| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
106.67 |
1.0023 |
0.3082 |
211 |
1 |
106.67 |
2009-04-10 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
101.14 |
1.0993 |
0.1423 |
265 |
2 |
98.02 |
2009-04-09 |
| 3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
99.95 |
1.1114 |
0.1148 |
247 |
1 |
99.95 |
2008-12-02 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
99.61 |
1.1018 |
0.1165 |
220 |
3 |
91.23 |
2009-04-10 |
| 5. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
98.67 |
1.0213 |
0.1885 |
240 |
1 |
98.67 |
2009-05-12 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
98.48 |
1.0396 |
0.1638 |
149 |
1 |
98.48 |
2008-12-02 |
| 7. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
98.39 |
0.9649 |
0.2435 |
193 |
1 |
98.39 |
2008-12-04 |
| 8. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
97.98 |
1.0331 |
0.1691 |
234 |
1 |
97.98 |
2009-04-09 |
| 9. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
97.79 |
1.0025 |
0.1995 |
256 |
1 |
97.79 |
2009-04-10 |
| 10. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
97.38 |
1.0613 |
0.1366 |
266 |
1 |
97.38 |
2009-04-10 |
| 11. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
94.06 |
0.9372 |
0.2225 |
320 |
2 |
89.60 |
2009-04-10 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
94.02 |
1.0799 |
0.0716 |
243 |
2 |
91.47 |
2008-12-05 |
| 13. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
92.79 |
0.9763 |
0.1632 |
289 |
1 |
92.79 |
2009-04-10 |
| 14. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
92.64 |
1.0619 |
0.0798 |
354 |
2 |
89.80 |
2009-04-10 |
| 15. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
92.57 |
1.0885 |
0.0520 |
315 |
2 |
91.87 |
2009-04-10 |
| 16. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
92.51 |
1.0399 |
0.1018 |
294 |
1 |
92.51 |
2009-04-10 |
| 17. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
92.19 |
0.9731 |
0.1469 |
129 |
1 |
92.19 |
2009-04-09 |
| 18. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
92.03 |
1.0486 |
0.0827 |
289 |
1 |
92.03 |
2009-04-10 |
| 19. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
91.39 |
1.0788 |
0.0382 |
171 |
1 |
91.39 |
2008-10-14 |
| 20. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
91.31 |
1.0167 |
0.1117 |
378 |
1 |
91.31 |
2009-04-09 |
| 21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
91.13 |
1.0201 |
0.0996 |
303 |
1 |
91.13 |
2009-04-10 |
| 22. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
90.74 |
1.0385 |
0.0742 |
230 |
1 |
90.74 |
2008-12-05 |
| 23. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
90.43 |
1.0060 |
0.0999 |
171 |
1 |
90.43 |
2009-04-10 |
| 24. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
89.78 |
0.9286 |
0.1730 |
194 |
1 |
89.78 |
2009-05-12 |
| 25. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
89.72 |
0.9886 |
0.1157 |
220 |
3 |
83.64 |
2009-05-12 |
| 26. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
89.72 |
1.0120 |
0.0890 |
290 |
1 |
89.72 |
2008-12-03 |
| 27. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
88.97 |
1.0073 |
0.0932 |
369 |
1 |
88.97 |
2009-05-12 |
| 28. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
88.54 |
1.0389 |
0.0507 |
340 |
1 |
88.54 |
2009-04-09 |
| 29. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
87.81 |
1.0391 |
0.0451 |
358 |
1 |
87.81 |
2008-12-03 |
| 30. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
87.43 |
0.9991 |
0.0748 |
225 |
2 |
83.33 |
2009-05-12 |
| 31. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
87.23 |
0.9936 |
0.0770 |
311 |
2 |
84.82 |
2008-12-05 |
| 32. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
87.17 |
1.0796 |
-0.0143 |
129 |
1 |
87.17 |
2009-05-12 |
| 33. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
85.89 |
0.9570 |
0.0989 |
287 |
1 |
85.89 |
2008-12-02 |
| 34. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
85.44 |
0.9756 |
0.0717 |
229 |
2 |
77.68 |
2009-05-12 |
| 35. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
85.26 |
1.0668 |
-0.0179 |
350 |
1 |
85.26 |
2009-04-10 |
| 36. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
85.26 |
0.9758 |
0.0713 |
314 |
2 |
85.00 |
2009-06-01 |
| 37. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
85.02 |
0.9540 |
0.0876 |
285 |
1 |
85.02 |
2009-04-09 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
84.18 |
0.9897 |
0.0410 |
274 |
2 |
82.19 |
2009-06-01 |
| 39. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
84.11 |
0.9723 |
0.0635 |
364 |
1 |
84.11 |
2008-12-02 |
| 40. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
