| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
98.71 |
1.0004 |
0.2963 |
212 |
1 |
98.71 |
2008-11-19 |
| 2. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
94.88 |
1.0297 |
0.2208 |
249 |
2 |
91.34 |
2009-03-25 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
93.33 |
1.0787 |
0.1510 |
237 |
2 |
84.33 |
2008-11-11 |
| 4. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
89.88 |
1.0201 |
0.1582 |
172 |
2 |
81.79 |
2008-11-09 |
| 5. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
89.44 |
1.0523 |
0.1226 |
256 |
1 |
89.44 |
2008-11-09 |
| 6. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
85.35 |
1.0788 |
0.0403 |
171 |
2 |
82.48 |
2008-11-18 |
| 7. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
85.35 |
1.0368 |
0.0888 |
276 |
3 |
80.88 |
2008-11-14 |
| 8. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
85.30 |
1.0567 |
0.0679 |
303 |
1 |
85.30 |
2008-11-19 |
| 9. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
85.19 |
1.0477 |
0.0773 |
360 |
1 |
85.19 |
2008-11-09 |
| 10. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
84.71 |
1.0331 |
0.0809 |
234 |
1 |
84.71 |
2008-11-06 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
84.44 |
1.0797 |
0.0273 |
210 |
2 |
78.46 |
2008-11-09 |
| 12. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
84.26 |
1.0349 |
0.0746 |
234 |
1 |
84.26 |
2008-11-19 |
| 13. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
83.86 |
1.0515 |
0.0514 |
250 |
1 |
83.86 |
2008-11-15 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
83.68 |
1.0444 |
0.0514 |
197 |
1 |
83.68 |
2009-03-25 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
83.65 |
1.0565 |
0.0429 |
247 |
1 |
83.65 |
2008-11-10 |
| 16. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
83.48 |
1.0257 |
0.0805 |
401 |
2 |
83.09 |
2008-11-09 |
| 17. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
83.43 |
1.0385 |
0.0588 |
230 |
4 |
75.85 |
2008-11-14 |
| 18. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
82.84 |
0.9649 |
0.1252 |
193 |
3 |
77.65 |
2008-11-14 |
| 19. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
82.81 |
0.9897 |
0.0988 |
274 |
1 |
82.81 |
2008-11-09 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
82.79 |
1.1016 |
-0.0109 |
233 |
2 |
77.01 |
2008-11-14 |
| 21. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
82.49 |
1.0529 |
0.0336 |
351 |
2 |
80.90 |
2008-11-11 |
| 22. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
82.46 |
1.1018 |
-0.0220 |
220 |
1 |
82.46 |
2009-03-24 |
| 23. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
82.27 |
1.0619 |
0.0253 |
354 |
1 |
82.27 |
2008-11-11 |
| 24. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
81.74 |
1.0263 |
0.0495 |
267 |
1 |
81.74 |
2008-11-06 |
| 25. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
81.67 |
0.9710 |
0.0981 |
173 |
1 |
81.67 |
2008-11-07 |
| 26. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
81.59 |
1.0496 |
0.0243 |
314 |
1 |
81.59 |
2009-03-25 |
| 27. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
81.53 |
1.0099 |
0.0610 |
207 |
2 |
79.75 |
2008-11-19 |
| 28. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
81.42 |
1.0391 |
0.0393 |
358 |
2 |
76.07 |
2008-11-07 |
| 29. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
81.22 |
1.0124 |
0.0548 |
204 |
1 |
81.22 |
2008-11-11 |
| 30. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
81.17 |
1.0399 |
0.0343 |
294 |
2 |
75.83 |
2009-03-24 |
| 31. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
81.16 |
1.0389 |
0.0323 |
340 |
1 |
81.16 |
2008-11-18 |
| 32. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
80.99 |
1.0555 |
0.0125 |
363 |
1 |
80.99 |
2008-11-11 |
| 33. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
80.58 |
0.9532 |
0.1066 |
258 |
3 |
75.59 |
2008-11-19 |
| 34. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
79.62 |
1.0109 |
0.0382 |
276 |
1 |
79.62 |
2008-11-11 |
| 35. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
79.59 |
1.0389 |
0.0107 |
318 |
1 |
79.59 |
2008-11-13 |
| 36. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
78.83 |
1.0486 |
-0.0100 |
289 |
1 |
78.83 |
2008-11-11 |
| 37. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
78.76 |
1.0358 |
0.0427 |
349 |
1 |
78.76 |
2010-03-05 |
| 38. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
78.66 |
1.0292 |
0.0050 |
262 |
1 |
78.66 |
2009-03-25 |
| 39. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
78.60 |
1.0714 |
-0.0456 |
129 |
1 |
78.60 |
2008-11-13 |
| 40. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
78.54 |
0.9202 |
0.1130 |
254 |
2 |
73.04 |
2009-03-24 |
| 41. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.31 |
1.0062 |
0.0247 |
288 |
1 |
78.31 |
2008-11-08 |
| 42. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
78.22 |
0.9851 |
0.0468 |
317 |
2 |
77.69 |
