| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
51.82 |
0.9897 |
0.3329 |
274 |
2 |
46.63 |
2008-12-11 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.08 |
1.1016 |
0.1785 |
233 |
2 |
46.91 |
2008-12-13 |
| 3. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.35 |
0.9884 |
0.2461 |
233 |
1 |
48.35 |
2008-12-11 |
| 4. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.92 |
1.0252 |
0.1925 |
176 |
1 |
47.92 |
2008-12-10 |
| 5. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
47.54 |
0.9710 |
0.2369 |
173 |
4 |
41.44 |
2008-12-11 |
| 6. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
47.40 |
1.0334 |
0.1709 |
131 |
2 |
41.80 |
2008-12-13 |
| 7. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
47.19 |
0.9612 |
0.2442 |
256 |
1 |
47.19 |
2008-12-11 |
| 8. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
47.00 |
1.0417 |
0.1563 |
253 |
2 |
43.51 |
2008-12-13 |
| 9. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
46.56 |
0.9965 |
0.1878 |
168 |
3 |
43.99 |
2008-12-12 |
| 10. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
45.16 |
1.0498 |
0.0984 |
180 |
1 |
45.16 |
2008-12-11 |
| 11. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
45.16 |
1.0261 |
0.1250 |
273 |
1 |
45.16 |
2008-12-13 |
| 12. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
44.70 |
1.0013 |
0.1389 |
273 |
1 |
44.70 |
2008-12-13 |
| 13. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
44.58 |
1.0203 |
0.1211 |
261 |
1 |
44.58 |
2008-12-13 |
| 14. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
44.35 |
1.0515 |
0.0787 |
250 |
2 |
38.99 |
2008-12-13 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
44.31 |
1.0263 |
0.1039 |
267 |
2 |
37.70 |
2008-12-13 |
| 16. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
44.09 |
1.0131 |
0.1084 |
225 |
2 |
39.46 |
2008-12-13 |
| 17. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.07 |
0.9286 |
0.1952 |
194 |
1 |
44.07 |
2008-12-13 |
| 18. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.05 |
0.8890 |
0.2317 |
199 |
2 |
36.29 |
2008-12-13 |
| 19. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
43.88 |
0.9597 |
0.1643 |
347 |
1 |
43.88 |
2008-12-13 |
| 20. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
43.85 |
1.0516 |
0.0672 |
281 |
1 |
43.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 21. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
43.74 |
0.8442 |
0.2761 |
265 |
2 |
38.17 |
2008-12-13 |
| 22. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
43.41 |
0.9221 |
0.1842 |
244 |
1 |
43.41 |
2008-12-13 |
| 23. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.13 |
1.0016 |
0.0944 |
218 |
2 |
42.96 |
2008-12-13 |
| 24. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
43.08 |
0.9633 |
0.1382 |
304 |
2 |
40.42 |
2008-12-10 |
| 25. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
42.86 |
0.9084 |
0.1870 |
300 |
1 |
42.86 |
2008-12-11 |
| 26. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
42.70 |
0.8975 |
0.1925 |
268 |
2 |
41.31 |
2008-12-13 |
| 27. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
42.61 |
1.0023 |
0.0830 |
211 |
1 |
42.61 |
2008-12-09 |
| 28. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
42.46 |
1.0201 |
0.0564 |
172 |
1 |
42.46 |
2008-12-13 |
| 29. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
42.31 |
1.0213 |
0.0549 |
240 |
2 |
39.02 |
2008-12-13 |
| 30. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
42.15 |
1.0496 |
0.0250 |
314 |
1 |
42.15 |
2008-12-11 |
| 31. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
42.11 |
0.9266 |
0.1477 |
267 |
1 |
42.11 |
2008-12-10 |
| 32. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
42.03 |
0.8951 |
0.1793 |
193 |
1 |
42.03 |
2008-12-12 |
| 33. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
42.01 |
0.8792 |
0.2018 |
296 |
1 |
42.01 |
2008-12-09 |
| 34. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
41.80 |
0.9202 |
0.1453 |
254 |
1 |
41.80 |
2008-12-16 |
| 35. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
41.79 |
0.9614 |
0.1076 |
292 |
1 |
41.79 |
2008-12-13 |
| 36. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
41.67 |
1.0385 |
0.0226 |
230 |
1 |
41.67 |
2008-12-13 |
| 37. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
41.67 |
0.8533 |
0.2107 |
232 |
1 |
41.67 |
2008-12-11 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
41.64 |
1.0829 |
-0.0193 |
288 |
2 |
40.16 |
2008-12-13 |
| 39. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
41.51 |
1.0297 |
0.0279 |
249 |
2 |
40.13 |
2008-12-16 |
