| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
65.09 |
0.9866 |
0.3696 |
218 |
1 |
65.09 |
2008-12-31 |
| 2. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
61.12 |
1.0214 |
0.2494 |
166 |
2 |
56.81 |
2008-12-31 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
56.16 |
1.0796 |
0.0872 |
129 |
3 |
52.09 |
2008-12-31 |
| 4. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
56.06 |
0.9576 |
0.2165 |
212 |
2 |
51.52 |
2008-12-31 |
| 5. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
55.90 |
0.9653 |
0.2091 |
394 |
1 |
55.90 |
2008-12-27 |
| 6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.82 |
1.0349 |
0.1288 |
234 |
2 |
48.38 |
2008-12-31 |
| 7. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
54.78 |
1.0487 |
0.0888 |
231 |
5 |
48.70 |
2009-01-04 |
| 8. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
54.69 |
0.9275 |
0.2098 |
211 |
2 |
50.80 |
2008-12-31 |
| 9. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
53.60 |
1.0596 |
0.0559 |
239 |
1 |
53.60 |
2008-12-24 |
| 10. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
53.46 |
0.9991 |
0.1160 |
225 |
1 |
53.46 |
2008-12-25 |
| 11. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
53.22 |
0.9351 |
0.1690 |
190 |
2 |
51.64 |
2009-01-01 |
| 12. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
53.00 |
1.0251 |
0.0776 |
261 |
2 |
50.31 |
2008-12-31 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
52.74 |
1.0577 |
0.0382 |
247 |
1 |
52.74 |
2008-12-31 |
| 14. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
52.67 |
1.0799 |
0.0144 |
243 |
1 |
52.67 |
2008-12-31 |
| 15. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
52.35 |
0.9597 |
0.1356 |
347 |
1 |
52.35 |
2008-12-24 |
| 16. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
52.15 |
0.9464 |
0.1457 |
323 |
1 |
52.15 |
2008-12-31 |
| 17. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
52.07 |
0.9795 |
0.1058 |
308 |
2 |
45.55 |
2008-12-31 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.07 |
1.0331 |
0.0500 |
234 |
2 |
48.44 |
2008-12-31 |
| 19. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
51.78 |
0.9884 |
0.0951 |
262 |
1 |
51.78 |
2009-01-04 |
| 20. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
51.60 |
0.9226 |
0.1591 |
348 |
2 |
49.63 |
2009-01-04 |
| 21. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
51.48 |
1.0666 |
0.0064 |
297 |
1 |
51.48 |
2008-12-30 |
| 22. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
51.29 |
0.9089 |
0.1639 |
342 |
1 |
51.29 |
2013-01-21 |
| 23. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
51.27 |
1.0165 |
0.0558 |
392 |
1 |
51.27 |
2009-01-05 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.15 |
1.0013 |
0.0637 |
273 |
3 |
47.50 |
2009-01-01 |
| 25. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
51.14 |
0.9125 |
0.1550 |
308 |
2 |
48.60 |
2008-12-31 |
| 26. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
51.07 |
0.9072 |
0.1553 |
237 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-12-29 |
| 27. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
51.01 |
0.9798 |
0.0775 |
199 |
2 |
40.30 |
2009-01-01 |
| 28. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
50.96 |
1.0004 |
0.0554 |
212 |
1 |
50.96 |
2008-12-25 |
| 29. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
50.71 |
0.9649 |
0.0906 |
193 |
1 |
50.71 |
2008-12-31 |
| 30. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.71 |
1.0711 |
-0.0196 |
213 |
1 |
50.71 |
2008-12-27 |
| 31. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
50.29 |
0.9213 |
0.1270 |
295 |
1 |
50.29 |
2008-12-24 |
| 32. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
50.09 |
0.9572 |
0.0852 |
201 |
3 |
48.76 |
2008-12-31 |
| 33. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
49.85 |
1.0398 |
-0.0118 |
110 |
3 |
44.56 |
2008-12-31 |
| 34. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
49.70 |
0.9724 |
0.0665 |
237 |
2 |
47.57 |
2008-12-30 |
| 35. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
49.58 |
0.8442 |
0.1926 |
265 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-12-31 |
| 36. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
49.58 |
0.9844 |
0.0532 |
293 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-12-31 |
| 37. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
49.56 |
0.9612 |
0.0712 |
256 |
1 |
49.56 |
2008-12-31 |
| 38. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.51 |