2009-03-27 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
77.75 |
0.9833 |
0.0417 |
355 |
2 |
75.16 |
2008-11-19 |
| 44. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
77.59 |
1.0483 |
-0.0300 |
227 |
2 |
74.56 |
2008-11-11 |
| 45. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.37 |
1.0095 |
0.0077 |
316 |
2 |
73.48 |
2008-11-12 |
| 46. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
77.36 |
0.9614 |
0.0598 |
292 |
1 |
77.36 |
2008-11-08 |
| 47. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
77.15 |
1.0390 |
-0.0274 |
205 |
2 |
74.17 |
2008-11-06 |
| 48. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
76.78 |
0.9754 |
0.0412 |
362 |
2 |
71.28 |
2009-03-24 |
| 49. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
76.68 |
1.0396 |
-0.0377 |
149 |
1 |
76.68 |
2008-11-06 |
| 50. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
76.67 |
1.0201 |
-0.0071 |
375 |
1 |
76.67 |
2009-03-26 |
| 51. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
76.63 |
1.0214 |
-0.0146 |
269 |
1 |
76.63 |
2008-11-07 |
| 52. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
76.57 |
0.9682 |
0.0376 |
143 |
1 |
76.57 |
2008-11-09 |
| 53. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
76.44 |
1.0060 |
-0.0048 |
171 |
1 |
76.44 |
2008-11-11 |
| 54. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
76.07 |
0.8996 |
0.0959 |
192 |
2 |
72.50 |
2008-11-07 |
| 55. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
75.97 |
0.9776 |
0.0223 |
308 |
1 |
75.97 |
2009-03-25 |
| 56. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
75.97 |
1.0029 |
-0.0096 |
209 |
1 |
75.97 |
2009-03-25 |
| 57. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
75.95 |
1.0252 |
-0.0323 |
176 |
1 |
75.95 |
2008-11-08 |
| 58. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
75.93 |
0.9570 |
0.0438 |
287 |
1 |
75.93 |
2008-11-11 |
| 59. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
75.85 |
0.9691 |
0.0285 |
223 |
1 |
75.85 |
2008-11-06 |
| 60. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
75.66 |
1.0284 |
0.0104 |
282 |
1 |
75.66 |
2010-03-04 |
| 61. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
75.62 |
0.9763 |
0.0182 |
289 |
4 |
72.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 62. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
75.48 |
1.0398 |
-0.0572 |
110 |
1 |
75.48 |
2008-11-14 |
| 63. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
75.47 |
1.0829 |
-0.0884 |
288 |
1 |
75.47 |
2008-11-09 |
| 64. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
74.80 |
1.0666 |
-0.0824 |
297 |
1 |
74.80 |
2008-11-14 |
| 65. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
74.74 |
0.9795 |
0.0038 |
308 |
1 |
74.74 |
2008-11-10 |
| 66. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
74.71 |
1.0034 |
-0.0220 |
302 |
1 |
74.71 |
2008-11-08 |
| 67. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
74.55 |
0.9894 |
-0.0043 |
323 |
3 |
70.79 |
2008-11-14 |
| 68. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
74.21 |
0.9772 |
-0.0045 |
217 |
3 |
67.00 |
2009-03-24 |
| 69. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
74.10 |
1.0165 |
-0.0379 |
392 |
2 |
74.10 |
2008-11-09 |
| 70. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
74.06 |
1.0251 |
-0.0531 |
261 |
1 |
74.06 |
2008-11-06 |
| 71. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
73.94 |
1.0261 |
-0.0554 |
273 |
1 |
73.94 |
2008-11-08 |
| 72. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
73.90 |
0.9966 |
-0.0251 |
259 |
1 |
73.90 |
2008-11-06 |
| 73. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
73.72 |
1.0352 |
-0.0629 |
341 |
1 |
73.72 |
2008-11-08 |
| 74. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
73.65 |
0.9632 |
0.0119 |
392 |
1 |
73.65 |
2008-11-08 |
| 75. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
73.07 |
0.9619 |
0.0043 |
393 |
1 |
73.07 |
2009-03-25 |
| 76. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
72.81 |
0.9941 |
-0.0390 |
217 |
1 |
72.81 |
2009-03-24 |
| 77. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
72.64 |
0.9852 |
-0.0296 |
264 |
1 |
72.64 |
2008-11-08 |
| 78. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.58 |
0.9865 |
-0.0309 |
276 |
1 |
72.58 |
2008-11-08 |
| 79. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
72.49 |
0.9899 |
-0.0413 |
163 |
1 |
72.49 |
2008-11-06 |
| 80. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
72.42 |
1.0441 |
-0.0903 |
252 |
1 |
72.42 |
2008-11-06 |
| 81. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
72.36 |
1.0289 |
-0.0730 |
276 |
1 |
72.36 |
2008-11-06 |
| 82. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
72.28 |
0.9964 |
-0.0458 |
203 |
3 |
62.74 |
2009-03-25 |
| 83. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
72.08 |
1.0613 |
-0.1085 |
456 |
1 |
72.08 |
2008-11-08 |
| 84. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
