1 |
61.16 |
2009-03-30 |
| 40. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
61.05 |
1.0399 |
-0.0086 |
294 |
2 |
59.26 |
2009-03-30 |
| 41. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
60.88 |
0.9851 |
0.0403 |
317 |
2 |
58.22 |
2009-04-02 |
| 42. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
60.65 |
1.0292 |
-0.0112 |
262 |
1 |
60.65 |
2009-04-09 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.52 |
1.0138 |
0.0029 |
231 |
1 |
60.52 |
2009-04-07 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
60.37 |
1.0296 |
-0.0086 |
437 |
1 |
60.37 |
2009-03-31 |
| 45. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.35 |
0.9593 |
0.0596 |
398 |
1 |
60.35 |
2009-04-06 |
| 46. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
60.35 |
0.8811 |
0.1377 |
239 |
1 |
60.35 |
2009-04-09 |
| 47. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
60.11 |
1.0034 |
0.0052 |
302 |
1 |
60.11 |
2009-04-09 |
| 48. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
60.01 |
1.0252 |
-0.0233 |
176 |
2 |
52.11 |
2009-04-09 |
| 49. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
59.94 |
0.9212 |
0.0893 |
323 |
2 |
59.43 |
2009-04-03 |
| 50. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
59.76 |
1.0444 |
-0.0468 |
197 |
1 |
59.76 |
2009-03-30 |
| 51. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
59.61 |
0.9894 |
0.0166 |
323 |
1 |
59.61 |
2009-03-31 |
| 52. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
59.56 |
1.0257 |
-0.0185 |
401 |
2 |
59.12 |
2009-04-07 |
| 53. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
59.34 |
0.9991 |
-0.0016 |
225 |
2 |
55.97 |
2009-04-03 |
| 54. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
59.33 |
0.9772 |
0.0162 |
217 |
1 |
59.33 |
2009-04-09 |
| 55. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
59.12 |
0.9768 |
0.0191 |
387 |
2 |
55.19 |
2009-04-09 |
| 56. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
58.94 |
0.9684 |
0.0245 |
388 |
1 |
58.94 |
2009-03-30 |
| 57. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
58.69 |
0.9429 |
0.0444 |
287 |
1 |
58.69 |
2009-03-31 |
| 58. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
58.69 |
0.9234 |
0.0680 |
346 |
2 |
56.90 |
2009-04-09 |
| 59. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
58.66 |
0.9675 |
0.0274 |
383 |
1 |
58.66 |
2009-03-30 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
58.64 |
1.0203 |
-0.0318 |
261 |
1 |
58.64 |
2009-04-03 |
| 61. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
58.42 |
1.0023 |
-0.0228 |
211 |
1 |
58.42 |
2009-04-06 |
| 62. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
58.32 |
1.0063 |
-0.0262 |
371 |
1 |
58.32 |
2009-04-04 |
| 63. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
58.18 |
1.0486 |
-0.0705 |
289 |
1 |
58.18 |
2009-04-09 |
| 64. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
57.58 |
1.0483 |
-0.0842 |
227 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-04-09 |
| 65. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
57.45 |
1.0099 |
-0.0479 |
207 |
1 |
57.45 |
2009-04-09 |
| 66. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.43 |
0.9087 |
0.0665 |
393 |
1 |
57.43 |
2009-03-30 |
| 67. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.41 |
0.9843 |
-0.0251 |
234 |
1 |
57.41 |
2009-03-31 |
| 68. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
57.34 |
0.9769 |
-0.0160 |
263 |
1 |
57.34 |
2009-03-30 |
| 69. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
57.14 |
1.0025 |
-0.0420 |
336 |
1 |
57.14 |
2009-03-30 |
| 70. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
57.03 |
0.9072 |
0.0488 |
237 |
1 |
57.03 |
2009-03-30 |
| 71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
57.01 |
0.9614 |
-0.0010 |
292 |
2 |
56.15 |
2009-04-02 |
| 72. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
56.99 |
0.9756 |
-0.0199 |
229 |
2 |
53.32 |
2009-04-04 |
| 73. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
56.50 |
0.9426 |
0.0092 |
317 |
1 |
56.50 |
2009-04-09 |
| 74. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.18 |
0.8975 |
0.0462 |
268 |
1 |
56.18 |
2009-04-09 |
| 75. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
56.17 |
0.9430 |
-0.0072 |
211 |
1 |
56.17 |
2009-04-09 |
| 76. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
56.14 |
0.9005 |
0.0406 |
212 |
1 |
56.14 |
