| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
117.61 |
1.0829 |
0.1607 |
288 |
2 |
108.55 |
2009-03-27 |
| 2. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
117.35 |
1.0034 |
0.2344 |
302 |
1 |
117.35 |
2009-05-02 |
| 3. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
114.43 |
1.0201 |
0.1813 |
172 |
1 |
114.43 |
2009-03-29 |
| 4. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
113.60 |
1.0487 |
0.1456 |
231 |
2 |
111.18 |
2009-03-27 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
112.47 |
1.0483 |
0.1360 |
227 |
1 |
112.47 |
2009-03-28 |
| 6. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
111.84 |
1.0023 |
0.1763 |
211 |
2 |
105.91 |
2010-01-06 |
| 7. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
111.42 |
1.0033 |
0.1661 |
189 |
3 |
104.18 |
2009-03-27 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
110.98 |
1.0454 |
0.1223 |
255 |
3 |
99.05 |
2009-05-02 |
| 9. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
108.67 |
1.0417 |
0.1025 |
253 |
1 |
108.67 |
2009-03-29 |
| 10. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
108.54 |
1.0445 |
0.1017 |
373 |
1 |
108.54 |
2010-03-15 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
108.48 |
1.0797 |
0.0594 |
210 |
1 |
108.48 |
2009-03-27 |
| 12. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
108.46 |
1.0477 |
0.0992 |
360 |
1 |
108.46 |
2009-03-27 |
| 13. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
107.40 |
1.0515 |
0.0798 |
250 |
1 |
107.40 |
2009-03-27 |
| 14. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
107.15 |
1.0463 |
0.0796 |
182 |
1 |
107.15 |
2009-05-02 |
| 15. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
107.08 |
1.0337 |
0.0954 |
214 |
2 |
94.40 |
2009-03-27 |
| 16. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
107.05 |
1.0696 |
0.0563 |
226 |
1 |
107.05 |
2009-03-26 |
| 17. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
105.31 |
1.0025 |
0.1083 |
256 |
1 |
105.31 |
2009-03-27 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
105.28 |
1.0138 |
0.0963 |
231 |
2 |
94.68 |
2009-03-26 |
| 19. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
103.39 |
1.0788 |
0.0060 |
171 |
1 |
103.39 |
2009-03-25 |
| 20. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
103.30 |
1.0099 |
0.0766 |
207 |
1 |
103.30 |
2009-03-29 |
| 21. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
102.81 |
1.0426 |
0.0409 |
323 |
1 |
102.81 |
2009-03-27 |
| 22. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
102.62 |
0.9772 |
0.1014 |
217 |
2 |
86.77 |
2009-03-28 |
| 23. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
102.58 |
0.9886 |
0.0956 |
220 |
1 |
102.58 |
2009-03-27 |
| 24. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
102.47 |
1.0444 |
0.0295 |
197 |
1 |
102.47 |
2009-03-26 |
| 25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
102.29 |
1.0252 |
0.0469 |
176 |
1 |
102.29 |
2009-03-27 |
| 26. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
101.83 |
0.9769 |
0.0947 |
263 |
1 |
101.83 |
2009-03-26 |
| 27. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
101.81 |
0.9946 |
0.0787 |
246 |
2 |
101.56 |
2009-03-27 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
101.72 |
1.0711 |
-0.0037 |
213 |
1 |
101.72 |
2009-03-24 |
| 29. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
101.49 |
0.9468 |
0.1228 |
276 |
2 |
87.18 |
2009-03-26 |
| 30. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
101.17 |
0.9734 |
0.0930 |
289 |
1 |
101.17 |
2009-03-27 |
| 31. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
100.76 |
1.0334 |
0.0224 |
131 |
1 |
100.76 |
2009-03-27 |
| 32. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
100.66 |
1.0063 |
0.0553 |
371 |
2 |
94.61 |
2009-03-26 |
| 33. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
100.49 |
1.0799 |
-0.0242 |
243 |
2 |
98.97 |
2009-03-26 |
| 34. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
100.41 |
1.0385 |
0.0183 |
230 |
1 |
100.41 |
2009-03-26 |
| 35. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
100.38 |
0.9672 |
0.0975 |
396 |
3 |
93.91 |
2009-03-26 |
| 36. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
100.03 |
0.9330 |
0.1281 |
360 |
2 |
91.88 |
2009-12-29 |
| 37. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
99.93 |
1.0331 |
0.0181 |
234 |
1 |
99.93 |
2009-03-24 |
| 38. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
99.93 |
0.9640 |
0.1187 |
334 |
1 |
99.93 |
2010-01-06 |
| 39. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
99.86 |
1.0613 |
-0.0077 |
266 |
2 |
97.89 |
2009-03-24 |
| 40. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
99.36 |
0.9527 |
0.0946 |
251 |
2 |
81.62 |
2009-03-29 |
| 41. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
98.98 |
1.1162 |
-0.0319 |
