| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
40.91 |
0.9325 |
0.3888 |
156 |
5 |
34.29 |
2008-10-19 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
38.47 |
1.1016 |
0.1465 |
233 |
1 |
38.47 |
2008-11-07 |
| 3. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
38.40 |
0.9196 |
0.3278 |
148 |
6 |
31.22 |
2008-10-01 |
| 4. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
37.85 |
1.0120 |
0.2149 |
290 |
3 |
33.05 |
2008-11-07 |
| 5. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
37.73 |
0.8745 |
0.3471 |
169 |
2 |
35.89 |
2008-10-07 |
| 6. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.78 |
0.8739 |
0.3147 |
136 |
3 |
29.18 |
2008-09-30 |
| 7. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
36.76 |
1.0787 |
0.1120 |
237 |
2 |
31.16 |
2008-10-21 |
| 8. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
36.68 |
1.0496 |
0.1391 |
314 |
1 |
36.68 |
2008-10-22 |
| 9. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
36.62 |
1.0197 |
0.1648 |
226 |
3 |
31.02 |
2008-11-07 |
| 10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
36.09 |
1.0711 |
0.0938 |
213 |
2 |
33.11 |
2008-10-02 |
| 11. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
36.06 |
1.0829 |
0.0876 |
288 |
1 |
36.06 |
2008-11-07 |
| 12. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
35.88 |
0.8821 |
0.2805 |
176 |
3 |
29.73 |
2008-10-22 |
| 13. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.79 |
1.0483 |
0.1089 |
227 |
2 |
35.11 |
2008-12-04 |
| 14. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
35.25 |
0.9729 |
0.1698 |
255 |
3 |
30.12 |
2008-10-21 |
| 15. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
35.12 |
0.9540 |
0.1824 |
285 |
1 |
35.12 |
2008-10-22 |
| 16. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
34.77 |
0.8956 |
0.2338 |
217 |
2 |
31.64 |
2008-10-21 |
| 17. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
34.70 |
0.9691 |
0.1549 |
223 |
2 |
29.17 |
2008-10-29 |
| 18. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
34.11 |
0.9275 |
0.1743 |
211 |
2 |
31.37 |
2008-10-22 |
| 19. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
33.94 |
0.9866 |
0.1092 |
218 |
2 |
30.73 |
2008-10-07 |
| 20. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.91 |
0.9897 |
0.1066 |
274 |
1 |
33.91 |
2008-12-04 |
| 21. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
33.89 |
0.9307 |
0.1752 |
246 |
1 |
33.89 |
2008-10-21 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
33.77 |
0.9697 |
0.1245 |
249 |
1 |
33.77 |
2008-10-15 |
| 23. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
33.76 |
1.0029 |
0.0843 |
209 |
2 |
29.17 |
2008-12-21 |
| 24. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
33.70 |
1.0025 |
0.0891 |
256 |
2 |
31.61 |
2008-12-04 |
| 25. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
33.63 |
0.8975 |
0.1924 |
268 |
1 |
33.63 |
2008-11-07 |
| 26. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
33.59 |
0.8263 |
0.2597 |
162 |
2 |
29.51 |
2008-09-30 |
| 27. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
33.46 |
1.0498 |
0.0292 |
180 |
3 |
29.17 |
2008-09-26 |
| 28. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
33.35 |
0.8792 |
0.2103 |
296 |
1 |
33.35 |
2008-10-15 |
| 29. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.19 |
0.8295 |
0.2473 |
209 |
3 |
29.12 |
2008-10-21 |
| 30. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
33.16 |
0.9941 |
0.0775 |
217 |
2 |
30.28 |
2008-10-13 |
| 31. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
33.06 |
0.9342 |
0.1400 |
434 |
1 |
33.06 |
2008-10-21 |
| 32. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
33.06 |
1.0004 |
0.0642 |
212 |
1 |
33.06 |
2008-10-21 |
| 33. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
33.05 |
1.0462 |
0.0181 |
184 |
2 |
31.51 |
2008-09-30 |
| 34. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.01 |
1.0334 |
0.0292 |
131 |
1 |
33.01 |
2008-10-22 |
| 35. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
32.91 |
1.0696 |
-0.0073 |
226 |
1 |
32.91 |
2008-09-23 |
| 36. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
32.90 |
0.9857 |
0.0788 |
293 |
1 |
32.90 |
2008-12-09 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
32.81 |
1.0429 |
0.0182 |
259 |
1 |
32.81 |
2008-10-21 |
| 38. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
32.76 |
1.0261 |
0.0329 |
273 |
5 |
29.13 |
2008-10-22 |
| 39. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.65 |
1.0444 |
0.0063 |
197 |
3 |
30.66 |
2008-09-29 |
| 40. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
32.62 |
0.9731 |
0.0707 |
129 |
1 |
32.62 |
2008-10-21 |
| 41. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
32.62 |
0.9936 |
0.0624 |
311 |
1 |
32.62 |
2008-10-01 |
| 42. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
32.61 |
1.0099 |
0.0432 |
207 |
2 |
29.91 |
2008-09-25 |
