| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
115.64 |
1.0462 |
-1.0623 |
184 |
1 |
115.64 |
2009-03-18 |
| 2. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
113.27 |
1.0368 |
-1.0496 |
276 |
2 |
97.71 |
2009-03-19 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
105.64 |
1.1018 |
-1.1186 |
220 |
2 |
104.39 |
2009-03-31 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
104.90 |
1.0483 |
-1.0619 |
227 |
1 |
104.90 |
2009-03-19 |
| 5. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
104.33 |
1.0399 |
-1.0490 |
294 |
1 |
104.33 |
2009-03-18 |
| 6. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
103.73 |
1.0796 |
-1.0951 |
129 |
1 |
103.73 |
2009-03-18 |
| 7. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
102.90 |
1.0534 |
-1.0645 |
357 |
1 |
102.90 |
2009-03-18 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
101.73 |
1.0528 |
-1.0684 |
201 |
1 |
101.73 |
2009-03-31 |
| 9. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
100.74 |
0.9897 |
-1.0028 |
274 |
1 |
100.74 |
2009-03-18 |
| 10. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
100.47 |
1.0257 |
-1.0337 |
401 |
2 |
96.38 |
2009-03-31 |
| 11. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
100.33 |
1.0454 |
-1.0630 |
255 |
1 |
100.33 |
2009-03-18 |
| 12. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
99.95 |
0.9772 |
-0.9911 |
217 |
1 |
99.95 |
2009-03-18 |
| 13. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
99.75 |
1.0218 |
-1.0355 |
268 |
1 |
99.75 |
2009-03-31 |
| 14. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
99.35 |
1.0555 |
-1.0665 |
363 |
1 |
99.35 |
2009-03-18 |
| 15. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
99.15 |
1.0214 |
-1.0345 |
269 |
1 |
99.15 |
2009-03-18 |
| 16. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
98.71 |
0.9756 |
-0.9887 |
229 |
1 |
98.71 |
2009-03-18 |
| 17. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
98.33 |
1.0390 |
-1.0533 |
205 |
1 |
98.33 |
2009-03-18 |
| 18. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
97.95 |
0.9233 |
-0.9407 |
168 |
1 |
97.95 |
2009-03-18 |
| 19. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
97.60 |
0.9941 |
-1.0081 |
217 |
1 |
97.60 |
2009-03-31 |
| 20. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
96.75 |
1.0095 |
-1.0222 |
316 |
1 |
96.75 |
2009-03-18 |
| 21. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
96.35 |
1.0714 |
-1.0882 |
129 |
1 |
96.35 |
2009-03-18 |
| 22. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
95.83 |
0.9646 |
-0.9772 |
264 |
1 |
95.83 |
2009-03-18 |
| 23. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
95.77 |
0.9411 |
-0.9521 |
318 |
3 |
85.91 |
2009-03-19 |
| 24. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
95.72 |
1.0444 |
-1.0615 |
197 |
1 |
95.72 |
2009-03-18 |
| 25. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
94.13 |
0.9863 |
-0.9953 |
339 |
2 |
90.52 |
2009-03-31 |
| 26. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
93.62 |
0.9811 |
-0.9910 |
272 |
2 |
83.00 |
2009-03-18 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
93.40 |
1.0296 |
-1.0378 |
437 |
2 |
87.74 |
2009-03-18 |
| 28. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
93.32 |
1.0201 |
-1.0290 |
375 |
1 |
93.32 |
2009-03-18 |
| 29. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
92.86 |
0.9785 |
-0.9883 |
335 |
1 |
92.86 |
2009-03-18 |
| 30. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
92.49 |
1.0053 |
-1.0185 |
232 |
1 |
92.49 |
2009-03-18 |
| 31. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
91.83 |
0.9578 |
-0.9707 |
281 |
1 |
91.83 |
2009-03-18 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
91.42 |
1.1114 |
-1.1254 |
247 |
1 |
91.42 |
2009-03-18 |
| 33. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
90.50 |
0.9768 |
-0.9873 |
387 |
1 |
90.50 |
2009-03-18 |
| 34. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
90.35 |
0.9376 |
-0.9461 |
367 |
1 |
90.35 |