189 |
1 |
98.98 |
2010-01-06 |
| 42. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
98.96 |
0.9309 |
0.1103 |
284 |
1 |
98.96 |
2009-03-27 |
| 43. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
98.25 |
0.9811 |
0.0571 |
272 |
2 |
97.38 |
2009-03-26 |
| 44. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
98.24 |
1.0555 |
-0.0187 |
363 |
1 |
98.24 |
2009-03-29 |
| 45. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
98.24 |
0.9965 |
0.0392 |
310 |
3 |
93.92 |
2012-07-07 |
| 46. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
97.90 |
0.9780 |
0.0548 |
337 |
2 |
95.83 |
2009-03-28 |
| 47. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
97.57 |
0.9614 |
0.0699 |
292 |
1 |
97.57 |
2009-03-28 |
| 48. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
97.10 |
1.0296 |
0.0000 |
437 |
2 |
96.08 |
2009-03-27 |
| 49. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
97.01 |
1.1014 |
-0.0413 |
273 |
1 |
97.01 |
2012-07-07 |
| 50. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
96.97 |
1.0398 |
-0.0284 |
110 |
2 |
95.84 |
2009-03-27 |
| 51. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
96.65 |
0.9213 |
0.0976 |
295 |
3 |
82.39 |
2012-07-07 |
| 52. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
96.53 |
0.9768 |
0.0430 |
387 |
2 |
87.70 |
2009-03-27 |
| 53. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
96.36 |
0.9941 |
0.0188 |
217 |
1 |
96.36 |
2009-03-27 |
| 54. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
96.30 |
0.9691 |
0.0451 |
223 |
2 |
93.32 |
2009-03-27 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
96.19 |
0.9513 |
0.0660 |
354 |
1 |
96.19 |
2009-05-02 |
| 56. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
95.86 |
0.9754 |
0.0407 |
362 |
2 |
92.58 |
2009-03-26 |
| 57. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
95.75 |
1.0257 |
-0.0105 |
401 |
2 |
89.64 |
2009-03-27 |
| 58. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
95.44 |
0.9148 |
0.0921 |
317 |
1 |
95.44 |
2009-03-24 |
| 59. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
94.11 |
1.0595 |
-0.0657 |
379 |
1 |
94.11 |
2009-03-26 |
| 60. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
93.97 |
1.0521 |
-0.0671 |
171 |
1 |
93.97 |
2009-03-26 |
| 61. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
93.83 |
1.0251 |
-0.0389 |
261 |
1 |
93.83 |
2010-01-06 |
| 62. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
93.11 |
0.8916 |
0.0894 |
216 |
2 |
89.14 |
2009-03-26 |
| 63. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
92.96 |
0.9279 |
0.0577 |
317 |
2 |
88.59 |
2009-03-28 |
| 64. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
92.72 |
0.9964 |
-0.0198 |
203 |
1 |
92.72 |
2009-03-27 |
| 65. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
92.49 |
1.0523 |
-0.0825 |
256 |
1 |
92.49 |
2009-03-26 |
| 66. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
92.48 |
1.0297 |
-0.0570 |
249 |
1 |
92.48 |
2009-03-27 |
| 67. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
92.14 |
0.9863 |
-0.0116 |
339 |
1 |
92.14 |
2009-03-27 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
91.76 |
1.0529 |
-0.0867 |
351 |
1 |
91.76 |
2009-03-27 |
| 69. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
91.57 |
0.8996 |
0.0591 |
192 |
1 |
91.57 |
2009-03-27 |
| 70. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
90.86 |
1.0498 |
-0.0979 |
180 |
1 |
90.86 |
2009-03-24 |
| 71. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
90.71 |
0.9851 |
-0.0278 |
317 |
1 |
90.71 |
2009-03-27 |
| 72. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
90.61 |
0.9997 |
-0.0421 |
382 |
1 |
90.61 |
2012-07-07 |
| 73. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
90.46 |
1.0292 |
-0.0781 |
262 |
1 |
90.46 |
2009-03-25 |
| 74. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
90.39 |
0.9553 |
0.0035 |
430 |
1 |
90.39 |
2009-03-29 |
| 75. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
90.35 |
1.0167 |
-0.0587 |
378 |
1 |
90.35 |
2009-03-27 |
| 76. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
90.15 |
1.0596 |
-0.1126 |
239 |
1 |
90.15 |
2009-03-26 |
| 77. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
89.80 |
0.9697 |
-0.0242 |
249 |
1 |
89.80 |
2009-03-24 |
| 78. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
89.79 |
1.0577 |
-0.1160 |
247 |
1 |
89.79 |
2009-03-26 |
| 79. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
89.62 |
0.9570 |
-0.0119 |
287 |
1 |
89.62 |
2009-03-27 |
| 80. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
89.01 |
1.0666 |
-0.1296 |
297 |
1 |
89.01 |
2009-03-26 |
| 81. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
88.95 |
0.9619 |
-0.0204 |
393 |
1 |
88.95 |
2009-03-27 |
| 82. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
88.87 |
