| 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... |
83.89 |
1.0711 |
0.1815 |
213 |
2 |
77.40 |
2010-10-02 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
82.12 |
1.1018 |
0.1256 |
220 |
1 |
82.12 |
2010-10-02 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
81.33 |
1.0993 |
0.1160 |
265 |
1 |
81.33 |
2010-09-27 |
| 4. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.06 |
1.0454 |
0.1708 |
255 |
1 |
81.06 |
2010-05-28 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
80.82 |
1.0334 |
0.1727 |
131 |
1 |
80.82 |
2010-05-29 |
| 6. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
80.20 |
0.9710 |
0.2280 |
173 |
1 |
80.20 |
2010-10-02 |
| 7. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
78.47 |
1.0523 |
0.1198 |
256 |
1 |
78.47 |
2010-05-28 |
| 8. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
77.75 |
0.9646 |
0.1982 |
264 |
2 |
74.33 |
2010-05-28 |
| 9. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
77.03 |
0.9786 |
0.1731 |
235 |
1 |
77.03 |
2010-10-02 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
76.73 |
1.1323 |
0.0402 |
341 |
1 |
76.73 |
2010-05-28 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
76.59 |
1.0095 |
0.1352 |
316 |
1 |
76.59 |
2010-05-29 |
| 12. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
76.55 |
1.0361 |
0.1085 |
269 |
2 |
72.32 |
2010-09-27 |
| 13. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
76.44 |
0.9578 |
0.1858 |
281 |
2 |
73.38 |
2010-05-28 |
| 14. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
75.98 |
1.0799 |
0.0552 |
243 |
1 |
75.98 |
2010-05-29 |
| 15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
75.50 |
0.9711 |
0.1597 |
176 |
1 |
75.50 |
2010-05-29 |
| 16. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
75.15 |
1.0263 |
0.0968 |
267 |
1 |
75.15 |
2010-05-28 |
| 17. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
74.42 |
1.0462 |
0.0650 |
184 |
2 |
71.21 |
2010-05-29 |
| 18. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
73.81 |
1.0668 |
0.0363 |
350 |
1 |
73.81 |
2010-10-02 |
| 19. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
73.70 |
1.0068 |
0.0947 |
358 |
2 |
66.82 |
2010-09-23 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
73.56 |
1.0529 |
0.0461 |
351 |
1 |
73.56 |
2010-10-02 |
| 21. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
73.26 |
1.0565 |
0.0379 |
247 |
1 |
73.26 |
2010-09-27 |
| 22. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
73.24 |
1.0829 |
0.0112 |
288 |
2 |
70.78 |
2010-05-28 |
| 23. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
72.91 |
0.9792 |
0.1420 |
265 |
1 |
72.91 |
2010-10-02 |
| 24. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
72.80 |
0.9884 |
0.0999 |
233 |
1 |
72.80 |
2010-05-28 |
| 25. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
72.42 |
0.9769 |
0.1049 |
263 |
1 |
72.42 |
2010-10-02 |
| 26. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
72.39 |
1.0426 |
0.0391 |
323 |
1 |
72.39 |
2010-05-28 |
| 27. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
71.73 |
1.0883 |
0.0088 |
303 |
1 |
71.73 |
2010-05-29 |
| 28. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
71.72 |
1.0099 |
0.0607 |
207 |
1 |
71.72 |
2012-06-17 |
| 29. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
71.07 |
0.9843 |
0.0761 |
234 |
2 |
69.29 |
2010-05-29 |
| 30. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.99 |
1.0613 |
-0.0001 |
456 |
1 |
70.99 |
2010-05-28 |
| 31. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
70.86 |
1.0251 |
0.0321 |
261 |
1 |
70.86 |
2010-09-27 |
| 32. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
70.76 |
0.9964 |
0.0607 |
203 |
2 |
65.76 |
2010-09-27 |
| 33. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
70.57 |
0.9904 |
0.1007 |
203 |
1 |
70.57 |
2010-10-02 |
| 34. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
70.54 |
0.9635 |
0.0915 |
389 |
2 |
64.63 |
2010-10-02 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
70.09 |
0.9897 |
0.0576 |
274 |
1 |
70.09 |
2010-05-28 |
| 36. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.04 |
0.9740 |
0.0723 |
209 |
1 |
70.04 |
2010-05-28 |
| 37. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
70.00 |
1.0795 |
-0.0058 |
226 |
1 |
70.00 |
2010-10-02 |
| 38. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
69.90 |
1.0441 |
0.0000 |
252 |
1 |
69.90 |
2012-02-21 |
| 39. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
69.90 |
1.0289 |
0.0160 |
276 |
2 |
68.58 |
2010-09-27 |
| 40. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
69.75 |
0.9614 |
0.0815 |
292 |
1 |
69.75 |
2010-05-28 |
| 41. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
69.61 |
