| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
138.60 |
1.0787 |
0.3154 |
237 |
1 |
138.60 |
2008-12-25 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
125.35 |
1.0993 |
0.1594 |
265 |
1 |
125.35 |
2008-12-26 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
120.60 |
1.0454 |
0.1634 |
255 |
2 |
114.18 |
2008-12-26 |
| 4. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
119.99 |
0.9527 |
0.2535 |
251 |
1 |
119.99 |
2009-03-01 |
| 5. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
118.80 |
0.9275 |
0.2634 |
211 |
3 |
99.53 |
2008-12-26 |
| 6. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
118.52 |
1.0060 |
0.1807 |
171 |
1 |
118.52 |
2008-12-27 |
| 7. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
117.87 |
1.0251 |
0.1575 |
261 |
1 |
117.87 |
2009-03-01 |
| 8. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
116.17 |
1.0515 |
0.1141 |
250 |
3 |
105.42 |
2009-02-21 |
| 9. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
114.46 |
1.0257 |
0.1308 |
401 |
1 |
114.46 |
2009-03-01 |
| 10. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
113.58 |
0.9965 |
0.1399 |
168 |
4 |
94.45 |
2009-03-01 |
| 11. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
113.56 |
1.0666 |
0.0745 |
297 |
1 |
113.56 |
2008-12-26 |
| 12. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
113.37 |
0.9233 |
0.2075 |
168 |
1 |
113.37 |
2008-12-25 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
113.25 |
1.0214 |
0.1110 |
166 |
1 |
113.25 |
2008-12-26 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
111.90 |
1.0131 |
0.1071 |
225 |
2 |
102.12 |
2009-03-01 |
| 15. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
111.89 |
0.9593 |
0.1694 |
398 |
3 |
102.27 |
2008-12-26 |
| 16. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
111.86 |
0.9756 |
0.1468 |
229 |
2 |
102.55 |
2008-12-27 |
| 17. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
111.25 |
0.9852 |
0.1326 |
264 |
1 |
111.25 |
2008-12-25 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
110.79 |
0.9899 |
0.1182 |
163 |
1 |
110.79 |
2008-12-28 |
| 19. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
110.50 |
0.9879 |
0.1307 |
450 |
1 |
110.50 |
2009-03-01 |
| 20. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
110.12 |
0.9795 |
0.1265 |
308 |
1 |
110.12 |
2008-12-25 |
| 21. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
109.73 |
1.0596 |
0.0404 |
239 |
2 |
107.85 |
2009-03-01 |
| 22. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
109.47 |
0.9723 |
0.1308 |
364 |
1 |
109.47 |
2009-02-21 |
| 23. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
108.99 |
0.9863 |
0.1127 |
339 |
4 |
87.92 |
2008-12-26 |
| 24. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
108.56 |
1.0167 |
0.0803 |
378 |
1 |
108.56 |
2009-03-01 |
| 25. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
108.18 |
1.1018 |
-0.0219 |
220 |
2 |
102.74 |
2008-12-25 |
| 26. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
108.00 |
1.0577 |
0.0233 |
247 |
1 |
108.00 |
2009-02-21 |
| 27. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
107.19 |
1.0389 |
0.0398 |
340 |
1 |
107.19 |
2009-03-01 |
| 28. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
106.90 |
0.9339 |
0.1379 |
310 |
2 |
105.92 |
2009-03-01 |
| 29. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
106.89 |
0.9776 |
0.0958 |
308 |
1 |
106.89 |
2008-12-25 |
| 30. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
106.80 |
1.0565 |
0.0132 |
247 |
3 |
98.26 |
2008-12-26 |
| 31. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
106.27 |
1.0483 |
0.0156 |
227 |
2 |
96.77 |
2008-12-26 |
| 32. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
106.25 |
1.0201 |
0.0506 |
375 |
2 |
102.74 |
2009-03-01 |
| 33. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
105.59 |
0.9500 |
0.1122 |
362 |
1 |
105.59 |
2008-12-25 |
| 34. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
105.27 |
0.8956 |
0.1658 |
322 |
2 |
93.30 |
2008-12-25 |
| 35. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
104.74 |
0.9699 |
0.0809 |
269 |
1 |
104.74 |
2009-03-01 |
| 36. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
104.65 |
1.0073 |
0.0512 |
369 |
1 |
104.65 |
2009-03-01 |
| 37. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
104.60 |
0.9886 |
0.0638 |
220 |
1 |
104.60 |
2008-12-25 |
| 38. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
104.32 |
0.8722 |
0.1778 |
285 |
1 |
104.32 |
2009-03-01 |
| 39. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
104.23 |
1.0197 |
0.0236 |
226 |
2 |
101.88 |
2008-12-26 |
| 40. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
104.00 |
1.0263 |
0.0168 |
267 |
1 |
104.00 |
2008-12-25 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
103.78 |
0.9731 |
0.0560 |
129 |
4 |
89.68 |
2009-03-01 |
| 42. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
103.69 |
1.0555 |
-0.0134 |
363 |