84.08 |
0.9636 |
0.0680 |
254 |
2 |
81.51 |
2009-04-09 |
| 41. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
83.82 |
0.9612 |
0.0673 |
256 |
2 |
81.22 |
2008-12-05 |
| 42. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
83.54 |
0.9646 |
0.0595 |
264 |
1 |
83.54 |
2008-12-05 |
| 43. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
83.38 |
1.0398 |
-0.0273 |
110 |
1 |
83.38 |
2008-12-02 |
| 44. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
83.35 |
1.0462 |
-0.0296 |
184 |
3 |
75.94 |
2008-10-14 |
| 45. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
83.33 |
1.0068 |
0.0189 |
358 |
1 |
83.33 |
2008-12-04 |
| 46. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
82.29 |
0.9593 |
0.0549 |
398 |
1 |
82.29 |
2009-04-09 |
| 47. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
82.15 |
0.9907 |
0.0155 |
211 |
1 |
82.15 |
2008-12-05 |
| 48. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
81.98 |
0.9672 |
0.0449 |
396 |
3 |
79.93 |
2009-05-12 |
| 49. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
81.63 |
1.0013 |
-0.0009 |
273 |
1 |
81.63 |
2009-06-01 |
| 50. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
81.53 |
1.0565 |
-0.0590 |
247 |
1 |
81.53 |
2008-12-03 |
| 51. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
81.41 |
0.9785 |
0.0233 |
335 |
2 |
79.70 |
2008-08-16 |
| 52. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
81.31 |
0.9841 |
0.0170 |
334 |
1 |
81.31 |
2008-09-03 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
81.09 |
0.9597 |
0.0390 |
347 |
3 |
76.66 |
2008-12-08 |
| 54. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
80.82 |
0.9532 |
0.0367 |
258 |
2 |
75.97 |
2009-04-09 |
| 55. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
80.55 |
0.9691 |
0.0183 |
223 |
1 |
80.55 |
2009-04-09 |
| 56. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
80.40 |
0.9653 |
0.0290 |
394 |
1 |
80.40 |
2008-12-04 |
| 57. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
80.07 |
0.9376 |
0.0497 |
367 |
1 |
80.07 |
2008-12-03 |
| 58. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
79.85 |
0.9905 |
-0.0035 |
377 |
1 |
79.85 |
2008-12-08 |
| 59. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
79.83 |
0.9844 |
-0.0007 |
293 |
1 |
79.83 |
2008-09-03 |
| 60. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
79.66 |
1.0595 |
-0.0802 |
379 |
1 |
79.66 |
2008-09-03 |
| 61. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
79.63 |
0.9578 |
0.0182 |
281 |
1 |
79.63 |
2009-04-09 |
| 62. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
79.21 |
1.0138 |
-0.0430 |
231 |
1 |
79.21 |
2009-04-09 |
| 63. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
78.93 |
0.9045 |
0.0636 |
235 |
2 |
75.62 |
2008-08-16 |
| 64. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
78.52 |
1.0352 |
-0.0694 |
341 |
1 |
78.52 |
2008-12-05 |
| 65. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
78.28 |
1.0829 |
-0.1217 |
288 |
1 |
78.28 |
2009-05-12 |
| 66. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
77.81 |
1.0165 |
-0.0588 |
392 |
1 |
77.81 |
2008-09-03 |
| 67. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
77.80 |
0.9553 |
0.0056 |
430 |
1 |
77.80 |
2009-05-12 |
| 68. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
77.56 |
0.9500 |
0.0029 |
362 |
2 |
74.48 |
2008-12-05 |
| 69. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
77.53 |
0.9426 |
0.0109 |
317 |
1 |
77.53 |
2009-06-01 |
| 70. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
77.37 |
0.9084 |
0.0441 |
404 |
1 |
77.37 |
2008-12-02 |
| 71. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
77.26 |
0.8890 |
0.0544 |
199 |
1 |
77.26 |
2009-04-09 |
| 72. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
76.92 |
0.9266 |
0.0163 |
267 |
1 |
76.92 |
2009-04-09 |
| 73. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
76.72 |
1.0124 |
-0.0745 |
204 |
1 |
76.72 |
2008-09-16 |
| 74. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
76.59 |
0.9687 |
-0.0253 |
371 |
2 |
75.65 |
2008-09-16 |
| 75. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
76.51 |
1.0251 |
-0.0896 |
261 |
1 |
76.51 |
2008-09-03 |
| 76. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
76.03 |
0.9710 |
-0.0458 |
173 |
2 |
72.55 |
2009-06-01 |
| 77. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
75.78 |
1.0063 |
-0.0773 |
371 |
2 |
69.42 |
2008-12-04 |
| 78. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
75.76 |
0.9202 |
0.0075 |
254 |
1 |
75.76 |
2008-09-23 |
| 79. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
