| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
50.91 |
1.0334 |
0.5964 |
131 |
2 |
38.06 |
2009-07-03 |
| 2. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
50.75 |
0.9286 |
0.7015 |
194 |
2 |
38.67 |
2009-07-03 |
| 3. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
47.36 |
0.9572 |
0.5630 |
201 |
1 |
47.36 |
2009-07-03 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.61 |
1.0799 |
0.3810 |
243 |
2 |
38.27 |
2009-07-03 |
| 5. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
45.24 |
1.0297 |
0.4218 |
249 |
1 |
45.24 |
2009-07-03 |
| 6. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
44.56 |
1.0168 |
0.4152 |
271 |
3 |
33.20 |
2009-07-03 |
| 7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
43.76 |
0.8809 |
0.5216 |
127 |
1 |
43.76 |
2009-07-03 |
| 8. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
43.09 |
0.9213 |
0.4622 |
295 |
1 |
43.09 |
2009-07-03 |
| 9. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
42.47 |
0.9614 |
0.4045 |
292 |
1 |
42.47 |
2009-07-03 |
| 10. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
40.56 |
0.9710 |
0.3235 |
173 |
3 |
29.58 |
2009-07-03 |
| 11. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.46 |
0.9811 |
0.3194 |
272 |
1 |
40.46 |
2009-07-03 |
| 12. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
39.41 |
1.0577 |
0.2026 |
247 |
1 |
39.41 |
2009-07-03 |
| 13. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
39.30 |
0.9649 |
0.2942 |
193 |
1 |
39.30 |
2009-07-03 |
| 14. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.15 |
0.9578 |
0.2971 |
281 |
1 |
39.15 |
2009-07-03 |
| 15. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
37.07 |
0.9619 |
0.2313 |
393 |
1 |
37.07 |
2009-07-03 |
| 16. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
36.46 |
1.0444 |
0.1172 |
197 |
2 |
33.45 |
2009-06-29 |
| 17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.85 |
1.0016 |
0.0451 |
218 |
3 |
29.99 |
2009-06-30 |
| 18. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
32.62 |
0.8715 |
0.1684 |
130 |
1 |
32.62 |
2009-06-29 |
| 19. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
32.47 |
1.0696 |
-0.0341 |
226 |
2 |
30.95 |
2009-06-30 |
| 20. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
32.46 |
1.0390 |
-0.0042 |
205 |
1 |
32.46 |
2009-07-03 |
| 21. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
32.17 |
1.0201 |
0.0023 |
172 |
1 |
32.17 |
2009-06-29 |
| 22. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
31.92 |
1.0498 |
-0.0334 |
180 |
1 |
31.92 |
2009-06-29 |
| 23. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.54 |
1.0462 |
-0.0435 |
184 |
1 |
31.54 |
2009-06-29 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
31.34 |
1.0131 |
-0.0146 |
225 |
1 |
31.34 |
2009-07-03 |
| 25. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
31.22 |
0.8821 |
0.1159 |
176 |
1 |
31.22 |
2009-06-27 |
| 26. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
31.20 |
1.0487 |
-0.0559 |
231 |
1 |
31.20 |
2009-06-27 |
| 27. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
31.03 |
0.9260 |
0.0767 |
243 |
1 |
31.03 |
2009-06-29 |
| 28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
31.02 |
0.9164 |
0.0791 |
121 |
1 |
31.02 |
2009-06-26 |
| 29. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
30.75 |
1.0389 |
-0.0533 |
340 |
1 |
30.75 |
2009-06-29 |
| 30. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
30.71 |
1.0429 |
-0.0623 |
259 |
1 |
30.71 |
2009-06-29 |
| 31. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
30.67 |
0.7352 |
0.2454 |
106 |
2 |
27.45 |
2009-06-29 |
| 32. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
30.56 |
0.9251 |
0.0570 |
177 |
2 |
30.53 |
2009-06-27 |
| 33. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
30.40 |
0.8544 |
0.1179 |
170 |
1 |
30.40 |
2009-06-28 |
| 34. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
30.32 |
0.9019 |
0.0726 |
204 |
3 |
29.72 |
2009-07-03 |
| 35. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.26 |
0.9786 |
-0.0164 |
193 |
1 |
30.26 |
2009-06-30 |
| 36. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
30.24 |
0.9257 |
0.0465 |
317 |
2 |
29.40 |
2009-06-29 |
| 37. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
30.23 |
0.8852 |
0.0816 |
158 |
1 |
30.23 |
2009-06-27 |
| 38. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
29.89 |
1.0033 |
-0.0546 |
189 |
1 |
29.89 |
2009-06-30 |
| 39. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
29.70 |
0.8263 |
0.1208 |
162 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-06-29 |
| 40. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
29.61 |
0.9316 |
0.0207 |
287 |
1 |
29.61 |
2009-06-27 |
| 41. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
29.46 |
0.8145 |
0.1293 |
115 |
1 |
29.46 |
2009-06-27 |