1.0252 |
-0.0004 |
176 |
1 |
49.51 |
2008-12-24 |
| 39. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.43 |
0.9633 |
0.0685 |
304 |
1 |
49.43 |
2008-12-30 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
49.33 |
0.9711 |
0.0552 |
176 |
1 |
49.33 |
2013-01-18 |
| 41. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
49.03 |
1.0498 |
-0.0334 |
180 |
1 |
49.03 |
2008-12-27 |
| 42. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
49.01 |
1.0201 |
0.0011 |
303 |
1 |
49.01 |
2008-12-20 |
| 43. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.89 |
1.0334 |
-0.0217 |
131 |
2 |
45.79 |
2008-12-31 |
| 44. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
48.82 |
1.0099 |
0.0040 |
207 |
1 |
48.82 |
2008-12-30 |
| 45. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.77 |
0.9619 |
0.0590 |
393 |
1 |
48.77 |
2008-12-31 |
| 46. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
48.75 |
0.8852 |
0.1322 |
201 |
3 |
45.57 |
2008-12-29 |
| 47. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
48.68 |
1.0483 |
-0.0375 |
227 |
2 |
48.55 |
2009-01-05 |
| 48. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
48.55 |
1.0534 |
-0.0401 |
357 |
1 |
48.55 |
2009-01-04 |
| 49. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
48.26 |
1.0529 |
-0.0480 |
351 |
1 |
48.26 |
2009-01-01 |
| 50. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.15 |
0.9768 |
0.0284 |
387 |
3 |
45.64 |
2008-12-31 |
| 51. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
47.96 |
0.9780 |
0.0216 |
337 |
1 |
47.96 |
2008-12-24 |
| 52. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.21 |
1.0296 |
-0.0404 |
437 |
1 |
47.21 |
2008-12-31 |
| 53. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
47.14 |
0.8961 |
0.0818 |
189 |
1 |
47.14 |
2008-12-25 |
| 54. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
47.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.0554 |
340 |
1 |
47.13 |
2008-12-27 |
| 55. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
47.10 |
1.0595 |
-0.0765 |
379 |
1 |
47.10 |
2008-12-24 |
| 56. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
47.00 |
1.0444 |
-0.0726 |
197 |
1 |
47.00 |
2008-12-31 |
| 57. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
46.85 |
0.9278 |
0.0501 |
295 |
1 |
46.85 |
2009-01-04 |
| 58. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
46.71 |
1.0567 |
-0.0838 |
303 |
1 |
46.71 |
2009-01-05 |
| 59. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
46.68 |
0.9646 |
0.0061 |
264 |
3 |
45.49 |
2008-12-25 |
| 60. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
46.66 |
0.9233 |
0.0396 |
168 |
3 |
40.90 |
2008-12-25 |
| 61. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
46.65 |
0.9691 |
0.0014 |
223 |
1 |
46.65 |
2008-12-29 |
| 62. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
46.65 |
0.9964 |
-0.0253 |
203 |
2 |
46.21 |
2008-12-25 |
| 63. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
46.54 |
1.0496 |
-0.0816 |
314 |
2 |
45.23 |
2008-12-31 |
| 64. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
46.53 |
1.0477 |
-0.0768 |
360 |
1 |
46.53 |
2008-12-31 |
| 65. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
46.52 |
1.0218 |
-0.0564 |
268 |
1 |
46.52 |
2008-12-31 |
| 66. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
46.30 |
0.9672 |
0.0029 |
396 |
1 |
46.30 |
2008-12-31 |
| 67. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
46.29 |
1.0797 |
-0.1219 |
210 |
1 |
46.29 |
2008-12-29 |
| 68. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
46.22 |
1.0829 |
-0.1195 |
288 |
2 |
45.96 |
2008-12-31 |
| 69. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
46.00 |
0.9212 |
0.0394 |
323 |
1 |
46.00 |
2008-12-31 |
| 70. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
45.85 |
0.9514 |
0.0030 |
237 |
1 |
45.85 |
2008-12-29 |
| 71. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
45.76 |
0.8105 |
0.1374 |
204 |
3 |
39.45 |
2008-12-31 |
| 72. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
45.61 |
0.9910 |
-0.0400 |
295 |
1 |
45.61 |
2008-12-30 |
| 73. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
45.55 |
1.0062 |
-0.0584 |
288 |
1 |
45.55 |
2008-12-31 |
| 74. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
45.47 |
0.9805 |
-0.0298 |
292 |
1 |
45.47 |
2008-12-25 |
| 75. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
45.41 |
1.0993 |
-0.1566 |
265 |
2 |
44.90 |
2013-01-18 |