1 |
103.69 |
2008-12-25 |
| 43. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
103.63 |
1.0203 |
0.0232 |
261 |
1 |
103.63 |
2008-12-25 |
| 44. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
103.53 |
1.0619 |
-0.0192 |
354 |
2 |
101.65 |
2008-12-26 |
| 45. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
103.10 |
1.0004 |
0.0282 |
212 |
1 |
103.10 |
2008-12-26 |
| 46. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
102.88 |
0.9675 |
0.0745 |
383 |
2 |
95.41 |
2009-03-01 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
101.81 |
1.0829 |
-0.0598 |
288 |
1 |
101.81 |
2008-12-26 |
| 48. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
100.72 |
0.9946 |
0.0157 |
246 |
1 |
100.72 |
2009-03-01 |
| 49. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
100.51 |
1.0391 |
-0.0246 |
358 |
1 |
100.51 |
2008-12-25 |
| 50. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
100.48 |
1.0398 |
-0.0422 |
110 |
2 |
98.90 |
2008-12-26 |
| 51. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
100.40 |
0.9464 |
0.0660 |
323 |
1 |
100.40 |
2008-12-25 |
| 52. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
99.61 |
0.9672 |
0.0385 |
396 |
2 |
97.56 |
2008-12-25 |
| 53. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
99.25 |
0.9109 |
0.0873 |
401 |
1 |
99.25 |
2008-12-25 |
| 54. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
99.23 |
0.9740 |
0.0173 |
209 |
1 |
99.23 |
2008-12-25 |
| 55. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
99.07 |
0.8770 |
0.1200 |
300 |
1 |
99.07 |
2008-12-25 |
| 56. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
99.05 |
1.0252 |
-0.0381 |
176 |
1 |
99.05 |
2008-12-25 |
| 57. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
98.87 |
0.9532 |
0.0372 |
258 |
2 |
92.27 |
2008-12-28 |
| 58. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
98.53 |
0.9687 |
0.0243 |
371 |
2 |
96.15 |
2008-12-26 |
| 59. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
98.44 |
0.9991 |
-0.0112 |
225 |
1 |
98.44 |
2008-12-26 |
| 60. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
98.07 |
0.8996 |
0.0785 |
192 |
1 |
98.07 |
2008-12-25 |
| 61. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
98.04 |
0.9553 |
0.0352 |
430 |
2 |
97.58 |
2008-12-26 |
| 62. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
97.95 |
0.9597 |
0.0268 |
347 |
1 |
97.95 |
2009-03-01 |
| 63. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
97.69 |
0.9087 |
0.0817 |
393 |
1 |
97.69 |
2008-12-25 |
| 64. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
97.38 |
0.9125 |
0.0659 |
308 |
1 |
97.38 |
2008-12-26 |
| 65. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
96.98 |
0.9398 |
0.0420 |
419 |
1 |
96.98 |
2008-12-25 |
| 66. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
96.96 |
1.0334 |
-0.0676 |
131 |
1 |
96.96 |
2008-12-26 |
| 67. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
96.92 |
0.9833 |
-0.0098 |
355 |
1 |
96.92 |
2008-12-28 |
| 68. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
96.80 |
1.0885 |
-0.1145 |
315 |
1 |
96.80 |
2008-12-26 |
| 69. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
96.79 |
0.9811 |
-0.0078 |
272 |
2 |
96.70 |
2009-02-21 |
| 70. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
95.80 |
1.0797 |
-0.1248 |
210 |
2 |
95.65 |
2008-12-25 |
| 71. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
95.69 |
0.9763 |
-0.0174 |
289 |
2 |
91.84 |
2009-01-02 |
| 72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
95.63 |
1.0613 |
-0.1016 |
266 |
1 |
95.63 |
2008-12-25 |
| 73. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
95.61 |
1.0516 |
-0.0934 |
281 |
1 |
95.61 |
2008-12-25 |
| 74. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
95.35 |
0.9754 |
-0.0133 |
362 |
1 |
95.35 |
2008-12-26 |
| 75. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
95.04 |
0.9612 |
-0.0084 |
256 |
1 |
95.04 |
2008-12-26 |
| 76. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
94.84 |
0.9691 |
-0.0188 |
223 |
1 |
94.84 |
2008-12-25 |
| 77. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
94.38 |
0.9372 |
0.0129 |
320 |
1 |
94.38 |
2008-12-28 |
| 78. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
93.84 |
0.9941 |
-0.0559 |
217 |
1 |
93.84 |
2008-12-25 |
| 79. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.80 |
1.0062 |
-0.0660 |
288 |
3 |
93.27 |
2008-12-27 |
| 80. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
93.79 |
0.9468 |
-0.0072 |
276 |
1 |
93.79 |
2008-12-26 |
| 81. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
93.67 |
0.8382 |
0.1012 |
268 |
1 |
93.67 |
2008-12-25 |
| 82. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
93.61 |
0.9619 |
-0.0184 |
393 |
1 |
93.61 |
2008-12-25 |
| 83. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
93.50 |
0.9168 |
0.0217 |
240 |
1 |
93.50 |
2008-12-25 |
| 84. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
