| 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... |
47.18 |
0.9325 |
0.2849 |
156 |
1 |
47.18 |
2009-06-19 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.55 |
1.0444 |
0.1566 |
197 |
2 |
40.94 |
2009-06-19 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.49 |
1.0767 |
0.1271 |
212 |
1 |
46.49 |
2009-06-22 |
| 4. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
45.52 |
1.0498 |
0.1260 |
180 |
3 |
43.88 |
2009-06-23 |
| 5. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
45.44 |
1.0029 |
0.1692 |
209 |
1 |
45.44 |
2009-06-19 |
| 6. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
45.44 |
1.0292 |
0.1480 |
262 |
2 |
41.42 |
2009-06-19 |
| 7. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
44.59 |
1.1018 |
0.0480 |
220 |
2 |
44.08 |
2009-06-19 |
| 8. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
44.55 |
1.0441 |
0.1126 |
252 |
1 |
44.55 |
2009-06-17 |
| 9. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
44.37 |
0.9636 |
0.1868 |
254 |
2 |
39.15 |
2009-06-09 |
| 10. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
44.37 |
0.9997 |
0.1544 |
382 |
1 |
44.37 |
2009-07-15 |
| 11. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
43.98 |
1.0033 |
0.1302 |
189 |
2 |
39.36 |
2009-06-22 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
43.98 |
1.0034 |
0.1353 |
302 |
1 |
43.98 |
2009-06-19 |
| 13. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.87 |
1.0257 |
0.1181 |
401 |
1 |
43.87 |
2009-07-15 |
| 14. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
43.56 |
0.9614 |
0.1708 |
292 |
2 |
41.28 |
2009-06-19 |
| 15. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
43.55 |
0.8809 |
0.2459 |
127 |
1 |
43.55 |
2009-08-04 |
| 16. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.37 |
1.0201 |
0.1045 |
303 |
1 |
43.37 |
2009-06-09 |
| 17. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.04 |
0.9798 |
0.1301 |
199 |
1 |
43.04 |
2009-06-09 |
| 18. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
42.92 |
0.8615 |
0.2510 |
110 |
2 |
41.04 |
2009-06-09 |
| 19. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
42.85 |
0.8935 |
0.2268 |
328 |
2 |
42.69 |
2009-06-19 |
| 20. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.41 |
0.9907 |
0.1068 |
211 |
3 |
38.71 |
2009-06-22 |
| 21. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
42.31 |
0.9758 |
0.1213 |
314 |
5 |
37.41 |
2009-06-22 |
| 22. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
42.08 |
0.8096 |
0.2887 |
209 |
1 |
42.08 |
2009-06-09 |
| 23. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
42.02 |
0.7850 |
0.3002 |
154 |
1 |
42.02 |
2009-06-22 |
| 24. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
41.91 |
0.9196 |
0.1681 |
148 |
2 |
39.94 |
2009-07-15 |
| 25. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.82 |
1.0596 |
0.0219 |
239 |
3 |
37.63 |
2009-06-17 |
| 26. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
41.36 |
0.8263 |
0.2431 |
162 |
1 |
41.36 |
2009-06-17 |
| 27. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
41.35 |
1.0788 |
-0.0131 |
171 |
1 |
41.35 |
2009-06-18 |
| 28. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
41.34 |
0.8956 |
0.1780 |
217 |
1 |
41.34 |
2009-06-09 |
| 29. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
41.29 |
1.0183 |
0.0458 |
191 |
2 |
39.08 |
2009-06-19 |
| 30. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
41.25 |
0.8821 |
0.1861 |
176 |
2 |
36.61 |
2009-06-23 |
| 31. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
41.17 |
0.9910 |
0.0775 |
295 |
1 |
41.17 |
2009-06-19 |
| 32. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
40.95 |
1.0004 |
0.0543 |
212 |
2 |
37.82 |
2009-06-23 |
| 33. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
40.92 |
1.0252 |
0.0283 |
176 |
1 |
40.92 |
2009-06-23 |
| 34. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
40.89 |
0.9776 |
0.0818 |
308 |
1 |
40.89 |
2009-06-19 |
| 35. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
40.81 |
1.0523 |
0.0005 |
256 |
2 |
40.73 |
2009-06-17 |
| 36. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
40.53 |
1.0417 |
0.0056 |
253 |
1 |
40.53 |
2009-06-09 |
| 37. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
40.38 |
1.0124 |
0.0310 |
204 |
3 |
34.83 |
2009-06-19 |
| 38. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
40.32 |
1.0462 |
-0.0080 |
184 |
2 |
36.47 |
2009-06-09 |
| 39. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
40.00 |
0.9772 |
0.0552 |
217 |
2 |
38.12 |
2009-06-23 |
| 40. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
39.92 |
1.0023 |
0.0296 |
211 |
1 |
39.92 |
2009-06-09 |
| 41. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