1.0396 |
-0.1114 |
149 |
1 |
88.87 |
2009-03-26 |
| 83. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
88.81 |
1.0441 |
-0.1078 |
252 |
1 |
88.81 |
2009-03-24 |
| 84. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
88.37 |
0.9597 |
-0.0255 |
347 |
1 |
88.37 |
2009-03-27 |
| 85. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
88.13 |
0.9485 |
-0.0193 |
236 |
1 |
88.13 |
2009-05-02 |
| 86. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
87.97 |
0.9687 |
-0.0382 |
371 |
1 |
87.97 |
2009-03-27 |
| 87. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
87.39 |
0.9351 |
-0.0210 |
190 |
1 |
87.39 |
2009-03-26 |
| 88. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
87.27 |
0.8956 |
0.0274 |
322 |
2 |
85.26 |
2009-03-27 |
| 89. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
86.67 |
1.0516 |
-0.1401 |
281 |
1 |
86.67 |
2009-03-28 |
| 90. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
86.64 |
0.9833 |
-0.0701 |
355 |
2 |
82.72 |
2009-03-28 |
| 91. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
86.26 |
0.9786 |
-0.0715 |
235 |
2 |
85.07 |
2009-05-02 |
| 92. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
86.06 |
0.9540 |
-0.0504 |
285 |
1 |
86.06 |
2009-03-26 |
| 93. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
85.76 |
0.9843 |
-0.0871 |
234 |
2 |
85.09 |
2009-03-27 |
| 94. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
85.55 |
1.0352 |
-0.1326 |
341 |
1 |
85.55 |
2009-03-27 |
| 95. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
85.32 |
0.9557 |
-0.0519 |
331 |
1 |
85.32 |
2009-03-27 |
| 96. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
85.19 |
0.9675 |
-0.0618 |
383 |
2 |
81.75 |
2009-12-29 |
| 97. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
84.77 |
0.8947 |
0.0019 |
366 |
1 |
84.77 |
2009-03-29 |
| 98. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
84.55 |
1.0389 |
-0.1479 |
318 |
1 |
84.55 |
2009-03-27 |
| 99. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
84.49 |
0.9763 |
-0.0881 |
289 |
1 |
84.49 |
2009-03-25 |
| 100. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
83.37 |
0.9684 |
-0.0890 |
388 |
1 |
83.37 |
2009-03-26 |
| 101. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
83.06 |
1.0109 |
-0.1367 |
276 |
1 |
83.06 |
2009-03-24 |
| 102. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
82.43 |
0.9710 |
-0.1108 |
173 |
2 |
79.79 |
2009-03-26 |
| 103. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
82.09 |
0.9266 |
-0.0634 |
267 |
1 |
82.09 |
2009-03-25 |
| 104. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
81.95 |
0.9097 |
-0.0065 |
464 |
3 |
77.33 |
2009-03-27 |
| 105. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
81.46 |
0.9893 |
-0.1328 |
323 |
1 |
81.46 |
2009-03-27 |
| 106. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
80.99 |
0.8958 |
-0.0399 |
322 |
2 |
75.04 |
2009-03-26 |
| 107. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
80.56 |
0.9464 |
-0.0946 |
323 |
1 |
80.56 |
2009-03-27 |
| 108. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
80.32 |
0.9212 |
-0.0737 |
323 |
1 |
80.32 |
2009-03-29 |
| 109. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
80.05 |
0.9879 |
-0.1379 |
450 |
1 |
80.05 |
2009-03-27 |
| 110. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
79.98 |
0.9852 |
-0.1443 |
264 |
1 |
79.98 |
2009-03-27 |
| 111. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
79.89 |
0.8919 |
-0.0540 |
205 |
1 |
79.89 |
2009-03-27 |
| 112. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
79.84 |
0.9084 |
-0.0675 |
300 |
1 |
79.84 |
2009-03-26 |
| 113. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
79.08 |
0.9635 |
-0.1271 |
389 |
1 |
79.08 |
2009-03-24 |
| 114. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
79.04 |
0.8553 |
-0.0299 |
174 |
1 |
79.04 |
2009-03-27 |
| 115. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
78.10 |
0.9074 |
-0.0804 |
396 |
2 |
77.16 |
2009-03-27 |
| 116. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
77.27 |
0.9649 |
-0.1544 |
193 |
1 |
77.27 |
2009-03-24 |
| 117. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
76.38 |
1.0073 |
-0.1972 |
369 |
1 |
76.38 |
2009-03-24 |
| 118. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
76.24 |
0.9293 |
-0.1278 |
355 |
1 |
76.24 |
2009-03-26 |
| 119. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
75.21 |
0.8981 |
-0.1038 |
393 |
1 |
75.21 |
2009-05-02 |
| 120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
73.72 |
0.8105 |
-0.0410 |
204 |
3 |
72.47 |
2009-03-27 |
| 121. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
72.47 |
0.9567 |
-0.1965 |
273 |
1 |
72.47 |
2009-03-24 |
| 122. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
68.82 |
0.9365 |
-0.2136 |
248 |
1 |
68.82 |
2009-03-27 |