| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
139.38 |
1.0711 |
0.1794 |
213 |
2 |
129.29 |
2009-06-20 |
| 2. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
133.87 |
1.0261 |
0.1775 |
273 |
3 |
125.65 |
2010-05-27 |
| 3. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
133.70 |
1.0577 |
0.1427 |
247 |
1 |
133.70 |
2009-06-20 |
| 4. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
133.53 |
1.0943 |
0.1407 |
206 |
1 |
133.53 |
2010-05-27 |
| 5. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
132.14 |
1.0567 |
0.1336 |
303 |
1 |
132.14 |
2009-06-20 |
| 6. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
132.01 |
1.0131 |
0.1716 |
225 |
2 |
119.30 |
2009-06-26 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
130.69 |
1.0799 |
0.0930 |
243 |
1 |
130.69 |
2009-07-03 |
| 8. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
127.70 |
1.0165 |
0.1367 |
392 |
2 |
117.58 |
2009-06-20 |
| 9. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
125.10 |
0.9279 |
0.2043 |
317 |
5 |
108.83 |
2009-06-20 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
124.94 |
1.0993 |
0.0228 |
265 |
3 |
120.64 |
2009-06-26 |
| 11. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
124.57 |
1.0429 |
0.0766 |
259 |
2 |
118.69 |
2009-06-26 |
| 12. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
124.54 |
1.0214 |
0.0938 |
166 |
2 |
109.93 |
2009-06-20 |
| 13. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
124.34 |
1.0214 |
0.0957 |
269 |
1 |
124.34 |
2009-06-20 |
| 14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
123.91 |
1.0396 |
0.0680 |
149 |
1 |
123.91 |
2009-06-20 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
122.68 |
1.1018 |
-0.0045 |
220 |
1 |
122.68 |
2009-06-20 |
| 16. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
122.50 |
1.0337 |
0.0677 |
214 |
1 |
122.50 |
2009-06-26 |
| 17. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
122.48 |
1.0463 |
0.0509 |
182 |
3 |
120.51 |
2010-05-27 |
| 18. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
122.20 |
1.0292 |
0.0688 |
262 |
1 |
122.20 |
2009-06-20 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
120.94 |
1.0596 |
0.0261 |
239 |
1 |
120.94 |
2009-06-20 |
| 20. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
120.09 |
0.9681 |
0.1203 |
378 |
1 |
120.09 |
2009-06-20 |
| 21. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
119.65 |
0.9612 |
0.1149 |
256 |
1 |
119.65 |
2009-06-20 |
| 22. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
119.47 |
0.9942 |
0.0890 |
483 |
2 |
118.17 |
2009-06-20 |
| 23. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
119.35 |
1.0189 |
0.0577 |
337 |
3 |
113.72 |
2009-06-20 |
| 24. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
118.49 |
0.9697 |
0.0960 |
249 |
2 |
114.90 |
2009-06-20 |
| 25. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
118.38 |
1.0619 |
0.0062 |
354 |
1 |
118.38 |
2009-06-20 |
| 26. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
118.26 |
1.0389 |
0.0269 |
340 |
1 |
118.26 |
2009-06-20 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
118.12 |
1.0389 |
0.0249 |
318 |
1 |
118.12 |
2009-07-03 |
| 28. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
117.85 |
1.0668 |
-0.0046 |
350 |
1 |
117.85 |
2009-06-26 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
117.79 |
1.0138 |
0.0449 |
231 |
1 |
117.79 |
2009-06-20 |
| 30. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
117.37 |
1.0613 |
-0.0051 |
266 |
1 |
117.37 |
2009-06-20 |
| 31. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
117.36 |
0.9780 |
0.0782 |
337 |
1 |
117.36 |
2009-06-20 |
| 32. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
116.89 |
1.0399 |
0.0163 |
294 |
1 |
116.89 |
2009-06-20 |
| 33. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
116.68 |
1.0441 |
0.0064 |
252 |
1 |
116.68 |
2009-06-20 |
| 34. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
116.43 |
1.0391 |
0.0138 |
358 |
1 |
116.43 |
2009-06-20 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
115.73 |
1.0053 |
0.0331 |
232 |
1 |
115.73 |
2009-06-18 |
| 36. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
115.42 |
1.0252 |
0.0059 |
176 |
1 |
115.42 |
2009-06-20 |
| 37. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
115.38 |
1.0487 |
-0.0165 |
231 |
1 |
115.38 |
2009-06-20 |
| 38. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
115.14 |
1.0417 |
-0.0092 |
253 |
1 |
115.14 |
2009-06-18 |
| 39. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
114.59 |
0.9831 |
0.0549 |
469 |
1 |
114.59 |
2010-05-27 |
| 40. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
114.22 |
1.0516 |
-0.0253 |
281 |
3 |
106.27 |
2010-05-27 |
| 41. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
114.22 |
1.0025 |
0.0251 |
336 |
1 |
114.22 |
2009-06-20 |
| 42. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
113.88 |
1.0696 |
-0.0495 |
226 |
1 |
113.88 |
2010-05-27 |
| 43. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