39.91 |
0.9740 |
0.0554 |
209 |
1 |
39.91 |
2009-06-19 |
| 42. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
39.84 |
1.0521 |
-0.0252 |
171 |
1 |
39.84 |
2009-06-18 |
| 43. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
39.84 |
0.8118 |
0.2248 |
109 |
1 |
39.84 |
2009-06-22 |
| 44. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
39.44 |
0.8628 |
0.1550 |
196 |
1 |
39.44 |
2009-06-17 |
| 45. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
39.37 |
0.9612 |
0.0582 |
256 |
2 |
39.01 |
2009-06-23 |
| 46. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
39.30 |
0.9275 |
0.0867 |
211 |
3 |
33.29 |
2009-06-22 |
| 47. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.25 |
0.8826 |
0.1350 |
296 |
1 |
39.25 |
2009-07-15 |
| 48. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
39.23 |
0.8890 |
0.1231 |
199 |
2 |
37.50 |
2009-06-18 |
| 49. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
39.17 |
0.9233 |
0.0825 |
168 |
2 |
38.58 |
2009-06-22 |
| 50. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
39.04 |
0.9965 |
0.0094 |
168 |
1 |
39.04 |
2009-06-23 |
| 51. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
39.04 |
1.0577 |
-0.0505 |
247 |
1 |
39.04 |
2009-06-19 |
| 52. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.94 |
0.9646 |
0.0426 |
264 |
1 |
38.94 |
2009-06-09 |
| 53. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
38.85 |
1.0213 |
-0.0188 |
240 |
1 |
38.85 |
2009-06-19 |
| 54. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.83 |
1.0197 |
-0.0174 |
226 |
2 |
38.15 |
2009-06-22 |
| 55. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.69 |
1.1114 |
-0.1126 |
247 |
1 |
38.69 |
2009-06-17 |
| 56. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
38.54 |
0.9048 |
0.0974 |
271 |
1 |
38.54 |
2009-06-22 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
38.50 |
0.9851 |
0.0137 |
317 |
1 |
38.50 |
2009-06-19 |
| 58. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.40 |
1.0528 |
-0.0639 |
201 |
1 |
38.40 |
2009-06-23 |
| 59. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
38.22 |
0.9986 |
-0.0088 |
283 |
1 |
38.22 |
2009-06-18 |
| 60. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.19 |
0.8975 |
0.0914 |
268 |
3 |
31.59 |
2009-06-19 |
| 61. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.16 |
0.8653 |
0.1336 |
255 |
2 |
38.01 |
2009-06-23 |
| 62. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
38.14 |
0.9852 |
0.0022 |
264 |
2 |
31.84 |
2009-06-09 |
| 63. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
38.12 |
0.9633 |
0.0255 |
304 |
1 |
38.12 |
2009-06-09 |
| 64. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
38.06 |
1.0714 |
-0.0953 |
129 |
1 |
38.06 |
2009-06-19 |
| 65. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
38.02 |
0.9866 |
-0.0063 |
218 |
1 |
38.02 |
2009-06-09 |
| 66. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
37.93 |
1.0555 |
-0.0725 |
363 |
1 |
37.93 |
2009-06-09 |
| 67. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
37.85 |
0.7852 |
0.2002 |
149 |
2 |
34.56 |
2009-06-19 |
| 68. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.78 |
1.0053 |
-0.0296 |
232 |
1 |
37.78 |
2009-06-09 |
| 69. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
37.76 |
0.9597 |
0.0215 |
347 |
1 |
37.76 |
2009-06-23 |
| 70. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
37.66 |
0.9843 |
-0.0148 |
234 |
1 |
37.66 |
2009-06-17 |
| 71. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
37.62 |
0.9936 |
-0.0204 |
311 |
1 |
37.62 |
2009-06-19 |
| 72. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.48 |
1.0013 |
-0.0324 |
273 |
1 |
37.48 |
2009-06-17 |
| 73. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.25 |
0.8553 |
0.1034 |
174 |
2 |
36.25 |
2009-06-18 |
| 74. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
36.98 |
0.8919 |
0.0631 |
205 |
2 |
33.63 |
2009-06-19 |
| 75. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
36.88 |
1.0463 |
-0.0968 |
182 |
1 |
36.88 |
2009-06-22 |
| 76. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
36.86 |
1.0165 |
-0.0590 |
392 |
1 |
36.86 |
2009-07-15 |
| 77. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
36.84 |
0.9351 |
0.0124 |
190 |
1 |
36.84 |
2009-06-17 |
| 78. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
36.82 |
0.9514 |
0.0014 |
237 |
1 |
36.82 |
2009-06-22 |
| 79. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
36.77 |
0.9072 |
0.0423 |
237 |
1 |
36.77 |
2009-06-18 |
| 80. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
36.44 |
1.0483 |
-0.1088 |
227 |
1 |
36.44 |
2009-06-17 |
| 81. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