93.29 |
0.9758 |
-0.0401 |
314 |
1 |
93.29 |
2008-12-26 |
| 85. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
93.21 |
0.9365 |
-0.0009 |
248 |
1 |
93.21 |
2008-12-26 |
| 86. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
93.12 |
0.9164 |
0.0217 |
305 |
1 |
93.12 |
2008-12-25 |
| 87. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
92.05 |
0.9212 |
0.0045 |
323 |
2 |
87.35 |
2008-12-27 |
| 88. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
91.81 |
0.9635 |
-0.0381 |
389 |
2 |
90.09 |
2008-12-25 |
| 89. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
91.39 |
0.9342 |
-0.0150 |
434 |
1 |
91.39 |
2008-12-26 |
| 90. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
91.22 |
0.9734 |
-0.0597 |
289 |
1 |
91.22 |
2008-12-26 |
| 91. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
90.82 |
0.8878 |
0.0219 |
346 |
1 |
90.82 |
2008-12-27 |
| 92. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
90.75 |
0.9866 |
-0.0811 |
218 |
1 |
90.75 |
2008-12-25 |
| 93. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
90.63 |
0.9942 |
-0.0774 |
483 |
2 |
88.56 |
2008-12-25 |
| 94. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
90.52 |
0.9084 |
0.0026 |
404 |
1 |
90.52 |
2008-12-26 |
| 95. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
90.45 |
0.9064 |
0.0090 |
399 |
2 |
90.05 |
2008-12-25 |
| 96. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
90.32 |
0.9697 |
-0.0647 |
249 |
1 |
90.32 |
2008-12-26 |
| 97. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
90.26 |
0.9601 |
-0.0512 |
308 |
1 |
90.26 |
2008-12-25 |
| 98. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
90.21 |
0.9936 |
-0.0902 |
311 |
1 |
90.21 |
2008-12-26 |
| 99. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
89.96 |
0.9557 |
-0.0482 |
331 |
1 |
89.96 |
2008-12-25 |
| 100. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
89.42 |
0.9045 |
-0.0085 |
235 |
1 |
89.42 |
2008-12-25 |
| 101. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
89.36 |
0.9514 |
-0.0560 |
237 |
1 |
89.36 |
2008-12-25 |
| 102. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
89.19 |
0.9485 |
-0.0534 |
236 |
2 |
84.30 |
2008-12-25 |
| 103. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
88.99 |
1.0124 |
-0.1235 |
204 |
1 |
88.99 |
2008-12-25 |
| 104. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
88.79 |
0.9279 |
-0.0321 |
317 |
2 |
85.96 |
2008-12-25 |
| 105. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
88.64 |
0.9894 |
-0.0972 |
323 |
1 |
88.64 |
2008-12-25 |
| 106. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
87.84 |
0.9513 |
-0.0679 |
354 |
1 |
87.84 |
2008-12-25 |
| 107. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
87.71 |
0.9965 |
-0.1179 |
310 |
1 |
87.71 |
2008-12-25 |
| 108. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
87.06 |
0.9084 |
-0.0349 |
300 |
1 |
87.06 |
2008-12-25 |
| 109. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
85.75 |
0.8933 |
-0.0285 |
363 |
2 |
85.70 |
2008-12-26 |
| 110. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
85.69 |
1.0297 |
-0.1731 |
249 |
1 |
85.69 |
2008-12-25 |
| 111. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
84.03 |
0.9684 |
-0.1248 |
388 |
1 |
84.03 |
2008-12-26 |
| 112. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
83.94 |
1.0429 |
-0.2043 |
259 |
1 |
83.94 |
2008-12-28 |
| 113. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
83.58 |
1.0385 |
-0.2039 |
230 |
1 |
83.58 |
2008-12-25 |
| 114. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.08 |
0.9289 |
-0.0999 |
204 |
1 |
83.08 |
2009-03-01 |
| 115. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
82.89 |
1.0120 |
-0.1834 |
290 |
1 |
82.89 |
2008-12-25 |
| 116. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
81.97 |
0.8961 |
-0.0795 |
189 |
1 |
81.97 |
2008-12-25 |
| 117. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
81.78 |
0.9309 |
-0.1147 |
284 |
1 |
81.78 |
2008-12-25 |
| 118. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
81.68 |
0.9266 |
-0.1094 |
267 |
1 |
81.68 |
2008-12-26 |
| 119. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
80.65 |
0.9897 |
-0.1854 |
274 |
1 |
80.65 |
2008-12-25 |
| 120. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
79.75 |
1.0496 |
-0.2529 |
314 |
1 |
79.75 |
2008-12-25 |
| 121. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
79.72 |
1.0025 |
-0.2045 |
336 |
1 |
79.72 |
2008-12-25 |
| 122. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
78.84 |
0.8602 |
-0.0742 |
206 |
1 |
78.84 |
2008-12-28 |
| 123. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
78.22 |
0.9286 |
-0.1477 |
194 |
1 |
78.22 |
2008-12-25 |
| 124. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
77.31 |
1.0396 |
-0.2741 |
149 |
2 |
73.18 |
2008-12-26 |
| 125. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
68.18 |
0.9884 |
-0.3042 |
262 |
1 |
68.18 |
2008-12-25 |