| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
116.04 |
1.0419 |
0.1983 |
261 |
1 |
116.04 |
2008-10-22 |
| 2. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
112.71 |
1.0885 |
0.1190 |
315 |
2 |
102.93 |
2009-11-02 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
110.06 |
1.0993 |
0.0742 |
265 |
1 |
110.06 |
2008-10-15 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
110.00 |
1.0788 |
0.0905 |
171 |
1 |
110.00 |
2008-10-22 |
| 5. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
109.57 |
1.0251 |
0.1430 |
261 |
2 |
106.23 |
2008-10-22 |
| 6. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
107.97 |
0.9756 |
0.1761 |
229 |
1 |
107.97 |
2008-10-31 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
107.77 |
1.1016 |
0.0494 |
233 |
1 |
107.77 |
2008-10-31 |
| 8. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
107.45 |
1.0261 |
0.1194 |
273 |
1 |
107.45 |
2012-09-14 |
| 9. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
106.05 |
0.9886 |
0.1462 |
220 |
1 |
106.05 |
2008-10-22 |
| 10. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
104.82 |
1.0462 |
0.0667 |
184 |
1 |
104.82 |
2012-09-14 |
| 11. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
104.55 |
0.9844 |
0.1365 |
293 |
1 |
104.55 |
2008-10-22 |
| 12. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
104.11 |
1.1081 |
0.0378 |
206 |
1 |
104.11 |
2012-09-14 |
| 13. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
104.08 |
1.0023 |
0.1068 |
211 |
1 |
104.08 |
2008-10-22 |
| 14. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
103.74 |
1.0483 |
0.0561 |
227 |
2 |
99.61 |
2010-06-01 |
| 15. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
102.73 |
0.9905 |
0.1137 |
377 |
2 |
101.60 |
2008-10-22 |
| 16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
101.94 |
1.0567 |
0.0318 |
303 |
1 |
101.94 |
2008-10-18 |
| 17. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
101.01 |
0.9942 |
0.0925 |
483 |
4 |
95.82 |
2009-11-19 |
| 18. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
100.74 |
1.0214 |
0.0482 |
166 |
1 |
100.74 |
2012-09-14 |
| 19. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
100.12 |
1.0941 |
0.0054 |
256 |
1 |
100.12 |
2012-09-14 |
| 20. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
100.05 |
0.9485 |
0.1207 |
236 |
2 |
91.85 |
2008-10-31 |
| 21. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
99.87 |
1.0711 |
-0.0106 |
213 |
2 |
97.46 |
2008-10-31 |
| 22. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
99.83 |
1.0506 |
0.0433 |
277 |
1 |
99.83 |
2010-06-01 |
| 23. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
99.82 |
1.0189 |
0.0494 |
337 |
2 |
94.37 |
2012-09-14 |
| 24. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
98.98 |
0.9430 |
0.1056 |
211 |
1 |
98.98 |
2008-10-22 |
| 25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
98.71 |
1.0529 |
0.0000 |
351 |
1 |
98.71 |
2008-10-22 |
| 26. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
98.61 |
1.0496 |
0.0017 |
314 |
1 |
98.61 |
2012-09-14 |
| 27. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
98.52 |
1.0257 |
0.0317 |
401 |
1 |
98.52 |
2008-10-18 |
| 28. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
98.37 |
1.0669 |
0.0148 |
286 |
2 |
96.13 |
2009-11-02 |
| 29. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
98.02 |
1.0183 |
0.0217 |
191 |
1 |
98.02 |
2008-10-18 |
| 30. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
97.91 |
0.9991 |
0.0458 |
225 |
1 |
97.91 |
2008-10-15 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
97.91 |
0.9740 |
0.0663 |
209 |
2 |
95.23 |
2012-09-14 |
| 32. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
97.46 |
1.0399 |
0.0048 |
294 |
1 |
97.46 |
2008-10-31 |
| 33. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
97.37 |
0.9286 |
0.1090 |
194 |
1 |
97.37 |
2008-10-13 |
| 34. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
96.99 |
1.0025 |
0.0319 |
256 |
1 |
96.99 |
2008-10-22 |
| 35. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
96.73 |
0.9612 |
0.0705 |
256 |
2 |
91.52 |
2008-10-22 |
| 36. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
96.65 |
1.0679 |
-0.0168 |
177 |
1 |
96.65 |
2010-06-01 |
| 37. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
96.22 |
0.9569 |
0.0961 |
410 |
1 |
96.22 |
2012-09-14 |
| 38. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
96.15 |
1.1018 |
-0.0828 |
220 |
2 |
93.02 |
2008-10-18 |
| 39. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
96.03 |
0.9212 |
0.1062 |
323 |
1 |
