| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
93.21 |
1.0444 |
0.2480 |
197 |
1 |
93.21 |
2009-04-01 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
89.35 |
1.0711 |
0.1685 |
213 |
2 |
88.18 |
2009-03-27 |
| 3. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
86.04 |
1.0252 |
0.1664 |
176 |
1 |
86.04 |
2009-03-28 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
84.92 |
1.0565 |
0.1232 |
247 |
1 |
84.92 |
2009-03-25 |
| 5. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
84.74 |
1.0029 |
0.1705 |
209 |
1 |
84.74 |
2009-03-28 |
| 6. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
84.36 |
1.0477 |
0.1291 |
360 |
1 |
84.36 |
2009-03-29 |
| 7. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
84.25 |
1.0099 |
0.1601 |
207 |
2 |
79.59 |
2009-03-29 |
| 8. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
84.15 |
1.0297 |
0.1406 |
249 |
2 |
82.97 |
2009-03-29 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
83.59 |
0.9899 |
0.1690 |
163 |
2 |
79.27 |
2009-03-29 |
| 10. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
83.54 |
1.0214 |
0.1398 |
269 |
1 |
83.54 |
2009-04-13 |
| 11. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
83.47 |
0.9281 |
0.2389 |
273 |
1 |
83.47 |
2009-03-26 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
82.99 |
1.0787 |
0.0752 |
237 |
1 |
82.99 |
2009-03-29 |
| 13. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
82.97 |
1.0441 |
0.1123 |
252 |
1 |
82.97 |
2009-03-29 |
| 14. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
82.66 |
1.0668 |
0.0862 |
350 |
2 |
81.26 |
2009-04-20 |
| 15. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
81.52 |
1.0361 |
0.0994 |
269 |
1 |
81.52 |
2009-03-26 |
| 16. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
80.73 |
0.8958 |
0.2321 |
322 |
3 |
74.52 |
2009-03-28 |
| 17. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
80.62 |
0.9633 |
0.1607 |
304 |
1 |
80.62 |
2009-03-26 |
| 18. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
80.26 |
0.9226 |
0.2004 |
348 |
2 |
58.48 |
2009-03-29 |
| 19. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
80.15 |
1.0063 |
0.1093 |
371 |
2 |
71.27 |
2009-03-29 |
| 20. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
80.06 |
0.9125 |
0.2032 |
308 |
2 |
70.98 |
2009-04-13 |
| 21. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
79.20 |
0.8951 |
0.2089 |
193 |
2 |
75.92 |
2009-03-29 |
| 22. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
79.09 |
0.8996 |
0.1952 |
192 |
1 |
79.09 |
2009-03-25 |
| 23. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
79.08 |
0.9907 |
0.1078 |
211 |
1 |
79.08 |
2009-03-28 |
| 24. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
79.00 |
0.9936 |
0.1051 |
311 |
2 |
72.10 |
2009-04-01 |
| 25. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
78.89 |
0.9841 |
0.1171 |
334 |
1 |
78.89 |
2009-03-29 |
| 26. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
78.78 |
0.9048 |
0.1957 |
271 |
2 |
73.64 |
2009-04-13 |
| 27. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
78.62 |
0.9612 |
0.1324 |
256 |
2 |
73.52 |
2009-03-29 |
| 28. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
78.47 |
1.0168 |
0.0761 |
271 |
1 |
78.47 |
2009-04-13 |
| 29. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
78.33 |
0.8947 |
0.1998 |
366 |
2 |
73.24 |
2009-04-02 |
| 30. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
78.32 |
1.0595 |
0.0324 |
379 |
1 |
78.32 |
2009-04-13 |
| 31. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
78.15 |
0.9049 |
0.1875 |
351 |
1 |
78.15 |
2009-03-26 |
| 32. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
77.85 |
0.9376 |
0.1506 |
367 |
1 |
77.85 |
2009-03-25 |
| 33. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
77.55 |
0.9649 |
0.1126 |
193 |
1 |
77.55 |
2009-03-29 |
| 34. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
77.43 |
1.0125 |
0.0621 |
224 |
1 |
77.43 |
2009-03-29 |
| 35. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
77.22 |
0.9786 |
0.0948 |
235 |
3 |
72.12 |
2009-03-25 |
| 36. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
76.75 |
0.9464 |
0.1260 |
323 |
1 |
76.75 |
2009-03-29 |
| 37. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
76.69 |
0.9857 |
0.0798 |
293 |
1 |
76.69 |
2009-03-26 |
| 38. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
76.40 |