75.38 |
0.8956 |
0.0326 |
322 |
1 |
75.38 |
2008-12-02 |
| 80. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
75.23 |
0.9279 |
0.0004 |
317 |
1 |
75.23 |
2009-04-09 |
| 81. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
75.22 |
1.0496 |
-0.1286 |
314 |
1 |
75.22 |
2008-12-02 |
| 82. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
74.69 |
0.9879 |
-0.0641 |
450 |
1 |
74.69 |
2009-05-12 |
| 83. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
74.62 |
0.9485 |
-0.0326 |
236 |
1 |
74.62 |
2008-12-02 |
| 84. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
74.53 |
0.9942 |
-0.0723 |
483 |
1 |
74.53 |
2008-08-16 |
| 85. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
73.98 |
0.9863 |
-0.0756 |
339 |
2 |
67.61 |
2009-04-09 |
| 86. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
73.66 |
0.9966 |
-0.0949 |
259 |
1 |
73.66 |
2008-09-03 |
| 87. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
73.59 |
0.9941 |
-0.0951 |
217 |
1 |
73.59 |
2008-09-04 |
| 88. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
73.29 |
1.0666 |
-0.1688 |
297 |
1 |
73.29 |
2008-08-16 |
| 89. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
73.27 |
1.0334 |
-0.1425 |
131 |
1 |
73.27 |
2008-12-03 |
| 90. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
73.18 |
0.9768 |
-0.0779 |
387 |
1 |
73.18 |
2008-08-16 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
73.13 |
0.8595 |
0.0380 |
242 |
1 |
73.13 |
2009-06-01 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
72.87 |
0.9309 |
-0.0403 |
284 |
1 |
72.87 |
2008-10-14 |
| 93. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
72.62 |
0.9811 |
-0.0890 |
272 |
1 |
72.62 |
2009-04-09 |
| 94. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
72.15 |
0.9567 |
-0.0734 |
273 |
1 |
72.15 |
2008-08-16 |
| 95. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
71.94 |
0.9754 |
-0.0884 |
362 |
1 |
71.94 |
2008-12-02 |
| 96. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
71.84 |
0.9734 |
-0.0940 |
289 |
1 |
71.84 |
2008-12-05 |
| 97. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
71.73 |
0.8826 |
-0.0029 |
296 |
1 |
71.73 |
2008-09-16 |
| 98. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
71.63 |
0.9213 |
-0.0437 |
295 |
2 |
69.66 |
2008-12-03 |
| 99. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
71.08 |
0.8933 |
-0.0167 |
363 |
2 |
69.70 |
2009-04-10 |
| 100. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
71.01 |
0.9072 |
-0.0395 |
237 |
1 |
71.01 |
2009-05-12 |
| 101. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
70.66 |
0.9430 |
-0.0853 |
211 |
2 |
67.93 |
2009-04-09 |
| 102. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
70.44 |
0.7876 |
0.0773 |
316 |
1 |
70.44 |
2008-12-04 |
| 103. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
70.20 |
0.9820 |
-0.1199 |
267 |
1 |
70.20 |
2008-12-02 |
| 104. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
70.07 |
0.9769 |
-0.1213 |
263 |
1 |
70.07 |
2008-09-03 |
| 105. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
69.82 |
1.0483 |
-0.1967 |
227 |
1 |
69.82 |
2008-12-03 |
| 106. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.73 |
1.0529 |
-0.1996 |
351 |
1 |
69.73 |
2008-08-16 |
| 107. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
68.79 |
1.0252 |
-0.1899 |
176 |
1 |
68.79 |
2008-12-08 |
| 108. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.65 |
0.9125 |
-0.0707 |
308 |
2 |
64.40 |
2008-10-14 |
| 109. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
67.09 |
1.0454 |
-0.2285 |
255 |
1 |
67.09 |
2008-10-14 |
| 110. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
63.88 |
0.9468 |
-0.1665 |
276 |
1 |
63.88 |
2008-08-16 |
| 111. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
61.91 |
0.9275 |
-0.1745 |
211 |
1 |
61.91 |
2008-10-14 |
| 112. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
61.62 |
0.8958 |
-0.1385 |
322 |
1 |
61.62 |
2008-10-14 |
| 113. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
61.60 |
0.9097 |
-0.1157 |
464 |
1 |
61.60 |
2008-08-16 |
| 114. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
61.10 |
0.9049 |
-0.1533 |
351 |
1 |
61.10 |
2008-09-03 |
| 115. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
61.03 |
0.9795 |
-0.2341 |
308 |
1 |
61.03 |
2008-08-16 |
| 116. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
60.56 |
0.8916 |
-0.1518 |
216 |
1 |
60.56 |
2009-04-09 |
| 117. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
53.53 |
0.8770 |
-0.2216 |
300 |
1 |
53.53 |
2008-10-14 |