| 43. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
32.51 |
1.0023 |
0.0485 |
211 |
2 |
32.07 |
2008-10-15 |
| 44. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
32.27 |
0.8544 |
0.1908 |
170 |
1 |
32.27 |
2008-10-21 |
| 45. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
32.13 |
0.9986 |
0.0422 |
283 |
1 |
32.13 |
2008-11-07 |
| 46. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
31.61 |
0.9769 |
0.0442 |
263 |
3 |
27.93 |
2008-09-26 |
| 47. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
31.47 |
1.0487 |
-0.0351 |
231 |
3 |
29.86 |
2008-09-26 |
| 48. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
31.46 |
0.9646 |
0.0528 |
264 |
1 |
31.46 |
2008-11-07 |
| 49. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
31.41 |
1.0331 |
-0.0187 |
234 |
2 |
31.08 |
2008-10-29 |
| 50. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
31.37 |
1.0565 |
-0.0438 |
247 |
3 |
28.80 |
2008-09-23 |
| 51. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
31.34 |
0.8958 |
0.1231 |
322 |
1 |
31.34 |
2008-10-22 |
| 52. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
31.33 |
0.9612 |
0.0528 |
256 |
3 |
30.12 |
2008-10-02 |
| 53. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
31.19 |
0.9430 |
0.0591 |
211 |
5 |
29.55 |
2008-10-22 |
| 54. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.17 |
1.0252 |
-0.0229 |
176 |
3 |
29.38 |
2008-09-26 |
| 55. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.16 |
0.9843 |
0.0191 |
234 |
2 |
27.41 |
2008-09-26 |
| 56. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
30.97 |
0.8887 |
0.1275 |
128 |
4 |
29.56 |
2008-10-19 |
| 57. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.95 |
0.9740 |
0.0234 |
209 |
1 |
30.95 |
2008-11-07 |
| 58. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
30.89 |
1.0131 |
-0.0174 |
225 |
2 |
30.41 |
2008-10-06 |
| 59. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
30.88 |
1.0214 |
-0.0238 |
269 |
3 |
29.89 |
2008-10-19 |
| 60. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
30.84 |
1.0337 |
-0.0364 |
214 |
1 |
30.84 |
2008-09-26 |
| 61. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
30.72 |
0.8553 |
0.1336 |
174 |
3 |
26.80 |
2008-10-13 |
| 62. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
30.72 |
1.0528 |
-0.0638 |
201 |
2 |
24.85 |
2008-09-29 |
| 63. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
30.67 |
0.9257 |
0.0722 |
317 |
1 |
30.67 |
2008-12-09 |
| 64. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
30.65 |
0.9907 |
-0.0006 |
211 |
2 |
29.78 |
2008-09-30 |
| 65. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.62 |
1.0214 |
-0.0361 |
166 |
1 |
30.62 |
2008-10-07 |
| 66. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
30.58 |
0.9893 |
0.0002 |
323 |
1 |
30.58 |
2008-10-01 |
| 67. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
30.54 |
1.0390 |
-0.0547 |
205 |
1 |
30.54 |
2008-12-04 |
| 68. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
30.35 |
0.9316 |
0.0563 |
287 |
2 |
29.03 |
2008-09-23 |
| 69. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
30.30 |
0.9710 |
0.0027 |
173 |
2 |
27.81 |
2008-09-30 |
| 70. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
30.21 |
0.7938 |
0.1845 |
176 |
2 |
28.72 |
2008-12-21 |
| 71. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
30.17 |
0.9048 |
0.0758 |
271 |
1 |
30.17 |
2008-10-29 |
| 72. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.92 |
0.9772 |
-0.0129 |
217 |
2 |
26.28 |
2008-10-13 |
| 73. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
29.80 |
0.8996 |
0.0588 |
192 |
2 |
29.23 |
2008-11-07 |
| 74. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
29.72 |
1.0016 |
-0.0450 |
218 |
1 |
29.72 |
2008-10-02 |
| 75. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.68 |
0.9128 |
0.0526 |
133 |
4 |
26.37 |
2008-09-23 |
| 76. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
29.66 |
0.8118 |
0.1524 |
109 |
1 |
29.66 |
2008-10-02 |
| 77. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.66 |
0.9786 |
-0.0245 |
193 |
2 |
26.59 |
2008-09-25 |
| 78. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.59 |
0.9212 |
0.0391 |
323 |
1 |
29.59 |
2008-10-22 |
| 79. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
29.50 |
0.9884 |
-0.0352 |
233 |
2 |
26.43 |
2008-10-06 |
| 80. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.47 |
0.9168 |
0.0375 |
240 |
2 |
28.53 |
2008-10-02 |
| 81. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
29.23 |
0.9202 |
0.0243 |
254 |
2 |
28.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 82. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
29.15 |
0.8961 |
0.0430 |
189 |
2 |
25.62 |
2008-10-07 |
| 83. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
29.00 |
1.0251 |
-0.0897 |
261 |
1 |
29.00 |
2008-09-29 |
| 84. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
28.78 |
1.0168 |