| 42. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.82 |
1.0213 |
-0.1038 |
240 |
1 |
28.82 |
2009-06-29 |
| 43. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.81 |
0.8070 |
0.1159 |
137 |
1 |
28.81 |
2009-06-27 |
| 44. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
28.30 |
1.0261 |
-0.1241 |
273 |
2 |
28.17 |
2009-07-03 |
| 45. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
28.23 |
0.9430 |
-0.0487 |
211 |
1 |
28.23 |
2009-06-29 |
| 46. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
27.93 |
0.9633 |
-0.0692 |
304 |
1 |
27.93 |
2009-07-03 |
| 47. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
27.79 |
0.9226 |
-0.0289 |
348 |
1 |
27.79 |
2009-06-27 |
| 48. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
27.64 |
0.7375 |
0.1482 |
148 |
2 |
25.19 |
2009-06-30 |
| 49. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
27.59 |
0.9798 |
-0.1046 |
199 |
2 |
25.41 |
2009-06-29 |
| 50. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
27.58 |
0.8506 |
0.0258 |
132 |
2 |
24.92 |
2009-06-26 |
| 51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
27.51 |
0.9907 |
-0.1140 |
211 |
1 |
27.51 |
2009-06-27 |
| 52. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
27.47 |
0.8422 |
0.0365 |
164 |
1 |
27.47 |
2009-06-26 |
| 53. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
27.38 |
0.9893 |
-0.1151 |
323 |
1 |
27.38 |
2009-06-29 |
| 54. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
27.35 |
1.0099 |
-0.1397 |
207 |
2 |
26.33 |
2009-06-27 |
| 55. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
27.20 |
0.8190 |
0.0562 |
135 |
1 |
27.20 |
2009-06-27 |
| 56. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
26.94 |
0.8747 |
-0.0194 |
201 |
1 |
26.94 |
2009-06-30 |
| 57. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
26.72 |
0.8892 |
-0.0305 |
207 |
1 |
26.72 |
2009-06-29 |
| 58. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
26.65 |
0.9697 |
-0.1191 |
249 |
1 |
26.65 |
2009-06-29 |
| 59. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
26.62 |
0.8852 |
-0.0336 |
201 |
1 |
26.62 |
2009-06-27 |
| 60. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
26.49 |
1.0521 |
-0.2117 |
171 |
1 |
26.49 |
2009-06-27 |
| 61. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
26.47 |
0.9307 |
-0.0781 |
246 |
1 |
26.47 |
2009-06-27 |
| 62. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
26.34 |
0.9965 |
-0.1609 |
168 |
1 |
26.34 |
2009-06-27 |
| 63. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
26.24 |
1.0787 |
-0.2429 |
237 |
1 |
26.24 |
2009-06-27 |
| 64. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
26.19 |
1.0263 |
-0.1916 |
267 |
1 |
26.19 |
2009-06-27 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
26.18 |
0.8154 |
0.0216 |
193 |
1 |
26.18 |
2009-06-27 |
| 66. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
25.95 |
0.9171 |
-0.0890 |
165 |
1 |
25.95 |
2009-06-26 |
| 67. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
25.83 |
0.9846 |
-0.1618 |
281 |
1 |
25.83 |
2009-06-27 |
| 68. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
25.83 |
1.0419 |
-0.2180 |
261 |
1 |
25.83 |
2009-06-29 |
| 69. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
25.77 |
0.9468 |
-0.1254 |
276 |
1 |
25.77 |
2009-06-29 |
| 70. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
25.08 |
0.9045 |
-0.1046 |
235 |
1 |
25.08 |
2009-06-26 |
| 71. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.00 |
0.8916 |
-0.0943 |
216 |
1 |
25.00 |
2009-06-29 |
| 72. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
25.00 |
1.0797 |
-0.2883 |
210 |
1 |
25.00 |
2009-06-27 |
| 73. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
24.56 |
0.8996 |
-0.1224 |
192 |
1 |
24.56 |
2009-06-26 |
| 74. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
24.29 |
0.8956 |
-0.1190 |
217 |
1 |
24.29 |
2009-06-29 |
| 75. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
24.11 |
0.9724 |
-0.2007 |
237 |
1 |
24.11 |
2009-06-26 |
| 76. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
23.93 |
0.9758 |
-0.2128 |
314 |
1 |
23.93 |
2009-06-27 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
23.91 |
0.8810 |
-0.1185 |
282 |
1 |
23.91 |
2009-06-26 |
| 78. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
23.88 |
0.9682 |
-0.2094 |
143 |
2 |
23.21 |
2009-06-26 |
| 79. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
23.43 |
0.8077 |
-0.0635 |
167 |
1 |
23.43 |
2009-06-27 |
| 80. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
23.22 |
0.9866 |
-0.2510 |
218 |
1 |
23.22 |
2009-06-26 |
| 81. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
23.17 |
0.8533 |
-0.1145 |
232 |
1 |
23.17 |
2009-06-27 |
| 82. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.05 |
0.7389 |
-0.0037 |
145 |
2 |
22.14 |
2009-06-29 |