2009-03-18 |
| 35. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
89.83 |
1.0060 |
-1.0216 |
171 |
2 |
87.28 |
2009-03-31 |
| 36. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
89.70 |
0.9886 |
-0.9994 |
220 |
1 |
89.70 |
2009-03-18 |
| 37. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
89.32 |
1.0034 |
-1.0167 |
302 |
1 |
89.32 |
2009-03-18 |
| 38. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
89.24 |
0.9966 |
-1.0092 |
259 |
1 |
89.24 |
2009-03-18 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
88.77 |
1.0417 |
-1.0557 |
253 |
1 |
88.77 |
2009-03-18 |
| 40. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
88.22 |
0.9687 |
-0.9777 |
371 |
1 |
88.22 |
2009-03-18 |
| 41. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
88.03 |
0.9553 |
-0.9623 |
430 |
1 |
88.03 |
2009-03-18 |
| 42. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
87.83 |
0.8958 |
-0.9047 |
322 |
2 |
82.60 |
2009-03-31 |
| 43. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
87.78 |
1.0389 |
-1.0500 |
318 |
1 |
87.78 |
2009-03-20 |
| 44. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
87.34 |
0.9636 |
-0.9756 |
254 |
1 |
87.34 |
2009-03-18 |
| 45. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
86.16 |
0.9758 |
-0.9878 |
314 |
1 |
86.16 |
2009-03-18 |
| 46. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
85.99 |
0.9339 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
2 |
82.38 |
2009-03-31 |
| 47. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
85.98 |
1.0515 |
-1.0649 |
250 |
1 |
85.98 |
2009-03-18 |
| 48. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
85.81 |
0.9430 |
-0.9589 |
211 |
2 |
75.10 |
2009-03-27 |
| 49. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
85.37 |
0.8826 |
-0.8936 |
296 |
1 |
85.37 |
2009-03-18 |
| 50. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
85.35 |
1.0025 |
-1.0149 |
256 |
1 |
85.35 |
2009-03-18 |
| 51. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
84.87 |
0.9710 |
-0.9880 |
173 |
1 |
84.87 |
2009-03-31 |
| 52. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
84.73 |
1.0168 |
-1.0279 |
271 |
1 |
84.73 |
2009-03-18 |
| 53. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
84.52 |
0.9884 |
-0.9982 |
262 |
1 |
84.52 |
2009-03-18 |
| 54. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
84.33 |
0.9398 |
-0.9462 |
419 |
1 |
84.33 |
2009-03-18 |
| 55. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
84.29 |
0.9723 |
-0.9818 |
364 |
1 |
84.29 |
2009-03-19 |
| 56. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
83.93 |
0.9852 |
-0.9970 |
264 |
2 |
83.45 |
2009-03-19 |
| 57. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
83.72 |
0.9672 |
-0.9755 |
396 |
1 |
83.72 |
2009-03-31 |
| 58. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
83.67 |
0.9500 |
-0.9601 |
362 |
1 |
83.67 |
2009-03-18 |
| 59. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
83.42 |
0.9567 |
-0.9690 |
273 |
1 |
83.42 |
2009-03-18 |
| 60. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
83.31 |
1.0167 |
-1.0254 |
378 |
1 |
83.31 |
2009-03-18 |
| 61. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
83.26 |
1.0252 |
-1.0413 |
176 |
1 |
83.26 |
2009-03-18 |
| 62. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
82.88 |
0.9905 |
-0.9974 |
377 |
1 |
82.88 |
2009-03-18 |
| 63. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
82.45 |
1.0696 |
-1.0839 |
226 |
1 |
82.45 |
2009-03-20 |
| 64. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
82.31 |
0.9649 |
-0.9776 |
193 |
1 |
82.31 |
2009-03-18 |
| 65. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
81.31 |
0.9125 |
-0.9237 |
308 |
2 |
73.48 |
2009-03-19 |
| 66. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
80.94 |
0.8810 |
-0.8933 |
282 |
1 |
80.94 |
2009-03-18 |
| 67. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
80.75 |
1.0201 |
-1.0366 |
172 |
1 |
80.75 |
2009-03-18 |
| 68. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