-0.0850 |
271 |
2 |
28.46 |
2008-09-26 |
| 85. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.77 |
0.8941 |
0.0380 |
216 |
1 |
28.77 |
2008-10-03 |
| 86. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
28.61 |
0.9682 |
-0.0453 |
143 |
2 |
28.31 |
2008-10-29 |
| 87. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.50 |
0.9251 |
0.0011 |
177 |
1 |
28.50 |
2008-09-19 |
| 88. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
28.43 |
0.9213 |
-0.0019 |
295 |
2 |
26.51 |
2008-09-25 |
| 89. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
28.40 |
0.7259 |
0.1980 |
186 |
1 |
28.40 |
2008-10-22 |
| 90. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
28.29 |
0.8153 |
0.1039 |
200 |
3 |
24.15 |
2008-09-25 |
| 91. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
28.27 |
1.0124 |
-0.1011 |
204 |
2 |
27.20 |
2008-09-26 |
| 92. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
28.05 |
0.9614 |
-0.0519 |
292 |
1 |
28.05 |
2008-10-21 |
| 93. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
28.03 |
0.8323 |
0.0739 |
203 |
2 |
27.89 |
2008-09-29 |
| 94. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.94 |
0.8037 |
0.1019 |
148 |
1 |
27.94 |
2008-09-25 |
| 95. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
27.84 |
0.8951 |
0.0067 |
193 |
1 |
27.84 |
2008-09-26 |
| 96. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
27.21 |
0.8360 |
0.0422 |
170 |
2 |
25.35 |
2008-09-30 |
| 97. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.13 |
1.0396 |
-0.1705 |
149 |
2 |
26.00 |
2008-09-22 |
| 98. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
27.10 |
0.9649 |
-0.0906 |
193 |
1 |
27.10 |
2008-09-23 |
| 99. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
27.03 |
0.9578 |
-0.0852 |
281 |
1 |
27.03 |
2008-10-02 |
| 100. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
27.00 |
0.8154 |
0.0585 |
193 |
1 |
27.00 |
2008-10-01 |
| 101. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
26.96 |
0.9846 |
-0.1149 |
281 |
1 |
26.96 |
2008-09-23 |
| 102. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
26.93 |
0.9532 |
-0.0847 |
258 |
1 |
26.93 |
2008-10-07 |
| 103. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
26.93 |
0.9636 |
-0.0939 |
254 |
1 |
26.93 |
2008-10-21 |
| 104. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
26.82 |
0.8190 |
0.0542 |
135 |
1 |
26.82 |
2008-09-22 |
| 105. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
26.51 |
0.8919 |
-0.0376 |
205 |
2 |
25.82 |
2008-10-21 |
| 106. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
26.50 |
0.9266 |
-0.0708 |
267 |
2 |
26.05 |
2008-11-07 |
| 107. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
26.41 |
1.0183 |
-0.1712 |
191 |
1 |
26.41 |
2008-09-22 |
| 108. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
26.15 |
0.8786 |
-0.0173 |
214 |
1 |
26.15 |
2008-09-29 |
| 109. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
26.01 |
0.7352 |
0.1043 |
106 |
3 |
23.31 |
2008-09-25 |
| 110. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
25.97 |
0.9226 |
-0.0780 |
348 |
1 |
25.97 |
2008-11-07 |
| 111. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
25.97 |
0.8323 |
0.0046 |
145 |
2 |
25.70 |
2008-09-23 |
| 112. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
25.72 |
1.0523 |
-0.2265 |
256 |
1 |
25.72 |
2008-09-19 |
| 113. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
25.67 |
0.9072 |
-0.0804 |
237 |
1 |
25.67 |
2008-09-26 |
| 114. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
25.67 |
0.8810 |
-0.0517 |
282 |
1 |
25.67 |
2008-09-29 |
| 115. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
25.07 |
0.9221 |
-0.1148 |
244 |
1 |
25.07 |
2008-09-22 |
| 116. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
24.86 |
0.9351 |
-0.1387 |
190 |
1 |
24.86 |
2008-09-25 |
| 117. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
24.70 |
0.8809 |
-0.0864 |
127 |
1 |
24.70 |
2008-11-07 |
| 118. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
24.47 |
0.9514 |
-0.1619 |
237 |
1 |
24.47 |
2008-10-07 |
| 119. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
24.30 |
0.8595 |
-0.0741 |
242 |
1 |
24.30 |
2008-09-26 |
| 120. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
24.14 |
0.9368 |
-0.1433 |
174 |
1 |
24.14 |
2008-09-22 |
| 121. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
23.76 |
0.8096 |
-0.0358 |
209 |
1 |
23.76 |
2008-09-29 |
| 122. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
23.76 |
0.8826 |
-0.1153 |
296 |
1 |
23.76 |
2008-09-23 |
| 123. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
22.54 |
0.8910 |
-0.1634 |
150 |
1 |
22.54 |
2008-09-22 |
| 124. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
21.76 |
1.0799 |
-0.3833 |
243 |
1 |
21.76 |
2008-10-21 |
| 125. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
20.46 |
0.8077 |
-0.1519 |
167 |
1 |
20.46 |
2008-10-03 |