| 40. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
41.19 |
1.0486 |
0.0027 |
289 |
1 |
41.19 |
2008-12-09 |
| 41. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
41.09 |
1.0389 |
0.0114 |
340 |
1 |
41.09 |
2008-12-09 |
| 42. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
40.87 |
0.9798 |
0.0567 |
199 |
2 |
40.28 |
2008-12-16 |
| 43. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.73 |
1.0429 |
-0.0057 |
259 |
1 |
40.73 |
2008-12-13 |
| 44. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
40.68 |
0.8941 |
0.1452 |
216 |
1 |
40.68 |
2008-12-16 |
| 45. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
40.55 |
1.0060 |
0.0233 |
171 |
1 |
40.55 |
2008-12-13 |
| 46. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
40.53 |
0.8791 |
0.1535 |
190 |
1 |
40.53 |
2008-12-12 |
| 47. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
40.39 |
1.0441 |
-0.0128 |
252 |
1 |
40.39 |
2008-12-13 |
| 48. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.27 |
1.0444 |
-0.0243 |
197 |
2 |
38.31 |
2008-12-13 |
| 49. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
39.64 |
0.9786 |
0.0267 |
193 |
1 |
39.64 |
2008-12-11 |
| 50. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
39.50 |
1.0004 |
0.0004 |
212 |
1 |
39.50 |
2008-12-13 |
| 51. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
39.41 |
0.8615 |
0.1431 |
110 |
2 |
38.64 |
2008-12-10 |
| 52. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
39.30 |
1.0419 |
-0.0402 |
261 |
1 |
39.30 |
2008-12-09 |
| 53. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.29 |
0.9811 |
0.0230 |
272 |
1 |
39.29 |
2008-12-09 |
| 54. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
39.28 |
1.0062 |
-0.0050 |
288 |
1 |
39.28 |
2008-12-13 |
| 55. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
39.16 |
1.0523 |
-0.0585 |
256 |
3 |
37.15 |
2008-12-16 |
| 56. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
39.11 |
1.0389 |
-0.0404 |
318 |
1 |
39.11 |
2008-12-13 |
| 57. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
39.05 |
0.8910 |
0.1059 |
150 |
1 |
39.05 |
2008-12-13 |
| 58. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.02 |
0.9899 |
-0.0001 |
163 |
1 |
39.02 |
2008-12-13 |
| 59. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
38.80 |
0.9936 |
-0.0051 |
311 |
1 |
38.80 |
2008-12-10 |
| 60. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.79 |
0.8653 |
0.1345 |
255 |
1 |
38.79 |
2008-12-12 |
| 61. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
38.28 |
0.9691 |
0.0058 |
223 |
2 |
38.04 |
2008-12-16 |
| 62. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
38.11 |
0.9776 |
-0.0064 |
308 |
1 |
38.11 |
2008-12-16 |
| 63. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.05 |
1.0025 |
-0.0322 |
336 |
2 |
36.48 |
2008-12-16 |
| 64. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
37.97 |
0.9213 |
0.0466 |
295 |
1 |
37.97 |
2008-12-09 |
| 65. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.93 |
0.9964 |
-0.0300 |
203 |
1 |
37.93 |
2008-12-10 |
| 66. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.87 |
0.8971 |
0.0730 |
266 |
1 |
37.87 |
2008-12-10 |
| 67. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
37.85 |
0.8154 |
0.1507 |
193 |
1 |
37.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 68. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
37.80 |
0.9893 |
-0.0262 |
323 |
1 |
37.80 |
2008-12-11 |
| 69. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
37.70 |
0.9325 |
0.0212 |
156 |
1 |
37.70 |
2008-12-09 |
| 70. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.61 |
0.9865 |
-0.0273 |
276 |
2 |
37.21 |
2008-12-13 |
| 71. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
37.59 |
1.0183 |
-0.0663 |
191 |
1 |
37.59 |
2008-12-16 |
| 72. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
37.53 |
1.0445 |
-0.0876 |
373 |
2 |
37.07 |
2008-12-12 |
| 73. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
37.49 |
0.9048 |
0.0548 |
271 |
1 |
37.49 |
2008-12-13 |
| 74. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
37.39 |
0.8709 |
0.0894 |
202 |
1 |
37.39 |
2008-12-10 |
| 75. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
36.88 |
0.9485 |
-0.0076 |
236 |
1 |
36.88 |
2008-12-13 |
| 76. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
36.81 |
1.0396 |
-0.1094 |
149 |
2 |
35.19 |
2008-12-13 |
| 77. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
36.81 |
0.9857 |
-0.0493 |
293 |
1 |
36.81 |
2008-12-12 |
| 78. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
36.69 |
