| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.98 |
1.0463 |
0.6680 |
182 |
1 |
47.98 |
2011-07-05 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.34 |
1.0829 |
0.6143 |
288 |
1 |
47.34 |
2011-07-05 |
| 3. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
43.08 |
0.9772 |
0.5615 |
217 |
2 |
31.85 |
2011-07-05 |
| 4. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.92 |
0.9540 |
0.5802 |
285 |
1 |
42.92 |
2011-07-05 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.82 |
0.8739 |
0.6573 |
136 |
3 |
30.02 |
2011-07-04 |
| 6. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
42.53 |
0.9873 |
0.5316 |
155 |
2 |
31.39 |
2009-12-16 |
| 7. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
42.42 |
0.8162 |
0.7074 |
149 |
1 |
42.42 |
2011-07-05 |
| 8. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
41.27 |
0.9633 |
0.5153 |
304 |
2 |
36.21 |
2010-08-18 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.13 |
1.0337 |
0.4372 |
214 |
1 |
41.13 |
2011-07-05 |
| 10. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
38.67 |
1.0292 |
0.3522 |
262 |
1 |
38.67 |
2011-07-04 |
| 11. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
38.39 |
0.9325 |
0.4333 |
156 |
2 |
29.05 |
2012-02-12 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
37.97 |
0.9221 |
0.4341 |
244 |
3 |
27.48 |
2011-07-01 |
| 13. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
37.67 |
0.8348 |
0.5181 |
219 |
3 |
29.99 |
2011-07-05 |
| 14. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
37.57 |
0.9559 |
0.3895 |
195 |
1 |
37.57 |
2011-07-01 |
| 15. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
37.41 |
1.0033 |
0.3272 |
189 |
3 |
29.70 |
2012-02-12 |
| 16. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
37.16 |
0.8615 |
0.4667 |
110 |
3 |
27.04 |
2012-02-12 |
| 17. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.13 |
1.0390 |
0.2845 |
205 |
1 |
37.13 |
2009-10-08 |
| 18. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
36.96 |
1.0498 |
0.2664 |
180 |
1 |
36.96 |
2011-07-04 |
| 19. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
36.80 |
0.9946 |
0.3208 |
246 |
1 |
36.80 |
2011-07-05 |
| 20. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
36.74 |
1.0485 |
0.2990 |
153 |
1 |
36.74 |
2011-07-05 |
| 21. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
36.44 |
1.0684 |
0.2640 |
253 |
2 |
33.43 |
2011-07-01 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
36.41 |
0.9697 |
0.3315 |
249 |
1 |
36.41 |
2011-07-04 |
| 23. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
36.23 |
0.9636 |
0.3308 |
254 |
1 |
36.23 |
2011-07-04 |
| 24. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
35.96 |
1.0074 |
0.2790 |
242 |
1 |
35.96 |
2010-08-18 |
| 25. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
35.91 |
0.9863 |
0.3011 |
339 |
1 |
35.91 |
2011-07-04 |
| 26. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
35.87 |
1.0201 |
0.2551 |
172 |
1 |
35.87 |
2010-08-18 |
| 27. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
35.20 |
0.9513 |
0.3101 |
354 |
1 |
35.20 |
2011-07-04 |
| 28. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
35.08 |
0.9289 |
0.3220 |
204 |
1 |
35.08 |
2009-10-08 |
| 29. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
35.01 |
0.7916 |
0.4672 |
184 |
1 |
35.01 |
2011-07-04 |
| 30. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
33.99 |
0.8070 |
0.4099 |
137 |
2 |
27.64 |
2011-07-01 |
| 31. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.67 |
0.8118 |
0.3959 |
109 |
1 |
33.67 |
2009-12-19 |
| 32. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
33.23 |
0.8573 |
0.3324 |
270 |
1 |
33.23 |
2012-02-12 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
32.95 |
1.0029 |
0.1669 |
209 |
1 |
32.95 |
2009-10-08 |
| 34. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
32.29 |
1.0462 |
0.1004 |
184 |
4 |
24.95 |
2012-02-12 |
| 35. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
32.10 |
1.0565 |
0.0862 |
247 |
2 |
27.25 |
2010-09-14 |
| 36. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
32.02 |
0.8723 |
0.2661 |
185 |
1 |
32.02 |
2010-09-13 |
| 37. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