1.0396 |
-0.0005 |
149 |
1 |
69.61 |
2010-09-27 |
| 42. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
69.39 |
0.9776 |
0.0596 |
308 |
1 |
69.39 |
2010-05-28 |
| 43. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
69.21 |
1.0477 |
-0.0136 |
360 |
1 |
69.21 |
2010-05-28 |
| 44. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
69.06 |
0.9286 |
0.1033 |
194 |
1 |
69.06 |
2010-05-28 |
| 45. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.95 |
0.9820 |
0.0484 |
267 |
2 |
67.52 |
2010-05-29 |
| 46. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
68.86 |
1.0138 |
0.0146 |
231 |
1 |
68.86 |
2010-05-28 |
| 47. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
68.69 |
1.0388 |
0.0137 |
243 |
1 |
68.69 |
2010-05-28 |
| 48. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
68.65 |
0.9754 |
0.0513 |
362 |
1 |
68.65 |
2010-05-28 |
| 49. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
68.49 |
0.8845 |
0.1398 |
273 |
2 |
63.54 |
2010-09-27 |
| 50. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
68.40 |
0.9731 |
0.0478 |
129 |
2 |
64.66 |
2010-05-28 |
| 51. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
68.17 |
1.0288 |
0.0161 |
300 |
1 |
68.17 |
2010-05-28 |
| 52. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
68.01 |
1.0025 |
0.0133 |
256 |
1 |
68.01 |
2010-05-29 |
| 53. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
67.98 |
1.0349 |
-0.0191 |
234 |
1 |
67.98 |
2010-05-28 |
| 54. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
67.76 |
0.9965 |
0.0154 |
277 |
1 |
67.76 |
2010-05-29 |
| 55. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
67.64 |
0.9532 |
0.0577 |
258 |
1 |
67.64 |
2010-09-27 |
| 56. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
67.60 |
0.9675 |
0.0446 |
383 |
3 |
65.43 |
2010-09-27 |
| 57. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
67.57 |
0.9865 |
0.0234 |
276 |
1 |
67.57 |
2010-10-02 |
| 58. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
67.47 |
1.0025 |
0.0044 |
336 |
1 |
67.47 |
2010-05-28 |
| 59. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
67.39 |
0.9699 |
0.0368 |
269 |
2 |
64.72 |
2010-05-29 |
| 60. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
67.25 |
0.9785 |
0.0270 |
335 |
2 |
64.45 |
2012-02-21 |
| 61. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
67.11 |
1.0261 |
0.0018 |
410 |
1 |
67.11 |
2010-05-28 |
| 62. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
67.05 |
1.0725 |
-0.0460 |
233 |
1 |
67.05 |
2010-05-28 |
| 63. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
67.04 |
1.0506 |
-0.0256 |
277 |
1 |
67.04 |
2010-09-27 |
| 64. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
67.01 |
1.0343 |
0.0009 |
242 |
1 |
67.01 |
2010-05-28 |
| 65. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
66.73 |
1.0296 |
-0.0327 |
437 |
1 |
66.73 |
2012-02-21 |
| 66. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
66.48 |
0.9965 |
-0.0038 |
310 |
1 |
66.48 |
2010-05-28 |
| 67. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
66.37 |
0.9941 |
-0.0036 |
217 |
1 |
66.37 |
2010-09-27 |
| 68. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
66.29 |
0.9553 |
0.0365 |
430 |
1 |
66.29 |
2010-05-28 |
| 69. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
66.12 |
0.9597 |
0.0292 |
347 |
1 |
66.12 |
2010-05-29 |
| 70. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
66.09 |
1.0214 |
-0.0348 |
269 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-05-28 |
| 71. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
65.66 |
0.8914 |
0.0907 |
366 |
1 |
65.66 |
2010-05-29 |
| 72. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
65.56 |
0.9088 |
0.0723 |
348 |
1 |
65.56 |
2010-09-27 |
| 73. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
65.47 |
1.0264 |
-0.0221 |
422 |
1 |
65.47 |
2010-05-28 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.28 |
0.9649 |
0.0103 |
193 |
1 |
65.28 |
2010-05-28 |
| 75. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
64.98 |
1.0669 |
-0.0693 |
213 |
1 |
64.98 |
2010-09-27 |
| 76. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
64.90 |
1.0031 |
-0.0057 |
304 |
1 |
64.90 |
2010-05-28 |
| 77. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
64.81 |
0.9965 |
-0.0296 |
168 |
1 |
64.81 |
2010-05-28 |
| 78. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
64.70 |
0.9986 |
-0.0330 |
283 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-05-28 |
| 79. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
63.83 |
1.0666 |
-0.1145 |
297 |
1 |
63.83 |
2010-05-28 |
| 80. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
63.63 |
1.0132 |
-0.0636 |
143 |
1 |
63.63 |
2010-09-27 |