80.65 |
1.0261 |
-1.0397 |
273 |
1 |
80.65 |
2009-03-18 |
| 69. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.26 |
1.0029 |
-1.0184 |
209 |
1 |
80.26 |
2009-03-18 |
| 70. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
80.26 |
1.0668 |
-1.0773 |
350 |
1 |
80.26 |
2009-03-18 |
| 71. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
80.12 |
0.8722 |
-0.8822 |
285 |
2 |
79.60 |
2009-03-18 |
| 72. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
79.18 |
0.8956 |
-0.9042 |
322 |
2 |
75.40 |
2009-03-31 |
| 73. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
78.47 |
0.9635 |
-0.9731 |
389 |
1 |
78.47 |
2009-03-31 |
| 74. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
77.67 |
0.9084 |
-0.9166 |
404 |
1 |
77.67 |
2009-03-18 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
77.28 |
0.9851 |
-0.9962 |
317 |
1 |
77.28 |
2009-03-18 |
| 76. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
77.06 |
0.9593 |
-0.9683 |
398 |
1 |
77.06 |
2009-03-18 |
| 77. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
76.61 |
0.9964 |
-1.0088 |
203 |
1 |
76.61 |
2009-03-18 |
| 78. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
76.58 |
0.9597 |
-0.9692 |
347 |
1 |
76.58 |
2009-03-19 |
| 79. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
76.12 |
0.9097 |
-0.8827 |
464 |
1 |
76.12 |
2009-03-18 |
| 80. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
75.74 |
0.8105 |
-0.8252 |
204 |
1 |
75.74 |
2009-03-31 |
| 81. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
75.13 |
0.9109 |
-0.9211 |
401 |
1 |
75.13 |
2009-03-18 |
| 82. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
74.52 |
0.9088 |
-0.9173 |
348 |
1 |
74.52 |
2009-03-18 |
| 83. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
74.51 |
0.9540 |
-0.9663 |
285 |
1 |
74.51 |
2009-03-18 |
| 84. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
74.24 |
0.9005 |
-0.9123 |
212 |
2 |
73.68 |
2009-03-18 |
| 85. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
74.15 |
0.8533 |
-0.8660 |
232 |
1 |
74.15 |
2009-03-31 |
| 86. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
73.45 |
0.9309 |
-0.9448 |
284 |
1 |
73.45 |
2009-03-18 |
| 87. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
73.02 |
0.9429 |
-0.9542 |
287 |
1 |
73.02 |
2009-03-18 |
| 88. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
72.57 |
0.9426 |
-0.9536 |
317 |
1 |
72.57 |
2009-03-31 |
| 89. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
72.02 |
0.9740 |
-0.9885 |
209 |
1 |
72.02 |
2009-03-18 |
| 90. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
69.67 |
0.9697 |
-0.9810 |
249 |
1 |
69.67 |
2009-03-31 |
| 91. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
69.41 |
0.8916 |
-0.9036 |
216 |
1 |
69.41 |
2009-03-18 |
| 92. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
68.67 |
0.8382 |
-0.8492 |
268 |
1 |
68.67 |
2009-03-18 |
| 93. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
68.65 |
0.9212 |
-0.9317 |
323 |
1 |
68.65 |
2009-03-18 |
| 94. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
68.01 |
0.9213 |
-0.9324 |
295 |
1 |
68.01 |
2009-03-18 |
| 95. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
66.73 |
1.0120 |
-1.0239 |
290 |
1 |
66.73 |
2009-03-18 |
| 96. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
66.10 |
1.0033 |
-1.0195 |
189 |
1 |
66.10 |
2009-03-18 |
| 97. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
64.59 |
0.8890 |
-0.9030 |
199 |
1 |
64.59 |
2009-03-18 |
| 98. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
63.16 |
0.9731 |
-0.9935 |
129 |
1 |
63.16 |
2009-03-31 |
| 99. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
62.78 |
0.9986 |
-1.0101 |
283 |
1 |
62.78 |
2009-03-18 |
| 100. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
52.22 |
0.7876 |
-0.7966 |
316 |
1 |
52.22 |
2009-03-18 |
| 101. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
30.51 |
1.1016 |
-1.1139 |
233 |
1 |
30.51 |
2009-03-31 |