31.71 |
1.0799 |
0.0479 |
243 |
1 |
31.71 |
2010-09-14 |
| 38. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
31.53 |
0.9340 |
0.1903 |
296 |
1 |
31.53 |
2010-09-14 |
| 39. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
31.48 |
0.8023 |
0.3267 |
182 |
1 |
31.48 |
2010-08-19 |
| 40. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
31.27 |
0.8745 |
0.2398 |
169 |
3 |
23.31 |
2010-09-14 |
| 41. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.23 |
0.9226 |
0.1233 |
177 |
1 |
29.23 |
2010-09-14 |
| 42. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
29.00 |
0.9857 |
0.0470 |
293 |
1 |
29.00 |
2012-02-12 |
| 43. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
28.96 |
0.8747 |
0.1534 |
201 |
3 |
24.32 |
2010-07-17 |
| 44. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
28.80 |
0.9097 |
0.1167 |
153 |
1 |
28.80 |
2010-07-17 |
| 45. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
28.73 |
1.0124 |
0.0090 |
204 |
1 |
28.73 |
2010-08-18 |
| 46. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
27.31 |
0.8890 |
0.0801 |
199 |
1 |
27.31 |
2010-09-13 |
| 47. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
27.12 |
1.0711 |
-0.1105 |
213 |
2 |
22.21 |
2009-12-16 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
26.79 |
1.0396 |
-0.0929 |
149 |
1 |
26.79 |
2010-07-17 |
| 49. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
25.98 |
0.8785 |
0.0421 |
172 |
1 |
25.98 |
2010-07-17 |
| 50. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
25.98 |
0.9684 |
-0.0411 |
388 |
1 |
25.98 |
2010-09-13 |
| 51. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
25.94 |
0.9710 |
-0.0541 |
173 |
2 |
21.20 |
2009-12-16 |
| 52. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
25.93 |
0.8660 |
0.0570 |
193 |
1 |
25.93 |
2010-07-16 |
| 53. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
25.90 |
1.0487 |
-0.1319 |
231 |
1 |
25.90 |
2010-07-17 |
| 54. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
25.82 |
0.8178 |
0.1015 |
159 |
1 |
25.82 |
2010-07-16 |
| 55. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
25.44 |
0.8884 |
0.0168 |
135 |
1 |
25.44 |
2010-07-16 |
| 56. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
24.98 |
0.9731 |
-0.0971 |
129 |
2 |
23.30 |
2009-12-16 |
| 57. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
24.84 |
0.9726 |
-0.0960 |
154 |
1 |
24.84 |
2010-07-16 |
| 58. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
24.57 |
0.8073 |
0.0683 |
173 |
1 |
24.57 |
2010-09-13 |
| 59. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
24.02 |
1.0796 |
-0.2311 |
129 |
2 |
22.46 |
2008-12-09 |
| 60. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
24.02 |
0.8900 |
-0.0349 |
164 |
2 |
19.94 |
2010-07-16 |
| 61. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
23.60 |
1.0788 |
-0.2456 |
171 |
1 |
23.60 |
2009-01-05 |
| 62. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
23.34 |
1.0183 |
-0.1943 |
191 |
1 |
23.34 |
2008-12-03 |
| 63. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
23.32 |
0.9907 |
-0.1633 |
211 |
1 |
23.32 |
2009-12-16 |
| 64. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
23.27 |
1.0797 |
-0.2583 |
210 |
1 |
23.27 |
2009-09-22 |
| 65. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
23.22 |
0.8153 |
0.0143 |
200 |
1 |
23.22 |
2010-07-16 |
| 66. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.10 |
0.7389 |
0.0836 |
145 |
1 |
23.10 |
2009-12-16 |
| 67. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
22.98 |
0.8559 |
-0.0383 |
191 |
1 |
22.98 |
2010-07-16 |
| 68. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
22.83 |
0.8289 |
-0.0110 |
304 |
1 |
22.83 |
2010-09-15 |
| 69. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
22.81 |
0.9572 |
-0.1484 |
201 |
1 |
22.81 |
2008-12-02 |
| 70. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
22.64 |
0.8910 |
-0.0852 |
150 |
1 |
22.64 |
2008-12-03 |
| 71. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
22.62 |
0.8919 |
-0.0859 |
152 |
1 |
22.62 |
2009-12-16 |
| 72. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
22.61 |
0.9161 |
-0.1155 |
200 |
1 |
22.61 |
2010-07-16 |
| 73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
