| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
87.79 |
1.1114 |
0.1046 |
247 |
3 |
84.98 |
2009-07-26 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
86.20 |
1.0426 |
0.1531 |
323 |
1 |
86.20 |
2009-07-14 |
| 3. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
86.00 |
0.9907 |
0.2013 |
211 |
3 |
75.66 |
2009-08-08 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
83.67 |
1.0483 |
0.1096 |
227 |
3 |
76.72 |
2009-07-28 |
| 5. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
82.84 |
1.0943 |
0.0875 |
206 |
1 |
82.84 |
2011-04-16 |
| 6. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
82.11 |
1.0565 |
0.0799 |
247 |
1 |
82.11 |
2009-07-14 |
| 7. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
82.04 |
0.9430 |
0.1877 |
211 |
1 |
82.04 |
2009-07-26 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
80.05 |
1.0799 |
0.0265 |
243 |
2 |
77.61 |
2009-07-14 |
| 9. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
79.71 |
1.0029 |
0.0960 |
209 |
1 |
79.71 |
2009-08-29 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.62 |
1.0516 |
0.0521 |
281 |
1 |
79.62 |
2009-07-26 |
| 11. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
79.44 |
1.0141 |
0.1237 |
304 |
1 |
79.44 |
2011-04-16 |
| 12. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
78.63 |
1.0168 |
0.0748 |
271 |
1 |
78.63 |
2009-07-29 |
| 13. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
78.50 |
1.0740 |
0.0527 |
264 |
1 |
78.50 |
2011-04-16 |
| 14. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
78.44 |
1.0613 |
0.0271 |
266 |
1 |
78.44 |
2009-08-08 |
| 15. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.37 |
1.0797 |
0.0012 |
210 |
1 |
78.37 |
2009-08-29 |
| 16. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
78.31 |
1.0060 |
0.0750 |
171 |
1 |
78.31 |
2009-08-29 |
| 17. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
78.30 |
1.0993 |
-0.0158 |
265 |
1 |
78.30 |
2009-07-28 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.22 |
1.0613 |
0.0281 |
456 |
1 |
78.22 |
2009-07-26 |
| 19. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
78.11 |
1.0167 |
0.0730 |
378 |
1 |
78.11 |
2009-07-18 |
| 20. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
77.95 |
1.0596 |
0.0189 |
239 |
2 |
77.36 |
2009-08-08 |
| 21. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
77.55 |
1.0023 |
0.0708 |
211 |
1 |
77.55 |
2009-07-13 |
| 22. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
77.49 |
1.0463 |
0.0233 |
182 |
2 |
74.98 |
2009-08-29 |
| 23. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
77.47 |
1.0349 |
0.0383 |
234 |
2 |
77.36 |
2009-07-14 |
| 24. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
77.04 |
1.0417 |
0.0237 |
253 |
2 |
75.85 |
2009-07-25 |
| 25. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
76.96 |
1.0523 |
0.0102 |
256 |
2 |
73.24 |
2009-07-14 |
| 26. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
76.49 |
1.0073 |
0.0609 |
369 |
2 |
74.64 |
2009-07-21 |
| 27. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
76.04 |
1.0441 |
0.0112 |
252 |
1 |
76.04 |
2009-07-26 |
| 28. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
75.71 |
1.1018 |
-0.0590 |
220 |
1 |
75.71 |
2009-08-29 |
| 29. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
75.64 |
1.0025 |
0.0456 |
256 |
1 |
75.64 |
2009-08-29 |
| 30. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
75.59 |
1.0368 |
0.0116 |
276 |
1 |
75.59 |
2009-07-21 |
| 31. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
75.14 |
0.9936 |
0.0473 |
311 |
1 |
75.14 |
2011-04-16 |
| 32. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
75.00 |
1.0399 |
0.0046 |
294 |
2 |
72.84 |
2009-07-14 |