96.03 |
2008-10-22 |
| 40. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
95.80 |
1.0619 |
-0.0367 |
354 |
2 |
91.01 |
2012-09-14 |
| 41. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
95.30 |
0.9697 |
0.0467 |
249 |
1 |
95.30 |
2008-10-13 |
| 42. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
95.26 |
0.9865 |
0.0304 |
276 |
1 |
95.26 |
2012-09-14 |
| 43. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
95.13 |
1.0289 |
-0.0101 |
276 |
1 |
95.13 |
2008-10-18 |
| 44. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
94.96 |
1.0516 |
-0.0395 |
281 |
1 |
94.96 |
2008-10-18 |
| 45. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
94.90 |
0.9986 |
0.0139 |
283 |
1 |
94.90 |
2008-10-18 |
| 46. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
94.88 |
1.0337 |
-0.0226 |
214 |
1 |
94.88 |
2008-10-31 |
| 47. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
94.86 |
0.9672 |
0.0508 |
396 |
2 |
90.41 |
2008-10-22 |
| 48. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
94.75 |
1.0151 |
-0.0133 |
152 |
1 |
94.75 |
2010-06-01 |
| 49. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
94.65 |
1.0331 |
-0.0261 |
234 |
2 |
90.08 |
2012-09-14 |
| 50. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
94.34 |
0.9893 |
0.0166 |
323 |
2 |
90.61 |
2008-10-31 |
| 51. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
94.33 |
1.0167 |
-0.0042 |
378 |
1 |
94.33 |
2008-10-15 |
| 52. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
94.27 |
1.0417 |
-0.0391 |
253 |
2 |
91.05 |
2012-09-14 |
| 53. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
93.88 |
1.0201 |
-0.0152 |
375 |
1 |
93.88 |
2010-06-01 |
| 54. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
93.70 |
0.9814 |
0.0569 |
364 |
1 |
93.70 |
2009-11-02 |
| 55. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
93.06 |
0.9663 |
0.0312 |
330 |
1 |
93.06 |
2012-09-14 |
| 56. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
92.80 |
1.0515 |
-0.0642 |
250 |
1 |
92.80 |
2008-10-13 |
| 57. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
92.77 |
1.0060 |
-0.0218 |
171 |
2 |
87.43 |
2008-10-31 |
| 58. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
92.71 |
1.0388 |
-0.0190 |
243 |
1 |
92.71 |
2012-09-14 |
| 59. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
92.34 |
1.0389 |
-0.0530 |
318 |
1 |
92.34 |
2008-10-31 |
| 60. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
92.08 |
1.0459 |
-0.0333 |
200 |
1 |
92.08 |
2012-09-14 |
| 61. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
91.98 |
0.9723 |
0.0118 |
364 |
1 |
91.98 |
2008-10-31 |
| 62. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
91.40 |
1.0347 |
-0.0352 |
550 |
1 |
91.40 |
2010-06-01 |
| 63. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
91.39 |
0.9646 |
0.0085 |
264 |
1 |
91.39 |
2008-10-31 |
| 64. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
91.30 |
0.9289 |
0.0418 |
204 |
1 |
91.30 |
2008-10-13 |
| 65. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
90.93 |
0.9275 |
0.0382 |
211 |
1 |
90.93 |
2008-10-31 |
| 66. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
90.89 |
0.9772 |
-0.0121 |
217 |
2 |
87.34 |
2009-11-02 |
| 67. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
90.87 |
0.9768 |
-0.0058 |
387 |
1 |
90.87 |
2008-10-22 |
| 68. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
90.87 |
1.0534 |
-0.0828 |
357 |
1 |
90.87 |
2008-10-18 |
| 69. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
90.77 |
1.0173 |
-0.0058 |
268 |
1 |
90.77 |
2012-09-14 |
| 70. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
90.66 |
1.0125 |
-0.0086 |
413 |
1 |
90.66 |
2012-09-14 |
| 71. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
90.18 |
0.9234 |
0.0429 |
346 |
1 |
90.18 |
2012-09-14 |
| 72. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
90.15 |
0.9279 |
0.0392 |
317 |
1 |
90.15 |
2008-10-22 |
| 73. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
90.10 |
1.0454 |
-0.0890 |
255 |
1 |
90.10 |
2008-10-22 |
| 74. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
89.61 |
0.9125 |
0.0441 |
308 |
1 |
89.61 |
2008-10-18 |
| 75. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
89.48 |
1.0120 |
-0.0594 |
290 |
1 |
89.48 |
2008-10-18 |
| 76. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
89.04 |
0.9532 |
-0.0059 |
258 |
2 |
88.36 |
2009-11-02 |
| 77. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
89.00 |
1.0403 |
-0.0522 |
275 |
1 |
89.00 |
2012-09-14 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