1.0023 |
0.0582 |
211 |
1 |
76.40 |
2009-03-29 |
| 39. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
75.97 |
1.0368 |
0.0204 |
276 |
1 |
75.97 |
2009-03-29 |
| 40. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
75.52 |
1.0013 |
0.0478 |
273 |
1 |
75.52 |
2009-03-26 |
| 41. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
75.50 |
0.9691 |
0.0801 |
223 |
2 |
74.43 |
2009-03-26 |
| 42. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
74.94 |
1.0124 |
0.0271 |
204 |
2 |
71.89 |
2009-03-29 |
| 43. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
74.93 |
0.9532 |
0.0872 |
258 |
1 |
74.93 |
2009-03-29 |
| 44. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
74.52 |
1.0053 |
0.0286 |
232 |
1 |
74.52 |
2009-03-29 |
| 45. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
74.45 |
1.0197 |
0.0124 |
226 |
2 |
60.72 |
2009-04-02 |
| 46. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
74.20 |
0.9646 |
0.0659 |
264 |
2 |
66.02 |
2009-04-13 |
| 47. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
73.92 |
0.9897 |
0.0355 |
274 |
2 |
70.42 |
2009-03-26 |
| 48. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
73.72 |
0.9278 |
0.0996 |
295 |
1 |
73.72 |
2009-03-25 |
| 49. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
73.68 |
0.9468 |
0.0768 |
276 |
1 |
73.68 |
2009-03-29 |
| 50. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
73.66 |
1.0390 |
-0.0190 |
205 |
2 |
67.47 |
2009-03-29 |
| 51. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
73.60 |
1.0251 |
-0.0043 |
261 |
1 |
73.60 |
2009-04-01 |
| 52. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
73.55 |
1.0016 |
0.0161 |
218 |
2 |
67.91 |
2009-03-29 |
| 53. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
72.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0053 |
303 |
1 |
72.99 |
2009-03-29 |
| 54. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
72.95 |
0.9758 |
0.0387 |
314 |
1 |
72.95 |
2009-03-29 |
| 55. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
72.76 |
1.0289 |
-0.0133 |
276 |
1 |
72.76 |
2009-03-26 |
| 56. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
72.24 |
1.0025 |
0.0023 |
336 |
1 |
72.24 |
2009-03-26 |
| 57. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
72.13 |
0.9776 |
0.0249 |
308 |
1 |
72.13 |
2009-04-13 |
| 58. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
71.91 |
0.9910 |
0.0101 |
295 |
1 |
71.91 |
2009-04-02 |
| 59. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
71.45 |
0.9805 |
0.0168 |
292 |
2 |
70.08 |
2009-04-01 |
| 60. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
71.35 |
1.0666 |
-0.0752 |
297 |
1 |
71.35 |
2009-04-20 |
| 61. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
71.27 |
0.9068 |
0.0864 |
269 |
1 |
71.27 |
2009-03-29 |
| 62. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
71.24 |
1.0109 |
-0.0203 |
276 |
1 |
71.24 |
2009-03-28 |
| 63. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
71.22 |
0.9513 |
0.0420 |
354 |
2 |
65.02 |
2009-03-29 |
| 64. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
71.18 |
0.8770 |
0.1151 |
300 |
1 |
71.18 |
2009-03-25 |
| 65. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
71.13 |
1.0767 |
-0.0907 |
212 |
1 |
71.13 |
2009-03-26 |
| 66. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
71.11 |
0.8573 |
0.1342 |
270 |
1 |
71.11 |
2009-03-29 |
| 67. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
71.07 |
0.9866 |
-0.0029 |
218 |
1 |
71.07 |
2009-03-29 |
| 68. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.85 |
1.0498 |
-0.0703 |
180 |
1 |
70.85 |
2009-03-21 |
| 69. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
70.75 |
1.0523 |
-0.0737 |
256 |
2 |
70.01 |
2009-04-20 |
| 70. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
70.43 |
0.9798 |
-0.0071 |
199 |
1 |
70.43 |
2009-03-29 |
| 71. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
70.30 |
0.9430 |
0.0262 |
211 |
1 |
70.30 |
2009-03-25 |
| 72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
70.21 |
0.9593 |
0.0207 |
398 |
1 |
70.21 |
2009-03-26 |
| 73. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
69.19 |
0.9843 |
-0.0284 |
234 |
1 |
69.19 |
2009-04-13 |
| 74. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
68.90 |
0.9212 |
0.0389 |
323 |
1 |
68.90 |
2009-03-29 |
| 75. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