113.41 |
1.0289 |
-0.0052 |
276 |
1 |
113.41 |
2009-06-26 |
| 44. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
113.01 |
0.8996 |
0.1105 |
192 |
1 |
113.01 |
2009-06-20 |
| 45. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
112.46 |
1.0316 |
-0.0172 |
333 |
1 |
112.46 |
2009-06-20 |
| 46. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
112.26 |
1.0340 |
-0.0200 |
406 |
1 |
112.26 |
2009-06-18 |
| 47. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
112.13 |
0.9965 |
0.0117 |
277 |
2 |
111.08 |
2009-06-17 |
| 48. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
111.80 |
0.9468 |
0.0573 |
276 |
2 |
102.35 |
2009-06-20 |
| 49. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
111.26 |
1.0644 |
-0.0286 |
257 |
1 |
111.26 |
2010-05-27 |
| 50. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
111.18 |
1.0167 |
-0.0109 |
378 |
1 |
111.18 |
2009-06-18 |
| 51. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
111.17 |
0.9798 |
0.0134 |
199 |
1 |
111.17 |
2009-06-26 |
| 52. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
111.16 |
0.9233 |
0.0672 |
168 |
1 |
111.16 |
2009-06-18 |
| 53. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
110.92 |
1.0444 |
-0.0544 |
197 |
1 |
110.92 |
2010-05-27 |
| 54. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
110.92 |
1.0263 |
-0.0305 |
267 |
2 |
108.99 |
2009-06-20 |
| 55. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
110.85 |
0.9687 |
0.0320 |
371 |
1 |
110.85 |
2010-05-27 |
| 56. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
110.79 |
1.0090 |
0.0302 |
282 |
1 |
110.79 |
2010-05-27 |
| 57. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
110.69 |
0.9986 |
-0.0035 |
283 |
2 |
108.85 |
2009-06-18 |
| 58. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
110.43 |
1.0361 |
-0.0429 |
269 |
2 |
109.25 |
2009-06-26 |
| 59. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
110.24 |
1.0034 |
-0.0145 |
302 |
2 |
102.97 |
2009-06-20 |
| 60. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
109.22 |
1.0426 |
-0.0622 |
323 |
1 |
109.22 |
2009-06-18 |
| 61. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
109.12 |
0.9342 |
0.0495 |
434 |
2 |
102.34 |
2009-06-20 |
| 62. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
109.05 |
1.0595 |
-0.0774 |
379 |
1 |
109.05 |
2009-06-17 |
| 63. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
108.78 |
1.0534 |
-0.0741 |
357 |
1 |
108.78 |
2009-07-06 |
| 64. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
108.71 |
0.9965 |
-0.0197 |
310 |
2 |
107.26 |
2009-07-03 |
| 65. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
108.64 |
1.0213 |
-0.0486 |
240 |
1 |
108.64 |
2009-06-20 |
| 66. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
108.54 |
1.0251 |
-0.0523 |
261 |
2 |
105.59 |
2009-06-17 |
| 67. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
108.39 |
1.0168 |
-0.0418 |
271 |
1 |
108.39 |
2009-06-17 |
| 68. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
108.24 |
1.0445 |
-0.0714 |
373 |
1 |
108.24 |
2009-06-26 |
| 69. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
108.21 |
1.0528 |
-0.0858 |
201 |
1 |
108.21 |
2010-05-27 |
| 70. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
108.21 |
0.9514 |
0.0209 |
237 |
1 |
108.21 |
2009-06-20 |
| 71. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
107.76 |
1.0203 |
-0.0490 |
261 |
2 |
102.95 |
2009-06-20 |
| 72. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
107.75 |
0.9991 |
-0.0308 |
225 |
1 |
107.75 |
2009-06-17 |
| 73. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
107.34 |
0.9846 |
-0.0217 |
281 |
2 |
100.00 |
2009-06-20 |
| 74. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
106.91 |
1.0025 |
-0.0425 |
256 |
2 |
103.37 |
2009-06-20 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
106.90 |
0.9851 |
-0.0229 |
317 |
1 |
106.90 |
2009-06-18 |
| 76. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
106.78 |
1.0352 |
-0.0737 |
341 |
1 |
106.78 |
2009-06-18 |
| 77. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
106.76 |
0.9619 |
0.0021 |
393 |
1 |
106.76 |
2009-06-20 |
| 78. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
106.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0441 |
168 |
1 |
106.59 |
2009-06-26 |
| 79. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
106.57 |
0.9601 |
0.0016 |
308 |
1 |
106.57 |
2009-06-26 |
| 80. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
106.13 |
1.0060 |
-0.0577 |
171 |
1 |
106.13 |
2009-06-17 |
| 81. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
105.78 |
0.9464 |
0.0085 |
323 |
2 |
105.61 |
2010-05-27 |
| 82. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
105.75 |
0.9769 |
-0.0294 |
263 |
1 |
105.75 |
2009-06-18 |
| 83. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
105.60 |
0.9886 |
-0.0379 |
220 |
3 |
97.50 |
2009-06-20 |
| 84. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
105.59 |
0.9635 |
-0.0100 |