22.58 |
0.7259 |
0.0825 |
186 |
1 |
22.58 |
2009-02-23 |
| 74. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
22.52 |
0.9941 |
-0.1966 |
217 |
1 |
22.52 |
2010-03-04 |
| 75. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
22.36 |
0.9162 |
-0.1222 |
165 |
1 |
22.36 |
2010-07-16 |
| 76. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
22.29 |
0.7805 |
0.0065 |
154 |
1 |
22.29 |
2010-07-16 |
| 77. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
22.17 |
0.8295 |
-0.0405 |
209 |
1 |
22.17 |
2009-01-07 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
22.04 |
0.8037 |
-0.0182 |
148 |
1 |
22.04 |
2009-06-23 |
| 79. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
21.75 |
0.8125 |
-0.0370 |
197 |
1 |
21.75 |
2009-12-16 |
| 80. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
21.37 |
0.8145 |
-0.0537 |
115 |
1 |
21.37 |
2008-12-04 |
| 81. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
21.16 |
0.9798 |
-0.2346 |
199 |
1 |
21.16 |
2008-12-05 |
| 82. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
21.12 |
1.0334 |
-0.2907 |
131 |
2 |
19.26 |
2008-12-15 |
| 83. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
21.04 |
0.9164 |
-0.1658 |
121 |
2 |
19.82 |
2009-06-23 |
| 84. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
21.02 |
0.8852 |
-0.1384 |
158 |
1 |
21.02 |
2008-12-04 |
| 85. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
20.59 |
0.7934 |
-0.0629 |
134 |
2 |
19.46 |
2008-12-16 |
| 86. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
20.34 |
1.0252 |
-0.3106 |
176 |
2 |
19.65 |
2009-01-07 |
| 87. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
20.22 |
0.8544 |
-0.1357 |
170 |
1 |
20.22 |
2008-12-02 |
| 88. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
20.11 |
0.8956 |
-0.1801 |
217 |
1 |
20.11 |
2009-01-07 |
| 89. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
20.05 |
0.9266 |
-0.2144 |
278 |
1 |
20.05 |
2009-10-15 |
| 90. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
19.90 |
0.8551 |
-0.1489 |
171 |
1 |
19.90 |
2009-12-16 |
| 91. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
19.83 |
0.8936 |
-0.1920 |
127 |
2 |
18.89 |
2008-12-04 |
| 92. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
19.73 |
0.9251 |
-0.2210 |
177 |
1 |
19.73 |
2009-01-05 |
| 93. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
19.54 |
0.8666 |
-0.1707 |
150 |
1 |
19.54 |
2008-12-02 |
| 94. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
19.43 |
0.8975 |
-0.2087 |
268 |
1 |
19.43 |
2008-12-01 |
| 95. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
19.28 |
0.8996 |
-0.2223 |
192 |
1 |
19.28 |
2008-12-09 |
| 96. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
19.18 |
0.8899 |
-0.1999 |
293 |
1 |
19.18 |
2009-12-16 |
| 97. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
18.86 |
0.9233 |
-0.2639 |
168 |
1 |
18.86 |
2008-12-01 |
| 98. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
18.68 |
0.8562 |
-0.1950 |
170 |
1 |
18.68 |
2009-12-16 |
| 99. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
18.32 |
0.7826 |
-0.1299 |
97 |
1 |
18.32 |
2008-12-09 |
| 100. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
18.28 |
0.8500 |
-0.1970 |
145 |
1 |
18.28 |
2010-07-16 |
| 101. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
18.09 |
0.9820 |
-0.3424 |
274 |
1 |
18.09 |
2009-12-16 |
| 102. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
17.74 |
0.8188 |
-0.1900 |
183 |
1 |
17.74 |
2009-12-16 |
| 103. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
17.43 |
1.0714 |
-0.4645 |
129 |
1 |
17.43 |
2008-12-02 |
| 104. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
17.16 |
1.0214 |
-0.4203 |
166 |
1 |
17.16 |
2009-01-06 |
| 105. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
16.66 |
0.7690 |
-0.1785 |
142 |
1 |
16.66 |
2009-12-16 |
| 106. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
14.47 |
0.8105 |
-0.3058 |
204 |
1 |
14.47 |
2009-12-16 |
| 107. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
14.38 |
0.9682 |
-0.4638 |
143 |
1 |
14.38 |
2009-12-16 |
| 108. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
14.01 |
0.8077 |
-0.3175 |
167 |
1 |
14.01 |
2009-12-16 |