68.89 |
1.0426 |
-0.0866 |
323 |
1 |
68.89 |
2009-03-26 |
| 76. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
68.44 |
0.9164 |
0.0388 |
305 |
1 |
68.44 |
2009-03-29 |
| 77. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
68.34 |
1.0399 |
-0.0857 |
294 |
1 |
68.34 |
2009-03-29 |
| 78. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
67.66 |
0.9965 |
-0.0565 |
277 |
1 |
67.66 |
2009-04-02 |
| 79. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
67.47 |
0.9597 |
-0.0189 |
347 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-04-01 |
| 80. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
67.47 |
1.0218 |
-0.0880 |
268 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-03-21 |
| 81. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
67.45 |
0.8811 |
0.0599 |
239 |
1 |
67.45 |
2009-03-25 |
| 82. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
67.25 |
0.9786 |
-0.0502 |
193 |
2 |
56.81 |
2009-03-27 |
| 83. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
67.14 |
0.9636 |
-0.0316 |
254 |
1 |
67.14 |
2009-04-13 |
| 84. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
67.00 |
0.7876 |
0.1451 |
316 |
1 |
67.00 |
2009-03-28 |
| 85. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.84 |
0.9514 |
-0.0233 |
237 |
1 |
66.84 |
2009-04-02 |
| 86. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
66.53 |
0.9614 |
-0.0349 |
292 |
1 |
66.53 |
2009-04-20 |
| 87. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
66.34 |
0.9084 |
0.0165 |
404 |
1 |
66.34 |
2009-03-29 |
| 88. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
64.42 |
0.8553 |
0.0334 |
174 |
1 |
64.42 |
2009-03-29 |
| 89. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
64.29 |
0.9653 |
-0.0650 |
394 |
2 |
64.18 |
2009-03-29 |
| 90. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
64.02 |
0.9780 |
-0.0888 |
337 |
1 |
64.02 |
2009-04-01 |
| 91. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
64.00 |
1.0417 |
-0.1563 |
253 |
1 |
64.00 |
2009-03-21 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
63.78 |
0.9884 |
-0.1044 |
233 |
1 |
63.78 |
2009-04-20 |
| 93. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.55 |
0.8961 |
-0.0180 |
189 |
1 |
63.55 |
2009-03-26 |
| 94. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
63.03 |
0.9635 |
-0.0839 |
389 |
1 |
63.03 |
2009-03-26 |
| 95. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
62.67 |
0.9365 |
-0.0659 |
248 |
1 |
62.67 |
2009-03-28 |
| 96. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
62.53 |
0.8916 |
-0.0241 |
216 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-03-29 |
| 97. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
61.36 |
0.9785 |
-0.1246 |
335 |
1 |
61.36 |
2009-03-21 |
| 98. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
60.63 |
0.9734 |
-0.1333 |
289 |
2 |
60.56 |
2009-04-02 |
| 99. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
60.24 |
0.9991 |
-0.1636 |
225 |
2 |
60.16 |
2009-04-01 |
| 100. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
60.17 |
0.8933 |
-0.0529 |
363 |
1 |
60.17 |
2009-04-20 |
| 101. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
57.97 |
0.8810 |
-0.0772 |
282 |
1 |
57.97 |
2009-03-28 |
| 102. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
57.58 |
0.8826 |
-0.0837 |
296 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-03-28 |
| 103. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
57.58 |
0.9811 |
-0.1809 |
272 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-03-26 |
| 104. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
55.49 |
0.8382 |
-0.0696 |
268 |
2 |
52.54 |
2009-04-20 |
| 105. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
39.80 |
0.9289 |
-0.3839 |
204 |
1 |
39.80 |
2009-03-28 |
| 106. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
39.49 |
1.0213 |
-0.4816 |
240 |
1 |
39.49 |
2009-03-21 |
| 107. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
37.67 |
0.9863 |
-0.4646 |
339 |
1 |
37.67 |
2009-03-29 |
| 108. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
34.60 |
1.0095 |
-0.5365 |
316 |
1 |
34.60 |
2009-03-29 |
| 109. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
30.64 |
0.9202 |
-0.5026 |
254 |
1 |
30.64 |
2009-03-29 |
| 110. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
24.97 |
1.0396 |
-0.7083 |
149 |
1 |
24.97 |
2009-03-29 |