2009-04-03 |
| 77. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
55.91 |
0.9811 |
-0.0398 |
272 |
1 |
55.91 |
2009-03-30 |
| 78. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.53 |
0.9540 |
-0.0236 |
285 |
1 |
55.53 |
2009-03-30 |
| 79. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
55.17 |
1.0417 |
-0.1181 |
253 |
1 |
55.17 |
2009-03-30 |
| 80. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
55.10 |
0.9905 |
-0.0578 |
377 |
1 |
55.10 |
2009-03-30 |
| 81. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
54.82 |
0.9553 |
-0.0280 |
430 |
1 |
54.82 |
2009-03-30 |
| 82. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
54.78 |
0.9309 |
-0.0134 |
284 |
1 |
54.78 |
2009-04-09 |
| 83. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.50 |
0.8553 |
0.0542 |
174 |
2 |
54.25 |
2009-04-07 |
| 84. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
54.41 |
1.0487 |
-0.1406 |
231 |
1 |
54.41 |
2009-04-09 |
| 85. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
54.09 |
0.9202 |
-0.0132 |
254 |
1 |
54.09 |
2009-04-02 |
| 86. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
54.03 |
0.9986 |
-0.0913 |
283 |
1 |
54.03 |
2009-03-30 |
| 87. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
53.96 |
0.8996 |
0.0004 |
192 |
1 |
53.96 |
2009-04-02 |
| 88. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
53.57 |
0.9278 |
-0.0263 |
295 |
1 |
53.57 |
2009-03-30 |
| 89. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
53.38 |
0.9740 |
-0.0825 |
209 |
3 |
52.73 |
2009-04-09 |
| 90. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
53.12 |
1.0167 |
-0.1187 |
378 |
1 |
53.12 |
2009-03-30 |
| 91. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.11 |
1.0218 |
-0.1337 |
268 |
1 |
53.11 |
2009-04-09 |
| 92. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
53.02 |
0.8105 |
0.0747 |
204 |
1 |
53.02 |
2009-04-01 |
| 93. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
52.70 |
1.0390 |
-0.1588 |
205 |
1 |
52.70 |
2009-04-04 |
| 94. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
52.45 |
0.9899 |
-0.1148 |
163 |
2 |
51.38 |
2009-03-31 |
| 95. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
51.86 |
0.8826 |
-0.0115 |
296 |
1 |
51.86 |
2009-03-30 |
| 96. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
51.65 |
0.8919 |
-0.0275 |
205 |
1 |
51.65 |
2009-04-09 |
| 97. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
51.59 |
1.0398 |
-0.1852 |
110 |
1 |
51.59 |
2009-04-02 |
| 98. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
51.59 |
0.8890 |
-0.0275 |
199 |
1 |
51.59 |
2009-03-30 |
| 99. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
51.58 |
0.9734 |
-0.1087 |
289 |
1 |
51.58 |
2009-03-30 |
| 100. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
51.31 |
0.8916 |
-0.0309 |
216 |
1 |
51.31 |
2009-04-01 |
| 101. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
51.22 |
0.9279 |
-0.0626 |
317 |
1 |
51.22 |
2009-04-04 |
| 102. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
51.06 |
0.9286 |
-0.0735 |
194 |
1 |
51.06 |
2009-04-09 |
| 103. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
50.11 |
0.9758 |
-0.1352 |
314 |
1 |
50.11 |
2009-04-09 |
| 104. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.07 |
0.9168 |
-0.0762 |
240 |
2 |
48.49 |
2009-04-09 |
| 105. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
49.99 |
0.8770 |
-0.0359 |
300 |
1 |
49.99 |
2009-04-09 |
| 106. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
49.96 |
0.9109 |
-0.0709 |
401 |
1 |
49.96 |
2009-04-07 |
| 107. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
49.50 |
0.9966 |
-0.1676 |
259 |
1 |
49.50 |
2009-04-09 |
| 108. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
49.24 |
0.8573 |
-0.0286 |
270 |
1 |
49.24 |
2009-04-09 |
| 109. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
48.78 |
0.9597 |
-0.1383 |
347 |
1 |
48.78 |
2009-03-30 |
| 110. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.36 |
0.9045 |
-0.1111 |
235 |
1 |
47.36 |
2009-04-09 |
| 111. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
47.28 |
0.8956 |
-0.0992 |
322 |
1 |
47.28 |
2009-03-30 |
| 112. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
47.12 |
1.0714 |
-0.2913 |
129 |
1 |
47.12 |
2009-04-09 |
| 113. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.03 |
0.9233 |
-0.2122 |
168 |
1 |
43.03 |
2009-03-30 |