| 76. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.38 |
0.9843 |
-0.0451 |
234 |
1 |
45.38 |
2008-12-30 |
| 77. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
45.25 |
0.9852 |
-0.0434 |
264 |
1 |
45.25 |
2008-12-25 |
| 78. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
45.18 |
1.0613 |
-0.1204 |
266 |
1 |
45.18 |
2008-12-31 |
| 79. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.16 |
0.8951 |
0.0467 |
193 |
1 |
45.16 |
2008-12-31 |
| 80. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
45.03 |
0.8890 |
0.0442 |
199 |
1 |
45.03 |
2008-12-29 |
| 81. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
45.03 |
0.9309 |
0.0040 |
284 |
1 |
45.03 |
2008-12-24 |
| 82. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.81 |
0.9734 |
-0.0415 |
289 |
1 |
44.81 |
2008-12-30 |
| 83. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
44.77 |
1.0016 |
-0.0749 |
218 |
1 |
44.77 |
2009-01-05 |
| 84. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
44.74 |
1.0053 |
-0.0766 |
232 |
1 |
44.74 |
2008-12-20 |
| 85. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
44.70 |
1.0516 |
-0.1221 |
281 |
1 |
44.70 |
2008-12-25 |
| 86. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
44.63 |
0.9763 |
-0.0484 |
289 |
1 |
44.63 |
2008-12-31 |
| 87. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
44.51 |
1.0257 |
-0.0934 |
401 |
1 |
44.51 |
2008-12-25 |
| 88. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
44.49 |
0.8947 |
0.0356 |
366 |
1 |
44.49 |
2008-12-29 |
| 89. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
44.14 |
0.8975 |
0.0211 |
268 |
1 |
44.14 |
2008-12-31 |
| 90. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
43.93 |
1.0131 |
-0.1034 |
225 |
1 |
43.93 |
2008-12-27 |
| 91. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
43.82 |
0.9865 |
-0.0741 |
276 |
1 |
43.82 |
2008-12-20 |
| 92. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
43.69 |
0.9468 |
-0.0387 |
276 |
1 |
43.69 |
2008-12-25 |
| 93. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
43.68 |
0.9068 |
0.0046 |
269 |
1 |
43.68 |
2008-12-25 |
| 94. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
43.14 |
1.0515 |
-0.1564 |
250 |
1 |
43.14 |
2008-12-25 |
| 95. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
42.81 |
0.9965 |
-0.1113 |
168 |
1 |
42.81 |
2008-12-25 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
42.44 |
0.9740 |
-0.0959 |
209 |
2 |
42.24 |
2008-12-31 |
| 97. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
42.37 |
1.0787 |
-0.1993 |
237 |
1 |
42.37 |
2008-12-24 |
| 98. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
42.29 |
1.0337 |
-0.1553 |
214 |
2 |
41.04 |
2008-12-31 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
41.78 |
0.9289 |
-0.0629 |
204 |
1 |
41.78 |
2008-12-25 |
| 100. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.74 |
0.9710 |
-0.1101 |
173 |
1 |
41.74 |
2008-12-20 |
| 101. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
41.61 |
0.9769 |
-0.1143 |
263 |
2 |
40.92 |
2008-12-27 |
| 102. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
41.42 |
1.1018 |
-0.2475 |
220 |
1 |
41.42 |
2008-12-25 |
| 103. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
41.41 |
0.8919 |
-0.0331 |
205 |
1 |
41.41 |
2008-12-25 |
| 104. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.49 |
0.8878 |
-0.0469 |
346 |
1 |
40.49 |
2008-12-25 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
40.43 |
0.9168 |
-0.0757 |
240 |
1 |
40.43 |
2009-01-04 |
| 106. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
40.32 |
1.0025 |
-0.1641 |
336 |
1 |
40.32 |
2008-12-29 |
| 107. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
40.20 |
0.9430 |
-0.1109 |
227 |
1 |
40.20 |
2013-01-18 |
| 108. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
39.65 |
1.0714 |
-0.2569 |
129 |
1 |
39.65 |
2008-12-25 |
| 109. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
39.22 |
1.0068 |
-0.1892 |
358 |
1 |
39.22 |
2013-01-18 |
| 110. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
37.89 |
0.9048 |
-0.1140 |
271 |
1 |
37.89 |
2008-12-25 |
| 111. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
37.74 |
0.8722 |
-0.0862 |
285 |
1 |
37.74 |
2008-12-24 |
| 112. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
35.77 |
0.9045 |
-0.1627 |
235 |
1 |
35.77 |
2008-12-25 |
| 113. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.34 |
0.9758 |
-0.2426 |
314 |
1 |
35.34 |
2008-12-24 |