| 81. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
63.61 |
0.9513 |
-0.0009 |
354 |
1 |
63.61 |
2010-09-27 |
| 82. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.60 |
1.0595 |
-0.1105 |
379 |
1 |
63.60 |
2010-05-31 |
| 83. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
63.59 |
1.0740 |
-0.0930 |
264 |
1 |
63.59 |
2010-05-28 |
| 84. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
63.51 |
1.0029 |
-0.0552 |
209 |
1 |
63.51 |
2010-05-29 |
| 85. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
63.42 |
0.9790 |
0.0002 |
311 |
1 |
63.42 |
2012-02-21 |
| 86. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
63.39 |
1.0090 |
-0.0269 |
282 |
1 |
63.39 |
2010-05-28 |
| 87. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
62.50 |
0.9852 |
-0.0524 |
264 |
1 |
62.50 |
2010-05-28 |
| 88. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
62.47 |
0.9665 |
0.0056 |
326 |
1 |
62.47 |
2010-06-01 |
| 89. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.35 |
0.9653 |
-0.0327 |
394 |
1 |
62.35 |
2010-05-28 |
| 90. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.75 |
0.8947 |
0.0292 |
366 |
1 |
61.75 |
2010-09-27 |
| 91. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
61.40 |
0.9814 |
-0.0327 |
364 |
1 |
61.40 |
2010-05-28 |
| 92. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
60.69 |
1.0165 |
-0.1108 |
392 |
1 |
60.69 |
2010-09-27 |
| 93. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.67 |
0.9339 |
-0.0279 |
310 |
1 |
60.67 |
2010-09-27 |
| 94. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
60.65 |
0.9461 |
-0.0396 |
276 |
1 |
60.65 |
2010-05-28 |
| 95. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
60.60 |
0.9353 |
-0.0294 |
177 |
1 |
60.60 |
2010-05-28 |
| 96. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
60.58 |
0.9668 |
-0.0293 |
383 |
1 |
60.58 |
2010-05-28 |
| 97. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
60.34 |
1.0038 |
-0.0777 |
237 |
1 |
60.34 |
2010-05-28 |
| 98. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
60.33 |
0.9364 |
-0.0051 |
351 |
1 |
60.33 |
2010-05-28 |
| 99. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.26 |
0.9676 |
-0.0666 |
442 |
1 |
60.26 |
2012-02-21 |
| 100. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
60.09 |
0.9916 |
-0.0606 |
282 |
1 |
60.09 |
2012-02-21 |
| 101. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
59.90 |
0.9756 |
-0.0822 |
229 |
1 |
59.90 |
2010-09-27 |
| 102. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
59.59 |
0.7876 |
0.1038 |
316 |
2 |
59.07 |
2010-05-28 |
| 103. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.43 |
1.0154 |
-0.0907 |
351 |
1 |
59.43 |
2010-06-01 |
| 104. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
59.23 |
1.0201 |
-0.1363 |
303 |
1 |
59.23 |
2010-05-29 |
| 105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
59.08 |
0.9527 |
-0.0713 |
251 |
1 |
59.08 |
2012-02-21 |
| 106. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
58.25 |
0.9540 |
-0.0844 |
285 |
1 |
58.25 |
2012-02-21 |
| 107. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.96 |
0.9734 |
-0.1236 |
289 |
1 |
56.96 |
2010-09-27 |
| 108. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.23 |
0.9365 |
-0.0970 |
248 |
1 |
56.23 |
2010-05-29 |
| 109. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.88 |
0.8961 |
-0.0623 |
189 |
1 |
55.88 |
2010-05-28 |
| 110. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.60 |
0.9907 |
-0.1620 |
211 |
1 |
55.60 |
2010-05-29 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
55.33 |
0.8602 |
-0.0346 |
206 |
1 |
55.33 |
2010-05-28 |
| 112. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
55.31 |
1.0574 |
-0.2094 |
205 |
1 |
55.31 |
2010-05-28 |
| 113. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
55.27 |
0.9936 |
-0.1492 |
227 |
1 |
55.27 |
2012-02-21 |
| 114. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
55.26 |
0.9976 |
-0.1544 |
174 |
1 |
55.26 |
2010-05-29 |
| 115. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.87 |
0.9084 |
-0.0894 |
404 |
1 |
54.87 |
2010-10-02 |
| 116. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
54.58 |
1.0042 |
-0.1617 |
352 |
1 |
54.58 |
2010-05-28 |
| 117. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
54.42 |
0.9233 |
-0.1116 |
168 |
1 |
54.42 |
2010-05-28 |
| 118. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
54.15 |
1.0292 |
-0.2227 |
262 |
1 |
54.15 |
2010-05-28 |
| 119. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
53.62 |
0.8467 |
-0.0264 |
343 |
1 |
53.62 |
2010-05-28 |
| 120. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
51.58 |
0.9168 |
-0.1487 |
240 |
1 |
51.58 |
2010-05-28 |