| 33. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
74.97 |
0.9857 |
0.0521 |
293 |
1 |
74.97 |
2009-07-28 |
| 34. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
74.74 |
0.9754 |
0.0663 |
362 |
1 |
74.74 |
2009-07-13 |
| 35. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
74.42 |
1.0316 |
0.0033 |
333 |
1 |
74.42 |
2009-07-26 |
| 36. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
74.30 |
1.1215 |
-0.0681 |
200 |
1 |
74.30 |
2011-04-16 |
| 37. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
74.23 |
1.0666 |
-0.0380 |
297 |
1 |
74.23 |
2009-08-29 |
| 38. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
74.12 |
1.0337 |
-0.0074 |
214 |
1 |
74.12 |
2009-07-25 |
| 39. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
74.07 |
0.9866 |
0.0359 |
218 |
1 |
74.07 |
2009-07-26 |
| 40. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
72.96 |
0.9622 |
0.0548 |
392 |
1 |
72.96 |
2011-04-16 |
| 41. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
72.68 |
1.0218 |
-0.0180 |
268 |
1 |
72.68 |
2009-07-26 |
| 42. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
72.63 |
1.0477 |
-0.0393 |
360 |
1 |
72.63 |
2009-07-26 |
| 43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
72.40 |
1.0555 |
-0.0513 |
363 |
1 |
72.40 |
2009-07-14 |
| 44. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
72.17 |
1.0595 |
-0.0574 |
379 |
1 |
72.17 |
2009-08-08 |
| 45. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
71.99 |
1.0263 |
-0.0301 |
267 |
2 |
71.47 |
2009-08-08 |
| 46. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
71.83 |
1.0388 |
-0.0124 |
243 |
1 |
71.83 |
2011-04-16 |
| 47. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
71.77 |
1.0165 |
-0.0187 |
392 |
1 |
71.77 |
2009-07-14 |
| 48. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
71.42 |
0.9653 |
0.0320 |
394 |
1 |
71.42 |
2009-08-09 |
| 49. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
71.35 |
0.9681 |
0.0283 |
378 |
1 |
71.35 |
2009-07-25 |
| 50. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
70.98 |
1.0201 |
-0.0332 |
375 |
1 |
70.98 |
2009-07-13 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
70.76 |
1.0183 |
-0.0441 |
191 |
1 |
70.76 |
2009-07-14 |
| 52. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
70.60 |
0.9514 |
0.0264 |
237 |
1 |
70.60 |
2009-07-28 |
| 53. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.55 |
1.0498 |
-0.0778 |
180 |
2 |
66.86 |
2009-08-29 |
| 54. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
70.41 |
1.0099 |
-0.0379 |
207 |
1 |
70.41 |
2009-07-14 |
| 55. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
70.34 |
1.0213 |
-0.0506 |
240 |
1 |
70.34 |
2009-07-26 |
| 56. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
70.14 |
0.8919 |
0.0775 |
205 |
1 |
70.14 |
2009-07-14 |
| 57. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
69.99 |
1.0109 |
-0.0411 |
276 |
1 |
69.99 |
2009-07-13 |
| 58. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
69.43 |
1.0125 |
-0.0537 |
224 |
1 |
69.43 |
2009-07-14 |
| 59. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.35 |
1.0714 |
-0.1203 |
129 |
2 |
66.31 |
2009-08-29 |
| 60. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
69.32 |
1.0696 |
-0.1135 |
226 |
1 |
69.32 |
2009-07-14 |
| 61. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
69.05 |
1.1081 |
-0.1177 |
206 |
1 |
69.05 |
2011-04-16 |
| 62. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
68.47 |
1.0292 |
-0.0828 |
262 |
1 |
68.47 |
2009-07-25 |
| 63. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
68.29 |
0.9557 |
-0.0043 |
331 |
1 |
68.29 |
2009-07-25 |
| 64. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
68.28 |
0.9266 |
0.0185 |
267 |
1 |
68.28 |