88.52 |
0.9857 |
-0.0437 |
293 |
1 |
88.52 |
2008-10-31 |
| 79. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
88.40 |
0.9676 |
-0.0176 |
442 |
2 |
88.05 |
2008-10-22 |
| 80. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
88.03 |
0.9049 |
0.0382 |
351 |
1 |
88.03 |
2008-10-22 |
| 81. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
87.99 |
0.9785 |
-0.0380 |
335 |
1 |
87.99 |
2008-10-18 |
| 82. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
87.28 |
1.0486 |
-0.1182 |
289 |
1 |
87.28 |
2008-10-31 |
| 83. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
86.95 |
0.9429 |
-0.0156 |
287 |
1 |
86.95 |
2012-09-14 |
| 84. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
86.38 |
1.0263 |
-0.1072 |
267 |
1 |
86.38 |
2008-10-22 |
| 85. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
86.38 |
0.8961 |
0.0204 |
189 |
1 |
86.38 |
2008-10-18 |
| 86. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
86.30 |
0.9811 |
-0.0594 |
272 |
1 |
86.30 |
2011-03-25 |
| 87. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
86.26 |
0.9734 |
-0.0551 |
289 |
1 |
86.26 |
2009-11-02 |
| 88. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
86.23 |
1.0787 |
-0.1617 |
237 |
1 |
86.23 |
2010-06-10 |
| 89. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
86.21 |
0.7876 |
0.1331 |
316 |
2 |
82.93 |
2008-10-22 |
| 90. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
86.16 |
0.9330 |
-0.0089 |
360 |
2 |
85.05 |
2012-09-14 |
| 91. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
86.08 |
1.0150 |
-0.0494 |
325 |
1 |
86.08 |
2010-06-01 |
| 92. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
85.36 |
1.0073 |
-0.0904 |
369 |
1 |
85.36 |
2012-09-14 |
| 93. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
85.21 |
0.9570 |
-0.0480 |
287 |
1 |
85.21 |
2010-06-01 |
| 94. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
84.99 |
0.9372 |
-0.0283 |
320 |
1 |
84.99 |
2008-10-18 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
84.94 |
0.9682 |
-0.0658 |
143 |
1 |
84.94 |
2008-10-18 |
| 96. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
84.68 |
1.0068 |
-0.1020 |
358 |
1 |
84.68 |
2008-10-13 |
| 97. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
84.61 |
1.0117 |
-0.0661 |
297 |
1 |
84.61 |
2012-09-14 |
| 98. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
84.30 |
0.9097 |
0.0293 |
464 |
1 |
84.30 |
2008-10-22 |
| 99. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
84.06 |
0.9597 |
-0.0608 |
347 |
1 |
84.06 |
2008-10-31 |
| 100. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
83.89 |
0.9376 |
-0.0392 |
367 |
1 |
83.89 |
2008-10-31 |
| 101. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
83.69 |
1.0088 |
-0.0793 |
396 |
2 |
83.48 |
2012-09-14 |
| 102. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
83.53 |
0.9500 |
-0.0587 |
362 |
1 |
83.53 |
2009-11-02 |
| 103. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
83.39 |
0.9675 |
-0.0704 |
383 |
1 |
83.39 |
2008-10-15 |
| 104. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
83.39 |
0.9382 |
-0.0255 |
440 |
1 |
83.39 |
2012-09-14 |
| 105. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
83.36 |
0.9593 |
-0.0673 |
398 |
1 |
83.36 |
2008-10-13 |
| 106. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
83.33 |
0.9293 |
-0.0415 |
355 |
1 |
83.33 |
2008-10-18 |
| 107. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
82.13 |
0.9786 |
-0.1098 |
193 |
1 |
82.13 |
2012-09-14 |
| 108. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.90 |
0.9899 |
-0.1231 |
163 |
1 |
81.90 |
2010-06-01 |
| 109. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
81.45 |
0.9168 |
-0.0489 |
240 |
2 |
81.14 |
2009-11-19 |
| 110. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
78.50 |
0.9072 |
-0.0741 |
237 |
1 |
78.50 |
2008-10-22 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
77.82 |
0.8602 |
-0.0350 |
206 |
1 |
77.82 |
2008-10-22 |
| 112. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
77.29 |
0.9074 |
-0.0792 |
396 |
1 |
77.29 |
2008-10-18 |
| 113. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
75.04 |
1.0062 |
-0.2088 |
288 |
1 |
75.04 |
2008-10-18 |
| 114. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
75.03 |
0.9176 |
-0.0815 |
365 |
1 |
75.03 |
2012-09-14 |
| 115. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
73.23 |
0.8981 |
-0.1156 |
393 |
1 |
73.23 |
2010-06-01 |
| 116. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
68.76 |
0.8595 |
-0.1281 |
242 |
1 |
68.76 |
2008-10-22 |