72.03 |
1.0419 |
-0.0947 |
261 |
2 |
70.54 |
2008-11-18 |
| 85. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
71.53 |
0.9500 |
-0.0073 |
362 |
2 |
68.54 |
2009-03-24 |
| 86. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
71.46 |
1.0498 |
-0.1150 |
180 |
1 |
71.46 |
2008-11-15 |
| 87. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
71.16 |
0.8947 |
0.0458 |
366 |
1 |
71.16 |
2008-11-06 |
| 88. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
71.08 |
0.9109 |
0.0262 |
401 |
1 |
71.08 |
2008-11-07 |
| 89. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
71.03 |
0.9965 |
-0.0675 |
168 |
1 |
71.03 |
2008-11-15 |
| 90. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
71.03 |
0.9468 |
-0.0135 |
276 |
1 |
71.03 |
2008-11-09 |
| 91. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
70.58 |
0.9805 |
-0.0481 |
292 |
1 |
70.58 |
2008-11-08 |
| 92. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
70.13 |
1.0203 |
-0.0951 |
261 |
1 |
70.13 |
2008-11-13 |
| 93. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.07 |
0.9309 |
-0.0118 |
284 |
1 |
70.07 |
2009-03-25 |
| 94. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
70.01 |
1.0063 |
-0.0857 |
371 |
1 |
70.01 |
2008-11-08 |
| 95. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
69.67 |
0.9681 |
-0.0441 |
378 |
1 |
69.67 |
2008-11-08 |
| 96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
69.66 |
0.9430 |
-0.0347 |
211 |
1 |
69.66 |
2008-11-08 |
| 97. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
69.32 |
0.9884 |
-0.0782 |
233 |
1 |
69.32 |
2009-03-24 |
| 98. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
69.31 |
0.9376 |
-0.0213 |
367 |
1 |
69.31 |
2008-11-07 |
| 99. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
69.14 |
0.8722 |
0.0393 |
285 |
1 |
69.14 |
2008-11-06 |
| 100. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
69.06 |
1.0696 |
-0.1655 |
226 |
1 |
69.06 |
2008-11-06 |
| 101. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
68.62 |
1.0454 |
-0.1474 |
255 |
1 |
68.62 |
2008-11-06 |
| 102. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
68.48 |
0.9464 |
-0.0415 |
323 |
1 |
68.48 |
2008-11-18 |
| 103. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
68.12 |
1.0711 |
-0.1812 |
213 |
1 |
68.12 |
2008-11-07 |
| 104. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
67.96 |
0.8852 |
0.0098 |
201 |
1 |
67.96 |
2009-03-25 |
| 105. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
67.95 |
0.8933 |
0.0059 |
363 |
2 |
66.71 |
2008-11-19 |
| 106. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
67.66 |
0.8878 |
0.0009 |
346 |
1 |
67.66 |
2008-11-18 |
| 107. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
67.05 |
0.9365 |
-0.0543 |
248 |
1 |
67.05 |
2008-11-06 |
| 108. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
66.73 |
0.9798 |
-0.1090 |
199 |
1 |
66.73 |
2008-11-08 |
| 109. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
66.69 |
0.9646 |
-0.0895 |
264 |
1 |
66.69 |
2008-11-06 |
| 110. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
66.29 |
0.9907 |
-0.1217 |
211 |
1 |
66.29 |
2009-03-25 |
| 111. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
65.45 |
0.9330 |
-0.0670 |
360 |
1 |
65.45 |
2008-11-08 |
| 112. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
65.04 |
0.9910 |
-0.1351 |
295 |
1 |
65.04 |
2009-03-24 |
| 113. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.94 |
0.9635 |
-0.1054 |
389 |
1 |
64.94 |
2008-11-07 |
| 114. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
64.68 |
0.9281 |
-0.0738 |
273 |
1 |
64.68 |
2009-03-24 |
| 115. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
64.65 |
0.8958 |
-0.0424 |
322 |
1 |
64.65 |
2008-11-09 |
| 116. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
64.42 |
0.9734 |
-0.1280 |
289 |
1 |
64.42 |
2008-11-06 |
| 117. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
64.24 |
0.9064 |
-0.0539 |
399 |
1 |
64.24 |
2008-11-07 |
| 118. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.04 |
0.9601 |
-0.1281 |
308 |
1 |
63.04 |
2008-11-09 |
| 119. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
61.30 |
0.9697 |
-0.1654 |
249 |
1 |
61.30 |
2008-11-06 |
| 120. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
60.10 |
0.9965 |
-0.2081 |
310 |
1 |
60.10 |
2008-11-06 |
| 121. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
56.53 |
0.9125 |
-0.1701 |
308 |
1 |
56.53 |
2008-11-06 |
| 122. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
55.94 |
0.8753 |
-0.1334 |
427 |
1 |
55.94 |
2008-11-06 |
| 123. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
55.66 |
0.9339 |
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310 |
1 |
55.66 |
2008-11-06 |
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54.70 |
0.9289 |
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204 |
1 |
54.70 |
2009-03-25 |