2009-07-14 |
| 65. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
68.23 |
0.9897 |
-0.0477 |
274 |
1 |
68.23 |
2009-07-21 |
| 66. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
68.19 |
0.9756 |
-0.0332 |
229 |
1 |
68.19 |
2009-07-13 |
| 67. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
67.94 |
1.0534 |
-0.1110 |
357 |
1 |
67.94 |
2009-07-26 |
| 68. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
67.72 |
1.0068 |
-0.0664 |
358 |
1 |
67.72 |
2009-07-21 |
| 69. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.67 |
1.0619 |
-0.1219 |
354 |
2 |
65.30 |
2009-07-21 |
| 70. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
67.60 |
0.8981 |
0.0419 |
393 |
1 |
67.60 |
2009-08-08 |
| 71. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
67.23 |
0.9786 |
-0.0535 |
193 |
1 |
67.23 |
2009-07-14 |
| 72. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
66.49 |
1.0668 |
-0.1444 |
350 |
1 |
66.49 |
2009-07-26 |
| 73. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
66.46 |
0.9632 |
-0.0373 |
392 |
1 |
66.46 |
2009-07-14 |
| 74. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
66.32 |
1.0289 |
-0.1070 |
276 |
1 |
66.32 |
2009-08-29 |
| 75. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
66.21 |
0.9540 |
-0.0399 |
285 |
1 |
66.21 |
2009-07-13 |
| 76. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
65.93 |
0.9682 |
-0.0581 |
143 |
1 |
65.93 |
2009-08-29 |
| 77. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
65.49 |
0.9852 |
-0.0791 |
264 |
1 |
65.49 |
2011-04-16 |
| 78. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.05 |
1.0138 |
-0.1145 |
231 |
1 |
65.05 |
2009-07-14 |
| 79. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
64.77 |
0.9899 |
-0.0989 |
163 |
1 |
64.77 |
2009-07-13 |
| 80. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
64.57 |
1.0343 |
-0.1040 |
242 |
1 |
64.57 |
2011-04-16 |
| 81. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
63.44 |
1.0334 |
-0.1628 |
131 |
1 |
63.44 |
2009-07-18 |
| 82. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
62.89 |
1.0487 |
-0.1843 |
231 |
1 |
62.89 |
2009-07-26 |
| 83. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
62.23 |
0.9697 |
-0.1094 |
249 |
1 |
62.23 |
2009-07-13 |
| 84. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
62.01 |
0.9768 |
-0.1172 |
387 |
2 |
61.60 |
2011-04-16 |
| 85. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
61.67 |
0.9212 |
-0.0656 |
323 |
1 |
61.67 |
2009-07-26 |
| 86. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
59.58 |
0.9776 |
-0.1545 |
308 |
1 |
59.58 |
2009-08-29 |
| 87. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.26 |
0.9601 |
-0.1370 |
308 |
1 |
59.26 |
2009-07-13 |
| 88. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
58.92 |
1.0444 |
-0.2373 |
197 |
1 |
58.92 |
2009-07-26 |
| 89. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
58.38 |
0.8105 |
-0.0087 |
204 |
1 |
58.38 |
2009-08-08 |
| 90. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
57.99 |
1.0521 |
-0.2563 |
171 |
1 |
57.99 |
2009-07-25 |
| 91. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.76 |
0.9597 |
-0.1582 |
347 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-07-13 |
| 92. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
57.07 |
1.0214 |
-0.2391 |
166 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-07-26 |
| 93. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.27 |
0.9289 |
-0.1547 |
204 |
1 |
56.27 |
2009-07-21 |
| 94. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
55.34 |
0.9965 |
-0.2378 |
168 |
1 |
55.34 |
2009-07-25 |
| 95. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
54.68 |
0.9578 |
-0.2041 |
281 |
1 |
54.68 |
2009-07-12 |