36.35 |
1.0263 |
-0.0869 |
267 |
1 |
36.35 |
2009-06-09 |
| 82. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
36.29 |
0.9966 |
-0.0586 |
259 |
1 |
36.29 |
2009-06-09 |
| 83. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
36.19 |
0.9411 |
-0.0043 |
318 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-06-23 |
| 84. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.02 |
1.0385 |
-0.1088 |
230 |
1 |
36.02 |
2009-06-09 |
| 85. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
35.98 |
0.9691 |
-0.0391 |
223 |
1 |
35.98 |
2009-06-19 |
| 86. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.93 |
0.9084 |
0.0249 |
404 |
3 |
35.22 |
2009-07-15 |
| 87. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
35.91 |
0.8951 |
0.0357 |
193 |
2 |
34.63 |
2009-06-22 |
| 88. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
35.84 |
0.9309 |
-0.0060 |
284 |
3 |
31.05 |
2009-06-19 |
| 89. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
35.73 |
0.8077 |
0.1143 |
167 |
1 |
35.73 |
2009-06-19 |
| 90. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
35.28 |
0.8382 |
0.0744 |
268 |
1 |
35.28 |
2009-06-17 |
| 91. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
34.93 |
0.9500 |
-0.0449 |
362 |
1 |
34.93 |
2009-06-22 |
| 92. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
34.51 |
0.8105 |
0.0771 |
204 |
2 |
32.18 |
2009-06-22 |
| 93. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.43 |
0.8070 |
0.0797 |
167 |
1 |
34.43 |
2009-06-19 |
| 94. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
34.36 |
0.9769 |
-0.0910 |
263 |
1 |
34.36 |
2009-06-17 |
| 95. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.32 |
1.0138 |
-0.1272 |
231 |
1 |
34.32 |
2009-06-22 |
| 96. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
34.25 |
0.9576 |
-0.0679 |
212 |
1 |
34.25 |
2009-06-18 |
| 97. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
34.17 |
0.8792 |
0.0131 |
296 |
1 |
34.17 |
2009-06-22 |
| 98. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.90 |
0.9863 |
-0.1060 |
339 |
1 |
33.90 |
2009-06-19 |
| 99. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
33.76 |
0.8788 |
-0.0100 |
134 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-06-17 |
| 100. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
33.47 |
0.9339 |
-0.0707 |
310 |
1 |
33.47 |
2009-06-17 |
| 101. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
33.23 |
0.9964 |
-0.1379 |
203 |
1 |
33.23 |
2009-06-07 |
| 102. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
33.10 |
0.8791 |
-0.0250 |
190 |
1 |
33.10 |
2009-06-17 |
| 103. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.89 |
0.9795 |
-0.1300 |
308 |
1 |
32.89 |
2009-06-09 |
| 104. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
32.79 |
0.9899 |
-0.1478 |
163 |
1 |
32.79 |
2009-06-23 |
| 105. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
32.68 |
0.9729 |
-0.1287 |
255 |
1 |
32.68 |
2009-06-16 |
| 106. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
32.50 |
0.8153 |
0.0287 |
200 |
2 |
30.78 |
2009-06-23 |
| 107. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
32.43 |
0.9049 |
-0.0621 |
351 |
1 |
32.43 |
2009-06-16 |
| 108. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
31.99 |
0.9266 |
-0.1006 |
267 |
1 |
31.99 |
2009-06-19 |
| 109. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
31.99 |
0.8916 |
-0.0654 |
216 |
2 |
31.20 |
2009-06-22 |
| 110. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
31.78 |
0.9212 |
-0.0975 |
323 |
1 |
31.78 |
2009-06-22 |
| 111. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
31.65 |
0.8941 |
-0.0752 |
216 |
1 |
31.65 |
2009-06-23 |
| 112. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
31.30 |
0.8958 |
-0.0834 |
322 |
1 |
31.30 |
2009-06-19 |
| 113. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
31.16 |
0.9682 |
-0.1660 |
143 |
1 |
31.16 |
2009-06-23 |
| 114. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
30.75 |
1.0567 |
-0.2627 |
303 |
1 |
30.75 |
2009-06-11 |
| 115. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
29.86 |
0.9289 |
-0.1612 |
204 |
1 |
29.86 |
2009-06-19 |
| 116. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
29.77 |
0.8154 |
-0.0459 |
193 |
1 |
29.77 |
2009-06-16 |
| 117. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
29.70 |
1.0993 |
-0.3356 |
265 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-06-11 |
| 118. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
28.57 |
0.9763 |
-0.2406 |
289 |
1 |
28.57 |
2009-06-11 |
| 119. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
28.18 |
0.9226 |
-0.1903 |
348 |
1 |
28.18 |
2009-06-17 |