389 |
1 |
105.59 |
2009-06-20 |
| 85. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
105.56 |
0.9756 |
-0.0291 |
229 |
2 |
102.58 |
2009-06-17 |
| 86. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
105.48 |
1.0062 |
-0.0591 |
288 |
1 |
105.48 |
2009-06-26 |
| 87. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
104.81 |
1.0419 |
-0.1009 |
261 |
1 |
104.81 |
2009-06-17 |
| 88. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
104.74 |
1.0016 |
-0.0658 |
218 |
1 |
104.74 |
2009-06-20 |
| 89. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
104.43 |
1.0498 |
-0.1170 |
180 |
1 |
104.43 |
2009-06-18 |
| 90. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
104.37 |
0.9776 |
-0.0404 |
308 |
1 |
104.37 |
2009-06-26 |
| 91. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
104.21 |
0.9899 |
-0.0591 |
163 |
1 |
104.21 |
2009-06-17 |
| 92. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
104.13 |
0.8602 |
0.0724 |
206 |
3 |
91.45 |
2009-06-20 |
| 93. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
104.04 |
0.9653 |
-0.0230 |
394 |
1 |
104.04 |
2009-06-20 |
| 94. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
103.92 |
0.9372 |
-0.0003 |
320 |
1 |
103.92 |
2009-06-26 |
| 95. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
103.91 |
1.0797 |
-0.1525 |
210 |
1 |
103.91 |
2009-06-18 |
| 96. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
103.86 |
1.0454 |
-0.1167 |
255 |
1 |
103.86 |
2009-06-20 |
| 97. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
103.57 |
1.0613 |
-0.1266 |
456 |
1 |
103.57 |
2009-06-18 |
| 98. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
102.87 |
0.9966 |
-0.0738 |
259 |
1 |
102.87 |
2009-06-17 |
| 99. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
102.76 |
0.9675 |
-0.0356 |
383 |
2 |
101.51 |
2009-06-20 |
| 100. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
102.59 |
1.0349 |
-0.1148 |
234 |
1 |
102.59 |
2010-05-27 |
| 101. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
101.86 |
0.9936 |
-0.0797 |
311 |
1 |
101.86 |
2010-05-27 |
| 102. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
101.65 |
0.9820 |
-0.0670 |
267 |
1 |
101.65 |
2009-06-17 |
| 103. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
101.58 |
0.8890 |
0.0190 |
199 |
2 |
96.06 |
2009-06-26 |
| 104. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
101.46 |
1.0073 |
-0.0888 |
369 |
1 |
101.46 |
2009-06-18 |
| 105. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
101.28 |
0.9672 |
-0.0518 |
396 |
1 |
101.28 |
2009-06-18 |
| 106. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
100.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.1211 |
172 |
1 |
100.94 |
2009-07-03 |
| 107. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
100.76 |
0.9532 |
-0.0504 |
258 |
2 |
98.90 |
2010-05-27 |
| 108. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
100.62 |
1.0795 |
-0.1461 |
226 |
1 |
100.62 |
2009-10-26 |
| 109. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
100.25 |
0.9786 |
-0.0796 |
235 |
1 |
100.25 |
2009-06-18 |
| 110. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
99.43 |
1.0124 |
-0.1228 |
204 |
1 |
99.43 |
2010-05-27 |
| 111. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
98.25 |
0.9964 |
-0.1150 |
203 |
1 |
98.25 |
2009-06-18 |
| 112. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
98.09 |
0.9731 |
-0.1058 |
129 |
1 |
98.09 |
2009-06-20 |
| 113. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
97.37 |
0.9553 |
-0.0748 |
430 |
1 |
97.37 |
2009-06-20 |
| 114. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
96.90 |
0.8956 |
-0.0220 |
322 |
2 |
94.78 |
2009-06-20 |
| 115. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
96.21 |
1.0177 |
-0.1168 |
392 |
1 |
96.21 |
2010-05-27 |
| 116. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
96.13 |
1.0368 |
-0.1739 |
276 |
1 |
96.13 |
2010-05-27 |
| 117. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
93.92 |
0.8753 |
-0.0242 |
427 |
1 |
93.92 |
2009-06-20 |
| 118. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
92.01 |
0.9330 |
-0.1019 |
360 |
1 |
92.01 |
2009-06-18 |
| 119. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
91.86 |
1.0412 |
-0.2187 |
225 |
1 |
91.86 |
2010-05-27 |
| 120. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
90.78 |
0.9649 |
-0.1527 |
193 |
1 |
90.78 |
2009-06-20 |
| 121. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
89.43 |
0.8770 |
-0.0728 |
300 |
1 |
89.43 |
2009-06-17 |
| 122. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
83.70 |
0.8852 |
-0.1342 |
201 |
1 |
83.70 |
2009-06-18 |
| 123. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
81.72 |
0.7876 |
-0.0541 |
316 |
1 |
81.72 |
2009-06-26 |
| 124. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
79.89 |
0.8105 |
-0.1006 |
204 |
1 |
79.89 |
2009-06-18 |
| 125. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
78.94 |
0.8553 |
-0.1548 |
174 |
1 |
78.94 |
2009-06-18 |