1.0214 |
-0.0888 |
269 |
1 |
36.69 |
2008-12-12 |
| 79. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
36.65 |
0.8353 |
0.1055 |
283 |
1 |
36.65 |
2008-12-09 |
| 80. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
36.63 |
0.7352 |
0.1975 |
106 |
1 |
36.63 |
2008-12-09 |
| 81. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
36.06 |
0.9763 |
-0.0587 |
289 |
1 |
36.06 |
2008-12-09 |
| 82. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
36.02 |
0.9514 |
-0.0341 |
237 |
1 |
36.02 |
2008-12-10 |
| 83. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
36.00 |
1.0109 |
-0.0936 |
276 |
1 |
36.00 |
2008-12-13 |
| 84. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
35.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.0379 |
211 |
1 |
35.84 |
2008-12-09 |
| 85. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
35.79 |
1.0555 |
-0.1430 |
363 |
1 |
35.79 |
2008-12-13 |
| 86. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
35.70 |
0.8852 |
0.0240 |
158 |
1 |
35.70 |
2008-12-09 |
| 87. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
35.20 |
0.8295 |
0.0682 |
209 |
1 |
35.20 |
2008-12-09 |
| 88. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
35.16 |
0.8810 |
0.0146 |
282 |
2 |
32.63 |
2008-12-10 |
| 89. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.09 |
0.9084 |
-0.0113 |
404 |
1 |
35.09 |
2008-12-13 |
| 90. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
35.06 |
0.9464 |
-0.0491 |
323 |
1 |
35.06 |
2008-12-11 |
| 91. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
34.97 |
0.9649 |
-0.0761 |
193 |
1 |
34.97 |
2008-12-09 |
| 92. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
34.95 |
0.8916 |
-0.0019 |
216 |
1 |
34.95 |
2008-12-16 |
| 93. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
34.68 |
0.9567 |
-0.0745 |
273 |
1 |
34.68 |
2008-12-10 |
| 94. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
34.59 |
0.9168 |
-0.0354 |
240 |
1 |
34.59 |
2008-12-16 |
| 95. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
34.51 |
0.9646 |
-0.0875 |
264 |
1 |
34.51 |
2008-12-10 |
| 96. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
34.23 |
0.8153 |
0.0603 |
200 |
1 |
34.23 |
2008-12-09 |
| 97. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
34.06 |
1.0349 |
-0.1692 |
234 |
1 |
34.06 |
2008-12-09 |
| 98. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
33.91 |
1.0251 |
-0.1648 |
261 |
2 |
33.91 |
2008-12-13 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
33.63 |
0.9289 |
-0.0759 |
204 |
1 |
33.63 |
2008-12-09 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
33.48 |
0.9212 |
-0.0665 |
323 |
1 |
33.48 |
2008-12-16 |
| 101. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
33.44 |
1.0528 |
-0.2074 |
201 |
1 |
33.44 |
2008-12-09 |
| 102. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.16 |
0.8826 |
-0.0380 |
296 |
1 |
33.16 |
2008-12-11 |
| 103. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
32.92 |
0.9164 |
-0.0746 |
305 |
1 |
32.92 |
2008-12-16 |
| 104. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.74 |
0.9513 |
-0.1152 |
354 |
1 |
32.74 |
2008-12-10 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
32.42 |
0.8553 |
-0.0363 |
174 |
1 |
32.42 |
2008-12-10 |
| 106. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
32.34 |
0.8722 |
-0.0473 |
285 |
2 |
31.32 |
2008-12-12 |
| 107. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
32.24 |
0.8382 |
-0.0183 |
268 |
1 |
32.24 |
2008-12-09 |
| 108. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.75 |
0.8996 |
-0.0983 |
192 |
1 |
31.75 |
2008-12-09 |
| 109. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
31.44 |
0.9946 |
-0.1960 |
246 |
1 |
31.44 |
2008-12-09 |
| 110. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
30.99 |
0.9756 |
-0.1897 |
229 |
1 |
30.99 |
2008-12-09 |
| 111. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
30.02 |
1.0787 |
-0.3179 |
237 |
1 |
30.02 |
2008-12-09 |
| 112. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
28.92 |
0.9527 |
-0.2191 |
251 |
1 |
28.92 |
2008-12-09 |
| 113. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
26.17 |
0.9351 |
-0.2779 |
190 |
1 |
26.17 |
2008-12-13 |
| 114. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
24.78 |
0.9991 |
-0.3718 |
225 |
1 |
24.78 |
2008-12-09 |
| 115. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
24.13 |
0.9275 |
-0.3207 |
211 |
1 |
24.13 |
2008-12-09 |
| 116. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
23.77 |
1.0483 |
-0.4505 |
227 |
1 |
23.77 |
2008-12-09 |